Can European Countries Improve Sustainability of Health Care Financing through Patient Cost-Sharing?
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1 Department of Health Economics and Social Security, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, Krakow, Poland, 2 Department of Health Services Research, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, 3 Top Institute for Evidence-Based Education Research (TIER), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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