A Consumer-Choice Health Plan for the 1990s

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 320, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 29-37

  Enthoven, Alain ^a   Kronick, Richard ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ECONOMIC COMPETITION; EFFICIENCY; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; FORECASTING; HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, EMPLOYEE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; MEDICARE; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE, UNITED STATES; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TAXES; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES;

EID: 0024503430     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198901053200106     Document Type: Article

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