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From the Editor

The Health Care Rubik’s Cube James C. Robinson [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Taxes & Budgets

PROLOGUE: Financial Basics: Taxes And Budgets [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Reform Through Tax Reform: A Primer Jason Furman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health And Budget Reform As Handmaidens C. Eugene Steuerle and Randall R. Bovbjerg [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Compromise

PROLOGUE: Formulas For Compromise [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Formulas For Compromise

Building Blocks For Reform: Achieving Universal Coverage With Private And Public Group Health Insurance Cathy Schoen, Karen Davis, and Sara R. Collins [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Formula For Compromise: Expanding Coverage And Promoting High-Value Care Katherine Baicker [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Where Does The Insurance Industry Stand On Health Reform Today? Bruce G. Bodaken [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Employment-Based Health Benefits Under Universal Coverage Paul B. Ginsburg [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective

PERSPECTIVE: An American Partnership For Universal Coverage Andy Stern [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Politics

PROLOGUE: The Politics Of Health Reform: A Collection Of Perspectives [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspectives

PERSPECTIVE: Finally, Fixing Health Care: What’s Different Now? Ron Wyden and Bob Bennett [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Health Care In The 2008 Election: Engaging The Voters Celinda C. Lake, Robert A. Crittenden, and David Mermin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Similarities Between Political Debates Regarding Health Care In The Early 1990s And Today William D. McInturff and Lori Weigel [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Lessons From The Clinton Plan: Incremental Market Reform, Not Sweeping Government Control Joseph Antos [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: The Long Road To Health Reform Requires Bipartisan Leadership Christine C. Ferguson, Elizabeth J. Fowler, and Len M. Nichols [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Putting Politics First Jacob S. Hacker [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

States

PROLOGUE: The Role Of States [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

A Federalist Approach To Health Reform: The Worst Way, Except For All The Others Henry J. Aaron and Stuart M. Butler [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

How Far Can States Take Health Reform? Alan Weil [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Quality & Accountability

PROLOGUE: Improving Quality And Accountability [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Crossroads In Quality Margaret O’Kane, Janet Corrigan, Sandra M. Foote, Sean R. Tunis, George J. Isham, Len M. Nichols, Elliott S. Fisher, Jack C. Ebeler, James A. Block, Bruce E. Bradley, Christine K. Cassel, Debra L. Ness, and John Tooker [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost Donald M. Berwick, Thomas W. Nolan, and John Whittington [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Global Innovations

PROLOGUE: Global Innovations In Payment And Coverage [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Universal Mandatory Health Insurance In The Netherlands: A Model For The United States? Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven and Frederik T. Schut [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Prioritization: The Case Of Chile Verónica Vargas and Sergio Poblete [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Appendix Exhibit] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Why Did Medicare Spending Growth Slow Down? Chapin White [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Hospital-Physician Gainsharing In Cardiology Jonathan D. Ketcham and Michael F. Furukawa [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Appendix Exhibits] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Discretionary Decision Making By Primary Care Physicians And The Cost Of U.S. Health Care Brenda Sirovich, Patricia M. Gallagher, David E. Wennberg, and Elliott S. Fisher [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Appendices] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Costs Of Severely Ill Members And Specialty Medication Use In A Commercially Insured Population Vincent J. Willey, Michael F. Pollack, Wayne M. Lednar, William N. Yang, Charles Kennedy, and Grant Lawless [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Malpractice Premiums In Massachusetts, A High-Risk State: 1975 To 2005 Marc A. Rodwin, Hak J. Chang, Melissa M. Ozaeta, and Richard J. Omar [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplemental Exhibits] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Time To Care Elizabeth Gaufberg [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Disappearing Doctors Janet R. Gilsdorf [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

The Net Fiscal Impact Of A Chronic Disease Management Program: Indiana Medicaid Ann M. Holmes, Ronald D. Ackermann, Alan J. Zillich, Barry P. Katz, Stephen M. Downs, and Thomas S. Inui [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Adoption Of Health Information Technology For Medication Safety In U.S. Hospitals, 2006 Michael F. Furukawa, T.S. Raghu, Trent J. Spaulding, and Ajay Vinze [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix Exhibits] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

GRANTWATCH REPORT: Strategically Addressing The Nurse Shortage: A Closer Look At The Nurse Funders Collaborative Denise A. Davis and Melanie D. Napier [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Data Supplement] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch: Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [GrantWatch Online 29 May][GrantWatch Online 18 June][GrantWatch Online 30 June] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEWS: A Book And Its Cover Rick Mathis [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Risks And Benefits Of Academic-Industry Relationships Eric G. Campbell [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Professionalization Of Editing David L. Nordstrom [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Do As I Say, Not As I Do Lee N. Newcomer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Improve Treatment Of Dual Eligibles Marilyn Moon [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Dual Eligibles: The Authors Respond Richard G. Frank and Joseph P. Newhouse [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Happiness And "Human Flourishing" Alfonso Gómez-Lobo [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Happiness: The Author Responds Carol Graham [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Look To Behavioral Economics Carolyn Sangokoya [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

ADA Guidelines: A Work In Progress Helen B. Jeffery [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

ADA Guidelines: The Author Responds Lisa I. Iezzoni [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Yes To "Code Pearl" Veneta Masson [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

"Code Pearl" Needed Now Jeffry W. Gauthier [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

POLST And "Code Pearl" Jason W. Manne [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

POLST: The Author Responds Victoria Sweet [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Disappearing Primary Care Physicians? Everest A. Whited [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrow Model Ariel Linden [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrow Model: The Authors Respond John Billings and Tod Mijanovich [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

"Godmother" Revisited Amy Burroughs Nader [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

"Godmother" Revisited: The Author Responds Alan Maynard [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Vulnerable In More Than One Way Gregory D. Stevens, Leiyu Shi, and Pegah Faed [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Correcting Hatch-Waxman Michael Fernandes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Correcting Hatch-Waxman: An Author Responds Ernst R. Berndt [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Web Exclusives

Where Do I Send Thee? Does Physician-Ownership Affect Referral Patterns To Ambulatory Surgery Centers? Jon R. Gabel, Cheryl Fahlman, Ray Kang, Gregory Wozniak, Phil Kletke, and Joel W. Hay (published online 18 March 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

Transitioning To Medicare Before Age Sixty-Five Pamela Farley Short and France Marie Weaver (published online 25 March 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Use Of Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs For Schizophrenia In Maine Medicaid Following A Policy Change Stephen B. Soumerai, Fang Zhang, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Daniel E. Ball, Robert F. LeCates, Michael R. Law, Tom E. Hughes, Daniel Chapman, and Alyce S. Adams (published online 1 April 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: A Living Model Of Managed Competition: A Conversation With Dutch Health Minister Ab Klink Alain Enthoven (published online 8 April 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: Shepherding Major Health System Reforms: A Conversation With German Health Minister Ulla Schmidt Tsung-Mei Cheng and Uwe E. Reinhardt (published online 8 April 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Comparing The Assets Of Uninsured Households To Cost Sharing Under High-Deductible Health Plans Paul D. Jacobs and Gary Claxton (published online 15 April 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Appendices][Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

Do Primary Care Physicians Treating Minority Patients Report Problems Delivering High-Quality Care? James D. Reschovsky and Ann S. O’Malley (published online 22 April 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendices] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Will Generalist Physician Supply Meet Demands Of An Increasing And Aging Population? Jack M. Colwill, James M. Cultice, and Robin L. Kruse (published online 29 April 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: How Risky Is Individual Health Insurance? Mark V. Pauly and Robert D. Lieberthal (published online 6 May 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Statistical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

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