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Editor's Note

Editor's Note Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (HCFO) program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has provided the basis for a thoughtful assessment of the individual health insurance market and policy initiatives designed to improve it in a number of states. This issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law presents the results of this evaluation, offered as a series of articles that explore both the conceptual issues associated with this kind of insurance market and the empirical experience in six states: Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, and Washington. These essays were extensively reviewed, and the authors worked hard to be responsive to the predicates for passing judgment on the policy opportunities and politics tied to this part of the insurance market. Commentaries from insurers, regulators, and political scientists well versed on the topic help to put this overall assessment into perspective. I am grateful to Anne Gauthier and Deborah Rogal of the Alpha Center for organizing the conference that stimulated this evaluation of the individual health insurance market and for playing such a pivotal role in shepherding the articles to publication. Working intensely under enormous time pressures, Robert Hackey and Thomas Oliver http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Duke University Press

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Publisher
Duke University Press
Copyright
Copyright 2000 by Duke University Press
ISSN
0361-6878
eISSN
1527-1927
DOI
10.1215/03616878-25-1-1
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Abstract

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (HCFO) program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has provided the basis for a thoughtful assessment of the individual health insurance market and policy initiatives designed to improve it in a number of states. This issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law presents the results of this evaluation, offered as a series of articles that explore both the conceptual issues associated with this kind of insurance market and the empirical experience in six states: Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, and Washington. These essays were extensively reviewed, and the authors worked hard to be responsive to the predicates for passing judgment on the policy opportunities and politics tied to this part of the insurance market. Commentaries from insurers, regulators, and political scientists well versed on the topic help to put this overall assessment into perspective. I am grateful to Anne Gauthier and Deborah Rogal of the Alpha Center for organizing the conference that stimulated this evaluation of the individual health insurance market and for playing such a pivotal role in shepherding the articles to publication. Working intensely under enormous time pressures, Robert Hackey and Thomas Oliver

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Journal of Health Politics, Policy and LawDuke University Press

Published: Feb 1, 2000

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