Consumer-Directed Health Care: Can Consumers Look After Themselves?

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 285-307

  McFadden, Daniel ^a   Winter, Joachim ^b   Heiss, Florian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

C25; C61; C81; D12; D91; H51; health insurance; I10; I12; I18; Medicare Part D; prescription drugs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885474852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22356282     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03399255     Document Type: Article

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