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Managed competition for Medicare? Sobering lessons from The Netherlands.

Kieke G H KG Okma, Theodore R TR Marmor, and Jonathan J Oberlander

N Engl J Med 365(4):287-9 (2011) PMID 21675914

DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1106090
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