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Law Attacks Errors and Inefficiencies

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The American health care system struggles with serious problems.

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Parks, D. (2012). New Medicine. In: Health Care Reform Simplified. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4897-2_6

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