Beyond Path Dependence: Explaining Healthcare Reform and its Consequences

Policy Studies Journal

Volumn 40, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 65-86

  Haeder, Simon F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordable Care Act; Health politics; Health reform; Insurance exchange; Medicaid; Policy implementation

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLICY REFORM; STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859488164     PISSN: 0190292X     EISSN: 15410072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2012.00446.x     Document Type: Review

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