Michael S Sparer
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Michael S Sparer is professor and department chair of health policy and management at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. A litigator for the New York City law department, Michael is also a former editor Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, and the author of Medicaid and the Limits of State Health Reform