... extensive comments on an earlier draft. Health Care Cost Containment in West Germany Deborah A. Stone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract. The West German health care system has experienced a serious escalation of expenditures since about 1970. For a variety of...

...Percivil M. Carrera; Karen K. Siemens; John Bridges Health care reform has been a perpetual issue in German politics since reunification. Reform initially focused on restructuring the health care system of the former East Germany. It has subsequently focused on questioning whether the financing of...

...Mary Ruggie Susan Giaimo. Markets and Medicine: The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States. Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 2002. 307 pp. $60.00 cloth. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Books Review...

...Christa Altenstetter; Reinhard Busse Under the pressure of health care reform in the 1990s, interactions among the state, sickness funds, and providers in Germany are said to have entered a new era. We examine this new era by assessing both long-term developments connected to German statutory...

...Colleen M. Grogan Americans view universal coverage as a reality only if a minimum benefit package is explicitly defined, and discussions about expanding access take place under the slogan of minimum benefits. The policy environment is different in Canada, Britain, and Germany. There, health care...

...Deborah Stone This paper examines the new Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROs) program in light of a similar program (“Economic Monitoring”) that has been used in West Germany for over forty years. In the first section the PSRO program is described as government-mandated peer review...

... which members of the public should be involved in which processes or what the respective rationales and benefits of public engagement are. This article explores operational processes and underlying rationales of public engagement at HTA agencies in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The analysis...

.... Berlin: Springer. Saltman, R., and J. Figueras. 1998 . Analyzing the Evidence on European Health Care Reforms. Health Affairs 17 (2): 85 -107. Schneider, M. 1994 . Evaluation of Cost-Containment Acts in Germany. In Health: Quality and Choice, Health Policy Studies , No. 4 , ed. OECD, pp. 63...

...Stefanie Ettelt Abstract This article examines the role of scientific evidence in informing health policy decisions in Germany, using minimum volumes policy as a case study. It argues that scientific evidence was used strategically at various stages of the policy process both by individual...

... detail the association between prevention and health care reform. My arguments are based on case studies of policy making in Germany and the United Kingdom. I discuss implications for understanding the core interests of government, physicians, and users with respect to prevention in health policy making...

...Stefan Greß; Stefan Gildemeister; Jürgen Wasem © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Altenstetter, C. 1987 . An End to a Consensus on Health Care in the Federal Republic of Germany? Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 12 : 505 -536. Bodenheimer, T., and K. Grumbach. 1992...

.../economic circumstances, patterns of state/professional relationsconstrain the policy alternatives available to governments, and make fundamental reform very difficult to achieve. After analyzing these factors and the reform policies adopted in France, Great Britain, and West Germany, this article will...

...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...

...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...

...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, Policy...

... University 1983 Report from Germany: Current Conditions and Controversies in the Health Care System J,-Matthias Graf Schulenburg, Munich University Abstract. This paper presents a structured survey of the West German health care and health insurance system...

...William A. Glaser Germany created the first national health insurance scheme, and its turbulent history has carried many lessons for all other countries. Health care financing—like all social security financing—redistributes wealth and inevitably is caught up in class politics. Cost-sharing by...

... References Adams , E. Kathleen . 1986 . Implications of Physician Reimbursement Reform: Patient Access and Physicians' Practice. Journal of Medical Practice Management 2 ( 1 ): 19 -23. Altenstetter , Christa . 1974 . Medical Interests and the Public Interest: A Comparison of West Germany...

...J.-Matthias Graf v.d. Schulenburg The health care system of the Federal Republic of Germany relies on the private sector for the financing, delivery, and payment of care. However, the private sector is regulated by the government to ensure that broad societal interests are being fulfilled. The...