The relevance of price in a customer’s choice of statutory health insurance providers in germany
✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Booking; Peggy Göpfert; Nora Merker; Wilhelm Kirch
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 730 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1741-3842
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