...James E. Rohrer The Hill-Burton program offers a rare opportunity to study a distributive health policy from its adoption to its elimination. This study reveals that the political dynamics of the policy changed over time. It concludes by observing that interest group influence on distributive...

...Michael A. Dowell The poor and uninsured encounter numerous barriers to health care access. The Hill-Burton Act of 1946 required many hospitals to make their services available to all persons, yet ineffective enforcement has limited the utility of the act's requirements. Hill-Burton hospital audits...

...Orlaith Heymann; Danielle Bessett; Alison Norris; Jessie Hill; Danielle Czarnecki; Hillary J. Gyuras; Meredith Pensak; Michelle L. McGowan Abstract Previous research has assessed the impact of state regulations on abortion clinics and patients, but how bureaucrats implement them is less understood...

... published in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call , we compare the success of Democratic and Republican Parties' policy proposals in terms of centrality to the policy agenda and inclusion in the enacted legislation. Our findings indicate that Republican-backed proposals were more present on the policy...

...” (Orszag 2011 ) on Capitol Hill. Moreover, Congress interferes with Medicare policy in ways that harm both the program and the public interest. “Every Democratic and Republican policy expert knows,” Harold Pollock ( 2011 ) argued, “that we must reduce congressional micromanagement of Medicare policy...

... Monitoring and Assessment in Maternal and Child Health: Recommendations for Action at the State Level Mary D. Peoples and C. Arden Miller, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Abstract. Recent...

... Research and Health Care Technology Assessment, Thomas Rice, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), and Gregory de Lissovoy, Johns Hopkins University Abstract. A new development in the restructuring of American health care is the dramatic growth of preferred provider organizations...

... Theodore Marmor Yale University Jonathan Oberlander University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill Abstract The article proceeds in three sections...