Medicare Select: A Bold Reform?

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-70

  Hall, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; POLICY REFORM;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77951655981     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: 14678462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2009.00580.x     Document Type: Article

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