TY - JOUR
T1 - Catastrophic Health Insurance
AU - Rutstein, David D.
AU - Mazer, Arthur
AU - Sharfstein, Steven S.
AU - Liptzin, Benjamin
AU - Rafferty, John
AU - Hornbrook, Mark
AU - Harris, George H.
AU - Wissmann, Harry B.
PY - 1976/2/5
Y1 - 1976/2/5
N2 - To the Editor: The interpretation of the meticulous studies reported in “Impact of Nationwide Catastrophic Health Insurance,” in the editorial by Harris and Wissmann (N Engl J Med 293:721–722, 1975), is based on an untenable assumption. It assumes that if Congress enacts legislation that is restricted to catastrophic health insurance, the definition of a medical catastrophe will not change. Past experience with hospital insurance that does not cover ambulatory care — e.g., many Blue Cross-Blue Shield contracts — has clearly demonstrated that the insurance coverage has unnecessarily shifted many vertical ambulatory-care patients into the more expensive horizontal treatment in.
AB - To the Editor: The interpretation of the meticulous studies reported in “Impact of Nationwide Catastrophic Health Insurance,” in the editorial by Harris and Wissmann (N Engl J Med 293:721–722, 1975), is based on an untenable assumption. It assumes that if Congress enacts legislation that is restricted to catastrophic health insurance, the definition of a medical catastrophe will not change. Past experience with hospital insurance that does not cover ambulatory care — e.g., many Blue Cross-Blue Shield contracts — has clearly demonstrated that the insurance coverage has unnecessarily shifted many vertical ambulatory-care patients into the more expensive horizontal treatment in.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM197602052940627
DO - 10.1056/NEJM197602052940627
M3 - Letter
C2 - 1246286
AN - SCOPUS:0017298737
VL - 294
SP - 346
EP - 348
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
SN - 0028-4793
IS - 6
ER -