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The Efficiency of Medicare

In: Analyses in the Economics of Aging

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Jonathan S. Skinner
Elliott S. Fisher
John Wennberg

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This chapter was published in: Jonathan S. Skinner & Elliott S. Fisher & John Wennberg Analyses in the Economics of Aging, , pages 129-160, 2005.

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  8. Katherine Baicker & Amitabh Chandra, 2004. "The Productivity of Physician Specialization: Evidence from the Medicare Program," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(2), pages 357-361, May. [Downloadable!]
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