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I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. He co-wrote the first “It’s The Prices Stupid” research article in Health Affairs with Gerard Anderson et. ” So much for transparency in 2019.
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