Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17128700›Full record

ArticleJournal of the National Medical Association2006

The Massachusetts health insurance law: providing health insurance to all.

Myra A Kleinpeter

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Article in Journal of the National Medical Association, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Only half the problem is being addressed: underinsurance is as big a problem as uninsurance.International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation · 2010
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Myra A KleinpeterTulane University Health Sciences Center, Department of Medicine, Section of Nephrology and Hypertension, 1430 Tulane Ave., SL-45, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA. mkleinp@tulane.edu

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There have been increasing rates of uninsured patients in the United States over the past few decades. Despite this growing problem, little progress has been made to decrease the rate of growth of uninsured patients or to provide affordable insurance coverage to those who are unable to maintain insurance coverage throughout the year. The legislature in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has enacted legislation that requires health insurance for all in the same manner that automobile insurance is required in many states. This bold comprehensive legislation augments current Medicaid and state child health insurance program coverage and expands coverage options for part-time workers, those employed by small companies or those employed at lower-income jobs.

Indexed as

Health BehaviorHealth PolicyHealth Services AccessibilityHumansMassachusettsMedicaidMedically UninsuredState Health PlansUnited StatesUniversal Health Insurance

Identifiers

PMID17128700
PMCPMC2569771

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