... clinicians, and anyone interested in the questions raised by new developments in genetics and medicine. Robin Gregg, Shriver Center Gary L. Albrecht. The Disability Business: Rehabilitation in America. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992. 328 pp. $46.00 cloth...

...Edward Alan Miller Affordability of Health Insurance to Small Business: Implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Edward Alan Miller University of Massachusetts Boston Due to rising...

... systems of France and Germany, on the one hand, and with the 1950s and 1960s in the United States, on the other, this article concludes that while institutional elements do account for some of the observed behavior of big business, a necessary complement to this is a fuller understanding...

... and battles in predominantly Republican-led states. Like earlier scholars, we find that partisan differences between Democrats and Republicans are central, but we go beyond earlier analyses to measure added effects from two dueling factions within the Republican coalition: statewide business associations...

...Clark C. Havighurst © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.5 08 Havighurst 10/29/01 4:22 PM Page 939 Health Care as a (Big) Business: The Antitrust Response Clark C...

... monopoly of provider interests. Once mobilized, business interests became organized politically and even became dominant at times, controlling both the policy agenda and its process. Ultimately, business came to be viewed as a permanent part of the coalitions and commissions that helped formulate state...

...James Brasfield Rosenthal's theme is consumer empowerment as an antidote to the profit-maximizing health services business. She says, “We must become bolder, more active and thoughtful about what we demand of our healthcare and the people who deliver it” (p. 330). However, there is a growing...

... and profitable business, health insurance has been greatly disturbed by the system inflation accompanying the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid programs. Now self-insurance and various managed-care schemes are major threats. The future may bring consolidation and the strengthening of pools, just the opposite...

...Lawrence R. Jacobs Marie Gottschalk. The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. 320 pp. $47.50 cloth; $19.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002...

...Cathie Jo Martin Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Stuck in Neutral: Big Business and the Politics of National Health Reform Cathie lo Martin...

...Cathie Jo Martin This essay examines the role of business health care purchasers in keeping market solutions at the center of the health system. One might assume that employers would have a clear ideological preference for market solutions, but big business managers are ambivalent about market...

... to reinforce labor's tendency to stick to a policy path on health care issues that was predicated on an employer-mandate solution and that had been charted primarily by business and leading Democrats. As a result, organized labor did not emerge from the 1993–1994 struggle with its political base fortified nor...

.... The Supreme Court’s PPACA Decision Legal, Imagined, and Real Worlds: Reflections on National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius Jerry L. Mashaw...

...Cathie J. Martin Linda A. Bergthold. Purchasing Power in Health: Business, the State, and Health Care Politics. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990. 213 pp. $37.00 cloth. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 References Alford , Robert . 1975 . Health...

... then succeeded, in coalition with small business groups and with the help of a couple named Harry and Louise, in derailing the Clinton Health Security plan in 1994. The defeat of the Clinton reform embodied not just the ascendance of insurance industry power, but the fragmentation of the medical...

...Peter Swenson; Scott Greer Existing accounts of the Clinton health reform efforts of the early 1990s neglect to examine how the change in big business reform interests during the short period between the late 1980s and 1994 might have altered the trajectory of compulsory health insurance...

...Jennifer Klein Cathie Jo Martin. Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 264 pp. $52.50 cloth; $19.95 paper; $14.95 e-book. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Gordon, Colin. 1994 . New Deals...

... increased access to medical care have developmental effects beyond the client population directly served. Risky Business: Effectiveness of State Market-Based Health Programs Christopher Stream...

..., as the business sector has remained oddly diffident in its demands for health policy reform. There are three reasons for business's reticence—the economic stakes of the corporate sector in health reform are uncertain, organizational encumbrances hamper business activism in this arena, and ideological convictions...

...Cathie Jo Martin Corporate America leads the pack in the collective anxiety attack over health care costs. But will the business community add its considerable political power to the movement for national health reform? Conventional wisdom suggests not: businessmen seldom rally for collective...