The Problem Isn't Payment: Medicare and the Reform of End-of-Life Care

Generations

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 52-57

  Vladeck, Bruce C ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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