Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Comparative Policy Analysis and Health Care: An Introduction -- 2 The United States: Risks for Americans and Lessons for Abroad -- 3 Canada: Health Care Reform in Comparative Perspective -- 4 Germany: Evidence, Policy, and Politics in Health Care Reform -- 5 The Netherlands: From Polder Model to Modern Management -- 6 The United Kingdom: Health Policy Learning in the National Health Service -- 7 Primary Care and Health Reform: Concepts, Confusions, and Clarifications -- 8 Hospital Care in the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands -- 9 Pharmaceutical Policy and Politics in OECD Countries -- 10 Comprehensive Long-Term Care in Japan and Germany: Policy Learning and Cross-National Comparison -- 11 Regulating Private Health Insurance Markets -- 12 Learning from Others and Learning from Mistakes: Reflections on Health Policy Making -- Appendix: National Health Accounts: A Tool for International Comparison of Health Spending -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- U -- W.