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List of works by Steffie Woolhandler

18.2 Million Individuals at Increased Risk of Severe COVID-19 Illness Are Un- or Underinsured

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

A National Study of Chronic Disease Prevalence and Access to Care in Uninsured U.S. Adults

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

A comparison of hospital administrative costs in eight nations: US costs exceed all others by far.

scientific article published in September 2014

A systematic review of studies comparing health outcomes in Canada and the United States

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Access to Care and Chronic Disease Outcomes Among Medicaid-Insured Persons Versus the Uninsured

scientific article published on 12 November 2015

Access to care after Massachusetts' health care reform: a safety net hospital patient survey

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Access to care, health status, and health disparities in the United States and Canada: results of a cross-national population-based survey

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Accountable Care Organizations' Payments to Physicians: Patients Should Have the Right to Know.

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Administrative waste in the U.S. health care system in 2003: the cost to the nation, the states, and the District of Columbia, with state-specific estimates of potential savings

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Administrative work consumes one-sixth of U.S. physicians' working hours and lowers their career satisfaction

scientific article published on January 2014

America's neglected veterans: 1.7 million who served have no health coverage

scientific article published in January 2005

Analysis of Work Requirement Exemptions and Medicaid Spending

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Association Between Forced Sexual Initiation and Health Outcomes Among US Women

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Author Reply

Billing and insurance-related administrative costs in United States' health care: synthesis of micro-costing evidence

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COVID-19 and US Health Financing: Perils and Possibilities

scientific article published on 09 June 2020

COVID-19 in Prisons and Jails in the United States

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

Canada's Single-Payer Health Care System-Reply

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Care For America's Elderly And Disabled People Relies On Immigrant Labor

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Care is complicated...but paying for it is simple: one government program

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Characteristics of recipients of free prescription drug samples: a nationally representative analysis

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Collateral Damage: Pay-for-Performance Initiatives and Safety-Net Hospitals

scientific article published on 08 September 2015

Collateral Damage: Pay-for-Performance Initiatives. In response

scientific article published on 01 April 2016

Competition in a publicly funded healthcare system

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Computed tomography associated cancers and cancer deaths following visits to U.S. emergency departments

scientific article published on January 2012

Consumer directed healthcare: except for the healthy and wealthy it's unwise

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Cost Control in a Parallel Universe: Medicare Spending in the United States and Canada

scientific article published on December 10, 2012

Costs of health care administration in the United States and Canada

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Coverage Expansions and Utilization of Physician Care: Evidence From the 2014 Affordable Care Act and 1966 Medicare/Medicaid Expansions

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Determined Action Needed on Social Determinants

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Diabetes and cardiovascular disease among Asian Indians in the United States

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Did extra resources or the medical home model improve care?

scientific article published on 01 June 2014

Discounting the debtors will not make medical bankruptcy disappear.

scientific article published on 28 February 2006

Do minorities in the United States receive fewer mental health services than whites?

scientific article published in January 2002

Does investor-ownership of nursing homes compromise the quality of care?

scientific article published in January 2002

Double catastrophe: injury-related bankruptcies

scientific article published in August 2007

Era of faster FDA drug approval has also seen increased black-box warnings and market withdrawals

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

Feasibility of Separate Rooms for Home Isolation and Quarantine for COVID-19 in the United States

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

For-Profit Hospitals Have Thrived Because of Generous Public Reimbursement Schemes, Not Greater Efficiency: A Multi-Country Case Study

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

For-profit dialysis: the authors reply

scientific article published on 01 November 2014

For-profit medicare home health agencies' costs appear higher and quality appears lower compared to nonprofit agencies

scientific article published in August 2014

Free drug samples in the United States: characteristics of pediatric recipients and safety concerns

scientific article published on October 2008

Getting more for their dollar: Kaiser v the NHS. Price adjustments falsify comparison

scientific article published on June 2002

Global amnesia: embracing fee-for-non-service--again

scientific article published on May 2014

Grim prognosis for massachusetts reform

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

Health Care Administrative Costs in the United States and Canada, 2017

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Health Care Crisis Unabated: A Review of Recent Data on Health Care in the United States

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

Health Care Crisis by the Numbers

scientific article published on 18 August 2019

Health Care Disparities Across the Urban-Rural Divide: A National Study of Individuals with COPD

scientific article published on 11 October 2020

Health Insurance Status and Risk Factors for Poor Outcomes With COVID-19 Among U.S. Health Care Workers: A Cross-sectional Study

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

Health Needs and Functional Disability Among Mail-Order Pharmacy Users in the US

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Health Spending For Low-, Middle-, And High-Income Americans, 1963-2012.

scientific article published on July 2016

Health Status and Health Care Utilization of US Adults Under Probation: 2015-2018

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Health and Financial Consequences of 24 States' Decision to Opt Out of Medicaid Expansion

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Health and Social Precarity Among Americans Receiving Unemployment Benefits During the COVID-19 Outbreak

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Health care administration in the United States and Canada: micromanagement, macro costs

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Health care expenditures of immigrants in the United States: a nationally representative analysis

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Health insurance and mortality in US adults

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Health issues and health care expenses in Canadian bankruptcies and insolvencies

scientific article published in January 2014

High administrative costs: the authors reply

scientific article published on 01 November 2014

High-Deductible Health Plans and Healthcare Access, Use, and Financial Strain in Those with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Home Sick with Coronavirus Symptoms: a National Study, April-May 2020

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Hope and hype: predicting the impact of electronic medical records

scientific article published on September 2005

Hospital Payer and Racial/Ethnic Mix at Private Academic Medical Centers in Boston and New York City

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Hospital computing and the costs and quality of care: a national study

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Hospitals excel--in administrative costs

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Hypertension, diabetes, and elevated cholesterol among insured and uninsured U.S. adults

scientific article published on 20 October 2009

Illness and injury as contributors to bankruptcy.

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Illness-Related Work Absence in Mid-April Was Highest on Record

scientific article published on 27 July 2020

Immigrants Pay More In Private Insurance Premiums Than They Receive In Benefits

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Immigrants contributed an estimated $115.2 billion more to the Medicare Trust Fund than they took out in 2002-09.

scientific article published on 29 May 2013

Impact of insurance status on migraine care in the United States: a population-based study

scientific article published in April 2010

Implications of Changing Public Charge Immigration Rules for Children Who Need Medical Care

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Increasing length of stay among adult visits to U.S. Emergency departments, 2001-2005

scientific article published on 15 June 2009

Inequality and the health-care system in the USA.

scientific article published on April 2017

Infective endocarditis in the U.S., 1998-2009: a nationwide study

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Insurance status of U.S. organ donors and transplant recipients: the uninsured give, but rarely receive

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Insurance-industry investments in tobacco.

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Intersecting U.S. Epidemics: COVID-19 and Lack of Health Insurance

scientific article published on 07 April 2020

Lack of health coverage among US veterans from 1987 to 2004

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Life and health insurance industry investments in fast food.

scientific article published on 15 April 2010

Life or debt: underinsurance in America

scientific article published on September 2013

Massachusetts' approach to universal coverage: high hopes and faulty economic logic

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Medical Bankruptcy in Massachusetts: Has Health Reform Made a Difference?

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a National Study

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Medical Bankruptcy: Still Common Despite the Affordable Care Act

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Medical Causes and Consequences of Home Foreclosures

scientific article published on 3 November 2015

Medicare Overpayments to Private Plans, 1985–2012: Shifting Seniors to Private Plans Has Already Cost Medicare US$282.6 Billion

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Medicare for All and Its Rivals: New Offshoots of Old Health Policy Roots

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

Minority physicians' role in the care of underserved patients: diversifying the physician workforce may be key in addressing health disparities

scientific article published in February 2014

Moving Forward From the Affordable Care Act to a Single-Payer System

scientific article published on 05 May 2016

National health insurance

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

National health insurance or incremental reform: aim high, or at our feet?

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

National health insurance or incremental reform: aim high, or at our feet?

scientific article published on 01 September 2008

National health insurance: falling expectations and the safety net

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

National health insurance: liberal benefits, conservative spending

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

No care for the caregivers: declining health insurance coverage for health care personnel and their children, 1988-1998

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

Obama's reform: no cure for what ails us

scientific article published on 30 March 2010

Our health care system at the crossroads: single payer or market reform?

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Out-of-Pocket Spending and Premium Contributions After Implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Pay-for-performance: toxic to quality? Insights from behavioral economics

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Paying for national health insurance--and not getting it

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Physician payment incentives to improve care quality.

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Pricing Universal Health Care: How Much Would The Use Of Medical Care Rise?

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

Privatization in a publicly funded health care system: the U.S. experience.

scientific article published in January 2008

Proposal of the Physicians' Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance

scientific article (publication date: 13 August 2003)

Proposals for payment reform in Massachusetts

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

Public Health's Falling Share of US Health Spending

scientific article published on 12 November 2015

Public policy and health in the Trump era

scientific article published in February 2021

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Care for Children and Young Adults: A National Study

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Racial disparities in neurologic health care access and utilization in the United States

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

Reasons Why Patients Remain Uninsured after Massachusetts’ Health Care Reform: A Survey of Patients at a Safety-Net Hospital

scientific article published on September 16, 2011

Relationship between low quality-of-care scores and HMOs' subsequent public disclosure of quality-of-care scores

scientific article published in September 2002

Risk for Severe COVID-19 Illness Among Teachers and Adults Living With School-Aged Children

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

SGIM's Endorsement of ACP's Better Is Possible: Aligning Policy with Values

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Savings From the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration

scientific article published on January 2, 2013

Single-Payer Reform

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Single-Payer Reform-"Medicare for All"

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Single-Payer Reform: Heed the Evidence, Not the Soothsayers

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Single-Payer Reform: The Only Way to Fulfill the President's Pledge of More Coverage, Better Benefits, and Lower Costs

scientific article published on 21 February 2017

Single-payer national health insurance. Physicians' views

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Sources of U.S. physician income: the contribution of government payments to the specialist-generalist income gap.

scientific article published on July 2008

State health reform flatlines

scientific article published on January 2008

Support for National Health Insurance Seven Years Into Massachusetts Healthcare Reform: Views of Populations Targeted by the Reform

scientific article published on 03 November 2015

THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT AND MEDICAL LOSS RATIOS: NO IMPACT IN FIRST THREE YEARS

scientific article published on 01 January 2015

Taking care of business: HMOs that spend more on administration deliver lower-quality care

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

The Affordable Care Act: How Nixon's Health Reform Proposal Became Democrats' Albatross

scientific article published in January 2017

The American College of Physicians' Endorsement of Single-Payer Reform: A Sea Change for the Medical Profession

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

The Crisis in Mental Health Care: A Preliminary Study of Access to Psychiatric Care in Boston

scientific article published on August 1, 2011

The Current and Projected Taxpayer Shares of US Health Costs.

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The Effect Of Veterans Health Administration Coverage On Cost-Related Medication Nonadherence

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

The Effect of Large-scale Health Coverage Expansions in Wealthy Nations on Society-Wide Healthcare Utilization

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

The Effects of Household Medical Expenditures on Income Inequality in the United States

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

The Effects on Hospital Utilization of the 1966 and 2014 Health Insurance Coverage Expansions in the United States

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.

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The Incidence of Diabetic Ketoacidosis During "Emerging Adulthood" in the USA and Canada: a Population-Based Study

scientific article published on 07 May 2019

The Lancet Commission on public policy and health in the Trump era

scientific article published on 20 September 2018

The Obama Years: Tepid Palliation for America's Health Scourges.

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The Ongoing U.S. Health Care Crisis: A Data Update

scientific article published in January 2018

The Relationship of Health Insurance and Mortality

The Relationship of Health Insurance and Mortality: Is Lack of Insurance Deadly?

scientific article published on 27 June 2017

The U.S. Health Care Crisis Continues: A Data Snapshot

scientific article published in January 2017

The U.S. Health Care System on the Eve of the Covid-19 Epidemic: A Summary of Recent Evidence on Its Impaired Performance

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

The health and health care of US prisoners: results of a nationwide survey

scientific article published on 15 January 2009

The high costs of for-profit care

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The new Massachusetts health reform: half a step forward and three steps back

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

The regressivity of taxing employer-paid health insurance

scientific article published on 19 August 2009

The “Cadillac Tax” on Health Benefits in the United States Will Hit the Middle Class Hardest: Refuting the Myth That Health Benefit Tax Subsidies Are Regressive

scientific article published on 01 January 2016

Timing of new black box warnings and withdrawals for prescription medications

scientific article (publication date: May 2002)

Treating opioid addiction with buprenorphine-naloxone in community-based primary care settings

scientific article published on March 2007

Trends in Unmet Need for Physician and Preventive Services in the United States, 1998-2017

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Trumpcare or Transformation

scientific article published on 21 March 2017

U.S. Health Care in the Trump Era: A Data Update

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

U.S. Medical Students' Knowledge about the Military Draft, the Geneva Conventions, and Military Medical Ethics

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U.S. physicians' views on financing options to expand health insurance coverage: a national survey

scientific article published on 29 January 2009

US health care: single-payer or market reform

scientific article published on 01 February 2009

US law enforcement crowd control tactics at anti-racism protests: a public health threat

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Unauthorized Immigrants Prolong the Life of Medicare's Trust Fund.

scientific article published on 18 June 2015

Undiagnosed and uncontrolled hypertension and hyperlipidemia among immigrants in the US.

scientific article published on October 2013

Unsafe Drugs Were Prescribed More Than One Hundred Million Times in the United States Before Being Recalled

scientific article published on 14 June 2016

Utilization management: a bad review

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

Waits to see an emergency department physician: U.S. trends and predictors, 1997-2004.

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Why pay for performance may be incompatible with quality improvement

scientific article published on August 13, 2012

Woolhandler and Himmelstein Respond

scientific article published in April 2018

Woolhandler and Himmelstein Respond

scientific article published on 01 July 2016