...Shama Gamkhar; Shao-Chee Sim Are the federal Alcohol and Drug Abuse (ADA) block grant funds substituting for or supplementing state and local government spending on substance abuse?Using panel data on state and local government substance abuse programs, this study explores the fiscal effects of the...

... called for increased government regulation. The mission of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) makes it an obvious candidate to lead a new regulatory effort. However, the FTC has a troubled history in the area of children's advertising regulation, and several political and legal factors constrain its...

... the March 2010 vote on the ACA to district-by-district survey data on citizens' preferences regarding federal health insurance policy. We also exploit variation in the content of floor speeches made during the major House debate on federal health reform. We focus on health reform because this...

...Karen Jacobsen; Thomas G. McGuire With renewed interest in block grants as a way to channel federal funds to states, several questions arise about the effect of block grants on state spending. A central question about the block grant form of intergovernmental aid is whether states spend the funds...

.... Davidson , Stephen M. , Marion McCollom, and Janelle Heineke. 1996 . The Physician-Manager Alliance: Building the Healthy Health Care Organization. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Holahan , John , Diane Rowland, Judith Feder, and David Heslam. 1993 . Explaining the Recent Growth in Medicaid Spending...

...Harlan Hahn Richard K. Scotch, From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984), 206 pp., $24.95 Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 783 (one of...

...Christa Altenstetter Over the past fifteen years the national government in the Federal Republic of Germany has animated the political debate about rising health care expenditures. However, it has only provided health policy leadership by shifting the burden of financing health and medical care to...

...Richard A. Rettig Victoria A. Harden, Inventing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887–1937 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), 274 pp. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 582 Journal of Health Politics, PoIicy and Law iation on the “dance of...

... ( 12 ): 28 -33. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission. 1992 . Horizontal Merger Guidelines . Reprinted in 4 Trade Reg. Rep. (CCH) 1113, 104. 2, April. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission. 1993 . Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in the Health Care Area...

...Andrew Szasz Health care organizations are highly labor-intensive; policies designed to stimulate organizational change are likely to have labor impacts. This paper examines the labor effects of policy change in home health care. Major federal home care policy trends since 1980 have spurred the...

...Carl F. Ameringer Organized medicine has battled the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since the 1970s over enforcement of the antitrust laws. Physicians' discontent stems from the belief that federal policy allows managed care organizations to achieve dominance in health care markets just as it...

... part of the analysis relies on survey data collected between 1975 and 1989 to estimate a set of regression models, relating support for federal involvement in health care, antipoverty programs, and general domestic policies to a set of sociodemographic characteristics. Relative to other federal...

...Christa Altenstetter This article on hospital planning programs in France and North-Rhine Westfalia (a state in the Federal Republic of Germany), assembles information on the formal building blocks of inter-organizational relations in the formulation and implementation process. Because these...

...John K. Iglehart Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Washington Report Federal Directions in Health Care Policy John K. Iglehart Jimmy Carter, in a stroke that left him at odds with the most powerful...

...John K. Iglehart Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Washington Report The New Role of the Federal Government John K. Iglehart There is every likelihood now that the mandate President Reagan has translated into proposed...

... last day in office. However, in his first official act, her successor withdrew that approval. Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 The Rights of Nursing Home Patients: Possibilities and Limitations of Federal Regulation...

...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...

...Alfred E. Miller Deborah A. Stone, The Limits of Professional Power: National Health Care in the Federal Republic of Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 212 pp. Copyright © 1982 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1982 792 Journal of Health Politics...

...Eleanor D. Kinney; Bonnie Lefkowitz Issues in current capital cost reimbursement to community hospitals by Medicare and Medicaid are described, and options for change analyzed. Major reforms in the way the federal government pays for capital costs—in particular substitution of other methods of...