...Mark A. Peterson Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 References Peterson , Mark A. 1990 . Legislating Together: The White House and Capitol Hill from Eisenhower to Reagan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Clinton’s Plan Goes to Congress...

...Craig Volden; Alan E. Wiseman Prior to the 2010 health care reforms, scholars often commented that health policy making in Congress was mired in political gridlock, that reforms were far more likely to fail than to succeed, and that the path forward was unclear. In light of recent events, new...

...Donald W. Light Congressional Budget Office. Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry—A CBO Study . Washington, DC: U.S. Congress, 2006. www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=7615&sequence=0. Duke University Press 2007 Congressional Budget Office. Research and Development in the...

...: Response to the Light and Warburton Rejoinder. Journal of Health Economics 24 : 1049 -1053. Global Alliance for TB Drug Development. 2001 . The Economics of TB Drug Development . New York: Global Alliance for TB Drug Development. Light, D. W. 2007 . Misleading Congress about Drug Development...

...Eileen Burgin Caucuses have become a critical feature of the congressional landscape, yet are neglected in the literature on health-policy making in Congress. The principal goal of the article is to use the Diabetes Caucus as a case study to highlight this significant yet underappreciated...

...Miriam J. Laugesen Physicians' fees under Medicare are updated by regulation annually based on a formula called the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). Since 2003 Congress has reversed impending cuts to fees in response to physician calls for reform of the SGR, yet physician groups supported the SGR...

... Reform: A Survey of Members of Congress and Staff Orval Hansen Columbia Institute Robert J. Blendon Harvard...

..., Michael Rosenstiehl, and Ronald Lorenzo. 1994 . Committee Jurisdictions in Congress, 1980–1991. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, September 1994. Berry , Jeffrey M. 1989 . The Interest Group Society. Second edn. Glenview, IL: Scott...

... 3 : 93 -109. Health Care Reform in the 103d Congress: A Predictable Failure David W. Brady Kara M. Buckley Stanford University In 1992, Senator Kerrey (D...

... U.S. Public-Opinion Quarterly 50 : 423 . Starr , P. , and W. Zelman. 1993 . Bridge to Compromise: Competition under a Budget. Health Affairs 12 ( Suppl ): 7 -23. Why Congress Did Not Enact Health Care Reform Vicente...

...Leighton Ku; Fouad Pervez In 2006 Congress passed, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rapidly issued, regulations requiring states to obtain proof of citizenship from citizens who had applied for Medicaid. This policy was framed as reducing fraud by illegal aliens to preserve...

...Charles Fried At first, few constitutional experts took seriously the argument that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exceeded Congress's power under the commerce clause. The highly political opinions of two federal district judges — carefully chosen by challenging plaintiffs — of no...

...David W. Brady; Daniel P. Kessler This article examines the possibilities for health care reform in the 111th Congress. It uses a simple model of policy making to analyze the failure of Congress to pass the Clinton health plan in 1993–1994. It concludes that the factors that created gridlock in...

... established constitutional law to uphold key features of the act. In doing so, he not only upheld the statute but also left the landscape of constitutional law much as he had found it. He did, however, suggest that the federal courts should take a more active role in monitoring how Congress uses its...

... in Congress and the role state primary care associations are playing in spearheading the development of statewide CHC-sponsored health maintenance organizations. We also analyze CHC reactions to the changes in federal policies that were proposed in the major health care reform bills of the 103d...

...John W. Hardin Congress plays an important role in shaping U.S. health care policy, and within Congress, committees play the lead policy-making role. To determine the range and extent of committee involvement on health issues, I examine nine health issue categories over a fifteen-year period (1979...

...Thomas R. Oliver In 1985, Congress established the Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC) to help formulate changes in the system used by Medicare to pay for physician services. The recommendations of the PPRC and subsequent legislative action led to fundamental reform. As a new type of...

... compensation and deterrence goals of tort, whereas second-generation reforms hold greater promise of doing so. This analysis of state and federal legislation indicates that states, and more recently Congress, have been reluctant to adopt second-generation reforms but continue to promote and/ or adopt first...

...Marc A. Cohen; Nanda Kumar; Thomas McGuire; Stanley S. Wallack Congress is considering proposals to improve its financing of long-term care. The key issue is whether it should support a social insurance program or a program targeted to a population group defined by income and assets. Social...