...Michael Lipsky; Morris Lounds In this paper we trace the implications of some common contradictions in government-inspired efforts to increase citizen participation in health care delivery. We cover general problems of generating citizen participation, specific difficulties in community...

...David C. Colby; Thomas Rice; Jill Bernstein; Lyle Nelson Medicare's experience with balance billing provides valuable lessons for policy making for national or state health care reform. Medicare developed several policies to encourage physicians to become participating providers who accept Medicare...

... feedbacks, especially given uneven state-level implementation. In this article I focus on the policy feedbacks of the law's Medicaid expansion on political participation, using district-level elections data for 2012 and 2014 US House races and cross-sectional survey data from 2014. I find that the increases...

... new understanding of political behavior in the 21st century. Existing literature on health and political participation has been mainly confined within two areas: examining health as an influence on voter turnout, and assessing policy feedback effects of health policies—that is, the extent to which...

... research would benefit from future studies that examine a variety of electoral contexts. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 disability voting political participation political psychology American National Election Study In April 2018 Tammy Duckworth, Democratic senator for the state of...

... dynamics shaping key institutions. As the least healthy place in the United States, the Mississippi Delta provides valuable insights on the connections between power, political participation, and health. Methods: This case study relies on historical analysis, a review of the literature, and descriptive...

...James A. Morone; Elizabeth H. Kilbreth This article investigates a lost ideal—citizen participation in health policy. We begin by mapping the different types of participation. We then suggest what direct citizen action has achieved in the past, why it ought to be restored today, and how we might go...

... and Policy . Singapore : World Scientific . Morone James A. 1990 . The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government . New York : Basic Books . Pear Robert . 2009 . “Health Care Spending Disparities Stir a Fight.” New York Times , June 9...

...Cathy Charles; Suzanne DeMaio Lay participation in health care decision making has attracted increasing interest in Canada, with numerous provincial government reports advocating this initiative. Interest stems from a number of factors. Among them is a growing recognition that patient preferences...

...Katharine W. V. Bradley; Jowei Chen Abstract Why do legislators sometimes engage in behavior that deviates from the expressed policy preferences of constituents who participate in politics at high rates? We examine this puzzle in the context of Democratic legislators' representation of their senior...

...Candace H. Feldman; Gary L. Darmstadt; Vishwajeet Kumar; Jennifer Prah Ruger Abstract Understanding the relationship between women's political participation and health has eluded researchers and cannot be adequately studied using traditional epidemiological or social scientific methodologies. We...

...Benjamin D. Sommers; Richard Kronick Abstract Policy makers continue to debate Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, and concerns remain about low provider participation in the program. However, there has been little research on how various measures of physician participation may...

...Janet D. Perloff; Phillip R. Kletke; Kathryn M. Neckerman Although most primary care physicians participate in state Medicaid programs, they may accept all Medicaid patients, or they may choose to limit their participation. This decision allows physicians to adjust their Medicaid caseloads to a...

... Medicaid concentrated disadvantage political participation “Place matters” in profound, multitudinous ways and it is acutely consequential for those who inhabit the economic and racial margins of American society (Dreier, Mollenkopf, and Swanstrom 2004 ). The power of place is neither incidental nor...

... of Medicaid participation by office-based primary care physicians is described, and a number of obstacles to their participation are identified. The obstacles include state policies regarding eligibility, coverage, and provider compensation. The article recommends actions pertaining to these policies...

...Barry Checkoway Federal legislation provided an opportunity for health planning to “catch up” with the expanding citizen participation movements of recent years. Although the literature on health planning is mounting, there as yet has been no comprehensive, systematic effort to inventory the status...

...James D. Chesney This article examines the relationship between regulatory board function and citizen participation. The research indicates that public members generally prefer advisory boards, while provider members prefer quasi-judicial bodies. Implications of these findings for structuring...

...Lawrence D. Brown; Harvey M. Sapolsky James A. Morone. The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government. New York: Basic, 1990. 402 pp. $22.95 cloth. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Books Symposium The Democratic Wish : Popular...

.... Verba , Sidney , Norman Nie, and Jae-on Kim. 1978 . Participation and Political Equality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. White , Joseph . 1995 . The Horses and the Jumps: Comments on the Health Care Reform Steeplechase. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 20 ( 2 ): 373...

... participation may have had in determining the outcome of the debate. Using data from a national and California random-sample telephone surveys, and controlling for other demographic attributes, I found that those who engaged in political activity specifically related to health care reform were...