...Jon R. Gabel Jill Mathews Yegian. Size Matters: The Health Insurance Market for Small Firms. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999. 171 pp. $64.95 cloth. © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Gabel, J., L. Levitt, E. Holve, J. Pickreign, H. Whitmore, S. Hawkins, and N. Miller. 2000 . Job...

... five forms of community benefit that might be associated with nonprofit forms of managed care. Using data from a national survey of firms providing third-party utilization review services in 1993, we test for ownership-related differences in these five dimensions. The results suggest that ownership...

...” for DTCA as certified by firm executives. Methods: The authors measured recent industry spending on DTCA and used regression models of Nielsen Monitor-Plus data to assess pharmaceutical firm self-regulation after the public disclosure of noncompliance with industry self-regulatory principles, specifically...

... of the worker both represent a productivity-enhancing investment in the worker by the firm. The problem is that the employer frequently fails to capture the returns on the investment. A healthier or better-skilled worker can command a higher wage and threaten to leave the firm making the investment. This risk...

...-public option in which the government subcontracts the operation of its newly created plan to a private firm. Although it is uncertain whether federal regulators have the capacity to hold such private for-profit firms accountable, pragmatism suggests that a combination of public-sector regulation...

... a very different relationship to firm-level quality, where firms within a chain that is being sued have higher levels of inspection-oriented quality. Our results suggest that legal claims may result from quality problems that go unmeasured during the inspection process. However, more research...

...Figure 2 Trends in Average Firm R&D and SG&A Expenditures (in Millions of Dollars), 1999–2009 Source : Authors' analyses of data from firms' 10-K filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, available in Mergent or Compustat, for firms with at least one NDA approval from...

... interventions at both the firm and public policy levels. Although currently enthusiastic about market–oriented managed care, large employers have been periodically disappointed by firm–level market experiments during the past two decades. They viewed with skepticism the Republican proposal to apply private...

... markets. Volume bargaining in the pharmaceutical supply chain and asset managers’ common ownership of pharmaceutical firms further complicate the definitional process. Hence, the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), one measure used by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to screen...

...James C. Robinson This paper studies the link between occupational health hazards and job security. Consistent with the underlying hypothesis that firms utilizing hazardous technologies tend to employ low-skilled workers who can be discharged easily in case of a downturn in business, the analysis...

... of the historically determined legitimating ideology of US firms. From the era of the “corporate commonwealth,” US business inherited the principles of private welfare provision and of resistance to any expansion of government control. Once complementary, these principles are now mutually exclusive: employer-provided...

... and premiums are not distinct entities; rather, a spectrum of financing methods exists with varying tax-like and premium-like features. Premium-like financing tends to be voluntary and earmarked for health care, with coverage contingent upon making payments and payments going to private insurance firms. Tax...

... services, the government's program was a hastily implemented attempt to place primary care, the delivery of which is dominated by private doctors, under firm state control. It was also an attempt to override preexisting arrangements. As such, the government succeeded in its goal of establishing new primary...

.../commercial product mix; (2) attracting nonresidents to use the community's retail and public space; and (3) capitalizing on community investment not simply from residents' organizing efforts but, more important in this case, from corporate community involvement by a Greendale business firm whose interests...

...Michael Birnbaum Michael Birnbaum interviews Deborah Bachrach about her three-year tenure as director of the nation's largest Medicaid program. Bachrach, who served under Governors Spitzer and Paterson, had previously spent over a decade as a partner in a New York law firm, navigating and shaping...

... policy. The political feasibility of the new standard is traced to OSHA's abandonment of “technology forcing” in favor of reliance on “off-the-shelf” technologies already in use in major firms. While important as an embodiment of OSHA's new “generic” approach to regulation, the Air Contaminants Standard...

... and heterogeneity of local health care markets, it advises courts not to accept the FTC's preemptive standard regarding the significance of hospitals' nonprofit status and keep open the possibility of fashioning new presumptive rules tailored to more complete economic accounts of nonprofit firm behavior. Duke...

...” regimes do), performance-based regulation allows the firms to determine how best to decrease bad public health consequences. Like other public health strategies, performance-based regulation focuses on those who are far more likely than individual consumers to achieve real gains. Analogous to a tax...