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From the Editor

The First Quarter-Century: Looking Back, Looking Ahead James C. Robinson [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Foreword

Steering Through Tricky Waters: Health Affairs At 25 Uwe E. Reinhardt [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspectives

EDITORS' NOTE: Perspectives On A Quarter-Century In The Health Policy Sphere [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Perspectives] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Separating Fact From Fiction: A New Role For Health Affairs Robert A. Berenson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: One Academic’s Perspective On The Role Of Health Affairs Robert J. Blendon [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: A Graveyard For Grand Theory M. Gregg Bloche [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Technologies Of Health Policy Lynn M. Etheredge [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Mental Health In The Mainstream Of Health Care Richard G. Frank and Sherry A. Glied [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: What Are The Prospects For Enduring Comprehensive Health Care Reform? Victor R. Fuchs [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: The Promise Of Health Care Cost Containment Alan Garber, Dana P. Goldman, and Anupam B. Jena [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Mental Health Services Then And Now David Mechanic [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Here We Go Again—Lessons On Health Reform William L. Roper [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Legislating Delivery System Reform: A 30,000-Foot View Of The 800-Pound Gorilla William M. Sage [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: The New Architects Of Health Care Reform Leonard D. Schaeffer [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Reframing The Debate Over Health Care Reform: The Role Of System Performance And Affordability Kenneth E. Thorpe [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Extending P4P

PROLOGUE: Extending The Pay-For-Performance Agenda [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Extending The P4P Agenda, Part 1: How Medicare Can Improve Patient Decision Making And Reduce Unnecessary Care John E. Wennberg, Annette M. O’Connor, E. Dale Collins, and James N. Weinstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Extending The P4P Agenda, Part 2: How Medicare Can Reduce Waste And Improve The Care Of The Chronically Ill John E. Wennberg, Elliott S. Fisher, Jonathan S. Skinner, and Kristen K. Bronner [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Physician Services

Unhealthy Trends: The Future Of Physician Services Hoangmai H. Pham and Paul B. Ginsburg [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Data Collection

Twenty-Five Years Of Health Surveys: Does More Data Mean Better Data? Marc L. Berk, Claudia L. Schur, and Jacob Feldman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Insurance

Consider It Done? The Likely Efficacy Of Mandates For Health Insurance Sherry A. Glied, Jacob Hartz, and Genessa Giorgi [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Spending

Budget Crisis, Entitlement Crisis, Health Care Financing Problem—Which Is It? Henry J. Aaron [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Evidence-Based Medicine

Implementing Evidence-Based Medicine Through Medicare Coverage Decisions Susan Bartlett Foote and Robert J. Town [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid

Improving The Management Of Care For High-Cost Medicaid Patients John Billings and Tod Mijanovich [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Appendices] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interview

INTERVIEW: In Pursuit Of Social Change: A Conversation With Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Susan Dentzer [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Toward A Rational, Value-Based Drug Benefit For Medicare Ruth Lopert and Marilyn Moon [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Climbing Up The Pay-For-Performance Learning Curve: Where Are The Early Adopters Now? Meredith B. Rosenthal, Bruce E. Landon, Katherine Howitt, HyunSook Ryu Song, and Arnold M. Epstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Convergence And Dissonance: Evolution In Private-Sector Approaches To Disease Management And Care Coordination Glen P. Mays, Melanie Au, and Gary Claxton [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: How Much ‘Skin In The Game’ Do Medicare Beneficiaries Have? The Increasing Financial Burden Of Health Care Spending, 1997–2003 Patricia Neuman, Juliette Cubanski, Katherine A. Desmond, and Thomas H. Rice [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Implications Of Expanding Disease Definitions: The Case Of Osteoporosis M. Brooke Herndon, Lisa M. Schwartz, Steven Woloshin, and H. Gilbert Welch [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Physician Specialty Societies And The Development Of Physician Performance Measures Timothy G. Ferris, Christine Vogeli, Jessica Marder, Cary S. Sennett, and Eric G. Campbell [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Recent Trends In VA Treatment Of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder And Other Mental Disorders Robert A. Rosenheck and Alan F. Fontana [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Dad’s Legacy Jerald Winakur [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

The Impact Of Medicare Part D On Prescription Drug Use By The Elderly Frank R. Lichtenberg and Shawn X. Sun [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Higher Income And Uninsured: Common Or Rare? Hanns Kuttner and Matthew S. Rutledge [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Supplement] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Costs And Potential Savings Associated With Nursing Home Hospitalizations David C. Grabowski, A. James O’Malley, and Nancy R. Barhydt [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prospects For Transferring Nursing Home Residents To The Community Vincent Mor, Jacqueline Zinn, Pedro Gozalo, Zhanlian Feng, Orna Intrator, and David C. Grabowski [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

GRANTWATCH ESSAY: Some Reflections On A Few Of The Pitfalls In The World Of Foundation Grant Making John Billings [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendices] [Reprints & Permissions]

GRANTWATCH PERSPECTIVE: Understanding The Craft Of Philanthropy: Do We Make Something That Should Be Simple Too Complex? James R. Knickman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch: Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [GrantWatch Online 15 November][GrantWatch Online 3 December][GrantWatch Online 13 December][GrantWatch Online 27 December] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEWS: Sick Patients, Sicker System Abigail Zuger [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Problems With Pies In The Sky Alan Maynard [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The VA Health System: A National Alternative? Theodore R. Marmor [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Evidence And Emotion: ‘Jumping The Gun’ On Treatment For Breast Cancer Rick Mathis [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Defining "Catastrophic" Suzanne Duryea [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Defining "Catastrophic": The Authors Respond Ke Xu [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Look Closer At The Colombian Health System María-Luisa Escobar and Amanda L. Glassman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Colombian Health System: An Author Responds William C. Hsiao [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Creating Innovative Investing In Health Care Neelam Sekhri [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Investing: An Author Responds William C. Hsiao [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Concierge Medicine And The Legal Standard Of Care Vickie Williams [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Concierge Medicine: The Authors Reply Peter D. Jacobson and Michael Tunick [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

What’s So Great About Newness? Donald W. Light [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Newness: The Author Responds Frank R. Lichtenberg [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Statement Of Ownership And Circulation Judie Tucker [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Errata

Errata [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Web Exclusives

TRENDS: Health Spending By State Of Residence, 1991–2004 Anne B. Martin, Lekha Whittle, Stephen Heffler, Mary Carol Barron, Andrea Sisko, and Benjamin Washington (published online 18 September 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: State Health System Performance And State Health Reform Karen Davis and Cathy Schoen (published online 18 September 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: State Variation In Medicaid Spending: Hard To Justify John Holahan (published online 18 September 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: From Family Planning To HIV/AIDS Prevention To Poverty Alleviation: A Conversation With Mechai Viravaidya Glenn A. Melnick (published online 25 September 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Differences In Disease Prevalence As A Source Of The U.S.-European Health Care Spending Gap Kenneth E. Thorpe, David H. Howard, and Katya Galactionova (published online 2 October 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: Is Hospital Patient Care Becoming Safer? A Conversation With Lucian Leape Peter I. Buerhaus (published online 9 October 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: Comprehensive Health Care Reform In Vermont: A Conversation With Governor Jim Douglas James Maxwell (published online 16 October 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Vermont’s Catamount Health: A Roadmap For Health Care Reform? Kenneth E. Thorpe (published online 16 October 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Equity In Private Insurance Coverage For Substance Abuse: A Perspective On Parity Colleen L. Barry and Jody L. Sindelar (published online 23 October 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Toward Higher-Performance Health Systems: Adults’ Health Care Experiences In Seven Countries, 2007 Cathy Schoen, Robin Osborn, Michelle M. Doty, Meghan Bishop, Jordon Peugh, and Nandita Murukutla [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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