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Health Insurance: An Overview of the Working Uninsured

HRD-89-45 Published: Feb 24, 1989. Publicly Released: Mar 08, 1989.
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In response to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the: (1) characteristics of working uninsured persons and their employers; (2) delivery and payment of their health care; (3) policy options available for providing health care to uninsured persons; and (4) limitations in existing data that make it difficult for policymakers to design comprehensive solutions to reduce the number of working uninsured persons.

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