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EDITORS' NOTE

Perspectives On A Quarter-Century In The Health Policy Sphere

For this issue of Health Affairs, which commemorates our twenty-fifth anniversary, we invited a selection of more than a dozen longtime contributors to write short pieces exploring one or some combination of the following topics: (1) changes in the health care system over the past twenty-five years, including consideration of dimensions that have progressed and those that have regressed; (2) Health Affairs’ contributions to the ongoing policy dialogue over twenty-five years; (3) advice for would-be reformers as we head into an election year and an apparent new round of reform discussions; (4) similarly, lessons that reformers may be overlooking as we anticipate a new round of reform; (5) prospects for enduring and comprehensive reform; and (6) speculation on what kinds of issues we might be facing twenty-five years hence, on the eve of Health Affairs’ fiftieth anniversary. As you might imagine, the commentaries we are publishing address a healthy mix of subjects and views—appropriate in reflecting the landscape of Health Affairs in its first quarter-century. We thank those who contributed their views—Robert A. Berenson of the Urban Institute; Robert J. Blendon of the Harvard School of Public Health; M. Gregg Bloche of Georgetown University; Lynn M. Etheredge of the Rapid Learning Project at George Washington University; Richard G. Frank (Harvard University) and Sherry A. Glied (Columbia University); Victor R. Fuchs of Stanford University; Alan Garber (Stanford University), Dana P. Goldman (RAND), and Anupam Jena (RAND); David Mechanic of Rutgers University; William L. Roper of the University of North Carolina; William M. Sage of the University of Texas; Leonard D. Schaeffer of WellPoint; and Kenneth E. Thorpe of Emory University—and we invite discussion of these views via our blog, letters to the editor (both online and in print), and other informal venues as the reform debate continues.

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