In each issue of Health Affairs the trends of a significant quarter of the health sphere are tracked. The schedule is Fall: National Medical Care Spending; Winter: Trends in Health Manpower; Spring: Health Status and Health Care Utilization; and Summer: Health Care Innovation. Ronald Andersen, a recognized leader in studies of health status and utilization, along with colleagues Lu Ann Aday and Meei-shia Chen, present an overview of the nations health. Also in this issue, Walton Francis, author of CHECKBOOKS Guide to Health Insurance Plans for Federal Employees , presents perhaps the closest measure available of HMO customer satisfaction —the quit rates and enrollment data for federal employees for the forty largest HMOs. Deborah A. Ellwood of Health Affairs offers new data on Medicare risk contracts.
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