Easy cuts, easy rebound: Drug expenditures with massive price cuts in Korea
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.11.002
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Price cuts; Equal medicine pricing; Drug expenditures; Demandside measures; Korea;All these keywords.
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