JOHN D. WILKERSON Kelly J. Devers, and Ruth S. Given collaborated on this book while they were Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in the Health Policy Research Program at the University of California, Berkeley. John D. Wilkerson is assistant professor of political science at the University of Washington, Seattle. Kelly J. Devers is an expert appointee at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Center for Organization and Delivery. Ruth S. Given is director of the Department of Health Care Policy at the California Medical Association.