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From The Editor

The Power Of The Personal Story John K. Iglehart [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

Medicare Politics: Past, Present—And Future? David G. Smith [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicare Politics: Past, Present-And Future? David G. Smith [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Tying Traditional Values To New Technology Peter J. Levin [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Journal Article

Early experience with 'new federalism' in health insurance regulation K Pollitz, N Tapay, E Hadley, and J Specht [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Uneasy alliances: managed care plans formed by safety-net providers M S Sparer and L D Brown [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Managing Medicaid managed care: are states becoming prudent purchasers? J W Fossett, M Goggin, J S Hall, J Johnston, L C Plein, R Roper, and C Weissert [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health care use among undocumented Latino immigrants M L Berk, C L Schur, L R Chavez, and M Frankel [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Barriers to care among racial/ethnic groups under managed care K A Phillips, M L Mayer, and L A Aday [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Do patients choose physicians of their own race? S Saha, S H Taggart, M Komaromy, and A B Bindman [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

American health care and the law--we need to talk! C C Havighurst [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Spending on mental health and substance abuse treatment, 1987-1997 T L Mark, R M Coffey, E King, H Harwood, D McKusick, J Genuardi, J Dilonardo, and J A Buck [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Setting rates for Medicaid managed behavioral health care: lessons learned S Hoag, J Wooldridge, and C Thornton [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prologues

Special Section: Race, Ethnicity, Access, And Health [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Special Section: Mental Health And Substance Abuse Policy [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interview

A Senator's Quest To Beat Cancer Fitzhugh Mullan and Connie Mack [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

On the 'efficiency' of managed care plans K Sullivan [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

Disclosing doctors' incentives: will consumers understand and value the information? T E Miller and C R Horowitz [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Disclosure of physician incentives: do practices satisfy purposes? M A Hall, K E Kidd, and E Dugan [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Increasing use of new prescription drugs: a case study S M Foote and L Etheredge [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The nonpoor uninsured in California, 1998 J M Yegian, D G Pockell, M D Smith, and E K Murray [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Adults without health insurance: do state policies matter? B C Spillman [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Why does the number of uninsured Americans continue to grow? J Holahan and J Kim [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Self-care among the uninsured: 'you do what you can do' N Vuckovic [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Selective chaos T Bodenheimer [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

What's not to like about HMOs S J Singer [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Health care in the upcoming 2000 election R J Blendon, J M Benson, M Brodie, D E Altman, and M James [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Trends in Medicaid physician fees, 1993-1998 S Norton and S Zuckerman [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Effects of case management and new drugs on Medicaid AIDS spending J M Mitchell and K H Anderson [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health care use and at-work productivity among employees with mental disorders E R Berndt, H L Bailit, M B Keller, J C Verner, and S N Finkelstein [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

The HSRProj database: update on Health Services Research in Progress N Adelman, L Chester, and K Slack [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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

UpDate

Publications & Reports [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Poor Little Rich Men Lawrence Hipshman [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Improving Health Care By Looking Outside The Industry Kenneth S. Berkowitz [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Business Of Health Care: The Authors Respond Geoffrey Harris for the authors [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Teaching Hospital Mergers: A Cautionary Tale John A. Kastor [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Getting The Pharmacist Involved Craig Jeffries [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Clinical Research Is Personal S. Robert Levine [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Clinical Research Is Personal Robert A. Gutman [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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