Volume 83, Number 1, 2005

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• Editor's Introduction: In This Issue

• Mortality of White Americans, African Americans, and Canadians: The Causes and Consequences for Health of Welfare State Institutions and Policies
  Stephen J. Kunitz, with Irena Pesis-Katz
  (Featured article -- click here for full text)

• Making Medicaid a Block Grant Program: An Analysis of the Implications of Past Proposals
  Jeanne M. Lambrew

• Welfare Reform and Substance Abuse
  Lisa R. Metsch and Harold A. Pollack

• Pharmacy Utilization and the Medicare Modernization Act
  Vittorio Maio, Laura Pizzi, Adam R. Roumm, Janice Clarke, Neil I. Goldfarb, David B. Nash, and David Chess

• Commentary
  Drug Insurance Utilization Management Policies and “Reference Pricing”: An Illustrated Commentary on the Article by Vittorio Maio and Colleagues
  Malcolm Maclure

• Exporting the Buyers Health Care Action Group Purchasing Model: Lessons from Other Communities
  Jon B. Christianson and Roger Feldman

• Notes on Contributors