Funds Distribution from Medicaid Cases Against the Tobacco Industry. Letter to U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton.

ENACT Coalition.

Tobacco;United States Health Care Financing Administration;Medicaid

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funds_distribution_medicaid_cases_against_tobacco_industry_1998.pdf

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1998