... the promise of particular initiatives. Harold S. Luft considers the likelihood that accountable care organizations will take hold in the U.S. delivery system. Michael K. Gusmano examines the politics of cost-effectiveness research and its potential to improve care and control costs. Timothy Stoltzfus Jost...

...Harold S. Luft Health Reform: Avoiding the Backlash Harold S. Luft Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute In the summer and fall of 2009, the grand plans...

...Harold S. Luft; Gary A. Frisvold Health Systems Agencies (HSAs), the new regional health planning agencies established by the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974 , have as their major goals quality, accessibility, continuity and cost containment. One of the tools for cost...

...Harold S. Luft Response to McClure On the Potential Failure of Good Ideas: An Interview with the Originator of Murphy’s Law Harold S. Luft, University of CaliJornia, San Francisco I recently had the opportunity to discuss Walter McClure’s paper, “Im...

...Harold S. Luft Reviews Duncan Yaggy and William G. Anlyan, Financing Health Care: Cornpeti- tion versus Regulation. The Papers and Proceedings of the Sixth Private Sector Conference, March 23 and 24, 1981 (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1982), 239 pp., $25.00...

...Mark S. Freeland; Sandra S. Hunt; Harold S. Luft There is a burgeoning interest in selective contracting for specialized hospital services based on volume, price, and quality. The systematic exclusion or inclusion of particular institutions has been extolled by some as an arrangement to reduce...

...Harold S. Luft; Susan C. Maerki; Joan B. Trauner There has been much discussion about the potential cost-containing impact of HMOs upon the local medical care market. Three areas have been identified by various observers as experiencing such beneficial effects: Hawaii, after the development...

...Harold S. Luft Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References Bergthold , L. 1984 . Crabs in a Bucket: The Politics of Health Care Reform in California. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 9 ( 2 ): 203 -222. Evans , R. G. , M. L. Barer, G. M. Anderson...

...R. Adams Dudley; Harold S. Luft Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Reference Himmelstein , D. U. , and S. Woolhandler, and the Writing Committee of the Working Group on Program Design. 1989 . A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians’ Proposal. New...

... should be drafted to set the rules under which the competitive game will be played. University of California, San Francisco Harold S. Luft Harold S. Luft , Health Maintenance Organizations: Dimensions of Performance (New York: Wiley, 1981), 468 pp., $37.95 For over fifty years...

... Care Financing Review 15 ( 1 ): 7 -23. Brown , R. S. , and J. W. Hill. 1994 . The Effects of Medicare Risk HMOs on Medicare Costs and Service Utilization. In HMOs and the Elderly, ed. H. S. Luft. Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration Press. Buchmueller , T. C. , and P. J. Feldstein...

... and prevent the publication of biased studies. As Hal Luft and I have described in an essay, published just after the Institute of Med- icine/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality conference, which forms the basis for these comments, CEAs tend to be riddled...

... care plan and, after a brief inclusion of PPI, focuses on HMOs to illustrate his major points (Enthoven 1993). No consensus emerges among the researchers who addressed the def- initional issues explicitly. Robert Miller and Harold Luft, in their 1994 review “Managed Care Plan Performance since...

..., the most prolific, Harold Luft, estimates a savings of I0 to 40 percent in the HMO subscriber’s total (insurance premiums plus out-of-pocket payments) health care expenditures.5 There are, however, several reservations and qualifications to this con- clusion. First, almost all of the cost...

.... Blendon , R. , and D. Altman. 1987 . Public Opinion and Health Care Costs. In Health Care and its Costs ed. C. Schramm. New York: W. W. Norton. Butler , L. , H. Luft, and H. Lipton. 1987 . Medical Life on the Western Frontier: A Closer Look at the Competitive Impact of Prepaid Medical Plans...

... enrollment and either average hospital costs per admission or average health care costs per capita (Frank and Welch 1985; Luft et al. 1986; McLaughlin 1987). Others have shown that the underlying dynam- ics of health care cost inflation and proliferation in medical technology has not been...

... to the way managed care health plans function or with the quality of care delivered in managed care is a difficult question to answer. Harold Luft and his col- leagues at the University of California, San Francisco have provided the best reviews of what is known in this area (Miller and Luft 1997). He...

...,” an extended policy memorandum that cfiptures much of the language and structure of the pro-competitive approach. The second piece, Harold Luft’s response to McClure, takes the form of an imagined interview with a renowned observer of organizational complexities. The third paper, Donald Cohodes’s...

... Review Association. 1985 . A Survey of HMOs 1985. Washington, DC: GHHA. Interstudy. 1985 . National HMO Census. Excelsior, MN: Interstudy. Luft , H. S. 1981 . Health Maintenance Organizations: Dimensions of Performance. New York: John Wiley. Luft , H. S. , D. W. Garnick, and S. S...

.... , L. Rossiter, R. Brown, S. Nelson, and K. Berman. 1987 . Early Experience of HMOs Under Medicare Competition Demonstrations. Health Care Financing Review 8 ( 3 ): 37 -55. Luft , H. S. 1980 . Assessing the Evidence on HMO Performance. Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 58 ( 4 ): 501...