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Publisher's Letter

Publisher's Letter William B. Walsh M.D. [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

From The Editor

From The Editor John K. Iglehart [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Journal Article

Mending the flaws in the small-group market W D Helms, A K Gauthier, and D M Campion [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The shortcomings of voluntarism in the small-group insurance market C G McLaughlin and W K Zellers [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Inside the black box of administrative costs K E Thorpe [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health and surgical outcomes in Canada and the United States L L Roos, E S Fisher, R Brazauskas, S M Sharp, and E Shapiro [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Can all-payer rate setting and the competitive strategy coexist? P B Ginsburg and K E Thorpe [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The price of success: health care in an aging society C K Cassel, M A Rudberg, and S J Olshansky [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Why managed care cannot contain hospital costs--without rationing W B Schwartz and D N Mendelson [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The political economics of health insurance market reform M A Hall [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Taking the public's pulse on health system reform M D Smith, D E Altman, R Leitman, T W Moloney, and H Taylor [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Why do hospital costs continue to increase? J L Ashby, Jr. and C K Lisk [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Bad debt and free care in Massachusetts hospitals J S Weissman, C Van Deusen Lukas, and A M Epstein [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Opportunity costs in modern medicine L B Russell [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Revised trends in states' nursing home capacity C Harrington, S Preston, L Grant, and J H Swan [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

Tracking the progress of academic health centers N Kane, R J Blendon, and S K Madden [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Physician supply strategy: the case of the south E Ginzberg and M Ostow [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Assuring access to health care: the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation strategy L L Prina [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Grants And Grant Outcomes [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

Lessons from implementation of Washington's Basic Health Plan G Hoare, M Mayers, and C Madden [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Publications And Reports [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

Issues In Patient Selection Tim Morris [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Public Health At A Crossroads Diana Chapman Walsh [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

In Search Of A National Biomedical Science Policy Wendy K. Mariner [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Administrative Costs: Answering The Critics Patricia M. Danzon [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Other Side Of Canada Michael A. Walker [Reprints & Permissions]

Bias In, Bias Out: A Reply To Sheils, Young, And Rubin David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler [Reprints & Permissions]

Pondering The U.S. Health System Donald W. Light [Reprints & Permissions]

Ideal Versus Operational Values For Health Care Laurence J. O'Connell [Reprints & Permissions]

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