Volume 74 Number 4, 1996

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• Editor's Introduction: In This Issue
  
  

  The Role and Contributions of Managed Care The Contribution of Group- and Staff-Model HMOs to American Medicine What Have HMOs Learned about Clinical Prevention Services? An Examination of the Experience at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound Organizing Care for Patients with Chronic Illness

  
  
  

• Provider Assessments, the Uninsured, and Uncompensated Care: Florida's Public Medical Assistance Trust Fund

• Managed Competition with Prefunding: The Solution for Long-Term Care

• What Is the Moral Authority of Family Members to Act as Surrogates for Incompetent Patients?

• Notes on Contributors

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