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The authors are grateful to Shanna McCormack and Jason Rachlin for providing tabulations of the Current Population Survey according to our specifications, under the direction of Sherry Glied and with funding provided by The Commonwealth Fund to the School of Public Health at Columbia University. We also appreciate programming support provided by Steve Maczuga for our analyses of the Health and Retirement Survey. Support for this research was provided by The Commonwealth Fund. The views presented here are those of the authors and should not be attributed to The Commonwealth Fund or its directors, officers, or staff, or to The Pennsylvania State University. Copies of this report are available from The Commonwealth Fund by calling our toll-free publications line at 1-888-777-2744 and ordering publication number 457. The report can also be found on the Fund’s website at www.cmwf.org