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From the Editor

Busting Budgets And Relieving Suffering: The Case Of Medicaid John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid

There’s Something About Medicaid Alan Weil [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Poor Program’s Progress: The Unanticipated Politics Of Medicaid Policy Lawrence D. Brown and Michael S. Sparer [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid: Cost Versus Need

PROLOGUE: Medicaid: Cost Versus Need [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Bursting State Fiscal Bubble And State Medicaid Budgets Donald J. Boyd [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Flexibility Factor: Finding The Right Balance Cindy Mann [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid And Managed Care: A Lasting Relationship? Robert E. Hurley and Stephen A. Somers [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid: Challenges Beneath The Surface

PROLOGUE: Medicaid: Challenges Beneath The Surface [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Where The Action Really Is: Medicaid And The Disabled Bruce C. Vladeck [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid And Mental Health: Be Careful What You Ask For Richard G. Frank, Howard H. Goldman, and Michael Hogan [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interview

The Road To Meaningful Reform: A Conversation With Oregon’s John Kitzhaber Jeff Goldsmith [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Pharmacy Benefits

An Ethical Template For Pharmacy Benefits Norman Daniels, J. Russell Teagarden, and James E. Sabin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Medicaid: Lessons From A Decade Diane Rowland and James R. Tallon, Jr. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Tenuous Nature Of The Medicaid Entitlement Timothy Stoltzfus Jost [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

TRENDS: Trends In U.S. Health Care Spending, 2001 Katharine Levit, Cynthia Smith, Cathy Cowan, Helen Lazenby, Art Sensenig, and Aaron Catlin [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: What Drove Private Health Insurance Spending On Mental Health And Substance Abuse Care, 1992–1999? Tami L. Mark and Rosanna M. Coffey [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: The Role Of Public Employers In A Changing Health Care Market Carolyn Watts, Jon B. Christianson, Lance Heineccius, and Sally Trude [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: How Are Health Plans Supporting Physician Practice? The Physician Perspective Jon B. Christianson, Douglas R. Wholey, Louise Warrick, and Paula Henning [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: The Future Supply Of Family Physicians: Implications For Rural America Jack M. Colwill and James M. Cultice [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Where’s David? Janette H. Kurie [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Medicaid Managed Care Payment Methods And Capitation Rates In 2001 John Holahan and Shinobu Suzuki [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Transitions In Insurance Coverage From Before Pregnancy Through Delivery In Nine States, 1996–1999 E. Kathleen Adams, Norma I. Gavin, Arden Handler, Will Manning, and Cheryl Raskind-Hood [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Participation Of Plans And Providers In Medicaid And SCHIP Managed Care Marsha Gold, Jessica Mittler, Debra Draper, and David Rousseau [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Why Is There State Variation In Employer-Sponsored Insurance? Yu-Chu Shen and Stephen Zuckerman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

ESSAY: Radical Simplification: Disaster Relief Medicaid In New York City Kathryn Haslanger [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

SPECIAL REPORT: Models And Momentum For Insuring Low-Income, Undocumented Immigrant Children In California Janice Frates, Joel Diringer, and Laura Hogan [Abstract] [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 Courts And Managed Care M. Gregg Bloche [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Double Talk And Double Vision: Creating Science Research Policy On Human Cloning Laurie Zoloth [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Viagra And Contraceptives Kathryn A. Phillips, Joanne Spetz, and Jennifer S. Haas [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Air Pollution And Medical Care James K. Hammitt [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Rational Public Policy David M. Driesen, Victor Fuchs, and Sarah Rosen Frank [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Insurance System Promotes Disparities Barbara Kivimae Krimgold [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Consumer-Driven Health Plans Anthony T. Lo Sasso and Humphrey Taylor [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Male And Female Nurse Dissatisfaction Betty Rambur, Mary Val Palumbo, Barbara McIntosh, and Joan Mongeon [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Nurse Staffing Wanda Johanson and Janet M. Coffman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Benefits Of Osteopathic Schools Erwin A. Blackstone, Edward Salsberg, and Gaetano Forte [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Market Demand Matters Barry Kisloff and Kevin Grumbach [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Moonlighting Residents David T. Huang and Daniel Derksen [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Liposuction Procedures: How, Not Where Fred F. Castrow, II, Elizabeth M. Armstrong, and Elizabeth M. Lapetina [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Burden-Of-Disease Estimates Afschin Gandjour and Benjamin Druss [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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