By Robert Cunningham III and Robert M. Cunningham, Jr. 311 pp., illustrated. De Kalb, Ill., Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. $36. ISBN 0-87580-224-9.
In this era of intense market-driven competition among healthplans, with nonprofit organizations becoming less distinguishablefrom their for-profit counterparts, it is easy to forget theorigins of private health insurance in the United States andthe early notions of prepayment that accompanied them. The birthof the Blue Cross organization and its strong commitment tocommunity service are recounted in The Blues. Most readers,when confronted with a historical work sponsored by the veryorganization whose story is being told, would naturally be skepticalabout its truthfulness. Some, therefore, may assume the worstabout The Blues, whose authors . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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