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Redesigning the medicare contract : politics, markets, and agency

"Challenging conventional ideas, Edward F. Lawlor suggests that we look at Medicare as a contract between the federal government, the program's beneficiaries, and health care providers. Medicare reform, then, would involve rewriting this contract so that it more successfully serves the interests of both beneficiaries and taxpayers
Print Book, English, ©2003
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ©2003
viii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226470344, 0226470342
52127570
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