Along with an introduction by the Journal of Health and Social Behavior’s regular editor Michael Hughes, 10 feature articles and a 24-page centennial history of U.S. health care (see www2.asanet.org/pubs/JHSB04ExtraIntro.pdf) comprise this special issue. Footnotes readers and non-subscribers to JHSB, the nation’s leading medical sociology journal, can view this issue’s table of contents at www2.asanet.org/pubs/JHSB04ExtraTOC.pdf and an ASA press release about the issue at www2.asanet.org/media/jhsb.html. Readers can also download the feature article on why the United States has no national health insurance at www2.asanet.org/pubs/JHSB04ExtraQuadagno.pdf.