...Daniel M. Fox; David Rosner; Rosemary A. Stevens Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Introduction Between Public and Private: A Half Century of Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New York Daniel M. Fox, Milbank Memorial Fund David Rosner, City...

...Theodore R. Marmor The story of New York Blue Cross is one of complex interaction with state and federal regulators and also with hospitals, the medical profession, commercial insurers, and the public, who make up the regulatory environment. Negotiation, cooperation, and adaptation among parties...

.... Government Printing Office. Division of Health Care Financing. 1985 . Background Paper on Hospital Charge Differentials in New York and Other States. Albany. NY: Office of Health Systems Management, New York State Department of Health. Eilers , Robert D. 1963 . Regulation of Blue Cross and Blue...

... dismissed as arro- gant, elitist blue-state liberals persecuting innocent true-American believ- ers, the history Morone unveils is as timely as it is timeless. Most rational- ists recognize that past the outskirts of knowledge lies some sort of Great Beyond with the meaning of which one may (or may...

...Lawrence D. Brown This article explores the changing corporate culture of New York's Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan in its first fifty years. As the plan grew, corporate culture evolved over four sequential phases: the plan first had the character of an experiment, then that of a movement...

...David J. Rothman I explore the public presentation of Blue Cross, examining in detail the political, cultural, and institutional messages that shaped its advertising. Blue Cross advertisements had the twin purpose of attempting to increase the number of its own subscribers while criticizing...

... Blue Cross from the 1930s to the recent past and show that labor's participation in the plan was crucial to Blue Cross's success in the plan's early decades. By the late 1950s, serious tensions developed over rate increases and the participation of labor in Blue Cross governance. Ultimately, the issue...

...Daniel M. Fox Hospital planning in New York has been since the 1930s an intensely political process with high stakes. The leaders of Blue Cross and their allies used the hospital planning process in the city and the state as a means to extend and protect corporate authority in what they took...

... . USA Today/Gallup Poll . 2009 . Swine Flu (USAIPOUSA2009-TR0505) . May 5 . Red State, Blue State, Flu State: Media Self-­Selection and Partisan Gaps in Swine Flu Vaccinations...

...Michael Schonbrun This paper analyzes the reasons for the rise and decline of Blue Cross, a unique American institution. Its inability to respond to the crisis in today's health system is described as nothing more than the failure of the ailing American health system to cure itself. The early rise...

...Evelynn M. Hammonds Keith Wailoo. Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 338 pp. $34.95 cloth; $16.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Leavitt, Judith Walzer. 1990...

...Sara Rosenbaum Walter A. Zelman and Robert A. Berenson. The Managed Care Blues and How to Cure Them. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998. 224 pp. $45.00 paper. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References Eddy , D. 1998 . Performance Measurement...

...Joseph L. Falkson; Henry Leavitt Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 * Editor's Note: Henry Leavitt is vice president of Health Sector Management, Inc., in Washington, D.C. Washington Report FTC Sings the Blues Joseph L. Falkson...

...Carolyn A. Watts Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Communication FTC Sings the Blues: A Comment Carolyn A. Watts, University of Washington In a recent issue of this Journal, Joseph Falkson and Henry Leavitt...

...David I. Kass; Paul A. Pautler Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Communication FTC Sings the Blues: A Note David I. Kass and Paul A. Pautler, Federal Trade Cornrn issio n Due to concern that physician influence on the boards...

... than in any other state. The reasons include a major effort by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to implement global payment, the presence of large integrated systems willing to take on financial risk, and a supportive state policy environment. By 2014, thirty-seven percent of Massachusetts's...

...Harvey M. Sapolsky I examine the development of privately provided insurance since World War II, giving special attention to Empire Blue Cross, and argue that the competition between employers and unions for the loyalty of workers after the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act helped diffuse private...

... commonplace. HMOs and especially PPOs are booming. Blue Shield and Blue Cross market share and market power are declining. We discuss why the insurance market has changed and conclude with thoughts on the future. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 References de Lissovoy , Gregory...

... of stakeholder mobilization and public policy over time. We find that early policy choices about how to achieve cost containment led the states down different paths of reform. In the 1970s and 1980s, states that featured oligopolistic or near-monopolistic markets for private insurance (usually dominated by Blue...

... on the law and targeted challenges to its implementation. Litigation has become politics pursued through other means. These challenges have often been brought, or opposed, by state attorneys general and governors, with red-state coalitions facing off against blue-state coalitions. ACA litigation has also...