Enrollment in FEHBP plans in rural America: what are the implications for Medicare reform?
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چکیده
In places where the competing health plans are unlikely to ever emerge, any policy predicated on assumptions that competing plans will deliver health insurance benefits needs to have a "fallback" option that is guaranteed to work.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Rural policy brief
دوره 8 8(PB2003-8) شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003