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Perspectives on health care reform and the Affordable Care Act

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2015

Eileen Burgin
Eileen Burgin*
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University of Vermont
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Correspondence: Eileen Burgin, Department of Political Science, University of Vermont, The Old Mill, Burlington, VT 05405. Email: [email protected]
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Affordable Care Act (ACA)health care reformhealth care systemliving legislationpolicy implementation
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , Fall 2015 , pp. 105 - 123
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© Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 2015 

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