...Reidar K. Lie Norman Daniels and James E. Sabin. Setting Limits Fairly: Can We Learn to Share Medical Resources? Oxford: Oxford University Press,2002. 191 pp. $32.95 cloth. © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Books Jodi Halpern...

... in the United Kingdom. He had suggested the real problem was a lack of constructive incentives within the NHS and hospi- tals in particular. Budgets should lie with GPs, he argued, not allocated on an incremental way to hospitals regardless of their performance (Maynard 1985). GPs were the gatekeepers...

...-value for approximately half of Americans and is used to paint ACA components as threatening to “pull the plug on Grandma.” How can this be? To some, the death panels claim is simply a lie, an improvised explosive device hurled against any ACA provision. To others, the phrase's power stems from...

..., and divided public opinion—and analyze how these issues have shaped its evolution. The article concludes by exploring the political and policy challenges that lie ahead for the ACA. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Affordable Care Act Obamacare health reform implementation Passage...

... on lying, “Know- ing Lies” and “Lying on the Couch,” plus a third study, “Gift, Money, and Debt.” The first is something of a history of the lie in Western thought, the second a more refined study of untruth and psychoanalysis. The third essay begins with an account of Lacan’s debt to Freud and evolves...

... by “acceptance,” tending to give a pic- ture that the message to the patient is to cover himself with a shroud, lie down and die quietly. Such a message is ludicrous. We do agree with the writer of the earlier editorial on one point: patients with fatal illnesses of all kinds have tended in the past...

... in the contemporary history of public health in the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropi- cal Medicine. His research interests lie in the history of public health and health services in Britain, Europe, and the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He...

... and the interests and activities of a particular subset of health economists may lie at the heart of both comments. Contrary to Gaynor and Vogt’s assertion, what both Rice and I identify as inapplicable to health care is not eco- nomic analysis, but a certain set of analytic conventions that embody not only...

... and that of 20 years ago. Now, as then, a Re- publican administration is reluctant to initiate any new programs that will cost money. . . . Now, as then, many health program initiatives lie with the Congress. . . . But the budget crunch . . . has affected the thinking of liberals...

... sanctions lie within its mandate, it must rely on consensus to implement its decisions. With regard to the non-replacement fee this consensus is not likely to be achieved. While the commission has been unable to implement its decisions , actions have been taken in other quarters to advance its...

... University Press . Huff Darrell . 1954 . How to Lie with Statistics . New York : W. W. Norton and Company . Imai Kosuke . 2017 . Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Khullar Dhruv . 2021 . “ Have You Already Had...

... analysis of the American health care system, with suggestions for reform. But it breaks new ground in two important ways. First, Kindig’s real concern is health, not health care, and his propos- als are built on the rapidly growing understanding of those determinants of population health that lie...

... the balance of power lie? The articles in this issue of JHPPL are all about balancing acts. This is especially clear in the lead article, in which Ronald Bayer and Claire Edington examine the enduring tension between public health and human rights. The context is the debate within the World Health...

... to be. Nor are our government programs. And easy talk about shared values gets the lie from eroding conditions at the economic bottom; questions about what used to be called the gaps in medical entitlement have evolved into the more painful quandaries of the homeless, hungry, uninsured, and working...

... and the overstated implications of health care costs on international trade. If Serious and Unstable Condition has any weaknesses, they lie with its closing discussions of the options, what Aaron calls “the terms of the de- bate.” He suggests that before any change can happen, three things must occur...

... for more than a decade? An explanation might lie in the realm of culture: perhaps the American value system, so severely moralistic in judging the poor and so impervious to the moral claims of the welfare state, is the source of immobilism. The importance of cultural peculiarities can never...