...David C. Colby; Thomas Rice; Jill Bernstein; Lyle Nelson Medicare's experience with balance billing provides valuable lessons for policy making for national or state health care reform. Medicare developed several policies to encourage physicians to become participating providers who accept Medicare...

.... A. Halsey N. A. . 2006 . Compulsory Vaccination and Conscientious or Philosophical Exemptions: Past, Present, and Future . Lancet 367 : 436 – 442 . Point-­Counterpoint Finding the Proper Balance between Freedom and Justice: Why We Should Not...

...Elianne Riska Ellen S. More. Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850–1995 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. 340 pp. $49.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Drachman, Virginia G. 1984 . Hospital with a Heart: Women Doctors...

... Care: Factors Associated with More Balanced Systems Robert L. Kane University of Minnesota Rosalie A. Kane...

..., balanced presentation of evidence. Reviewing the full spectrum of literature from the United States and abroad, we present a Constitutional medical-legal analysis of whether home birth with direct-entry midwives is in fact a safe alternative to physician-attended hospital births, and whether there is a...

... coincide with far-reaching state interventions in determining provider fees. A new, more satisfactory balance between corporatism, etatism, and market mechanisms must still be found. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References Algemene Rekenkamer [General Accounting Office]. 1990...

... , D. 1997b . Muddling Through Elegantly: Finding the Proper Balance in Rationing. Health Affairs 16 ( 5 ): 83 -92. Mechanic , D. 1998a . The Functions and Limitations of Trust in the Provision of Medical Care. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 23 ( 4 ): 661 -686...

...Per Lægreid; Ståle Opedal; Inger Marie Stigen This essay focuses on the balance between governmental control and enterprise autonomy by examining the Norwegian hospital reform. We describe the enterprise model and give a description of the policy instruments that the government, as owner, has for...

... Approach. Health Services Research 38 : 1467 -1485. Balancing Regulatory Controls and Incentives: Toward Smarter and More Transparent Oversight in Long-Term Care Edward Alan Miller...

... bathhouses? The author argues that although the government has the power to close the baths in the name of public health, it should not do so without careful and conscious balancing against the privacy rights infringed upon by its actions. Balancing the tension between public health policy and individual...

... policy via the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. However, full implementation of risk adjustment was delayed due to clashes with the managed care industry over payment policy, concerns over perverse incentives, and problems of data burden. We review the history of risk adjustment leading up to the Balanced...

..., opposition, and roadblocks in the form of design standard policies. Work in trail development requires a team of many players, and it is necessary to balance their varied motives to accomplish a shared overall goal. Foresight through the master planning process is also a vital component of successful trail...

... in coverage and provision, creating fi nancial incentives and motivation for human resources, and introducing changes in the pharmaceutical market. Several factors seem to explain these processes,namely, problems in the balance of power within the political system, which have contributed to a lack of...

... coalition change could hardly have been more different for MCCA and ACA. However, they had some shared vulnerabilities stemming from program design. The ACA survived the political weakness inherent in its policy attributes due to its particular balance and timing of benefits and costs and by being shielded...

... concern for the greater good and fairness in allocating resources. Where tensions between values emerged, participants used different concepts—including accountability, transparency, trust, personal responsibility, and moral obligation—to navigate trade-offs. Fairly balancing the public's desire to...

... more developed and provides stronger education in the United States, this story highlights the challenges in creating a shared environment of work and suggests the importance of balancing professional autonomy and effective teamwork. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 teamwork doctors and...

... federal budget. Administrative efforts to balance these objectives have evolved in three phases. The search of the late 1960s for measures to placate providers and win consensus among them, gave way in the early and mid-1970s to new organizations and programs (Professional Standards Review Organizations...

... three hypothesized effects of unemployment. We conclude that, if the number of miles driven is held constant, worsening unemployment leads to higher fatality rates, most likely due to stress effects. But because more unemployment means less driving, increases in unemployment, on balance, are associated...