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P.229 misnumbered 226.With an index.

London : printed for S. Crowder, and J. Coote; W. Griffin; and W. Nicoll, 1770. xi,[1],226[i.e.229],[1],xxiip. ; 12° ... Read more

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Title: Producing disease-based price indexes: using a total-expenditure scope and adjusting for utilizations under a treatment concept for measuring health care costs slows down the rate of growth of medical prices; the downside is that most of the saving is seen in insurance benefit payments and not in out-of-pocket payments or lower insurance premiums for consumers.(Medical Consumer Price Indexes)
Author: Ralph Bradley
Publication: Monthly Labor Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2010
Publisher: Superintendent of Documents
Volume: 133Issue: 2Page: 20(9)

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