Eight Decades of Discouragement: The History of Health Care Cost Containment in the USA

Forum for Health Economics and Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 53-82

  Jost, Timothy Stoltzfus ^a  

^a LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

health care costs; health insurance; health reform; managed care; Medicare

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897965810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15589544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/fhep-2012-0009     Document Type: Review

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