Triple Issue

HEALTH / PAC Nos. 8 3 , 8 4 , 8 5

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Health
Policy
Advisory
Center

1 HSAs and Cost

Control:
A FEATHER ON THE CAP? Health Systems
Agencies attempt to control costs without the po-
wer needed to do it.

3 Vital Signs

5 The Fall and Fall

of the NYCDOH
Deep cuts for preventive and primary care services
at the New York City Department of Health.

17 Columns
WASHINGTON: Battle of the Budget
WOMEN: Electronic Fetal Monitoring
WORK/ENVIRON: Asbestos Disease in the Courts
Bringing the Chemical Warfare Back Home
NEW YORK: NYC's Hospitals: Beyond Caring
THE FIFTH COLUMN: Nurses' Network Formed
Media Scan 50
Every Child's Birthright: In Defense of Mothering,
4 2 Home Health Care: by Selma Fraiberg.
COMMODITY OR COMMUNITY? Can home Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Medical Tech-
health care become a real alternative to impersonal nologies, by Office of Technology Assessment,
hospital-based care? Congress of the United States.

HSAs and Cost Control

A FEATHER I n the winter of 1974 the 93rd Congress, com- law PL93-641, the National Health Planning and
ON THE
CAP? bining the fading optimism of the 60s with the Resource Development Act. Its intent was to
emerging regulatory bent of the 70s, passed into achieve "equal access to quality health care at

HPCBAR 81,82 1-60 (1979) ISSN 0017-9051