...Thad Kousser [email protected] Jake M. Grumbach . Laboratories against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2022 . 288 pages. $29.95 cloth. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Jake M...

... and fewer to become specialists. In this article, I consider various issues raised by these trends. Do the various state programs constitute an effective policy laboratory? Is the market solving problems government could not? Are the government initiatives now irrelevant? I conclude that the market...

...Fred Goldman Richard Bailey, Clinical Laboratories and the Practice of Medicine (California: McCutchan Publishing Corporation, 1979): 245 pp. Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Book Review Fred Goldman, Columbia University Richard...

...Jane Levitt This article examines private industry's involvement in the area of clinical laboratory testing, as an example of the relationship between the increased cost of medical care and increased involvement of private industry in the health care sector. After tracing the history of corporate...

.... Sparer, M. S. 2003 . Leading the Health Policy Orchestra: The Need for an Intergovernmental Partnership. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 28 : 245 -270. Sparer, M. S., and L. D. Brown. 1996 . States and the Health Care Crisis: Limits and Lessons of Laboratory Federalism. In Health...

...William D. White Economic theories suggest that the introduction of regulation can be analyzed in terms of the magnitude and distribution of its economic impact. This article uses this approach to consider the introduction of licensure in the health sector for clinical laboratory personnel...

... Clinton and George W. Bush. This article documents and compares the volume and substance of section 1115 Medicaid waiver activity under the two presidencies. From the perspective of policy performance, Medicaid demonstration waivers provide modest support for the view that states serve as laboratories...

...Charles L. Eby; Donald R. Cohodes State regulation of hospital revenue is one approach to cost containment on which there is voluminous evaluative data from the “laboratory of the states”; yet these data are sufficiently complex and ambiguous that they are claimed by both proponents and opponents...

... but also urban and rural interests. Second, all of the important reforms of the past decade were undertaken primarily in reaction to federal policy initiatives. Contrary to rhetoric lauding states as the “laboratories of democracy,” the political impetus for reform and basic policy options emerge from...

...Thomas R. Oliver; Pamela Paul-Shaheen States are often touted as “laboratories” for developing national solutions to social problems. In this article we examine the appropriateness of this metaphor for comprehensive health care reform and attempt to draw lessons about policy innovation from recent...

..., Canada's federalism laboratory has only partly benefited the Canadian public. Cost pressures may, however, eventually overcome barriers to cooperation between the provincial and the federal governments, enabling them to capitalize on Canada's federal structure to improve the accessibility and affordability...

... in the oversight and management of chronic-disease care. In December 2005, in an effort to control epidemic rates of diabetes, the DOHMH began implementing a bold new plan for increased disease surveillance through electronic, laboratory-based reporting of A1C test results (a robust measure of blood-sugar levels...

... S. , and Lawrence D. Brown. 1996 . States and Health Care Crisis: Limits and Lessons of Laboratory Federalism. In Health Policy, Federalism, and the American States, ed. Robert F. Rich and William D. White. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press. Verba , Sidney , and Gary R. Orren. 1985...

... Healthcare 12 : 52 -54. Kirkman-Liff , B. L. , J. B. Christianson, and D. B. Hillman. 1985 . An Analysis of Competitive Bidding by Providers for Indigent Medical Care Contracts. Health Services Research 20 ( 5 ): 549 -77. Paris , M. 1976 . Cost and Quality Control of Laboratory...

... need to lead a reformed health care system? Or can the states provide the policy laboratory that produces innovative solutions? How should government more generally respond to the demo- graphic challenge of an aging baby-boomer generation? The articles in this issue of the Journal of Health...

... for exposed workers. Situation 4: The exposure or effect data are disclosed but without an accompanying statement regarding whether the laboratory data were generated with appropriate quality control Quality control to assure accuracy and precision has become critical in occupational...

...: Brookings Institution. Sparer , Michael S. , and Lawrence D. Brown. 1996 . The Limits and Lessons of the Laboratory of Federalism. In Health Policy, Federalism, and the American States, ed. Robert E. Rich and William D. White. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press. Walker , Jack L. 1969...

... . query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C0CE2DE113DF933A25754C0A966958260 . Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) . 2008 . Public Health Laboratory Preparedness: Ready, Set, Respond: An APHL Report on the Preparedness of State Public Health Laboratories . May . www.aphl.org...

... of the amount of surgery provided to the Medicaid population; medical, laboratory, and radiological services were not considered. Second, the authors did not limit their analysis to office-based physicians; resi- dents and teaching physicians and other hospital-based physicians were included...

... to local market conditions, and more innovative? Are the states effective policy laboratories, either for the federal government or for other states? Or are state-based programs inevitably inequitable, given the extraordinary interstate variation that is endemic to state-based programs...