Patient Power: Solving America's Health Care Crisis
- ISBN-10
- 0932790925
- ISBN-13
- 9780932790927
- Series
- Patient Power
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 673
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Cato Inst
- Authors
- John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave
Description
Argues for a health care system that would restore power and responsibility to the individual consumer and taking it out of the hands of government and insurance companies
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Other editions
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- 1996-07-16
- 416 pages
- Paperback
- Simon and Schuster
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