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By Carol S. Weissert and William G. Weissert, 3rd ed, 452 pp, $60.
Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
ISBN 0-8018-8431-4.

JAMA. 2007;297:2413-2414.

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The Weisserts direct their updated overview of health politics and policy at policy analysts, system managers, and political scientists. In an introduction, 7 chapters, and a conclusion, they summarize and interpret a vast amount of information. Four chapters focus on institutions: Congress, the presidency, the federal bureaucracy, and the states. A fifth describes interest groups. The final 2 chapters explore the interplay of institutions and interests in the politics of health policy.

This edition is more accessible than the previous 2 editions because of the authors' increased attention to history. The chapters on institutions and interests begin with brief accounts of key events and key actors at important dates since the 1960s. The first of the chapters demonstrating the interplay of institutions and interests begins with an extended anecdote about 2 persons (apparently invented) who experience constraints on access to care. The second of these chapters is a case study . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Daniel M. Fox, PhD, Reviewer
Milbank Memorial Fund
New York, NY
dmfox@milbank.org

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