...Simone Leiber; Stefan Greß; Maral-Sonja Manouguian To increase understanding of the cross-border transfer of ideas through a case study of the 2007 German health reform, this article draws on Kingdon's approach of streams and follows two main objectives: first, to understand the extent to which the...

...Theodore R. Marmor © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Health Reform 2010: The Missing Philosophical Premises in the Long-­Running Health Care Debate Theodore R. Marmor...

...Cathie Jo Martin Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References Bergthold , Linda . 1994 . In Health Care Reform in the Nineties, ed. Pauline Vaillan-court Rosenau. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Brown , Lawrence . 1993 . Dogmatic Slumbers: American...

...Mina Silberberg John DiIulio Jr. and Richard P. Nathan, eds. Making Health Reform Work: The View from the States . Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1994. 179 pages. $29.95 cloth, $11.95 paper. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References Benson: “The Devil Is...

...David W. Brady; Daniel P. Kessler This article examines the possibilities for health care reform in the 111th Congress. It uses a simple model of policy making to analyze the failure of Congress to pass the Clinton health plan in 1993–1994. It concludes that the factors that created gridlock in the...

... legislators respond to constituents' underlying policy interests, even when such interests conflict with expressed preferences. By considering the Medicare provisions in the ACA and analyzing Democratic legislators' floor speeches on health reform, we provide preliminary evidence that members of Congress...

... Butler , Patricia A. 1994 . Roadblock to Reform: ERISA Implications for State Health Care Initiatives. Washington, DC: National Governors’ Association Center for Policy Research. California Department of Health Services. 1985 . The Monterey County Health Initiative, 1980–1985: A Preliminary...

...Sara S. Bachman Michael S. Sparer. Medicaid and the Limits of State Health Reform. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. 235 pages. $19.95 paper. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 References Allison , G. T. 1971 . Essence of Decision. Boston: Little, Brown...

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...-making. Investigation of historic as well as contemporary health reform suggests that the impact of public opinion varies, depending on the character of both public opinion and the policy issue. The public's preferences are not especially influential when they are characterized by uncertainty or when an...

...Phil Brown The right to refuse treatment is the most controversial of the rights of mental patients, and usually polarizes the movement for mental health reform between providers of care and external activist reformers. A broad alliance supported earlier struggles for recognition of patients...

...Alan Jacobs The comparative literature on health care reform has identified a convergence upon market models as nations respond to similar economic, technological, social, and demographic pressures. In this article I first challenge the conventional view by comparing “market” reforms of the late...

...Kenneth E. Thorpe Sherry Glied. Chronic Condition: Why Health Reform Fails. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. 288 pp. $45.00 cloth. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Books 845 simultaneously provide consumers the...

... People. Beverly Hills: Sage. Pepper Commission. 1990 . A Call for Action. Report of the U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Implications of the Clinton Health Reform Plan for Older Persons and Long-Term Care...

... . American Health Reform in Comparative Perspective: Big Bang, Blueprint, or Mosaic? Carolyn Hughes Tuohy University of Toronto For comparative scholars of health policy, the enactment...

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... health care reform. He rejects the notion that the Affordable Care Act represents a government takeover of health care financing or service delivery but says the law's Medicaid expansion and its creation of health benefit exchanges present a “watershed moment for American federalism.” Berwick argues that...

...Daniel Bergan; Genevieve Risner The public debate over health care reform in 2009 was carried out partly through issue advertisements aired online and on television. Did these advertisements alter the course of the debate over health care reform? While millions of dollars are spent each year on...

...Len M. Nichols © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 References Hazel Bill . 2011 . “Update on the Virginia Health Reform Initiative.” January 10 . Richmond, VA : Health and Human Resources . sfc.virginia.gov/pdf/health/2011%20Session/No1_Hazel.pdf . Virginia Health...