ARNOLD BIRENBAUM, a health-care policy analyst, medical sociologist, and health services researcher, is Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Associate Director of the University Affiliated Program for People with Developmental Disabilities, Rose F. Kennedy Center./e He has authored or edited 11 earlier books and monographs, including Putting Health Care on the National Agenda (Praeger, 1995), recipient of the American Medical Writers Association First Place Award-Allied Health Category.