... 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...

...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: Business...

...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...

... 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...

... government 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...

...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, or...

...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. There...

... services to rise and simultaneously increasing the opportunity costs of spending for rehabilitation. The net effect of these cost increases is a reduction in the overall benefit/cost ratio that results from investments in rehabilitation. A number of predictions are made about how the United States will...

.../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...

... 1980s, and in a few countries the private fraction even increased substantially. We also found some evidence for a shift from public to private in health care provision. Furthermore, there are signs of privatization in health care management and operations, as well as investments. Specific attention is...

... and violence, shown to elevate stigma, is the optimal strategy for increasing public support for investing in mental health services or whether nonstigmatizing messages can be equally effective. We conducted a randomized experiment to examine this question. Participants in a nationally representative...

... about the role and impact of the medical profession as a quasi-institutional political actor in terms of (a) the return on the investment of $135 billion spent annually for medical care, (b) claims of expertise and self-regulation, and (c) overarching democratic values. Copyright © 1977 by the...

... commissioner; the anticipated passage of national health insurance; and the increased competition from commercial insurance carriers, specialty health care data and management firms and state governments. In concluding, the question is raised whether society should invest further in the future of Blue Cross, a...

... small and have minimal impact on total U.S. health care spending, costs to other countries could be significant, due to reduced access and possibly higher prices. In the long run, reduced investment in R&D could adversely affect consumers globally. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 References...

.... Jacobson, Laura M. Napiewocki, and Leah A. Voigt call for regulatory reform: designing a sound framework on which to base the creation of rules and methods of enforcement. Mark V. Pauly compares incentive-based approaches to controlling costs to delivery model reforms and argues why investments in the...

... dramatic health crises (the scandal over HIV-contaminated blood, mad cow disease, etc.) have substantially raised the political profile of (and corresponding state investment in) public health in France, offering opportunities and incentives for political actors not traditionally associated with public...

...Rick Mayes; Thomas R. Oliver Why is it so politically difficult to obtain government investment in public health initiatives that are aimed at addressing chronic disease? This article examines the structural disadvantage faced by those who advocate for public health policies and practices to reduce...