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The Persistence of the Health Insurance Dilemma

An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

John E. Murray
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Social Science History , Volume 30 , Issue 4: The Persistence of the Health Insurance Dilemma , Winter 2006 , pp. 465 - 477
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