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21 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2002-2006. Analysis prepared by Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.
22 High out-of-pocket costs are defined as costs that surpass the allowable upper limit in the current House bill, America’s Affordable Choices Act of 2009.
23 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2002-2006.
24 U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey. Annual Social and Economic Supplements, March 2007.
25 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006.
26 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006.
27 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006.
28 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006.
29 U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey. Annual Social and Economic Supplements, March 2007.
31 U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey. Annual Social and Economic Supplements, March 2007.
32 U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey. Annual Social and Economic Supplements, March 2007.
34 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006. Analysis provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
35 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Health Interview Survey 2008. Analysis provided by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
36 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006. Analysis provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
37 American’s Health Insurance Plans, Individual Health Insurance 2006-2007: A Comprehensive Survey of Premiums, Availability and Benefits, 2007.
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41 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Data. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008.
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43 Kaiser Family Foundation. “Medicare’s Role for Women.” Kaiser Family Foundation. June, 2009.
44 Kaiser Family Foundation. “Medicare’s Role for Women.” Kaiser Family Foundation. June, 2009.
45 Kaiser Family Foundation. “Medicare’s Role for Women.” Kaiser Family Foundation. June, 2009.
46 CMS 2005 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Cost and Use file
48 Kaiser Family Foundation. “Medicare’s Role for Women.” Kaiser Family Foundation. June, 2009.
50 Office of the Actuary. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
51 Analysis preformed by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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56 Employee Benefit Research Institute, Savings Needed to Fund Health Insurance and Health Care Expenses in Retirement, (Washington, DC: EBRI Issue Brief #295, July 2006).
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62 Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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