••Summer 2007/Vol. 11, No. 3

Commentaries

Purpose, Partnership, and The Permanente Federation's Tenth Anniversary.
Jay Crosson, MD

The Executive Medical Director cites the advice from Sidney Garfield, MD, physician cofounder of Kaiser Permanente, as the principled basis for the creation and first-decade achievements of The Permanente Federation.
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New Approaches to Confronting an Imminent Influenza Pandemic.
David S Fedson, MD; Peter Dunnill, DSc, FREng

Three affordable alternatives are proposed that could be made available to people worldwide, including the potential role of statins, not yet discussed in the general medical literature.
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Why Now Is the Time to Enact Health Care Reform.
George Halvorson

Eight recent developments in American health care have combined to give us, for the first time ever, a very real opportunity to systematically improve both care delivery and reduce the costs of care on a large scale, in a relatively short time frame.
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