Health Care Reform, 104th Congress: A Description of the Activities and Influence of Public Health Activists

(American Journal of Public Health, 1997), we examined how lobbying efforts shaped the public health aspects of the leading eight health care reform bills of 1994. Although this article primarily described the results of our interviews with congressional staff and interest group representatives, we were also able draw some general lessons about effective and less effective congressional lobbying tactics in the health arena.

John Wilkerson and Helen Halpin Schauffler (UC/Berkeley)