... from the Physician Worklife Survey. SGIM Career Satisfaction Study Group. Society of General Internal Medicine. Medical Care 37 ( 11 ): 1140 -1154. Job Satisfaction and Motivation among Physicians in Academic Medical Centers: Insights from a Cross-National Study...

... is not surprising, but the similar pattern cross-nationally is less expected. Three additional findings are more unexpected. First, the United States outperforms its European peers on several public health metrics. Second, the United States spends a comparable proportion of its health dollar on prevention. Third...

...Mark Schlesinger Abstract Scholars have long recognized the importance of comparisons for envisioning, formulating, and implementing new public policies. But cross-national comparisons of health systems and policies can prove challenging—sometimes potentially misleading—unless one carefully attends...

...Lawrence D. Brown American health care reformers, who often look to other nations for models of desirable health systems, are often surprised nowadays by cross-national infatuation with health policy innovations minted in the United States. American innovations appeal to policy makers abroad...

... Recherche Medicale. Ziff Communications Co. 1994 . Orphan Drug Hearings. Marketletter, 14 February. A Cross-National Comparison of Orphan Drug Policies: Implications for the U.S. Orphan Drug Act...

...Daniel M. Fox; David Rosner; Rosemary A. Stevens Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Introduction Between Public and Private: A Half Century of Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New York Daniel M. Fox, Milbank Memorial Fund David Rosner, City...

...Lawrence D. Brown This article explores the changing corporate culture of New York's Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan in its first fifty years. As the plan grew, corporate culture evolved over four sequential phases: the plan first had the character of an experiment, then that of a movement...

...David J. Rothman I explore the public presentation of Blue Cross, examining in detail the political, cultural, and institutional messages that shaped its advertising. Blue Cross advertisements had the twin purpose of attempting to increase the number of its own subscribers while criticizing...

... Blue Cross from the 1930s to the recent past and show that labor's participation in the plan was crucial to Blue Cross's success in the plan's early decades. By the late 1950s, serious tensions developed over rate increases and the participation of labor in Blue Cross governance. Ultimately, the issue...

...Daniel M. Fox Hospital planning in New York has been since the 1930s an intensely political process with high stakes. The leaders of Blue Cross and their allies used the hospital planning process in the city and the state as a means to extend and protect corporate authority in what they took...

...Theodore R. Marmor The story of New York Blue Cross is one of complex interaction with state and federal regulators and also with hospitals, the medical profession, commercial insurers, and the public, who make up the regulatory environment. Negotiation, cooperation, and adaptation among parties...

.... Government Printing Office. Division of Health Care Financing. 1985 . Background Paper on Hospital Charge Differentials in New York and Other States. Albany. NY: Office of Health Systems Management, New York State Department of Health. Eilers , Robert D. 1963 . Regulation of Blue Cross and Blue...

...Simone Leiber; Stefan Greß; Maral-Sonja Manouguian To increase understanding of the cross-border transfer of ideas through a case study of the 2007 German health reform, this article draws on Kingdon's approach of streams and follows two main objectives: first, to understand the extent to which...

...) Is a differential payment justified for Medicare, Medicaid, and/or Blue Cross on the basis of differential costs? (2) Have the cost-containment efforts of the dominant payers reduced total payments to hospitals? and (3) What part of the overall savings in payments to hospitals is in the form of reduced costs rather...

...Michael Schonbrun This paper analyzes the reasons for the rise and decline of Blue Cross, a unique American institution. Its inability to respond to the crisis in today's health system is described as nothing more than the failure of the ailing American health system to cure itself. The early rise...

... insurer. Their analysis included a within-case content analysis and a cross-case framework analysis. Findings: Common themes included insurance office relationships with other stakeholders, policy complexity, and political priority. Relationships between insurance offices and other stakeholders varied...

..., and participation; these are then compared with Blue Cross and U.S. hospital prepayment. While acknowledging the importance of path dependence in shaping attitudes of British bureaucrats toward these schemes, analysis emphasizes their failure in pressure group politics, in contrast to the United States. In both...

... nine nationally representative surveys, this article examines whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is cultivating a similar cross-class constituency. The results show that middle-income Americans are less likely than low-income Americans to say the ACA has helped them personally so far. On the other...

... System . Washington, DC:National Academy Press. ———. 2001 . Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century . Washington, DC: National Academy Press. ———. 2002 . Leadership by Example: Coordinating Government Roles in Improving Health Care Quality . Washington, DC: National...

...Wes Daniels Michael Rowe. Crossing the Border: Encounters between Homeless People and Outreach Workers . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 206 pp. $45.00 cloth; $17.95 paper. 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 1172 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Michael Rowe...