...Karl Pillemer As one solution to the widely perceived “crisis” in the long-term-care system, state and local agencies have developed methodologies which specify the amount and type of long-term-care services needed in an area. This article focuses on need-based methodologies, and criticizes the use...

...Ellen S. Campbell; Gary M. Fournier For almost twenty years certificate-of-need (CON) regulations have protected existing hospitals from unrestricted competition in services. Although the explicit purpose of CON regulation was to prevent hospitals from duplicating services and investing in costly...

...Joseph L. Falkson Copyright © 1977 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1977 Position Paper We Need a National Health Policy Joseph L. Falkson, Technical Assistance Research Programs ( TAR?) We need a national health policy. The fact that we do...

... Health Care Reform: An Analysis of a National Need A vi Yacar Ellencweig, Israel National Center for Public Health Abstract. This paper describes the current situation of health care services in Israel. Major problems are discussed and analyzed in terms...

... for Consumer Advocates. 1995. New York: PPEFNY, October. Salant , J. 1998 . Foes of New HMO Rules Spent $60 Million for Lobbying in Six Months. Philadelphia Inquirer, 28 November, A10. Why We Need a Patients’ Bill of Rights Richard Sorian and Judith Feder...

... While most essays in this issue find something to praise about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, many also find areas of weakness. The essays in this section offer ways to continue to improve on the parts of the bill that, in their view, still need work. Peter D...

...A. Everette James, Jr.; Frank Sloan; James Blumstein; Alan C. Winfield; Henry P. Pendergrass Recent cases such as National Gerimedical Hospital and Gerontology Center v. Blue Cross of Kansas City have found that certificate-of-need (CON) legislation did not intend to remove antitrust considerations...

...Jack Zwanziger Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Com menta r y The Need for an Antitrust Policy for a Health Care Industry in Transition Jack Zwanziger...

...Christopher J. Conover; Frank A. Sloan This study assesses the impact of certificate-of-need (CON) regulation for hospitals on various measures of health spending per capita, hospital supply, diffusion of technology, and hospital industry organization. Using a time series cross-sectional...

...Edward L. Hannan; Ronald L. Rouse; Robert Barnett; Paul Uppal In recent years capital spending in the health care industry has escalated tremendously, and most forecasters agree that needs will increase at an even faster rate throughout the 1990s. As a result of this trend, there is a dire need...

..., France, and Japan . New York : Oxford University Press . Rosenbaum S. 2009 . Medicaid and National Health Care Reform . New England Journal of Medicine 361 : 2009 – 2012 . Why We Need Health Care Reform Now Marc A. Rodwin...

...Jean M. Mitchell; Darrell J. Gaskin Although not widely recognized, tooth decay is the most common childhood chronic disease among children ages five to seventeen. Despite higher rates of dental caries and greater needs, low-income minority children enrolled in Medicaid are more likely to go...

...Lawrence D. Brown Copyright © 1983 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 Common Sense Meets Implementation: Certificate-of-Need. Regulation in the States Lawrence D. Brown, University of Michigan In the United States, as in Europe...

...Robert B. Hackey Although state certificate- of-need (CON) programs have been the subject of intense criticism over the past decade, recent evidence suggests that CON programs may be more effective than commonly believed. While many state programs have yielded disappointing results, the CON process...

... Everyone Needs to Know . New York : Oxford University Press . Leighninger M. 2006 . The Next Form of Democracy: How Expert Rule Is Giving Way to Shared Governance and Why Politics Will Never Be the Same . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press . Lukensmeyer C. J. Goldman J...

... Orchestra: The Need for an Intergovernmental Partnership Michael S. Sparer Columbia University Abstract The past decade provides a useful window through which to examine...