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This study examined how the Medicaid program is providing access to beneficiaries, using the level of access available to low-income privately insured people in the local health care market as the benchmark. The analysis, which focused on ambulatory care measures, was done for the nation as a whole and for thirteen individual states. The researchers concluded that, on balance, Medicaid beneficiaries fared no worse than their low-income privately insured peers in most of the states examined. (Coughlin, Teresa A., Long, Sharon K., Shen, Yu-Chu. July/August 2005. "Assessing Access to Care Under Medicaid: Evidence for the Nation and Thirteen States." Health Affairs 24(4): 1073-1083.)

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