Falling Through The Safety Net: Insurance Status And Access To Health Care

This book describes the history and structure of health insurance in the U.S. and relates existing patterns of insurance coverage to important variations in the use of health services and patient outcomes. The forewaord was written by Hllary Rodham Clinton.

Arnold M. Epstein, M.D., M.A., is Chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University School of Public Health as well as Chief of the Section on Health Services and Policy Research in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Joel S. Weissman, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.