Shock Therapy for the American Health Care System: Why Comprehensive Reform is Needed
- ISBN-10
- 0313380686
- ISBN-13
- 9780313380686
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Pages
- 186
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO
- Author
- Robert Levine
Description
Shock Therapy For the American Health Care System describes the problems of the health care system and offers a program of comprehensive reform that is more far-reaching than anything currently being proposed. * Provides bibliographies for each of the nine chapters * Six tables and graphs provide an easy way to understand essential data
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- 2009-07-23
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