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The Literature of Medicine |1 July 1995

Reviews and Notes: Policy: Health Policymaking in the United States

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BB Longest Jr. Ann Arbor: Health Admin Pr; 1994. $38.00. ISBN 1-56793-017-4. Order phone 708-450-9952.
Rarely has so much intellectual energy been focused on health policymaking at the federal, state, and local levels in the United States. Despite the lack of a legislative agenda, market integration, managed care, and intensified competition are reshaping the health policy landscape.
The age-old adage that one should not watch sausage being made certainly applies to health policymaking! What is needed is a special lens through which to view this “sausage-making” policy apparatus. Longest may have hit on just such a lens; ground to near perfection, it allows us to view policymaking from a safe distance, but a distance from which we still can clearly see what is happening.
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Reviews and Notes: Policy: Health Policymaking in the United States. Ann Intern Med. ;123:80. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-123-1-199507010-00033

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1995;123(1):80.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-123-1-199507010-00033

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