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... to help promote and control the stability, adequacy, and quality of capital investment in long-term care, an increasing number of states are using a fair-rental approach for calculating capital reimbursement. In this article we compare the fair-rental approach with traditional cost-based capital...

...Mark V. Pauly; Lawton Robert Burns Abstract There have been two waves of equity-based investment in physician practices. Both used a combination of public and private sources but in different mixes. The first investment wave, in the 1990s, was led by public equity and physician practice management...

...Jennifer Klein Cathie Jo Martin. Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 264 pp. $52.50 cloth; $19.95 paper; $14.95 e-book. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Gordon, Colin. 1994 . New Deals...

...Janet Currie Lynn Karoly, Peter Greenwood, Susan Everingham, Jill Hoube, Rebecca Kilburn, Peter Rydall, Matthew Sanders, and James Chiesa. Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know about the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1998. 159 pp...

...Scott L. Greer; Robert D. Fannion Abstract It has become increasingly common to hear a business case for wellness that emphasizes the benefits of having a healthy workforce. This is essentially the same as the case for employers to train their workers; training a worker and investing in the health...

...Benjamin Hawkins; Chris Holden Abstract The importance of trade and investment agreements for health is now widely acknowledged in the literature, with much attention now focused on the impact of investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms. However, much of the analysis of such agreements...

... takeover nor private privilege but is consistent with an established pattern of building up the U.S. health care state through investments in private provision and infrastructure, then hiding such investments from view. Finally, as a seasoned health policy analyst and herself a political player, Judith...

...Lawrence P. Casalino; Natalie Erb; Maulik S. Joshi; Stephen M. Shortell Abstract Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and hospitals are investing in improving “population health,” by which they nearly always mean the health of the “population” of patients “attributed” by Medicare, Medicaid...

... of Iowa from 1975 to 1982, used a sophisticated experimental design; it was funded by the National Center for Health Services Research, the Health Care Financing Administration, and the State of Iowa, representing an investment of over two million dollars. Despite this investment, and the interest of many...

...Deborah H. Harrison; John R. Kimberly Public policy controversies about the cost-containing potential of HMOs and the failures of many plans should not overshadow the fact that HMOs will be forces in the health care sector in the 1980s, largely as the result of increasing private investment...

.../commercial product mix; (2) attracting nonresidents to use the community's retail and public space; and (3) capitalizing on community investment not simply from residents' organizing efforts but, more important in this case, from corporate community involvement by a Greendale business firm whose interests...

...Jason Barabas Scholars suspect that public policies affect public opinion, but the empirical evidence is mixed, and contemporary theories advance offsetting predictions. This study examines two allegedly similar private investment account programs that differ in politically relevant ways...

..., along with proposals to restructure health care financing and delivery. Central to the politics of child health policy during the 1980s and into the 1990s is the way in which child health has been defined. Infant mortality and childhood illness are presented as preventable problems. Investment in young...

... of the reforms. We illustrate different strategies that leaders in these states used to carry out the entrepreneurial tasks of identifying a market opportunity, designing an innovation, attracting political investment, marketing the innovation, and monitoring its early production. Copyright © 1997 by Duke...

... vaccine procurement, health reforms and investments under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, and the development of a European Health Data Space. Findings: The article shows that the policy change triggered by the EHU and the potential impact on citizens’ health are not necessarily congruent. Modest...

... and requires a historical perspective through a federalism lens. What the ACA has accomplished has depended largely on whether states were invested in or resistant to implementation, as well as individual decisions by state leaders working with federal officials. Our account demonstrates that the states...

...Zinzi D. Bailey; J. Robin Moon Abstract COVID-19 is not spreading over a level playing field; structural racism is embedded within the fabric of American culture, infrastructure investments, and public policy and fundamentally drives inequities. The same racism that has driven the systematic...

... for future pandemics, one must look both upstream and abroad for inspiration. In this article, the author argues for a suite of near-term and longer-term interventions, including universal health insurance and paid sick leave; upgraded wage insurance policies; tax reform; investments in parental leave...

... 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...

... insurance markets has implications for human capital investment. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Affordable Care Act health insurance dependent coverage human capital education Prior to enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in March 2010, young adults between the ages...