NEJM: from Wake Forest law school-safety net access for the uninsured

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21190449

N Engl J Med. 2010 Dec 29. [Epub ahead of print]
Rethinking Safety-Net Access for the Uninsured.
Hall MA.

From Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC.

Abstract
Now that health insurance reform has begun, safety-net programs throughout the United States are struggling to adapt their missions to suit the post-reform composition of the uninsured population. Most such programs are organized at the local level, with funding largely premised on their serving low-income uninsured residents. Examples include well-structured comprehensive care programs in some major cities, more than 1000 limited-service free clinics, and dozens of volunteer physician-referral programs. When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is fully implemented, 8% of the U.S. population is projected to remain uninsured.