...Colleen M. Grogan; Adam Oliver Copyright © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 The term rationing has been bandied about so frequently in polarized political settings in the United States that most of us on this side of the Atlantic cringe when we hear the word. We cringe because the term...

...Corinna Sorenson; Michael K. Gusmano; Adam Oliver Abstract Efforts to support and use comparative effectiveness research (CER), some more successful than others, have been promulgated at various times over the last forty years. Following a resurgence of interest in CER, recent health care reforms...

...Thomas R. Oliver Over the past decade, state officials have pursued a variety of strategies to protect and expand health insurance coverage for their residents. This article examines the course of action in Maryland, where new initiatives were shaped around the state's unique hospital payment...

...Thomas R. Oliver In 1985, Congress established the Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC) to help formulate changes in the system used by Medicare to pay for physician services. The recommendations of the PPRC and subsequent legislative action led to fundamental reform. As a new type...

...Thomas R. Oliver © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Alford, Robert R. 1975 . Health Care Politics: Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to Reform . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Arnold, R. Douglas. 1990 . The Logic of Congressional Action . New Haven, CT: Yale...

...J. Eric Oliver; Taeku Lee Health policy experts have recently sounded the warning about the severe health and economic consequences of America's growing rates of obesity. Despite this fact, obesity has only begun to enter America's political consciousness and we have little information about what...

...Thomas R. Oliver Thomas S. Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach. Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach . Norwalk, CT: Appleton and Lang, 1995. 259 pp. $26.00 paper. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 880 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law of market ideas...

...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...

...Thomas R. Oliver © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Anderson, Odin W., Terry E. Herold, Bruce W. Butler, Claire H. Kohrman, and Ellen M. Morrison. 1985 . HMO Development:Patterns and Prospects . Chicago, IL: Pluribus. Baumgartner, Frank R., and Bryan D. Jones. 1993 . Agendas...

...Adam Oliver; Elias Mossialos In this article we outline the different schools of new institutionalism and a few other selected political science theories. Moreover, we relate the insights offered by a series of analyses of health sector change in a large number of European countries over the past...

...Adam Oliver This article discusses some of the merits and demerits of the single-payer model of health care financing, with particular reference to the English National Health Service (NHS). Specifically, it is argued that the main merits are that the model can directly provide universal health...

...Adam Oliver; Lawrence D. Brown We are at the beginning of an era in which the pressure to secure the biggest possible “bang” for the health care “buck” is perhaps higher than it ever has been, on both sides of the Atlantic, and within the health policy discourse, incentives, for both professionals...

...Thomas R. Oliver © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 References Bacigalupe A. Esnaola S. Martín U. Zuazagoitia J. . 2010 . Learning Lessons from Past Mistakes: How Can Health in All Policies Fulfil Its Promises? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 64...

...Rick Mayes; Thomas R. Oliver Why is it so politically difficult to obtain government investment in public health initiatives that are aimed at addressing chronic disease? This article examines the structural disadvantage faced by those who advocate for public health policies and practices to reduce...

...Adam Oliver; Lawrence D. Brown Health inequalities and user financial incentives to encourage health-related behavior change are two topical issues in the health policy discourse, and this article attempts to combine the two; namely, we try to address whether the latter can be used to reduce...

...Adam Oliver Over the past twenty years, the emphasis of reform attempts to improve efficiency within the English National Health Service (NHS) has oscillated between markets and targets. Both strategies are informed by standard economic theory but thus far have achieved varying degrees of success...

...Joel C. Cantor; Sujoy Chakravarty; Jian Tong; Michael J. Yedidia; Oliver Lontok; Derek DeLia Abstract A small but growing number of states are turning to accountable care concepts to improve their Medicaid programs. In 2011 New Jersey enacted the Medicaid Accountable Care Organization (ACO...

.... Oliver considers how the ACA moves us closer to achieving the goals of population health. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The Need for More Reform Abstract  While most essays in this issue find something to praise about the Patient Protection and Affordable...

...Farrah Madanay; Peter A. Ubel At its conclusion, Oliver's book leaves us contemplating the role of behavioral economics in health policy. Here, we'll consider three: First, behavioral economics helps us understand how people make decisions, including deviations from rationality and how...

...Martine Hackett Janet Golden. Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 232 pp. $25.95. Duke University Press 2007 Books J. Eric Oliver. Fat Politics: The Real Story...