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The new health care law promises to bestow upon us much more information about the American medical system, or as government planners say, make it more transparent.
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Parks, D. (2011). Info Overload. In: Health Care Reform Simplified. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3699-3_8
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