...Lisa Disch © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Michael W. Shelton. Talk of Power, Power of Talk: The 1994 Health Care Reform Debate and Beyond. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. 200 pp.$62.50 cloth. Books...

...Iris Geva-May; Allan Maslove This article attempts to shed light on the complexity inherent in health care reform policies in the context of political power contests that trigger the changes imposed on the health care system. Rather than being solely a response to financial circumstances...

... 9 . Editor’s Note The Power of Ideas — Cost Effectiveness, Public Participation, and Fighting Disease As I sit down to write this editorial note, the US presidential campaign is upon us, and we are all deluged with a heavy dose of symbolic...

... eliminated. Policy recommendations of a pro-competitive variety are suggested to improve the market's performance instead of regulation (whether governmental or by the profession itself). Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Market Power and Resource...

...Richard M. Scheffler Abstract Will accountable care organizations (ACOs) deliver high-quality care at lower costs? Or will their potential market power lead to higher prices and lower quality? ACOs appear in various forms and structures with financial and clinical integration at their core; however...

...Robert Berenson Abstract Prices are the major driver of why the United States spends so much more on health care than other countries do. The pricing power that hospitals have garnered recently has resulted from consolidated delivery systems and concentrated markets, leading to enhanced negotiating...

...-value for approximately half of Americans and is used to paint ACA components as threatening to “pull the plug on Grandma.” How can this be? To some, the death panels claim is simply a lie, an improvised explosive device hurled against any ACA provision. To others, the phrase's power stems from...

... with the present structure of the boards, it would not sacrifice the critical role of technical information that only the licensed professions can provide. Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 On Professional Power and Conflict of Interest: State Licensing Boards...

...Vicente Navarro This three part article presents an analysis of the distribution of power and of the nature of the state in Western industrialized societies and details their implications in medicine. Part I presents a critique of contemporary theories of the Western system of power; discusses...

...Vicente Navarro This is the third part of an article on the distribution of power and the nature of the state in Western industrialized societies and their implications in medicine. Parts I and II were published in the preceding issue of this Journal. Part I presented a critique of contemporary...

... . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Belkin, Gary S. 1998 . The Technocratic Wish: Making Sense and Finding Power in the “Managed” Medical Marketplace. In Healthy Markets? The New Competition in Medicare Care ,ed. Mark A. Peterson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Blendon, Robert J., and John...

...Alfred E. Miller Deborah A. Stone, The Limits of Professional Power: National Health Care in the Federal Republic of Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 212 pp. Copyright © 1982 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1982 792 Journal of Health Politics...

...Steven P. Wallace John B. Williamson, Linda Evans, and Lawrence A. Powell, The Politics of Aging: Power and Policy (Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, 1982), 331 pp., $27.75 hardbound, $19.50 paperback Copyright © 1983 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 188...

...: that effective authority in acute-care hospitals rests in an amorphous power relationship among the hospital's several occupational groups, in which physicians clearly have the upper hand. After a brief introduction to this Danish hospital, the article develops a detailed portrait of its informal power structure...

... to the outcome as published in the final report in 1980. Consumer interests gained few of their objectives, while physicians gained almost all of theirs. For others, results were mixed. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Power and Change: The Case of the Swedish...

...Scott L. Greer de Ruijter , Anniek . EU Health Law and Policy: The Expansion of EU Power in Public Health and Health Care . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . 215 pp. $75.00 cloth. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 In any circumstances this book would...

...Jacob S. Hacker Abstract Given the close division of power in Washington, DC, how might health reformers pursue their bolder aims? In particular, how might they pursue the robust public option that was a centerpiece of Joe Biden's health plan during the campaign? This new iteration of the public...

... health policy decisions. This paper presents a case study of policy change in Massachusetts between 1982 and 1988. State officials formulated a strategy to mobilize corporate interests, which were already awakening to the problems of high health care costs, as a countervailing power to the political...

..., the hospital's decision-making authority is lodged in a complex power relationship which reflects the respective intra- and extra-institutional resources of its occupational groups, and particularly of physicians and administrators. This analysis of hospital behavior can both explain the hospital's reaction...

...David M. Frankford This article concerns the manner in which we think and talk about power in health care policy and regulation, and the political and social practices allied with that discourse. I assert that in health care policy and practice we speak of and live within the era of countervailing...