Explaining incremental and non-incremental change: Medicaid nursing facility reimbursement policy, 1980-98

State Politics and Policy Quarterly

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 117-150

  Miller, Edward Alan ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33747616911     PISSN: 15324400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153244000600600201     Document Type: Article

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