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From the Editor

U.S. Health Care: Taking The Long View John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Care Trends

PROLOGUE: Health Care Trends [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Concentration Of Health Care Expenditures, Revisited Marc L. Berk and Alan C. Monheit [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Three Decades Of Health Care Use By The Elderly, 1965–1998 James Lubitz, Linda G. Greenberg, Yelena Gorina, Lynne Wartzman, and David Gibson [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Americans’ Views On Health Policy: A Fifty-Year Historical Perspective Robert J. Blendon and John M. Benson [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Trends In Out-Of-Pocket Spending By Insured American Workers, 1990–1997 Jon R. Gabel, Paul B. Ginsburg, Jeremy D. Pickreign, and James D. Reschovsky [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Trend Data On Medical Encounters: Tracking A Moving Target Amy B. Bernstein, Esther Hing, Catharine W. Burt, and Margaret J. Hall [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Drug Cost Growth

Pharmaceuticals: Medicare And Cost Growth [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Growing Differences Between Medicare Beneficiaries With And Without Drug Coverage John A. Poisal and Lauren Murray [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Dynamics In Drug Coverage Of Medicare Beneficiaries: Finders, Losers, Switchers Bruce Stuart, Dennis Shea, and Becky Briesacher [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry: Why Major Growth In Times Of Cost Containment? Ernst R. Berndt [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prescription Drug Prices: Why Do Some Pay More Than Others Do? Richard G. Frank [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

The Controversy Of Increased Spending For Antidepressants Thomas W. Croghan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Graduate Medical Education

Paying For Graduate Medical Education: The Debate Goes On Joseph P. Newhouse and Gail R. Wilensky [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Economists On Academic Medicine: Elephants In A Porcelain Shop? Adepeju L. Gbadebo and Uwe E. Reinhardt [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Does Economic Theory Justify Changing Policy That Works? Ralph W. Muller, George F. Sheldon, and Ralph Snyderman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Another Alternative For Financing Graduate Medical Education David N. Sundwall [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Do Consumers Know How Their Health Plan Works? Peter J. Cunningham, Charles Denk, and Michael Sinclair [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Patients And Profits: The Relationship Between HMO Financial Performance And Quality Of Care Patricia H. Born and Carol J. Simon [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Provider Organizations At Risk: A Profile Of Major Risk-Bearing Intermediaries, 1999 Marsha R. Gold, Robert Hurley, and Timothy Lake [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Patients’ Attitudes Toward Cost Control Bonuses For Managed Care Physicians Thomas H. Gallagher, Robert F. St. Peter, Margaret Chesney, and Bernard Lo [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Health Spending Growth Up In 1999; Faster Growth Expected In The Future Stephen Heffler, Katharine Levit, Sheila Smith, Cynthia Smith, Cathy Cowan, Helen Lazenby, and Mark Freeland [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Moving To Medicare: Trends In The Health Insurance Status Of Near-Elderly Workers, 1987–1996 Alan C. Monheit, Jessica P. Vistnes, and John M. Eisenberg [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Trends In Mental Health Services Use And Spending, 1987–1996 Samuel H. Zuvekas [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Trends In Avoidable Hospitalizations, 1980–1998 Lola Jean Kozak, Margaret J. Hall, and Maria F. Owings [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Hospital Finance: Signs Of ‘Pushback’ Amid Resurgent Cost Pressures Robert Cunningham [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Medical Safety: From Stories To Policy Randall R. Bovbjerg [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

No One Needs To Know Neil S. Calman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Casey’s Legacy W. Richard Boyte [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

A Question Of Quality H. Brass [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Medicare Physician Payment Changes: Impact On Physicians And Beneficiaries Julie A. Schoenman, Kevin J. Hayes, and C. Michael Cheng [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Plan Characteristics And Consumers’ Assessments Of Quality Bruce E. Landon, Alan M. Zaslavsky, Nancy Dean Beaulieu, James A. Shaul, and Paul D. Cleary [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

SPECIAL REPORT: Patient Safety: Grantmakers Join The Effort To Reduce Medical Errors Lauren LeRoy and Katherine M. Treanor [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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

UpDate

Publications & Reports [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

The Coming Challenge Of Pharmacogenetics Rudolf Klein [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Where Are We Going In Global Health? Some Passionate Forebodings Elizabeth Fee [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Don’t Knock E-Health Mark Zitter [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Adding Patients To The Health Equation Alan R. Zwerner and J.D. Kleinke [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Sharing The Costs Of Health Care William A. Grana and Richard D. Lamm [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The British NHS And U.S. Managed Care Heather Gage and Lucinda McCray Beier [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Acknowledgments

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