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From the Editor

Will Reference Pricing Address The Health Cost Conundrum? John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prescription Drugs

PROLOGUE: International Experience With Prescription Drug Policy [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Reference Pricing For Drugs: Is It Compatible With U.S. Health Care? Panos Kanavos and Uwe Reinhardt [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Dilemmas In Regulation Of The Market For Pharmaceuticals Alan Maynard and Karen Bloor [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: The Efficient Use Of Pharmaceuticals: Does Europe Have Any Lessons For A Medicare Drug Benefit? Adrian Towse [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Government Commitment And Regulation Of Prescription Drugs Richard G. Frank [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Whither Seniors’ Pharmacare: Lessons From (And For) Canada Steven G. Morgan, Morris L. Barer, and Jonathan D. Agnew [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Taiwan

PROLOGUE: Universal Coverage In Taiwan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Taiwan’s New National Health Insurance Program: Genesis And Experience So Far Tsung-Mei Cheng [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Does Universal Health Insurance Make Health Care Unaffordable? Lessons From Taiwan Jui-Fen Rachel Lu and William C. Hsiao [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

International Comparisons

It’s The Prices, Stupid: Why The United States Is So Different From Other Countries Gerard F. Anderson, Uwe E. Reinhardt, Peter S. Hussey, and Varduhi Petrosyan [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Common Concerns Amid Diverse Systems: Health Care Experiences In Five Countries Robert J. Blendon, Cathy Schoen, Catherine DesRoches, Robin Osborn, and Kinga Zapert [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Prevalence Of Treated And Untreated Mental Disorders In Five Countries Rob V. Bijl, Ron de Graaf, Eva Hiripi, Ronald C. Kessler, Robert Kohn, David R. Offord, T. Bedirhan Ustun, Benjamin Vicente, Wilma A.M. Vollebergh, Ellen E. Walters, and Hans-Ulrich Wittchen [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Public Reporting On Quality In The United States And The United Kingdom Martin N. Marshall, Paul G. Shekelle, Huw T.O. Davies, and Peter C. Smith [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: The Impact Of A National Prescription Drug Formulary On Prices, Market Share, And Spending: Lessons For Medicare? Haiden A. Huskamp, Arnold M. Epstein, and David Blumenthal [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Provider Risk Sharing In Medicaid Managed Care Plans Debra A. Draper and Marsha R. Gold [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Wealth Patterns Among Elderly Americans: Implications For Health Care Affordability James R. Knickman, Kelly A. Hunt, Emily K. Snell, Lisa Maria B. Alecxih, and David L. Kennell [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Do Seniors Get The Medicines Prescribed For Them? Evidence From The 1996–1999 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Benjamin M. Craig, David H. Kreling, and David A. Mott [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

On Being A Grantmaker Michael Lerner [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

From The Talk To The Walk Roger Hughes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

High Out-Of-Pocket Health Care Spending By The Elderly Dana P. Goldman and Julie M. Zissimopoulos [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Insurance For Workers Who Lose Jobs: Implications For Various Subsidy Schemes Kanika Kapur and M. Susan Marquis [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Rehabilitation Therapy In Skilled Nursing Facilities: Effects Of Medicare’s New Prospective Payment System Chapin White [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

SPECIAL REPORT: Toward A Policy Agenda On Medical Research Funding: Results Of A Symposium Robert I. Field, Barbara J. Plager, Rebecca A. Baranowski, Mary Anne Healy, and Margaret L. Longacre [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

Overdue Process William M. Sage [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Nature Cures; Now Congress Cares Marc S. Micozzi [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

A Spectrum Of Healing In Future Medicine Clyde B. Jensen [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Quality Improvement Efforts Suzanne Delbanco, Vincent Kerr, Robert S. Galvin, Michelle Mello, David Studdert, and Troyen Brennan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Hospitals Disclosing Harm Frank Federico [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Telling Patients The Truth Albert Wu, Peter Pronovost, and Rae Lamb [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

International Medical Graduates James A. Hallock [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid And The Disabled Melvyn R. Tanzman and Bruce C. Vladeck [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid And Mental Health Mary Giliberti and Rafael Semansky [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid Recipients’ Rights Jason Manne and Timothy Stoltzfus Jost [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid And Managed Care Margaret Murray [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Preventing Chronic Disease Elizabeth Majestic [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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