- Title
- Financial Vulnerability Among Medicare Managed CareEnrollees
- First Author
- Robbins, C. S.
- Date of Pub
- 2005 Spring
- Pages
- 81-92
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 3
- Other Authors
- Heller, A., Myers, A.
- Abstract
- Consumer Assessment of Health PlansSurvey data show that Medicaremanaged care plans often receive low satis-faction scores from certain vulnerable pop-ulations. This article describes findingsfrom a qualitative study with beneficiariesabout their Medicare managed care experi-ences. Focus groups were stratified by par-ticipant race/ethnicity and self-describedhealth status. Yet participants did notdescribe their concerns in terms of theirrace, ethnicity, or health condition, butrather their access to financial resources.Our findings suggest that researchers con-sider how socioeconomics creates healthcare vulnerability for racial and ethnicminorities, females, people with disabili-ties, and other economically marginalizedpersons.INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
- Abstract Continued
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- NTIS Number
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