Simple humans, complex insurance, subtle subsidies

Using Taxes to Reform Health Insurance: Pitfalls and Promises

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 230-255

  Liebman, Jeffrey ^a   Zeckhauser, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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