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In each issue, Health Affairs offers an annual check on a segment of the health sphere: health status and health care utilization in Spring; health care innovation in Summer; national health spending in Fall; and health personnel trends in Winter. In this issue, Ronald Andersen and colleagues from the University of Chicago and University of Texas track health status and utilization with a particular look at how poor and minority groups are faring. Also, R. Paul Duncan and Kerry Kilpatrick of the University of Florida, Gainesville, focus on unresolved hospital charges in that state. The DataWatch section concludes with a look at low-income veterans’ use of the Veterans Administration (VA) health care system by John Gronvall of the VA.
Andersen et al. (Thu,) studied this question.