Supplemental Data is available for this issue:

[Original Table of Contents for this issue]

From The Editor

The Dread Of Compulsion Vs. Limits Of Voluntarism John K. Iglehart [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Journal Article

Expanded managed care liability: what impact on employer coverage? D M Studdert, W M Sage, C R Gresenz, and D R Hensler [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Individual versus job-based health insurance: weighing the pros and cons M Pauly, A Percy, and B Herring [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Expanding access and choice for health care consumers through tax reform S Butler and D B Kendall [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Who Pays For Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance? Linda J. Blumberg [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Job-based health insurance, 1977-1998: the accidental system under scrutiny J R Gabel [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Trends in managed care and managed competition, 1993-1997 M S Marquis and S H Long [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Early experience with a new model of employer group purchasing in Minnesota J Christianson, R Feldman, J P Weiner, and P Drury [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interview

At The Helm Of An Insurance Giant: Aetna's Richard L. Huber James C. Robinson [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Why we should keep the employment-based health insurance system W S Custer, C N Kahn, III, and T F Wildsmith, IV [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Employer-based health insurance: a balance sheet U E Reinhardt [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

Stability and variation in employment-based health insurance coverage, 1993-1997 S H Long and M S Marquis [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

What drives Medicare managed care growth? R S Brown and M R Gold [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicare HMO withdrawals: what happens to beneficiaries? M A Laschober, P Neuman, M S Kitchman, L Meyer, and K M Langwell [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The pursuit of quality by business coalitions: a national survey I Fraser, P McNamara, G O Lehman, S Isaacson, and K Moler [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

An employer's view of the U.S. health care market R S Galvin [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Boundaries Lisa Iezzoni [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Of wheelchairs and managed care A I Batavia [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Comparing employee health benefits in the public and private sectors, 1997 S H Long and M S Marquis [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Market incentives, plan choice, and price increases K E Thorpe, C S Florence, and B Gray [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The uninsured, the working uninsured, and the public R J Blendon, J T Young, and C M DesRoches [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Beyond cost: 'responsible purchasing' of managed care by employers A T Lo Sasso, L Perloff, J Schield, J J Murphy, J D Mortimer, and P P Budetti [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

Wisconsin Blues conversion model L L Prina [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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

UpDate

The National Quality Forum: a 'me-too' or a breakthrough in quality measurement and reporting? T Miller and S Leatherman [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Publications & Reports [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

No Going Back: Organizational Change As Innovation Rosemary A. Stevens [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Neuroscience For Policy Wonks? Deborah B. Goldberg and Michael E. Goldberg [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Regulating Doctors: The Limits Of State Medical Boards Arnold S. Relman [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Legal Challenges To Managed Care: Another View Mark A. Hall [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Legal Challenges: The Author Responds Peter D. Jacobson [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

New Jersey's Experiment: A 'Dismal Failure' Lee D. Tooman Jr. [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

New Jersey Experiment: The Authors Responds Katherine Swartz and Deborah W. Garnick [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Spending Growth Rates: Are The Differences Real? Mark McClellan and Daniel Kessler [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Index

1999 Index [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Guidelines for Authors