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Health care market deviations from the ideal market

Ari Mwachofi1, Assaf F Al-Assaf

  • 1University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Okalhoma City, USA;

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
|November 17, 2011
PubMed

Keywords:
Economic efficiencyEquityHealth economicsIdeal marketMarket failureMarket forcesMarket structurePerfect competitionSupply/demand

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