Informing American Health Care Policy

ALAN C. MONHEIT, Ph.D. is the director of the division of social and economic research in the Center for Cost and Financing Studies at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Monheit has served as a member of the President Health Care Reform Task Force, as a technical advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Health Insurance Association of America. In 1993 he received the first AHCPR Administrator's Award for health services research. RENATE WILSON is adjunct associate professor of public health in the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and a consultant to the Center for Cost and Financing Studies at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. ROSS A. ARNETT is the director of the Center for Cost and Financing Studies at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

Foreword.

Preface and Acknowledgments.

The Editors.

The Contributors.

Introduction (A. Monheit & R. Wilson).

PAST CHALLLENGES AND CURRENT ISSUES.

National Medical ExpAnditure Surveys: Genesis and Rationale (R.Andersen & O. Anderson).

Modeling Consumer and Provider Behavior: The First NationalExpenditure Study (G. Wilensky).

The Provider System and the Changing Locus of Expenditure Data:Survey Strategies from Fee-for-Service to Managed Care (J. Cohen& A. Taylor).

SOURCES OF PAYMENT AND THE STRUCTURE OF HEALTH INSURANCE.

Examining Health Insurance Differences: Issues of Public Equity andCost Efficiency (P. Short).

Health Insurance, Employment, and the Labor Market (A.Monheit).

VULNERABLE POPULATIONS: HEALTH CARE AND MEASURES OF ACCESS.

The National ExpAnditure Surveys and Studies of Access to Care byVulnerable Populations (M. Berk).

Evaluating Medicare and Medicaid: The Yield in Information from theNational Medical Expenditure Surveys (J. Kasper).

SURVEY METHODS, BUDGET CONSTRAINTS, AND OPERATIONAL ISSUES.

Better Estimates of Populations at Risk and More EfficientSampling: Changing Survey Design Strategies over Time (S.Cohen).

Continuity Versus Change: Challenges in Designing a SuccessorSurvey (D. Walden).

Survey Integration and End-of-Century Constraints (R.Arnett).

THE ROLE OF NATIONAL DATA IN POLICY FORMULATION.

Health System Reform Debates and Medical Expenditure Surveys (L.Nichols).

Name Index.

Subject Index.