The Effect of Insurance Coverage on Breast Cancer Patients' Treatment and Hospital Choices

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 448-453

  Mitchell, Jean M ^a   Hadley, Jack ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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