This Article Full Text (HTML) Reprint (PDF) Submit a response to this article Alert me when this article is cited Alert me when eLetters are posted Alert me if a correction is posted Services E-mail this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to My Personal Archive Download to Citation Manager Reprints & Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via ISI Web of Science (1) Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Iglehart, J. K. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Iglehart, J. K.

From the Editor

Business & Government: Striking New Balances

The dynamic mix between private entrepreneurship and government action forms the complex framework of American health care. While many businesses are clear on their commercial goals—expanding or in a few cases reducing market share to earn a profit—when these goals are intertwined with the conflicting priorities of public policy making—providing greater access to care while constraining cost growth—the equation becomes far more complex. We believe that these intersections deserve far greater attention if policymakers are going to successfully craft a health care system for the twenty-first century. The ascendancy of the private-public relationship in health care was embraced by Congress . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John K. Iglehart

Founding Editor

                      What's this?