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Article: Increased Heart Mortality Rates Linked to Decreased State Subsidies of Uninsured in New Jersey Hospitals; Penn Study Finds Market-Based Competition, Decreased Subsidies for Uninsured Cases Directly Affect Patient Outcomes.
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- April 15, 2003
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Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System
PHILADELPHIA, April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The introduction of market-based competition to New Jersey's hospitals and the state's reduction in subsidies for uninsured medical care have been linked to a relative increase in mortality rates among uninsured heart attack patients there, in a study at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine that compares New Jersey patient data with similar national and New York State statistics.
The Penn researchers analyzed data on 286,640 heart attack patients who were admitted to hospitals in New Jersey and New York from 1990 through 1996 -- a period in which ...