... a factor in appropriate location for care; treatment settings carry different costs and benefits to quality of care and quality of life. For example, reducing hospital insurance coverage for rehabilitation after a stroke has resulted in shift of patients to long-term care facilities not staffed or equipped to provide the same therapies. Fuchs (1998) notes that in any one year, 5% of the ... persons who refuse insulin and experience secondary problems will or will not be covered under our benefit structure? The question is further complicated by our inability to determine the relative po...

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