Who gets health care?

Daedalus

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 107-115

  Fogel, Robert W ^a   Lee, Chuihee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

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