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See, e.g., Woolhandler Steffie & Himmelstein David U. , “A National Health Program: Northern Light at the End of the Tunnel,” JAMA 262 (1989): 2136; Grumbach Kevin , “Liberal Benefits, Conservative Spending,” JAMA 263 (1991): 2549; Wellstone Paul D. & Shaffer Ellen R. , “The American Health Security Act — A Single-Payer Proposal,” New Eng. J. Med. 328 (1993): 1489.

See, e.g., Rockefeller John D. IV , “A Call For Action: The Pepper Commission's Blueprint For Health Care Reform,” JAMA 265 (1991): 2507; see also Gen. Acct. Off., Access to Health Care: States Respond To Growing Crisis 32–35 (June 1992) (describing the 1988 Massachusetts “pay or play” system).

Gostin Lawrence , “Foreword: Health Care Reform in the United States: The Presidential Task Force,” Amer. J. Law & Med., 19, No. 1-2(1993).

BNA, “Number of Uninsured Persons Increases to 36.6 Million in 1991,” Daily Labor Rep., Jan. 12 1993.

Wise Paul H. , “Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Childhood Mortality in Boston,” New Eng. J. Med., 313 (1985): 360, 364.

Council of Ethical and Judicial Affairs, “Black-White Disparities in Health Care,” JAMA, 263 (1990): 2344.

Ayanian John Z. Esptein Arnold M. , “Differences in the Use of Procedures Between Women and Men Hospitalized for Coronary Heart Disease,” New Eng. J. Med., 325 (1991): 221–225.

Daniels Norman , “Just Health Care” (1985).

Sonnenfeld Sally T. , “Projection of National Health Expenditures Through the Year 2,000,” Health Care Fin. Rev., (Fall, 1991), at 1, 4, 22; Congressional Budget Off., Projections of Health Expenditures 14 (Table 1) (Oct., 1992).

Schrieber George J. , “Health Care Systems in Twenty-Four Nations,” Health Aff., (Fall, 1991): 22; Jost Timothy S. and Tanenbaum Sandra J. , “Selling Cost Containment,” Am. J. Law & Med., 19 (1993).

Enthoven Alain C. , “The History and Principles of Managed Competition,” Health Affairs, vol. 12, suppl. 1993 (1993): 24–48.