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Volume 36, Issue 3
June 1, 2011
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Colleen M. Grogan
Colleen M. Grogan
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EISSN 1527-1927
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Critical Essays on Health Care Reform

Editor's Note

Editor's Note
Colleen M. Grogan
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Articles

Introduction to Special Issue: Critical Essays on Health Care Reform
Colleen M. Grogan
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Part I: Political Significance of Reform

Political Significance of Reform
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Big Ideas, Broken Institutions, and the Wrath at the Grass Roots
James A. Morone
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Delegated Governance in the Affordable Care Act
Kimberly J. Morgan; Andrea Louise Campbell
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They're Back: The Public Plan, the Reincarnation of Harry and Louise, and the Limits of Obamacare
Marie Gottschalk
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You Call It Public, I Call It Private, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off?
Colleen M. Grogan
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Reflections from Inside
Too Big to Fail: The Enactment of Health Care Reform
Judith Feder
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Part II: Political Understandings of Reform

Political Understandings of Reform
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Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks
The Elements of Surprise: How Health Reform Happened
Lawrence D. Brown
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It Was a Different Time: Obama and the Unique Opportunity for Health Care Reform
Mark A. Peterson
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Why Reform Happened
Jacob S. Hacker
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The Role of Specific Political Factors
Muddling Through the Muddled Middle
Joseph White
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Interest-Group Influence on the Patient Protection and Affordability Act of 2010: Winners and Losers in the Health Care Reform Debate
Jill Quadagno
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The Politics of Ideas: Where Did the Public Option Come from and Where Is It Going?
James Brasfield
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Intergovernmental Politics
Federalism and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: The Founding Fathers Would Not Be Surprised
Michael S. Sparer
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The States' Role Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Scott L. Greer
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Part III: The Politics of Cost Control and Regulatory Policy

The Politics of Cost Control and Regulatory Policy
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Throwing Darts: Americans' Elusive Search for Health Care Cost Control
Jonathan Oberlander
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Health Reform: Avoiding the Backlash
Harold S. Luft
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A Progressive Turn of Events
Thomas Rice
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Do We Really Want to Control Health Care Spending?
Michael K. Gusmano
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The Real Constitutional Problem with the Affordable Care Act
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
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Civilized Medicine: Physicians and Health Care Reform
Miriam J. Laugesen
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Part IV: A Critical Look at Substantive Issues

A Critical Look at Substantive Issues
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Prevention and Public Health
Harold A. Pollack
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Getting to Universal Coverage with Better Safety-Net Programs for the Uninsured
Mark A. Hall
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Behavioral Health and Health Care Reform
David Mechanic
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At Least We're Still Free to Choose to Die at Home: A CLASS Act
David M. Frankford
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Affordability of Health Insurance to Small Business: Implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Edward Alan Miller
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Part V: The Impact on Existing Programs

The Impact on Existing Programs
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The Medicaid Platform: Can the Termites Be Kept at Bay?
Frank J. Thompson
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“Obama Lies, Grandma Dies”: The Uncertain Politics of Medicare and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Daniel P. Gitterman; John C. Scott
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Part VI: Critical Comparisons

Critical Comparisons
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Health Reform 2010: The Missing Philosophical Premises in the Long-Running Health Care Debate
Theodore R. Marmor
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American Health Reform in Comparative Perspective: Big Bang, Blueprint, or Mosaic?
Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
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Reflections from Afar
Obama's Health Reform in European Perspective
Kieke G. H. Okma
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Part VII: The Need for More Reform

The Need for More Reform
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Regulating the U.s. Health Care System: Failure in Motion
Peter D. Jacobson; Laura M. Napiewocki; Leah A. Voigt
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Cost-Containment Choices: The Case for Incentive-Based Approaches
Mark V. Pauly
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Why We Need Health Care Reform Now
Marc A. Rodwin
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Health Care Reform as a Halfway Technology
Thomas R. Oliver
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Part VIII: Future Politics

Future Politics
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Health Reform: The Politics of Implementation
Rogan Kersh
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America's Critical Juncture: The Affordable Care Act and Its Reverberations
Lawrence R. Jacobs
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Contributors

Contributors
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