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Our broken health care system and how to fix it: an essay on health law and policy.

November 10, 2011

Jost TS. Wake Forest Law Rev. 2006;41:537-618.

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The author discusses problems in the U.S. health care system and laws that govern this system and provides a legal framework for reform.

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