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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

Constraining costs at the community level: a critique L D Brown and C McLaughlin [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspectives: The Funders Alan B. Cohen, Joel C. Cantor, and Steven A. Schroeder [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspectives: A Private Insurer Donald R. Cohodes [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspectives: An Economist Jack Meyer [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspectives: A Local Program Director And A National Advisory Chairman George M. Stiles and John T. Dunlop [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Nursing home reform and the mentally ill M P Freiman, B S Arons, H H Goldman, and B J Burns [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Treating mental illness: generalist versus specialist D Mechanic [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Insuring the children: a decade of change P J Cunningham and A C Monheit [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The failure of prenatal care policy for the poor M Schlesinger and K Kronebusch [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

What do economists think patients want? P McMenamin [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Reins or fences: a physician's view of cost containment K Grumbach and T Bodenheimer [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Hospital labor markets in the 1980s G C Pope and T Menke [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Young physicians and the future of the medical profession A B Cohen, J C Cantor, D C Barker, and R G Hughes [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Americans' views on health care: a study in contradictions C Jajich-Toth and B W Roper [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Uninsured patients in District of Columbia hospitals J Billings and N Teicholz [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Area variations in selected Medicare procedures J Holahan, R A Berenson, and P G Kachavos [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Malpractice insurance costs and physician practice, 1983-1986 M L Rosenbach and A G Stone [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

The role of foundations in American society D E Rogers and T Keenan [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Working for children: the David and Lucile Packard Foundation R E Behrman [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Grants And Grant Outcomes [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

Publications And Reports [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

Policy, Politics, Health, And Medicine: A Marxist View David Mechanic [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Thoughts Of A Health Economics Elder Statesman S. Lee Sidney [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Hospitals And Changing Times: Guidelines For The 1990s Arnold D. Kaluzny [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mysteries Of The Orient: The Japanese And Health Care Financing David J. Gross [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Promoting Health For All Americans Louis W. Sullivan [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Achieving Prescription Drug Savings Gail R. Wilensky [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Pharmaceutical Industry: A National Resource Theodore Cooper [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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