The impacts of the affordable care act: How reasonable are the projections?

National Tax Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 893-908

  Gruber, Jonathan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordable Care Act; Cost estimates; Health care reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860768496     PISSN: 00280283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2011.3.06     Document Type: Article

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