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Health Affairs Reaches 25: How It All Got Started

THE YEAR WAS 1981, and Ronald Reagan had just been elected president, dashing the hopes of Democrats, who controlled Congress, to press ahead with legislation that would reform the health care system, enlarging the role of government in the process. William B. Walsh, an entrepreneurial cardiologist and founder of Project HOPE, broached an idea to me: that HOPE, a nonprofit organization that sponsored international health education activities in thirty countries, would start a health policy journal aimed at provoking a constructive domestic U.S. dialogue between the warring political parties and countless private stakeholders. At the time, I was in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John K. Iglehart, Founding Editor

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