...Lynne R. Davidson This paper asserts that the selection of medical specialty by women physicians-in-training is a “choice by constraint.” Comparative data on men and women interns and residents are provided in order to document parameters of constraint in three separate areas: 1) subjective reasons...

...James F. Blumstein; Michael Zubkoff Development of health policy goals necessitates a choice among normative premises—an accommodation of conflicting values. Any debate that does not identify underlying assumptions or link policy prescriptions to a theoretical perspective is destined to degenerate...

... have suggested that such programs are defective and have recommended several policies designed to establish the conditions for a competitive market in health care. Alain Enthoven's Consumer-Choice Health Plan (CCHP), combines many of the elements of market reform and, as such, provides an opportunity...

... even if present licensing ages are retained. Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Patterns of Teenaged Driver Involvement in Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes: Implications for Policy Choice Leon S. Robertson, Yale University Abstract...

...William J. Lynk Legislation to enact the “Consumer Choice Health Plan” is promoted as a step toward competition and away from regulation. This characterization is misleading. The tax provisions in this plan include potentially beneficial reforms, but have offsetting effects that impair economic...

...Lars Thorup Larsen; Deborah Stone Abstract We compare free choice reforms in Denmark and the United States to understand what ideas and political forces could generate such similar policy reforms in radically different political contexts. We analyze the two cases using our own interpretation...

... patient experience to keep and attract this newly insured population. Faced with an uncertain future, safety net clinics and hospitals will need to strategically plan for the coming years, with patient choice at the core of their decisions. Given the newly ensured Medicaid beneficiaries, the safety net...

...Julia Murphy; Michelle Ko; Kenneth W. Kizer; Andrew B. Bindman Abstract With the expansion of coverage as a result of federal health care reform, safety net providers are confronting a challenge to care for the underserved while also competing as a provider of choice for the newly insured. Safety...

... taxonomy of exit (choice), voice, and loyalty. In this article we identify delegation as an important addition to this framework. Delegation gives individuals the chance to practice exit/choice or voice without all the hard work that is usually involved in these options. Empirical research shows...

... of inevitability serves to promote and justify political choices. Illusions of Necessity: Evading Responsibility for Choice in Health Care Robert G. Evans, University of British Columbia Abstract. Discretionary power is commonly defended by denial of its existence...

... procedures. Copyright © 1985 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1985 Patient Selection for Heart Tkansplantation: When Is a Discriminating Choice Discrimination? Karen J. Merrikin, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, and Thomas D. Overcast, Battelle Human Aflairs...

..., Public Choice, and Health Care Mark A. Peterson University of California, Los Angeles In 1963 Kenneth Arrow offered a simple empirical observation that sug- gested a core impediment...

... policy and regulation: a love affair with choice. The ACA's insurance reforms doubled down on the particularly American obsession with choice. This article describes three ways in which that doubling down is problematic for the future of US health policy. First, pragmatically, health policy theory...

...Pamela Nadash; Rosemarie Day Abstract Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), consumer choice plays a critical role: it drives the competitive market in health insurance plans that will operate through health insurance exchanges. As the 2014 deadline for establishing exchanges...

... of Health Care Cost Control. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 24(4): 653–696. Wildavsky , Aaron . 1979 . Speaking Truth to Power: The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis. Boston: Little, Brown. Choice, Trust, and Two Models of Quality Joseph...

...Nancy-Ann DeParle Berenson, R. 2001 . Medicare+Choice—Are There Any Options ? Unpublished draft. April. Brown, R., and M. Gold. 1999 . What Drives Medicare Managed Care Growth? Health Affairs 18 (6): 140 -149. Congressional Budget Office (CBO). 1997 . CBO Memorandum: Budgetary...

... Rescue Effort. August 3 . The Medicare Approach: Political Choice and American Institutions Lawrence R. Jacobs University of Minnesota...

.... The effect of this legislation was to permit beneficiaries enrolled in mandatory managed care plans to continue to obtain family planning benefits from the providers of their choice, regardless of the providers’ network status. The purpose of the law was to assure that managed care would not impede...