The Unpredictable Prognosis of Medicare - A Book Review on Chronic Condition: Why Canada’s Health-Care System Needs to be Dragged Into the 21st Century by Jeffrey Simpson

Authors

  • Kelly Brennan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/riss-ijhs.v5i1.1443

Keywords:

Health services, Medicare, health policy, health care reform

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2016-03-10

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2015)

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