...Sandra Christensen Contributions made by or for current enrollees to Medicare will cover less than a third of the costs of their expected lifetime benefits, on average. This subsidy is of concern for two reasons. First, because the subsidy is provided regardless of income, some transfers...

...Michael C. Christensen; Dahlia Remler Politicians across the political spectrum support greater investment in health care information and communications technology (ICT) and expect it to significantly decrease costs and improve health outcomes. We address three policy questions about adoption...

..., Box 1951, Brown University, Providence, R1 02912. JHPPL does not edit the communicationsthat it publishes. To the editor: The article by Sandra Christensen in JHPPL, vol. 17, no. 2 (summer 1992), on the relationship of contributions in Medicare Hospital Insur- ance (HI) payroll taxes...

...” Robert H. Binstock Case Western Reserve University The stream of “elderly bashing” that has been flooding academic litera- ture, the media, and public rhetoric is added to by Sandra Christensen’s article in this issue, “The Subsidy Provided under Medicare...

... Coen and Jeremy Richardson. Michael C. Christensen is senior regulatory affairs project manager at Novo Nor- disk A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark. This publication was initiated while Christensen undertook his doctoral work at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, Department...

... County Council 1987–1991). Norsk Statsvitenskaplig Tidsskrift 11 (2): 133 -149. Christensen, T. 2003 . Narratives of Governance in Norway: Elaborating the Strong State. Public Administration 81 : 163 -190. Christensen, T., and P. Lægreid. 2001a . New Public Management: The Transformation...

...  861   at cost containment (and the interests of generics) in a federalist system, just as it did in the more centralized Great Britain. Michael C. Christensen and Dahlia Remler also consider the relation- ship between decentralization and innovation, though they do so as part...

... Fund In her article on subsidization of current Medicare enrollees, Sandra Christensen questions whether the program’s financing structure is still valid, given the decline in poverty among the elderly since Medicare’s original enactment. It is indeed tempting, at a time...

...? Health Affairs 17 ( 1 ): 9 -25. Christensen , S. 1998 . Medicare+Choice Provisions in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Health Affairs 17 ( 4 ): 224 -231. Collins , K. S. , C. Schoen, and D. R. Sandman. 1997 . The Commonwealth Fund Survey of Physician Experiences with Managed Care...

... alone (Furhmans 2006). Moreover, genomics is classically disruptive in ways that Christensen, Bohmer, and Kenagy (2000) described in their classic Harvard Business Review article. As genomics metastasizes, every business model for every health care sector will be affected, some pro- foundly. Four...

... (Christensen 1997), organi- zational context represents a promising space for converting policy inten- tions into concrete actions. The organizational approach addresses three problems at the interface of policies and delivery organizations. The first is actualization, where policy intentions...

.... Christensen, C. M., R. Bohmer, and J. Kenagy. 2000 . Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care? Harvard Business Review September-October: 102 -112. Cooper, R. A. 1995 . Perspectives on the Physician Workforce to the Year 2020. Journal of the American Medical Association 274 : 1534 -1543...

... of Hospitals and Health Care in Denmark and Sweden). Copenhagen: Handelshøjskolens forlag. Brouwer, W., J. Van Exel, B. Hermans, and A. Stoop. 2003 . Should I Stay or Should I Go? Waiting Lists and Cross-Border Care in the Netherlands. Health Policy 63 : 289 -298. Christensen, J. G. 2000...

... Mortality: Getting On with What Works . Lancet 368 : 1284 – 1299 . Christensen T. O. M. Laegreid P. E. R. . 2005 . Trust in Government: The Relative Importance of Service Satisfaction, Political Factors, and Demography . Public Performance and Management Review 28 : 487 – 511...

... with limited connectivity across government departments and US states (Timberg and Sun 2013 ). During the COVID-19 pandemic, fragile records systems have delayed processing of claims for unemployment insurance payments, resulting in severe hardship (McGreevy and Christensen 2020 ; Nirappil and Simon 2020...

... on costs and outcomes but more coming (Christensen and Payne 2016 : 148–54; Gleeson, Kelleher, and Gardener 2016 ). Medicaid populations may differ in important ways from attributed patients in Medicare or commercial ACOs, which may have implications for the design and the success of programs. First...

.... His research interests include the determinants of physician behavior, access to health services, and the extent and consequences of academic-industrial relationships in the health sciences. Sandra Christensen has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. After earning...

... Adams , E. K. 1995 . Effect of Increased Medicaid Fees on Physician Participation and Enrollee Service Utilization in Tennessee, 1985–1988. Inquiry 31 ( 2 ): 173 -187. Christensen , S. 1992 . Volume Responses to Exogenous Changes in Medicare’s Payment Policies. Health Services Research...

... beneficiary costs that were 6–8 percent below the federal government's payment level (Christensen 1998 : 225). 9 It was the rising AAPCC (see fig. 3 ), according to Bruce Vladeck, a former HCFA administrator in the Clinton administration, that was the largest determinant of the expansion of private...

...-writers/novelists (William Carlos Williams, Michael Crichton, Abraham Verghese, Atul Gawande), physician-journalists/popularizers (Lewis Thomas, Lawrence Altman, Nancy Snyderman, Elizabeth Rosenthal), and physician-politicians of all political stripes (Rand Paul, Howard Dean, Donna Christian-Christensen...