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February 2010

Out-of-pocket health care expenditures: a comparison

Ann C. Foster

An examination of aggregate out-of-pocket health care expenditures from the CE, MEPS, and the NHEA for the 1996?2006 period indicates that methodological differences account for the lack of agreement among estimates.

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