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... As- sociation, San Francisco, September. . In press. The Politics of Health in France and the United States. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Hospital Behavior in a Competitive Market Stuart H. Altman, Charles Brecher, Mary G. Henderson, and Kenneth E. Thorpe, eds. , Competition...

... of Grants-in-Aid. Review of Economics and Statistics 68 : 33 -40. Federal Block Grants and State Spending: The Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Block Grant and State Agency Behavior...

..., their behavior will diverge. Because English and Welsh voluntary hospitals prior to the National Health Service were heavily dependent on the voluntary sector for funding and the public hospitals were primarily dependent on the public sector for their funding, the data set is especially valuable for observing...

... Foundation. JHPPL 25.1-04.Chollet 1/27/00 2:58 PM Page 27 Consumers, Insurers, and Market Behavior Deborah J. Chollet...

...Katharine W. V. Bradley; Jowei Chen Abstract Why do legislators sometimes engage in behavior that deviates from the expressed policy preferences of constituents who participate in politics at high rates? We examine this puzzle in the context of Democratic legislators' representation of their senior...

...Paul J. Feldstein; Glenn Melnick This paper analyzes Congressional voting behavior on the Gephardt Amendment to President Carter's hospital cost containment legislation. The impact of opposing interest groups is examined: on one side were hospital and medical interest groups; on the other...

... as consumers are sufficiently well insured, regardless of where one stands on the inducement issue. The salutary effects of price controls, on the other hand, can be compromised by income-targeting behavior on the part of physicians. We also introduce evidence from Medicare's recent fee freeze to evaluate...

...: Assessing the Volume Offset Assumption. Medicare Care Research and Review 55 ( 4 ): 457 -478. A Tale of Two Bounties: The Impact of Competing Fees on Physician Behavior...

... . “ Partisanship, Health Behavior, and Policy Attitudes in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic .” PLoS One 16 , no. 4 : article ID e0249596. Gadarian Shana Kushner , Goodman Sara Wallace , and Pepinsky Thomas B . 2022 . Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age...

...Julianna Pacheco Abstract Context: The majority of studies linking health to political behavior capture an individual's health with an ordinal survey question, called self-rated health status (SRHS), that asks respondents to rate their health along a five-point scale (e.g., excellent to poor...

... enrollees, and higher premiums (Cutler and Reber 1998 ). While it is well known that resistance to the ACA by Republican lawmakers and conservative groups have weakened the law (Hertel-Fernandez, Skocpol, and Lynch 2016 ; Oberlander 2016 ), the partisanship-motivated uptake behavior of individuals...

... in the abstract. Here, we examine the effect of Wisconsin's mandatory ultrasound viewing law on the viewing behavior of women seeking care at a high-volume abortion-providing facility. Drawing both on chart data from patients before and after the law went into effect and on in-depth interviews with women subject...

... , behavioral public policy evolved from the ideas that humans are not infallibly rational and that gentle nudges could improve behavior. Progenitors of this new field included Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose decision-making insights in the 1970s led to a rich literature on heuristics. Richard Thaler...

.... Behavioral economics is currently in vogue and offers an alternative (or, in some cases, a complement) to standard economic theory on what motivates human behavior. There are many aspects to behavioral economics, but space constraints allow just three to be considered here: identity, loss aversion...

... in relation to historic and expected patterns of pub- lic policy behavior. Competition among Interest Groups As Robert Alford (1975) observed two decades ago, struggle among interest groups in a democratic society is inevitable. When systemic changes occur, such as we are now experiencing...

...Yaniv Hanoch Edited by Glen I. Cohen , Holly Fernandez-Lynch , and Christopher T. Robertson . Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics . Baltimore, MD : John Hopkins University Press , 2016 . 392 pp. $90 cloth, $45 paperback. Copyright © 2019 by Duke...

.... . 2000 . Utilization of Specialty Mental Health Care among Persons with Severe Mental Illness: The Roles of Demographics, Need, Insurance, and Risk . Health Services Research 35 : 277 – 292 . Mechanic D. 2004 . The Rise and Fall of Managed Care . Journal of Health and Social Behavior...