Description: Access to health care information is collected in the Access to Care (AC) section of MEPS-HC questionnaire. Topics include family members' origin and preferred languages, family members' usual source of care, characteristics of the usual source of health care providers, satisfaction with and access to the usual source of health care provider, and access to medical treatment, dental treatment, and prescription medicines. In addition to the tables and publications below, person-level data files with access to health care variables can be downloaded for analysis. Refer to the variable locator for more information.

Data tables: For tables specifically on access to health care, see the Access to Care Tables, the Tables 3 series for all years and the Table 4 series for 2000 and 2001 Quality of Care Tables of the HC Summary Data Tables.

Analytic tools: No access to care variables are available with the MEPSnet query tools at this time.

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