Issues in the implementation of P.L. 93-641

This article is aimed at an audience of health planners and any others who are already well versed in recent developments on the U.S. health planning scene. It assumes that the reader knows most of the details of Public Law 93-641 and its current status of implementation. The author discusses a few of the issues most central to the future of the program, provides a point of view on those issues, and invites response from the planning community to these and other issues. Attention is focused on four subjects (1) Inter-HSA Coordination; (2) State Agency Performance Standards; (3) Statewide Health Coordinating Councils; and, (4) Health Planning and the Goal of Cost Containment.