Eliminating Coverage Discrimination Through the Essential Health Benefit's Anti-Discrimination Provisions.

Am J Public Health

Elizabeth Guo was with Harvard Law School and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA. Douglas B. Jacobs is with the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. Aaron S. Kesselheim is with the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Published: February 2017

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