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Many people say that Health Care Systems are not financially sustainable and so they are all ultimately doomed.
The original version of this chapter was revised: Affiliation were updated for M.P. Iacono. The erratum to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53600-2_15
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Veronesi, U. et al. (2018). Myth #1: The Healthcare System Is Failing. In: Adinolfi, P., Borgonovi, E. (eds) The Myths of Health Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53600-2_4
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