Can access to affordable individual health insurance be sustained?

State Health Insurance Market Reform: Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Health Insurance Markets

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 113-120

  Pollitz, Karen ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33744765260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203799789     Document Type: Chapter

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