...-HS-00900 from the National Center for Health Services Research, D/HEW, to the Yale Health Policy Project, New Haven, Connecticut. Accountability in Health Care: An Essay on Mechanisms, Muddles, and Mires James Warner Bjorkman, University...

...David G. Warren Copyright © 1983 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 Review Essay The Coming of Age of Health Law: An Examination of Recent Textbooks When Emmanuel Hayt died earlier this year, the trumpet was sounded for the passing of an age.' Every...

...Harvey M. Sapolsky Theodore R. Marmor, Political Analysis and American Medical Care: Essays (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 268 pp., $34.50 hardcover, $12.95 paperback Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1984 332 Journal...

...William P. Brandon Marmor Theodore R. and Klein Rudolf . Politics, Health, and Health Care: Selected Essays . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2012 . xv + 573 pp. $95.00 cloth. Copyright © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 The British philosopher Michael...

...Colleen M. Grogan Introduction to Special Issue: Critical Essays on Health Care Reform Colleen M. Grogan University of Chicago When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA...

...Frank J. Thompson; Richard W. Campbell As government has attempted to deal with complex social problems, the inevitability of error has become increasingly apparent to students of public policy and implementation. This essay focuses on errors of service, initially drawing on the experience...

... costs substantially any time soon. As the essays in this section attest, this lack of cost control is surprising given the vast number of cost-containment provisions included in the bill. As a result, the final essays in this section focus on specific regulatory or cost-containment provisions, exploring...

... While most essays in this issue find something to praise about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, many also find areas of weakness. The essays in this section offer ways to continue to improve on the parts of the bill that, in their view, still need work. Peter D...

...) of 2010. The essays in this section help us make sense of the ACA's impact on future politics. By focusing on the first six months after the bill's adoption, Rogan Kersh investigates the politics surrounding the ACA's implementation, addressing three aspects: first, the balance of those working toward...

...Robert Gatter Abstract This essay explores the viability of using the population health legal norm developed by Professor Wendy Parmet in her book Populations, Public Health, and the Law as a basis for theorizing health law. Based on the application of five criteria, the essay concludes...

...Barbara Starfield This essay provided the introduction to a workshop in Bellagio, Italy, on the subject of translating research into policy for equity in health. The essay first defines equity in a way that facilitates its assessment and monitoring and then summarizes evidence from existing...

...Charles Lockhart This essay presents data on the thinking of health policy elites in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany. These three national groups are compared in terms of the values they perceive health policy should serve and their conceptions...

... of controversy. In this essay we develop a conceptual framework for categorizing these involvements,introduce some additional options that might complement Medicare's current collateral functions, assess the reaction of policy elites and Medicare's current beneficiaries to these alternatives, and evaluate...

... this reform pass when so many other attempts have failed? Political scientists Lawrence D. Brown, Mark A. Peterson, and Jacob S. Hacker each offer conceptual frameworks for understanding the passage of the ACA. From these, we turn to essays that examine particular factors that influenced the passage...

... Media coverage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) focuses almost exclusively on expanded medical coverage, Medicare cuts, and lack of cost control. As a result, many other important provisions in the ACA have been lost from view. Essays in this section highlight those...

... public programs, namely, Medicaid and Medicare. Frank J. Thompson's essay on Medicaid and Daniel P. Gitterman and John C. Scott's on Medicare both analyze how the programs will change under the ACA and consider the political aspects of reform. The Impact...

... Through cross-national comparisons, the essays in this section illuminate the key elements of the U.S. approach to health care. When European nations have passed major health care reforms, the leaders of those countries have presented a strong moral argument for reform. Theodore R. Marmor finds...

...Brendan Saloner; Norman Daniels In this essay we argue that the concept of affordable health insurance is rooted in a social obligation to protect fair equality of opportunity. Specifically, health insurance plays a limited but significant role in protecting opportunity in two ways: it helps keep...

... with the states, this essay explores whether opinion differs geographically. The analysis finds that views on the health reform law do differ by region, and these differences are most likely driven by the political leanings of a given area. While opinion nationally differs by age and race, this pattern does...

... joined the chief in holding that aspects of the act's Medicaid expansion were unconstitutional. This essay ponders and tries to unravel some of these puzzles. © 2013 by Charles Fried 2013 References Fried Charles . 2012 . “Balls and Strikes.” Emory Law Journal 61 : 641 – 62...