...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...

...Mark A. Peterson Clinton’s Plan Goes to Congress- Now What? Mark A. Peterson University of Pittsburgh Enormous amounts of press and punditry have been...

...’ Views on the Failure of Health Reform: A Survey of Members of Congress and Staff Orval Hansen Columbia Institute Robert J. Blendon...

...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...

...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...

...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 political...

...Frank R. Baumgartner; Jeffery C. Talbert From Setting a National Agenda on Health Care to Making Decisions in Congress Frank R. Baumgartner Jeffery...

... and Politics 3 : 93 -109. Health Care Reform in the 103d Congress: A Predictable Failure David W. Brady Kara M. Buckley Stanford University...

... in the 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...

...: 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...

...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...

...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...

...Timothy Stoltzfus Jost; Katie Keith Abstract Despite its passage a decade ago, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains a politically divisive law. These political divisions have long been on display in Congress, in the White House, and in states. A long-standing stalemate in Congress—where...

..., and growing support that blocked Congress from repealing. The politics of the ACA looked, from one angle, like a louder version of health politics as usual. But something new was stirring. Opponents pushed the debate outside the elected branches of government and into the courts—a move that reflects past eras...

...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...

... the 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...

...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...