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Publisher's Letter

Publisher's Letter William B. Walsh M.D. [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

From The Editor

From The Editor John K. Iglehart [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Journal Article

Debating for-profit health care and the ethics of physicians A S Relman and U E Reinhardt [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Lessons of the New Jersey DRG payment system W C Hsiao, H M Sapolsky, D L Dunn, and S L Weiner [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Cost containment and incentives for technology L P Garrison, Jr. and G R Wilensky [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Care of the elder veteran: new directions for change M Schlesinger and T Wetle [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health promotion: ethical and social dilemmas of government policy R Bayer and J D Moreno [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The clinical, intellectual, ethical, and political costs of biomedical research C N Peterson [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Questioning the cost of biomedical research H J Aaron [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

America's hospitals: what's right and what could be better? B C Vladeck [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Successes and challenges of medical decision making D M Eddy [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Pharmaceutical research: how America loses or wins I Lerner [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Drug innovation and public policy: some speculations J Avorn [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prologues

Forum: What's Right About American Medical Care? [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Musings of a blind man--reflections on the health care industry R Patricelli [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Technology innovation in health care M R Pollard, G S Persinger, and J G Perpich [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The case for adjusting hospital death rates for severity of illness D P Wagner, W A Knaus, and E A Draper [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Was Refusal Of Care In Arizona Overestimated? Nicholas Korns and J. Kristen Olson-Garewal [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

AHCCCS: A Remarkable Success? Merlin K. DuVal [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Defending Arizona Refusal Of Care Study Bradford L. Kirkman-Liff [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Tax Policy Mismatch: Whose Ox Is Being Gored? Richard L. Johnson [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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