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Geraldine Dallek is a health policy analyst at the National Health Law Program, which is a legal services support center specializing in health law issues affecting the poor. She has written extensively on problems of access to health care by the uninsured and Medicaid populations.
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Dallek, G. Hospital care for profit. Society 23, 54–59 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695559
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