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From the Editor

Will New Leadership Address The Issue Of The Uninsured? John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Expanding Coverage

Expanding Coverage Via Tax Credits: Trade-offs And Outcomes Mark Pauly and Bradley Herring [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Covering The Low-Income Uninsured: The Case For Expanding Public Programs Judith Feder, Larry Levitt, Ellen O’Brien, and Diane Rowland [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Building A Consensus For Expanding Health Coverage Charles N. Kahn, III and Ronald F. Pollack [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Politics & Policy

PROLOGUE: Looking Back, Looking Ahead [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Window Shopping: State Health Reform Politics In The 1990s Lawrence D. Brown and Michael S. Sparer [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Increments Toward What? Alan Weil [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Expanding Coverage: Reflections On Recent Efforts Linda T. Bilheimer and David C. Colby [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Covering Kids

PROLOGUE: Medicaid And Beyond [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid For Children: Federal Mandates, Welfare Reform, And Policy Backsliding Karl Kronebusch [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Care Access And Use Among Low-Income Children: Who Fares Best? Lisa Dubay and Genevieve M. Kenney [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Back To School: A Health Care Strategy For Youth James A. Morone, Elizabeth H. Kilbreth, and Kathryn M. Langwell [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interview

A Founder of Quality Assessment Encounters A Troubled System Firsthand Fitzhugh Mullan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: HealthMarts, HIPCs,MEWAs, And AHPs: A Guide For The Perplexed Mark A. Hall, Elliot K. Wicks, and Janice S. Lawlor [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Have Small-Group Health Insurance Purchasing Alliances Increased Coverage? Stephen H. Long and M. Susan Marquis [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Consumer-Choice Purchasing Pools: Past Tense, Future Perfect? Richard E. Curtis, Edward Neuschler, and Rafe Forland [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Shifting Health Insurance Coverage, 1997–1999 Stephen Zuckerman, Genevieve M. Kenney, Lisa Dubay, Jennifer Haley, and John Holahan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: How A Changing Workforce Affects Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Gregory Acs and Linda J. Blumberg [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Generation Vexed: Age-Cohort Differences In Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage Sherry Glied and Mark Stabile [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Communicating Health Information Through The Entertainment Media Mollyann Brodie, Ursula Foehr, Vicky Rideout, Neal Baer, Carolyn Miller, Rebecca Flournoy, and Drew Altman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Prospects For Improved Decision Making About Medical Necessity Sara J. Singer and Linda A. Bergthold [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Using And Misusing Anecdote In Policy Making John E. McDonough [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Out Of The Closet And Into The Legislature: Breast Cancer Stories Barbara F. Sharf [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Betwixt And Between: Targeting Coverage Reforms To Those Approaching Medicare Dennis G. Shea, Pamela Farley Short, and M. Paige Powell [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Covering The Uninsured Through TennCare: Does It Make A Difference? Lorenzo Moreno and Sheila D. Hoag [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Patterns Of Insurance Coverage Within Families With Children Karla L. Hanson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Left Out: Immigrants’ Access To Health Care And Insurance Leighton Ku and Sheetal Matani [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Unfriendly Shores: How Immigrant Children Fare In The U.S. Health System Sylvia Guendelman, Helen Halpin Schauffler, and Michelle Pearl [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Assessing The Impact Of Health Plan Choice Barbara Steinberg Schone and Philip F. Cooper [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Use Of Antihypertensive Drugs By Medicare Enrollees: Does Type Of Drug Coverage Matter? Alyce S. Adams, Stephen B. Soumerai, and Dennis Ross-Degnan [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

SPECIAL REPORT: Working With Employers To Increase SCHIP Enrollment Ada Mary Gugenheim and Linda Diamond Shapiro [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Grants & Grant Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

STATE REPORT: Medicaid Coverage For Tobacco-Dependence Treatments Helen Halpin Schauffler, Dianne C. Barker, and C. Tracy Orleans [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

Otherworldly Delivery Systems Harry P. Cain, II [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

More On Medicare Competitive Pricing Bryan Dowd, Barbara S. Cooper, and Bruce C. Vladeck [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Reorganizing HCFA: Another Look Harry P. Cain, II [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

HCFA Reorganization: Not A Simple Task Douglas Guerdat [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medical Professionalism: Another View Sylvia R. Cruess, Richard L. Cruess, Sharon E. Johnston, and David Mechanic [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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