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Dissecting American Health Care

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Dissecting American Health Care
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Publisher: RTI Press
ISBN/ASIN: 1934831069
ISBN-13: 9781934831069
Number of pages: 167

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The intersection of health care, politics, and policy is a controversial one, and this book of lively essays takes on many of today's hot health topics: alternative medicine, health care reform, screening mammograms, taxes to change behavior, gun control, and many more.

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