... cues about the causal impact of individual behaviors on health have large effects on expressed attitudes. Across all three experiments, a focus on individual behavioral causes of illness is associated with increased support for individual responsibility for health care costs and lower support...

...Margaret R. Swire; Florence Kavaler Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Research Note Health Services for Foster Children: Factors Associated with Health Care Costs Margaret R. Swire, Foster Care Health Evaluation Study...

...Barry A. Gold; Elizabeth A. Donahue In response to published but unconfirmed reports that health care costs were a leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S., court records of all bankruptcy petitioners in one judicial district were examined. The records were analyzed by income, employment...

...Fernand Turcotte M. L. Barer, R. G. Evans, and G. L. Stoddart, Controlling Health Care Costs by Direct Charges to Patients: Snare or Delusion? (Toronto: Ontario Economic Council—Occasional Paper 10, 1979), 126 pp. Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke...

...Jerry L. Weaver This paper uses longitudinal data from representative samples of national and southern California populations in an analysis of public opinion regarding proposals for health care cost controls. After examining ethnicity in conjunction with sex, socioeconomic status, age and party...

...Clark C. Havighurst The Council on Wage and Price Stability recently has discovered evidence suggesting “an unacknowledged potential of the private sector to exert influence and control in the area of health care cost inflation.” This article examines the limitations on private-sector cost-control...

...Linda Roemer Dean C. Coddington, David J. Keen, Keith D. Moore, and Richard L. Clarke. The Crisis in Health Care: Costs, Choices, and Strategies. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990. 304 pp. $30.94 cloth. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991...

...Sally S. Cohen Suzanne Gordon. Nursing against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 489 pp. $29.95 cloth. Duke University Press 2006 Buresh, B., S. Gordon, M. E...

...Ulrike Lepont Abstract Context: In the late 2000s, the contention that quality improvements achieved by reforms in the delivery of care would slow the growth of costs throughout the US health care system became the predominant strategy for cost containment in the discourses and programs of all...

...Deborah A. Stone The West German health care system has experienced a serious escalation of expenditures since about 1970. For a variety of reasons, many features of the national health insurance program that might have provided restraints on costs were gradually eliminated. Most notably, some...

...Jon M. Kingsdale The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so...

...Trudi W. Galblum In a climate of increasing pressure to contain health care costs. legislators and health services researchers from time to time have proposed experiments involving reductions in benefits currently authorized under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. This paper examines three court...

...Robert G. Evans “Control” of health care costs is often portrayed as a struggle between external, “natural” forces pushing costs up and individuals, groups, and societies trying to resist the inevitable. This picture is false. Control includes strenuous efforts by some to raise costs, and by others...

.... In this article I focus on an alternative: Who shall decide how to ration health care, and how shall this be done to respect autonomy, pluralism, liberalism, and fairness? I explore three processes for making rationing decisions: cost-utility analysis, informed democratic decision making, and applications...

...Joseph White Discussion of health care cost control policy and politics tends to focus on terms such as “market,” “government,” and “managed care” that are either too general or too value laden to encourage sound analysis. This article proposes an alternative framework for classifying cost control...

...Alan B. Cohen Commentary Hitting the “Target” in Health Care Cost Control Alan B. Cohen Boston University Ever...

... . www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/11/a-milestone-in-the-health-care-journey/30619/ . Congressional Budget Office (CBO) . 2008 . Budget Options Volume 1: Health Care . Washington, DC : CBO . ———. 2010 . Cost Estimate for the Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute for H.R. 4872, Incorporating...

...Bruce C. Vladeck Karen Davis, Gerard F. Anderson, Diane Rowland, and Earl P. Steinberg. Health Care Cost Containment . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. 266 + ix pp. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991...

...Rick Mathis Daniel Callahan. Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. 288 pp. $29.95 cloth. Duke University Press 2010 Becker, E. 1973 . The Denial of Death . New York: Free Press...

... Professions After a Decade and a Half: Delegation, Productivity and Costs in Primary Care Jane Cassels Record, Michael McCally, Stuart 0. Schweitzer, Robert M. Blomquist, and Benjamin D. Berger, Kaiser-Permanente Health Services Research Center Abstract. Though knowledge about physician’s...