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From The Editor

The painful pursuit of a competitive marketplace J K Iglehart [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prologues

Special Section: Medicare's Experience With Competitive Pricing [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Journal Article

A tale of four cities: Medicare reform and competitive pricing B Dowd, R Coulam, and R Feldman [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Who really wants price competition in Medicare managed care? L M Nichols and R D Reischauer [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Putting Principles First: A Better Way To Carry Out A Demonstration Karen Ignagni [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Bringing Competitive Pricing To Medicare Barbara S. Cooper and Bruce C. Vladeck [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Applying the Lessons Of The Competitive-Pricing Demonstrations Bill Thomas and Linda E. Fishman [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: The Need For Demonstrations To Test New Ideas Nancy-Ann Min DeParle and Robert A. Berenson [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicare's governance and structure: a proposal L Etheredge [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prefunding Medicare without individual accounts L S Seidman [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Is premium support the right medicine for Medicare? J Oberlander [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Managed care and the imperative for a new professional ethic D Mechanic [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Risks of reporting sentinel events B A Liang [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

HMO market penetration and costs of employer-sponsored health plans L C Baker, J C Cantor, S H Long, and M S Marquis [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The FDA's regulation of health economic information P J Neumann, K Claxton, and M C Weinstein [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Increasing the impact of health plan report cards by addressing consumers' concerns J H Hibbard, L Harris-Kojetin, P Mullin, J Lubalin, and S Garfinkel [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Job-based health insurance in 2000: premiums rise sharply while coverage grows J Gabel, L Levitt, J Pickreign, H Whitmore, E Holve, S Hawkins, and N Miller [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Withering on the vine: the decline of indemnity health insurance J R Gabel, P B Ginsburg, H H Whitmore, and J D Pickreign [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Health Insurance Plan of California: the first five years J M Yegian, T C Buchmueller, M D Smith, and A F Monroe [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perceptions of barriers to high-quality palliative care in hospitals C K Cassel, J M Ludden, and G M Moon [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Doctors have patients, governors have citizens R D Lamm [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Gouging the medically uninsured: a tale of two bills I Wielawski [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Socioeconomic differences in Medicare supplemental coverage N Pourat, T Rice, G Kominski, and R E Snyder [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

An analysis of hospital productivity and product change J Ashby, S Guterman, and T Greene [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

Pennsylvania's voluntary benefits program: evaluating an innovative proposal for increasing organ donation P A Ubel, C L Bryce, L A Siminoff, A L Caplan, and R M Arnold [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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

UpDate

Legal Report: UR here: the Supreme Court's guide for managed care W M Sage [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Legal Report: U.S. health care after Pegram: betrayal at the bedside? M G Bloche [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Legal Report: The Olmstead decision: implications for state health policy S Rosenbaum [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Legal Report: Customizing Medicaid managed care--California style D A Draper and M R Gold [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Publications & Reports [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

The Politics Of Health Policy Lawrence D. Brown [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Bearing The Risks Taken By Others: The Role Of America's Middle Class Uwe E. Reinhardt [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

More On Health Care And The Law Richard A. Epstein [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Care And The Law: The Author Responds Clark C. Havighurst [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Making Long-Term Care Coverage An Entitlement Anne Tumlinson [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Defusing Asia's Aging Time Bomb Victor H.H. Goh [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Dissecting Tax Credits John Sheils [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Where Are The Missing Nursing Homes? Jeffrey A. Rhoades [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Missing Nursing Homes: The Author Responds Christine E. Bishop [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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