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> The population of people who qualify for taxpayer subsidized Medicaid cabs is significantly less than the US population. If you follow the citation for this
by jessriedel 10y ago
> The population of people who qualify for taxpayer subsidized Medicaid cabs is significantly less than the US population.
If you follow the citation for this datum, you'll find that the 3.6 million people are not drawn exclusively from those qualifying or taxpayer subsidized Medicaid cabs, but rather are inferred from surveying a sample of the general population.
> The estimate of 3.6 million Americans who miss or delay medical care because of a lack of access to NEMT each year, derived from analysis of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS), is conservative and should be seen as a lower bound estimate.
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp_webdoc_29.pdf http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp_webdoc_29.pdf
> The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is an annual, cross-sectional survey intended to provide nationally representative estimates on a wide range of health status and utilization measures among the nonmilitary, noninstitutionalized population of the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Interview_Survey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Interview_Surv...