In the September 2019 Issue of the Quarterly.

• Lawrence Gostin’s assessment of the World Health Organization’s Global Action Plan to promote the health of refugees and migrants reveals serious inadequacies and inequities among nations. He calls for member states to share the burden of providing needed services on a more equal and fair basis. • A stated goal of the new “Primary Cares Initiative” of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the transformation of primary care delivery from a fee-for-service driven enterprise to one involving value-based payment. In a guest opinion, K. John McConnell appraises the initiative’s two-part design—Primary Care First and Direct Contracting—and raises questions regarding its ability to catalyze wide reform. • In addition to focusing on primary care, CMS also has tried to transform hospital care by promoting patient safety in its hospital payment policies. Yet, despite efforts to penalize hospitals for poor safety performance, Gail Wilensky notes that patient safety issues continue to plague American hospitals, and she ponders whether low-scoring hospitals are receiving the assistance they need to improve their performance. • Paula Lantz examines the recent spate of state laws restricting abortion and urges policymakers to document the impact of such laws, arguing that it is in society’s best interests to produce nonbiased, valid estimates of the death and morbidity toll from these policies. • Harold Pollack poignantly describes the plight of pregnant and parenting women struggling with opioid addiction, and cautions against repeating the harmful, stigmatizing media coverage that marked the crack epidemic 25 years ago. He argues that