Volume 81 Number 4, 2003

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• Editor's Introduction: In This Issue

• The Impact of Blue Cross Conversions on Accessibility, Affordability, and the Public Interest
  Mark A. Hall and Christopher J. Conover
  (Featured article -- click here for full text)

• The Effect of Hospital Ownership Conversions on Nonacute Care Providers
  Deborah Gurewich, Jeffrey Prottas, and Walter Leutz

• The Rise and Fall of a Kaiser Permanente Expansion Region
  Daniel P. Gitterman, Bryan J. Weiner, Marisa Elena Domino, Aaron N. McKethan, and Alain C. Enthoven

• "Evil Habits" and "Personal Choices": Assigning Responsibility for Health in the 20th Century
  Howard M. Leichter

• Notes on Contributors