...Jacob S. Hacker This review is an adaptation of a paper prepared for a roundtable discussion on Theodore R. Marmor's The Politics of Medicare at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, 31 August–3 September 2000. Copyright by the American...

... social order. Considered together, both of these books are essential to understand a core theme of public health politics: the shaky, often combustible, but ultimately essential relationship among government, politics, and public health progress. The latter chapters of the book describe Dr. Hayflick...

...G. R. Weller This paper analyzes the development of the study of the politics of health. In doing so it explores the connection between the changing conceptions of the politics of health and actual changes in the health systems of the western world. Three stages are identified in the development...

..., Israel: Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research in Israel. Adar , Z. 1993b . Hospital Trusts in Israel—Objectives and Implementation. Background notes to a presentation at the Conference on Health Care Reforms, Jerusalem, 15–16 November. Arian , A. 1985 . Politics...

... in point. So phrased, it is about the creation of off- spring, effectively effacing the agency of women and discussion of their political and social circumstances. In this characterization, then, health policy concerning reproduction is not simply a women’s health issue...

... in point. So phrased, it is about the creation of off- spring, effectively effacing the agency of women and discussion of their political and social circumstances. In this characterization, then, health policy concerning reproduction is not simply a women’s health issue...

... Medicare: Intentions, Effects, and Politics To rephrase a lyric by the Grateful Dead, what a short, strange trip it’s been. Just six years ago the combination of the apparent immediate fis- cal crisis in the trust fund for Part A of Medicare, anticipation...

...Mark Carl Rom Steven Epstein. Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 480 pp.$40.00 cloth; $17.95 paper. Stephanie Kane. AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs,and Crime in the Americas . Philadelphia: Temple University Press,1998...

...Jonathan Oberlander © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Allison, G. T. 1971 . Essence of Decision . Boston: Little, Brown. Bauer, R. A., I. de Sola Pool, and L. Dexter. 1963 . American Business and Public Policy . New York:Atherton. Garceau, O. 1941 . The Political Life...

... University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.1-06 Book Review All 1/25/01 10:16 AM Page 119 Books: Review Symposium on The Politics of Medicare: A Thirty-Year Retrospective on Ted Marmor’s...

... of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Naylor, C. David. 1986 . Private Practice,Public Payment: Canadian Medicine and the Politics of Health Insurance,1911–1966 . Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. Tuohy, Carolyn Hughes. 1999...

...Theodore R. Marmor Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Jack Pitney has written a splendid account of what he calls the politics of autism . The subtitle accurately conveys Pitney's convictions in this policy world—an arena of extraordinary complexity and conflict for those...

...-hea . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. This special issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law on the role of policy analysis...

...Glenn Beamer; Tyler M. Gibbons Saldin Robert . When Bad Policy Makes Good Politics: Running the Numbers on Health Reform . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . x + 168 pp. $99 cloth, $31.95 paper. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Robert Saldin's When...

... Reauthorization Act (MACRA). MACRA established value-based metrics for physician payment and financial incentives for doctors to join alternative delivery models like patient-centered medical homes. Throughout the law's initial implementation, the politics of accommodation prevailed, with federal officials...

...James Brasfield The Role of Specific Political Factors The Politics of Ideas: Where Did the Public Option Come from and Where Is It Going? James Brasfield...

... 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...

... to a high level of political commitment. By contrast, the United States' more isolationist relationship with the international community, its focus on leading the global financing of AIDS efforts, and the absence of tripartite partnerships have prevented political leaders from adequately responding...

...Daniel P. Gitterman; John C. Scott “Obama Lies, Grandma Dies”: The Uncertain Politics of Medicare and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Daniel P. Gitterman...