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From the Editor

Business & Government: Striking New Balances John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Plans & The Market

PROLOGUE: Health Plans And The Market [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Changing Face Of Managed Care Debra A. Draper, Robert E. Hurley, Cara S. Lesser, and Bradley C. Strunk [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Bounceback: Blues Thrive As Markets Cool Toward HMOs Robert Cunningham and Douglas B. Sherlock [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Integrating Care: A Talk With Kaiser Permanente’s David Lawrence Jeff Goldsmith [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Defined-Contribution Health Insurance Products: Development And Prospects Jon B. Christianson, Stephen T. Parente, and Ruth Taylor [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Employers As Purchasers

PROLOGUE: Employers As Purchasers [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Pressing Problems, Incremental Changes Sally Trude, Jon B. Christianson, Cara S. Lesser, Carolyn Watts, and Andrea M. Benoit [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Evolution In The Buyers Health Care Action Group Purchasing Initiative Jon B. Christianson and Roger Feldman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Cost And Quality Trends In Direct Contracting Arrangements Alan Lyles, Jonathan P. Weiner, Andrew D. Shore, Jon Christianson, Leif I. Solberg, and Patricia Drury [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Hospital Finance

PROLOGUE: Hospital Finance [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Bond-Market Skepticism And Stock-Market Exuberance In The Hospital Industry James C. Robinson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Financial Health Of California Hospitals: A Looming Crisis Mark G. Harrison and Cecilia C. Montalvo [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Out Of The Frying Pan: New York City Hospitals In An Age Of Deregulation Sharon Salit, Steven Fass, and Mark Nowak [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Physician Workforce

Economic And Demographic Trends Signal An Impending Physician Shortage Richard A. Cooper, Thomas E. Getzen, Heather J. McKee, and Prakash Laud [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: The Ramifications Of Specialty-Dominated Medicine Kevin Grumbach [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Some Thoughts On The White-Follows-Green Law Fitzhugh Mullan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: A Shortage Of Physicians Or A Surplus Of Assumptions? Jonathan P. Weiner [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Through A Different Looking Glass Mary O’Neil Mundinger [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Analyzing Cause And Effect In The U.S. Physician Workforce Uwe E. Reinhardt [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Gauging Supply And Demand: The Challenging Quest To Predict The Future Physician Workforce Ralph Snyderman, George F. Sheldon, and Theresa A. Bischoff [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: New Opportunities For Old Mistakes Morris Barer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

TRENDS: Inflation Spurs Health Spending In 2000 Katharine Levit, Cynthia Smith, Cathy Cowan, Helen Lazenby, and Anne Martin [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Workers And Their Health Plans: Free To Choose? Thomas Rice, Jon Gabel, Larry Levitt, and Samantha Hawkins [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Trends In Health Insurance Coverage: A Look At Early 2001 Data Paul Fronstin [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Competitive Behavior In The HMO Marketplace Mark V. Pauly, Alan L. Hillman, Myoung S. Kim, and Darryl R. Brown [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Physician And Health System Integration Peter P. Budetti, Stephen M. Shortell, Teresa M. Waters, Jeffrey A. Alexander, Lawton R. Burns, Robin R. Gillies, and Howard Zuckerman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Leaving Nursing Ray Bingham [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Accountable But Powerless Barry Adams [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mosaics And Misery Joseph J. Fins [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Insuring Low-Income Adults: Does Public Coverage Crowd Out Private? Richard Kronick and Todd Gilmer [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Geographic Variation In The Use Of Medications: Is Uniformity Good News Or Bad? Robert W. Dubois, Elaine Batchlor, and Sally Wade [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

SPECIAL REPORT: The RWJF Workers’ Compensation Health Initiative: Findings And Strategies Allard E. Dembe, Sharon E. Fox, and Jay S. Himmelstein [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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

UpDate

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

Book Reviews

The Culture Of AMC Mergers Lawton Burns [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Defusing The Alarm Jacob S. Hacker [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Iron Curtain Around Medical Progress Robert Goldberg [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Even Playing Field For Consumer-Directed Long-Term Care Andrew I Batavia [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Consumer-Directed Care At Home Elizabeth Clemmer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Care For The Chronically Ill Requires Bold Changes Jerome P. Kassirer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

We Have The Way, Not The Will J.D. Kleinke, Gerard Anderson, and James R. Knickman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Long-Term Care Burden Charles J. Fahey [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Dead Armadillos Molly Joel Coye [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Economic Value Of Medical Technology Afschin Gandjour [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medical Technology’s Impacts And Costs Jim Christian, Jed Weissberg, David Cutler, and Mark McClellan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Private Health Care In Australia Graham Wright and Sharon Willcox [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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