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Previous Volume 330:75-79 January 6, 1994 Number 1

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In the absence of federal action, many states, squeezed by recession¹ and spiraling health care costs, have approved or are moving toward the enactment of legislation that would reform the way health care is paid for and provided within their borders. The legislation ranges from comprehensive plans with the goal of providing all citizens with health insurance through public subsidies and coverage financed jointly by employers and employees to less ambitious laws that reform the small-group insurance market, establish new cost-containment mechanisms, or create study commissions. State medical societies have generally been supportive of these reform efforts, except when legislatures . . . [Full Text of this Article]

State Reforms

Blending Ideologies

Small-Group Insurance Reform

New State Agencies

Federal Waivers

The Role of Private Foundations

A Federal-State Framework

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