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U.S. Health Care: Taking The Long View

For two decades the U.S. health care system has been in the throes of tumultuous change. The health services research community has weighed in with empirical studies that capture valuable snapshots of this tumult, but these works have shed less light on the longer-term consequences of this saga. In an effort to fill some of these information gaps, Health Affairs has devoted this issue to papers that analyze long-term trends in the health care system, further explore the practices of the pharmaceutical industry and the availability of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries, and shed new light on federal policy as . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John K. Iglehart

Founding Editor

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