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By Lawrence D. Weiss. 156 pp. Boulder, Colo., Westview Press, 1992. $26.95. ISBN 0-8133-1215-9.
By Michael D. Reagan. 196 pp. Boulder, Colo., Westview Press, 1992. $49.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8133-8179-7.

Given the high priority assigned to health care reform in the recent presidential and congressional elections, one would expect to see a growing market for books dealing with the pros and cons of various reform proposals. Into this category fall the two books reviewed here, which offer substantially different perspectives on changes needed in the American health care system.

Lawrence Weiss' No Benefit: Crisis in America's Health Insurance Industry is best described as a diatribe against the health insurance industry. To Weiss, who is a medical sociologist at the University of Alaska at Anchorage, "the private health insurance industry is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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