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Previous Volume 336:148-152 January 9, 1997 Number 2

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Since the demise of efforts to reform the national health care system in the fall of 1994, there have been few new initiatives to address the problems faced by the more than 40 million Americans who lack health insurance. Even state governments that were at the forefront of efforts to deal with this problem in the early 1990s saw their initiatives stalled, scaled back, or repealed.¹ As the focus of debates on health policy shifted to issues such as controlling Medicare and Medicaid costs and protecting the rights of already insured consumers enrolled in managed-care plans, the public turned its . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Massachusetts Experience, 1988–1996

Prioritizing Children's Health Care Needs

Reinventing Medicaid

Tobacco Taxes and Tobacco Politics

Lessons from the Massachusetts Experience

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From the Massachusetts House of Representatives (J.E.M.) and the Joint Committee on Health Care (C.L.H., B.R.), Boston.

Address reprint requests to Rep. John McDonough, chairman, Joint Committee on Health Care, Rm. 130, State House, Massachusetts House of Representatives, Boston, MA 02133.

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