The Impact of Health Insurance Expansion on Physician Treatment Choice: Medicare Part D and Physician Prescribing
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- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2015-01-03 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-HEA-2015-01-03 (Health Economics)
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