About the Editor
Catherine McLaughlin is the director of the Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured at the University of Michigan. She is also a professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan and a Senior Associate Editor of Health Services Research. In addition, Dr. McLaughlin is the director of the University of Michigan component of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Center of Excellence on Managed Care Markets and Quality directed by Harold Luft at the University of California-San Francisco.
Dr. McLaughlin has studied various health economics topics since joining the UM faculty in 1983. Her current research interests are focused on the uninsured, managed care, market competition, and employer and employee benefit choice. She has published numerous articles on the impact of HMOs on market competition and health care costs, the determinants of small area variation in hospital utilization and costs, and issues surrounding the working uninsured.
