U.S. pharmaceutical policy in a global marketplace.

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Published in Health Aff (Millwood) on December 16, 2008

Authors

Darius N Lakdawalla1, Dana P Goldman, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Neeraj Sood, Robert Lempert, Ze Cong, Han de Vries, Italo Gutierrez

Author Affiliations

1: Bing Center for Health Economics, RAND in Santa Monica, California, USA. darius@rand.org

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