"Healthism": A critique of the antidiscrimination approach to health insurance and health-care reform

University of Illinois Law Review

Volumn 2012, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1159-1206

  Roberts, Jessica L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

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19. Notably, this generalization does not always prove true. See James Oliphant, Cost Based on Age Would Persist, L.A. TIMES, Nov. 9,2009, at A14.
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