Privatizing health care is not the answer: lessons from the United States

Marcia Angell

doi:10.1503/cmaj.081177

Article Information

vol. 179 no. 9 916-919

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.081177

PubMed

18838441

History

Published online October 20, 2008.

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Author Information

Marcia Angell MD

Marcia Angell is a senior lecturer in social medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Correspondence to:
Dr. Marcia Angell, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 13 Ellery Square, Cambridge MA 02138, USA; fax 617 576-7926; marcia_angell{at}hms.harvard.edu

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