..., 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...

...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 of...

.... 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 Commentary When Economists and...

... 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 in the...

...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 of...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

... resources can 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...

... 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 of...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

... and economic variables. The next article, by Michael Morrisey and John Cawley, reports on a survey of the health policy views of U.S. health care economists. The survey results ought to be especially interesting to political scientists, who often quietly complain about the political influence...

... 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):671–693...

... 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 of Blue...

... Senior Economist for the Ameri- can Dental Association, Assistant Professor of Economics at Auburn University and Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University. He lectures periodically at the University of Texas School of Dentistry, Texas A&M’s Free Enterprise Institute...

..., 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...

... 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 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...

..., and is generally regarded as the dean of health economists in Canada. Kenneth E. Warner is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Health Planning and Administration, School of Public Health, University of Michi- gan. An economist who received his Ph.D. from Yale University...