... 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...

...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...

...: 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...

..., 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...

...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 was the...

..., 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 and Compassion: ConflictingRoles...

... Expenditures Impact 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...

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

... 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...

...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...

... S.-L. T. Young A. S. . 2006 . Behavioral Health Insurance Parity for Federal Employees . New England Journal of Medicine 354 : 1378 – 1386 . González H. M. Vega W. A. Williams D. R. Tarraf W. West B. T. Neighbors H. W. . 2010 . Depression Care in the...

.... 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, and...

... of for-profit managed behavioral health care organizations, traditionally advocates of market-based approaches to accountability, have begun to support some versions of regulation by the national government in order to restore consumer confidence in the credibility of managed health plans. Key...

...Sarah E. Gollust; Julia Lynch This research investigates the impact of cues about ascriptive group characteristics (race, class, gender) and the causes of ill health (health behaviors, inborn biological traits, social systemic factors) on beliefs about who deserves society's help in paying for the...

...John D. Colombo The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice 2004 report on competition in health care raises the issue of nonprofit versus for-profit form in several contexts, including their relative financial performance, pricing behavior, and role in caring for the uninsured poor. The...

... increased government spending on research than those viewing an article with no causal language, while participants viewing an article on behavioral choices were more likely to attribute negative stereotypes to people with diabetes. Participants who viewed a photo of a black woman accompanying the article...

...Adam Oliver; Lawrence D. Brown Health inequalities and user financial incentives to encourage health-related behavior change are two topical issues in the health policy discourse, and this article attempts to combine the two; namely, we try to address whether the latter can be used to reduce the...

...James S. Wunsch; Larry L. Teply; Joel Zimmerman; Geoffrey W. Peters This article applies street-level bureaucracy theories to “coping” patterns of behavior that developed in an involuntary commitment system. Daily procedures and routines of five Nebraska county boards of mental health and the...

... to care for the uninsured and the underinsured; the number and distribution of the sexual behaviors that transmit infection with HIV and the effectiveness of policies to persuade people to modify these behaviors; precisely who uses addictive drugs and the effectiveness of measures to change their...

...Rogan Kersh; James A. Morone Health care politics are changing. They increasingly focus not on avowedly public projects (such as building the health care infrastructure) but on regulating private behavior. Examples include tobacco, obesity, abortion, drug abuse, the right to die, and even a...