Health insurance experiments in the Netherlands and Switzerland: A rejoinder with updates

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1073-1077

  Rosenau, Pauline Vaillancourt ^a,b   Lako, Christiaan J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; NETHERLANDS; NOTE; PROFIT; SWITZERLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57449113447     PISSN: 03616878     EISSN: 15271927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/03616878-2008-037     Document Type: Note

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