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Is health insurance competition good for consumers?

Ho, Kate
Lee, Robin S.

Publication date

October 2015

Publisher

LSE Business Review

Abstract

Less insurer competition can lower hospital prices, but savings may not reach consumers, write Kate Ho and Robin S. Le

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