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Economic Theory, Economists, and the Formulation of Health Policy
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2000) 25 (1): 233–256.
Published: 01 February 2000
... Politics, Policy and Law 22 (2): 427 -465. Fox, Daniel M. 1979 . From Reform to Relativism: A History of Economists and Health Care. Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly/Health and Society 57 (3): 297 -336. ———. 1983 . The Decline of Historicism: The Case of Compulsory Health Insurance...
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When Economists and Epidemiologists Disagree . . .
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2001) 26 (3): 533–542.
Published: 01 June 2001
.... Wilkinson, Richard G. 1992 . Income Distribution and Life Expectancy. British Medical Journal 304 : 165 -168. JHPPL 26.3-03 Kawachi/Blakely 5/3/01 5:17 PM Page 533
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When Economists...
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Economists, Public Provision, and the Market: Changing Values in Policy Debate
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1998) 23 (2): 215–263.
Published: 01 April 1998
..., minimizing risks borne by third-party payers, constraining cost increases, and improving the functioning of markets. This article examines one source of the economizing model, the work of several early and persistently prominent economists of health care, especially Mark Pauly, Martin Feldstein, and Joseph...
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Health Economists' Views of Health Policy
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2008) 33 (4): 707–724.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Michael A. Morrisey; John Cawley This article reports the views of a national survey of U.S. health economists on a series of questions ranging from mergers among health care providers to the profits of pharmaceutical manufacturers to fundamental health care reform. We find a high degree...
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Health Economics: A Report on the Field
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (3): 627–646.
Published: 01 June 1990
...Roger Feldman; Michael A. Morrisey This study documents who health economists are, what they do, and what they think about professional and policy issues. Using primary data obtained through a mail survey of 518 health economists, we found that health economists are well trained by the standards...
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Antitrust and Provider Collaborations: Where We've Been and What Should Be Done Now
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 847–874.
Published: 01 August 2015
... be leveraged substantially through greater collaboration among federal and state antitrust enforcers, government payers, health care regulators, and economists and other policy makers. This can result in not only better-targeted antitrust enforcement actions but also payment and regulatory initiatives that can...
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Overutilization, Overutilized
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (2): 421–437.
Published: 01 April 2015
... community of mid-twentieth-century insurance experts to economists, physicians, epidemiologists, and eventually the news media of the early twenty-first century. A quick glimpse at the history of the term reveals that there has been constant disagreement and debate over the meaning and impact...
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On Professional Power and Conflict of Interest: State Licensing Boards on Trial
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1980) 5 (2): 291–308.
Published: 01 April 1980
...Harris S. Cohen Licensing of the health professions is an issue of public policy which has been under fire for years. Economists argue that licensing stifles competition and increases health care costs. Manpower specialists contend that statutory scopes of practice create arbitrary barriers to both...
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Disinvestments in Practice: Overcoming Resistance to Change Through a Sociotechnical Approach with Local Stakeholders
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (6): 1149–1171.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Mara Airoldi Abstract For health care, economists have developed cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) as a “rational,” analytic tool to set priorities. Attempts to use CEA to decide how to cut expenditures, however, have been met with stakeholders' resistance. This article presents an illustrative...
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Gas Taxes and Motor Vehicle Fatalities
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1988) 13 (4): 723–734.
Published: 01 August 1988
...J. Paul Leigh; Arthur L. Frank Economists view taxes as a more efficient means of reducing the consumption of a product than regulation. They have therefore suggested raising cigarette and alcohol taxes to reduce the undesirable effects of tobacco and alcohol on the public's health. This essay...
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The Politics of Medical Inflation
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1976) 1 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 February 1976
... of the standard solutions to these problems suggested by economists. In the main part of the paper, we analyze the response of the government. We show that the underlying causes for failure in the economic market are likely to exist in the political market as well. In particular, the public good aspect of anti...
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Managed Competition versus Industrial Purchasing of Health Care among the Fortune 500
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 27 (1): 5–30.
Published: 01 February 2002
...James Maxwell; Peter Temin The theory of managed competition has found favor with many health policy analysts and academic economists alike. Three characteristics—consumer choice, defined contribution, and dissemination of information—signal managed competition strategy. By requiring private...
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The Politics of Cost Control and Regulatory Policy
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2011) 36 (3): 475.
Published: 01 June 2011
... One of the most widespread criticisms of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is that it does little to contain health care costs. While some economists argue that the ACA will “bend the cost curve,” Jonathan Oberlander and Thomas Rice contend that the provisions will not control...
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Can Efficiency in Health Care Be Left to the Market?
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2001) 26 (5): 967–992.
Published: 01 October 2001
..., N. 1939 . Welfare Propositions of Economists and Interpersonal Comparison of Utility. Economic Journal (September): 549 -552. Katz, M. L., and H. S. Rosen. 1991 . Microeconomics . Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin. Kleinke, J. D. 2000 . Vaporware.com :The Failed Promise of the Health Care...
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Coarse Correction—and Way Off Target
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1997) 22 (2): 503–508.
Published: 01 April 1997
... assumption, as quoted), and one has
an economic basis for continuing policy conflict. That assumption seems
to me to be empirically undemanding, although it creates more difficulty
for theoretical analyses than many economists care to admit.
Economists are not, however, the central focus of the article...
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Who Was That Straw Man Anyway? A Comment on Evans and Rice
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1997) 22 (2): 467–473.
Published: 01 April 1997
... the provision of medical services. These two essays
do not deal with what actually happens in medical markets, or even with
the actual politics of health reform. Instead, they reflect an argument
economists have with each other about what advice we do and should
give to policy makers.
While what economists...
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Books Received
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2000) 25 (1): 261.
Published: 01 February 2000
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rated from Equity? Yale Law and Policy Review 10(2):302–315.
Rhoads, Steven E. 1985. The Economist’s View of the World: Government, Markets,
and Public Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Rothman, David J. 1991. The Public Presentation...
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Health, Health Care, and Health Economics: Perspectives on Distribution
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2000) 25 (1): 256–260.
Published: 01 February 2000
.... 1985. The Economist’s View of the World: Government, Markets,
and Public Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Rothman, David J. 1991. The Public Presentation of Blue Cross, 1935–1965. Jour-
nal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 16(4...
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Competitive Approaches to Health Care Reform
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1994) 19 (3): 673–677.
Published: 01 June 1994
... literature on health care policy might lead one to conclude that
another set of polarities is economists and political scientists (at least the
policy-oriented ones). This book is the result of a fall 1991 conference,
sponsored by the Program in Health Economics, Management, and Policy...
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Can Markets Give Us the Health System We Want?
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1997) 22 (2): 383–426.
Published: 01 April 1997
... of assumptions that are not and
cannot be met in the health care sector. Although it is well known among
economists and noneconomists alike that some set of assumptions needs
to be met to ensure that market forces will result in socially desirable
outcomes, what is less understood are the specific assumptions...
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