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Reversing Course on Obamacare: Why Not Another Medicare Catastrophic?
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2018) 43 (4): 605–650.
Published: 01 August 2018
.... Just a year before, that chamber and the House of Representatives had dramatically reversed course, repealing the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act (MCCA) that they had enacted with much fanfare and nearly by consensus in the previous session of Congress. Never before had Congress terminated a major...
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The Self-Undermining Peril of “Mosaic” Reform Strategies: A Comparative View
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (4): 693–707.
Published: 01 August 2020
... hobbled (in the United States) and transformed (in the United Kingdom) in the course of implementation. These two cases thus offer some common lessons about the potential and the pitfalls of such complex “mosaic” reforms. Tactical choices can nonetheless mitigate such problems. Faced with deferred...
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Why We Should Eliminate Personal Belief Exemptions to Vaccine Mandates
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2012) 37 (1): 131–140.
Published: 01 February 2012
... because unimmunized children go to school or day care when they are contagious but asymptomatic, exposing many more children to potentially dangerous infections. The risks to children from disease are much higher than the risks of vaccines. There are, of course, some bona fide reasons why children should...
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Issue Ads and the Health Reform Debate
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2012) 37 (3): 513–549.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Daniel Bergan; Genevieve Risner The public debate over health care reform in 2009 was carried out partly through issue advertisements aired online and on television. Did these advertisements alter the course of the debate over health care reform? While millions of dollars are spent each year...
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Medicare's Fiscal Problems: An Imperative for Reform
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1988) 13 (1): 53–81.
Published: 01 February 1988
...John Holahan; John L. Palmer Many observers have noted that Medicare expenditures will significantly outstrip projected revenues over the course of the next 25 years. This paper examines the economic and demographic assumptions behind forecasts of Medicare hospital insurance and supplementary...
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Medicare Implementation and the Policy Process
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1977) 2 (2): 173–189.
Published: 01 April 1977
... that such pressure has been both intermittent and significantly limited has reinforced SSA's preferred course of action. As a result. Medicare policy has continued to support inadequate and unsafe hospitals and to exacerbate hospital cost inflation. The tendency for administrators to become committed to established...
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Scientism and Economism in the Regulation of Health Care
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1994) 19 (4): 773–799.
Published: 01 August 1994
... the cultural dimensions of the problems at hand. Rather than inculcate an ethic and practice in which medicine focuses on the meaning of illness for a life, a cultural phenomenon, this form of positivism strengthens the tendency to reject meaning in favor of the causes and course of disease and the abstracted...
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The Troubled History of Psychiatry's Quest for Specificity
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (4): 521–539.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Allan V. Horwitz; Gerald N. Grob Abstract Over the course of the nineteenth century, medical disciplines replaced holistic conceptions of body and mind with specific diagnoses that were unrelated to the qualities and circumstances of the individuals who harbored them. Despite periodic attempts from...
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Economics and the Transformation of the Mental Health System
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (4): 541–558.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Sherry Glied; Richard G. Frank Abstract Mental illnesses provide a difficult set of challenges to American health and social institutions. Those challenges have been a continuous concern of David Mechanic's over the course of his career. In this article we trace the development of modern economic...
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Rehabilitating the Severely Disabled: The Foreign Experience
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1979) 4 (2): 221–249.
Published: 01 April 1979
... disability and rehabilitation policies in the course of the next twenty years. Copyright © 1979 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1979 Rehabilitating the Severely Disabled: The
Foreign Experience
John H. Noble, Jr., Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare...
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Ideology, Class, and the National Health Service
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1979) 4 (3): 464–490.
Published: 01 June 1979
... on private practice and pay beds. This paper examines the course of the conflict and analyzes the factors underlying the eruption of this issue. It draws attention to the role of the trade-unions in activating the Labour Party's latent ideological commitment on private practice. Although the issue appears...
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The Plight of the Urban Public Hospital
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1980) 4 (4): 657–674.
Published: 01 August 1980
...David W. Goff This paper reviews identifying characteristics of the urban public hospital and discusses some of the chronic problems, such as funding, image, constituency and acceptance, that this institution has faced. Alternative courses of action for dealing with these problems are considered...
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The Twenty-Year War Over England's National Health Service: A Report from the Battlefield
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (4): 849–869.
Published: 01 August 2013
... it as a crime against the founding principles of the NHS and from those who saw it as a disruptive blunder that created more problems than it solved. This article asks three questions. Why did the coalition government embark on a policy course guaranteed to lose it votes? How will the much-amended legislation...
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Responsive Partisanship: Public Support for the Clinton and Obama Health Care Plans
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (4): 717–749.
Published: 01 August 2014
... predictors of support for reform. We also show that Clinton and Obama did not “lose” blacks, seniors, or wealthy voters over the course of the debate. The small and often nonexistent relationship between these characteristics and support for the plan are constant over time. Instead, the modest fluctuations...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (1): 97–137.
Published: 01 February 2014
... of thirty states with Republican governors in 2013, only four launched their own exchange. Why did many Republican-led states that initially appeared open to establishing exchanges ultimately reverse course? Drawing on interviews with state policy makers and secondary data, we trace the evolution...
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Professional Standards Review Organizations and Confidentiality: The Question of Public Access to Medical Peer Review Data Through the Freedom of Information Act
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1981) 6 (1): 136–158.
Published: 01 February 1981
...Douglas A. Hastings The degree of confidentiality to be accorded data gathered and analyzed by Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROs) in the course of their medical peer review activities is a crucial and controversial issue in health policy. In late 1977, a consumer organization...
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Holding Back the Tide: Policies to Preserve and Reconstruct Health Insurance Coverage in Maryland
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2004) 29 (2): 203–236.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Thomas R. Oliver Over the past decade, state officials have pursued a variety of strategies to protect and expand health insurance coverage for their residents. This article examines the course of action in Maryland, where new initiatives were shaped around the state's unique hospital payment...
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Is Health Care Different? Popular Support of Federal Health and Social Policies
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1993) 18 (3): 551–628.
Published: 01 June 1993
... of ideological positions popularized during the Reagan and Bush administrations. We draw from these results some predictions about the course of the ongoing debate over federal health policies. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 References Alves , Wayne , and Peter Rossi. 1978 . Who...
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Universal Health Insurance That Really Works: Foreign Lessons for the United States
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1993) 18 (3): 695–722.
Published: 01 June 1993
... existing arrangements, most are imaginary inventions with uncertain outcomes. The most politically prudent and the most effective course is to emulate the methods used successfully and available for full analysis in other developed countries. America created its successful social security system...
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The Death of Managed Care: A Regulatory Autopsy
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (3): 427–452.
Published: 01 June 2005
... whether, and to what extent, the industry's abrupt change in course can be attributed to these laws. Based on extensive interviews with key informants in six representative states, the article concludes that these laws were not the primary driver of changes in managed care practices. However, patient...
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