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...Laura Katz Olson Muriel R. Gillick . Old and Sick in America: The Journey through the Health Care System . Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press , 2017 . 300 pp. $90.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 It is well...

...: New Evidence in an Old Bottle Randall R. Bovbjerg Lisa C. Dubay Genevieve M. Kenney Stephen...

... as those found in Canada. If Uncle Sam retired north of the border, being old and sick would also mean being wealthier and happier. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 References Adams , O. , and D. Nagnur. 1988 . Life Tables for Canada, 1984–1986. Ottawa: Statistics Canada...

...: Policies and Practices, ed. A. Jamieson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Margolis , R.J . 1990 . Risking Old Age in America. Boulder, CO: Westview. Tannenbaum , S. 1989 . Medicaid and Disability: The Unlikely Entitlement. Milbank Quarterly 67 ( suppl. 2, pt. 2 ): 288 -309...

...Frank J. Thompson The New Federalism that evolved under the Reagan administration tends to grant states more discretion in the implementation of health care programs. It thereby rekindles old concerns about the commitment, capacity, and progressivity of the states. This paper reviews recent policy...

.... Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath. Is Medical Care Different? Old Questions, New Answers Mark V. Pauly, University qf Pennsylvania Abstract. This paper examines whether changes in medical markets may be mak- ing them more like other markets. The emergence of HMOs and other managed...

... Balance between Regulation and Competition. Medical Care Review 48 : 261 -93. Commentary New Wine in Old Bottles: Certificate of Need Enters the 1990s Robert B. Hackey...

...James J. Callahan, Jr. Elizabeth Anne Kutza, The Benefits of Old Age: Social Welfare Policy for the Elderly (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 187 pp., $5.95 paperback Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 282 Journal...

... of paying for health care under Medicaid varies little among generations, whereas the cost of employer-sponsored care is lowest in households headed by persons over sixty-five years old. Low health status populations do not pay disproportionately higher taxes or premiums to finance either the Medicaid...

... context: the rise of white nationalism. White nationalism erodes the social capital that fosters social welfare policies; it challenges the basic idea of a right to health care. White nationalism is an old urge that rises with a new twist in the Trump era: the political parties, which historically...

... disproportionately more likely to be self-identified conservatives, less likely to favor an employer mandate plan, more likely to be fifty to sixty-four years old, more likely to be men, and more likely to have greater interest in and knowledge of the health care issue. Even in California, where a single-payer...

... policies, support for health initiatives grew over this period. During this same period, long-standing differences in support between rich and poor, old and young, educated and uneducated, all narrowed for health care, though they did not for other types of federal policies. The second part of this study...

... the old path. On both levels, the interaction effects of both structure and agency make a difference — incrementally in the first case, nonincrementally in the second. It's not just one damn thing after another, nor does just anything go. Duke University Press 2010 Akerlof, G. A., and R. Shiller...

... scrutiny. The third section describes some of the effects of bureaucratic rigidities in peer review on the practice of medicine: the preservation of old technologies, the development of fixed patterns of practice, and the strengthening of the technical and interventionist biases in medical care. The final...

...Alicia H. Munnell Although the hospital insurance (HI) trust fund acted as a source of strength for the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program during its recent financial crises, projections by HCFA and CBO reveal that the Medicare program will experience financing problems of its own...

.... For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by new ones. Machiavelli, The Prince Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 References Arizona Department of Health Services. 1982 . AHCCCS...

... fought to preserve their entrepreneurial interests, but the moral norm that justified their autonomy from state regulation was a strict separation of clinical judgment and pecuniary interests. Under managed care, the old norm is reversed. A good doctor takes financial considerations into account...

... factors suggest a volatile political climate immediately following passage, Lawrence R. Jacobs's essay encourages us to think about the longer-term implications of how the ACA will foster a new politics. Jacobs reminds us of the old adage, “policy effects politics,” and gives us a glimpse into the ACA's...