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From The Editor

Tumult & Transformation John K. Iglehart [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Journal Article

The future of managed care organization J C Robinson [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Focusing On The Health Care Consumer Leonard D. Schaeffer and L. Carl Volpe [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Health Plans' Strategic Responses To A Changing Marketplace George C. Halvorson [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Explaining the decline in health insurance coverage, 1979-1995 R Kronick and T Gilmer [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Challenges in securing access to care for children N Halfon, M Inkelas, H DuPlessis, and P W Newacheck [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: How Will We Know If CHIP Is Working? Trish Riley [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Behavioral health benefits in employer-sponsored health plans, 1997 J A Buck, J L Teich, B Umland, and M Stein [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mental health/medical care cost offsets: opportunities for managed care M Olfson, M Sing, and H J Schlesinger [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Capturing Mental Health Cost Offsets Mary Jane England [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Justifying Mental Health Care Costs Howard H. Goldman [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Modernizing the FDA: an incremental revolution R A Merrill [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mixed signals: public policy and the future of health care R&D B A Weisbrod and C L LaMay [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

Waiting in the wings: eligibility and enrollment in the State Children's Health Insurance Program T M Selden, J S Banthin, and J W Cohen [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Raising the bar: the use of performance guarantees by the Pacific Business Group on Health H H Schauffler, C Brown, and A Milstein [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Camelot or common sense? The logic behind the UCSF/Stanford merger P Van Etten [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

UCSF/Stanford: building a 'prestige cartel' J Goldsmith [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Making report cards work E K Wicks and J A Meyer [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Academic health centers: exploring a financial paradox G F Anderson, G Greenberg, and C K Lisk [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The muscular Samaritan: the National Health Service Corps in the new century F Mullan [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Cost of tax-exempt health benefits in 1998 J Sheils and P Hogan [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The economic value of informal caregiving P S Arno, C Levine, and M M Memmott [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Financial incentives and drug spending in managed care A L Hillman, M V Pauly, J J Escarce, K Ripley, M Gaynor, J Clouse, and R Ross [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Who bears the burden of Medicaid drug copayment policies? B Stuart and C Zacker [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Why are workers uninsured? Employer-sponsored health insurance in 1997 K E Thorpe and C S Florence [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

Improving lives through information K Davis [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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

UpDate

How are safety-net providers faring under Medicaid managed care? C M Grogan and M K Gusmano [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid managed care in rural areas: a ten-state follow-up study S Felt-Lisk, P Silberman, S Hoag, and R Slifkin [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Publications & Reports [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

The Starr Report Revisited David G. Pockell [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Let's Blame All The Lawyers M. Gregg Bloche [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Changing The Nature Of Nature Stanley Joel Reiser [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Maturing Market For Health Information Technology? William L. Roper and Glen Mays [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Information Technology: Value To Patients Claire Ross\'e9 [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Information: A Broader View Don E. Detmer and Mary Jo Deering [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

A New Proposal For Cooperation In HIT Development Gary Cantlon [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Information Technology: One Author Responds Donald W. Moran [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Need To Measure Absolute, Not Relative, Access To Care Steven Schreiber [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Access To Care: Authors' Response Marc L. Berk and Claudia L. Schur [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Performance Measures And Batting Averages Terry R. Lied [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

More On Reform Of The NHS Chris Ham [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Funding Acknowledgment John Z. Ayanian for the authors [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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