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Financing Universal Health Insurance: Taxes, Premiums, and the Lessons of Social Insurance

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Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach
J Health Polit Policy Law (1992) 17 (3): 439–462.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-17-3-439
Published: 01 June 1992
...Thomas Bodenheimer; Kevin Grumbach In a society with strong antitax sentiment and large government deficits, the enactment of universal health insurance is blocked by an impasse over financing. The two chief mechanisms for funding universal health insurance are taxes and insurance premiums. Taxes...
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Empire and the Business of Health Insurance

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Harvey M. Sapolsky
J Health Polit Policy Law (1991) 16 (4): 747–760.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-16-4-747
Published: 01 August 1991
...Harvey M. Sapolsky I examine the development of privately provided insurance since World War II, giving special attention to Empire Blue Cross, and argue that the competition between employers and unions for the loyalty of workers after the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act helped diffuse private...
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Expanding Health Insurance Coverage: Who Will Pay?

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Joel C. Cantor
J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (4): 755–778.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-15-4-755
Published: 01 August 1990
...Joel C. Cantor Recent discussions on extending health insurance to the more than thirty million uninsured Americans have focused on two strategies: expanding the Medicaid program and mandating that employers sponsor coverage for their employees. This analysis, using a microsimulation model...
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Why Requiring Employers to Provide Health Insurance Is a Bad Idea

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Katherine Swartz
J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (4): 779–792.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-15-4-779
Published: 01 August 1990
...Katherine Swartz There is mounting pressure at the federal (and state) level to require employers to provide health insurance to their employees. However, two quite different groups of workers could be affected by such a mandate. In addition, there are at least five major problems with requiring...
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Health Benefits at Work: An Economic and Political Analysis of Employment-Based Health Insurance

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Paul Fronstin
J Health Polit Policy Law (1999) 24 (2): 388–392.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-24-2-388
Published: 01 April 1999
...Paul Fronstin Mark Pauly. Health Benefits at Work: An Economic and Political Analysis of Employment-Based Health Insurance . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 187 pp. $39.50 paper. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 388 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law...
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The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America

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David A. Moss
J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 27 (5): 869–873.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-27-5-869
Published: 01 October 2002
...David A. Moss Beatrix Hoffman. The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 261 pp. $39.95 cloth; $17.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002...
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Impeding Earl Warren: California's Health Insurance Plan That Wasn't and What Might Have Been

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Daniel J. B. Mitchell
J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 27 (6): 947–976.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-27-6-947
Published: 01 December 2002
...Daniel J. B. Mitchell It is widely believed that the turning point for U.S. health insurance came in 1949 when Congress failed to adopt President Harry Truman's proposal for a national system. The possibility that a system of state-level health plans might have emerged before Truman's plan has...
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Mandating Insurance Offers for Low-Wage Workers: An Evaluation of Labor Market Effects

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Amy Wolaver, Timothy McBride, Barbara Wolfe
J Health Polit Policy Law (2003) 28 (5): 883–926.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-28-5-883
Published: 01 October 2003
...Amy Wolaver; Timothy McBride; Barbara Wolfe Employing a simultaneous model of part-time status, health insurance offers, and wages, we examine the impacts on employment and health insurance coverage of nondiscrimination rules in the tax code governing employer-sponsored health insurance. Using 1988...
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Enrolling Children in Public Insurance: Schip, Medicaid, and State Implementation

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Karl Kronebusch, Brian Elbel
J Health Polit Policy Law (2004) 29 (3): 451–490.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-29-3-451
Published: 01 June 2004
...Karl Kronebusch; Brian Elbel The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 established federal grants to the states to create the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This presented the states with a number of implementation choices concerning administrative models for the new programs, as well...
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Rationing by Inconvenience: How Insurance Denials Induce Administrative Burdens

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Miranda Yaver
J Health Polit Policy Law (2024) 49 (4): 539–565.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-11186111
Published: 01 August 2024
...Miranda Yaver Abstract Context: How do health coverage denials keep care out of reach for American patients by imposing unevenly distributed administrative burdens? This article argues that the process of appealing insurers’ denials imposes administrative burdens on patients inequitably, deepening...
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Figure 5 Study 2 marginal means by partisanship and insurance situation. Notes: Figure displays marginal means and 95% confidence intervals. Standard errors are clustered at the respondent level.

Study 2 marginal means by partisanship and insurance situation. Notes : F...

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in Variation in Public Support for Government Action on Unexpected Medical Bills > Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 5 Study 2 marginal means by partisanship and insurance situation. Notes : Figure displays marginal means and 95% confidence intervals. Standard errors are clustered at the respondent level. More
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Figure 3 Estimated odds of prevailing in insurance appeals.

Estimated odds of prevailing in insurance appeals.

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in Rationing by Inconvenience: How Insurance Denials Induce Administrative Burdens > Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 3 Estimated odds of prevailing in insurance appeals. More
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Public Health Insurance Coverage for Immigrants during Pregnancy, Childhood, and Adulthood: A Discussion of Relevant Policies and Evidence

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Laura R. Wherry, Rachel E. Fabi, Maria W. Steenland
J Health Polit Policy Law (2025) 50 (2): 283–306.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-11567684
Published: 01 April 2025
...Laura R. Wherry; Rachel E. Fabi; Maria W. Steenland Abstract Context: Despite major expansions in public health insurance under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program over the last 60 years, many immigrants remain ineligible for coverage. Methods: The authors discuss the existing...
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Social Health Insurance in Europe: Basic Concepts and New Principles

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Claus Wendt
J Health Polit Policy Law (2019) 44 (4): 665–677.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-7530837
Published: 01 August 2019
...Claus Wendt Abstract This article discusses recent developments in and new principles of European social health insurance (SHI). It analyses how privatization policies and competition have altered social insurance and whether financial difficulties are caused by social insurance features...
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The Secretary Shall . . . : Implementing the Affordable Care Act's Private Insurance Expansions

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Sherry Glied, Aryana Khalid, Marilyn B. Tavenner
J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (4): 517–532.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-8255457
Published: 01 August 2020
...Sherry Glied; Aryana Khalid; Marilyn B. Tavenner Abstract The federal bureaucracy played a critical role in implementing most aspects of the Affordable Care Act's private insurance coverage expansion. Through brief case studies, the authors review three dimensions of this role: the development...
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Can Health Insurance Regulations Generate Citizen Constituencies?

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Jacqueline Chattopadhyay
J Health Polit Policy Law (2019) 44 (3): 455–478.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-7367024
Published: 01 June 2019
... that are typically left unexplored in the literature deserve greater scrutiny when scholars examine the weak self-reinforcing effects of health insurance regulations. A take-away lesson, relevant to the Affordable Care Act, is that even when policies broaden nongroup coverage and ostensibly assist many people...
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Who Participated in the ACA? Gains in Insurance Coverage by Political Partisanship

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Michael W. Sances, Joshua D. Clinton
J Health Polit Policy Law (2019) 44 (3): 349–379.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-7366988
Published: 01 June 2019
... uptake, and the ability of the ACA to create a constituency of beneficiaries invested in its support. Methods: The authors combined county- and individual-level data on health insurance gains, political partisanship, and variation in the ACA's implementation to test whether Democratic areas...
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Ensuring the Future of the Affordable Care Act on the Health Insurance Marketplaces

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Adrienne Hosek
J Health Polit Policy Law (2019) 44 (4): 589–630.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-7530813
Published: 01 August 2019
... the seeds of its defense. Methods: This study used an individual-level panel design to estimate the causal effect of implementation on opinion and electoral outcomes for ACA beneficiaries during the first year of open enrollment. Findings: Individuals who enrolled in plans on the health insurance...
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Figure 1 Policy feedback logic model for eligibility-focused health insurance regulations.

Policy feedback logic model for eligibility-focused health insurance regula...

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in Can Health Insurance Regulations Generate Citizen Constituencies? > Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Published: 01 June 2019
Figure 1 Policy feedback logic model for eligibility-focused health insurance regulations. Notes : This figure integrates diagrams from Arnold 1990 : 47 and Mettler 2002 : 353 and draws on arguments about insurance cited in the text (e.g., Carroll 2012 ; Gaba 2017 ; Gruber 2010 ). Symbols More
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Figure 1 Gains in insurance and Democratic vote by county.

Gains in insurance and Democratic vote by county.

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in Who Participated in the ACA? Gains in Insurance Coverage by Political Partisanship > Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Published: 01 June 2019
Figure 1 Gains in insurance and Democratic vote by county. More