... services (Haeder, Weimer, and Mukamel forthcoming ). In the current US combination of market and government insurance, narrower networks have helped consumers save on premiums. Unfortunately, the problems of access and surprise bills call for some regulation but the regulation of provider networks...

...Allison K. Hoffman Abstract The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is in many ways a success. Millions more Americans now have access to health care, and the ACA catalyzed advances in health care delivery reform. Simultaneously, it has reinforced and bolstered a problem at the heart of American health...

... professionals and, despite the efforts of public health leaders (Rosen 1958 ), was hardly recognized as a problem by American policy makers. However, public scandals have periodically triggered politicization of the issue. This was the case in the second half of the 1990s, when, following a number of medical...

...Bruce Spitz; John Abramson We often think of health policy and health services research as offering solutions to cost, quality, and access problems. Many of us see health policy as simply ineffective. But any activity that has the power to cure can also do harm. Is it possible that the health...

... Tobacco Use and Dependence: A U.S. Public Health Service Report. Journal of the American Medical Association 283 : 3244 -3254. Commentary on “When Health Policy Is the Problem” James R. Knickman...

...Katherine R. Jones The problem of indigent health care has received much attention from governmental officials, health care providers, health policy analysts, and others. A majority of states have generated legislative proposals to deal with the problem, although their strategies differ in terms...

.... Berkeley: University of California Press. Review Essays Health Care Rationing: A Problem in Ethics and Policy Robert H. Blank, Rationing Medicine (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), 290 pp., $25.00. Daniel Callahan, Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society (New York...

... the agency's difficulties, such proposals are not without problems. Consequently, in the final analysis, the British example may serve as a demonstration that the inherently political nature of priority-setting in health care precludes any easy technocratic solution. © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003...

... of Doctors and Hospitals . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Green-Pederson, C. 2004 . The Dependent Variable Problem within the Study of Welfare State Retrenchment: Defining the Problem and Looking for Solutions. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 6 : 3 –14. Greer, S. L. 2006...

...Henk Wagenaar P. Wright and A. Treacher, The Problem of Medical Knowledge: Examining the Social Construction of Medicine (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1982), 220 pp., $22.50 Copyright © 1985 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1985 204 Journal of Health...

... University 1985 Medicaid Reform: Programming Solutions to the Equity Problem Bruce Stuart and Edward Reutzel, Pennsylvania State University, and Thomas Reutzel, Sangamon State University Abstract. This paper demonstrates the application of a mathematical programming model...

...Harold A. Pollack Readers can draw their own conclusions. Whichever essay proves most compelling, I find both essays chastening when set against the overstated claims made on behalf of many prevention interventions, and when set against the huge underlying public health problems we seek...

... Press 1988 References Danzon , Patricia M. 1985 . Medical Malpractice: Theory, Evidence, and Public Policy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Furrow , Barry , Sandra Johnson, Timothy Jost, and Robert Schwartz. 1987 . Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems. St. Paul, MN...

...Deborah A. Stone Irving Howards, Henry P. Brehm, and Saad Z. Nagi, Disability: From Social Problem to Federal Program (New York: Praeger, 1980), 172 pp., $21–50 hardbound Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 284 Journal of Health...

... 1983 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 Quantitative Risk-Benefit Analysis in Regulatory Decision-Making: A Fundamental Problem and an Alternative Proposal Kenneth T. Bogen Abstract. Increasingly, calls are being made for government...

... Statute: A Legal and Policy Critique of the Use of Section 1115 Waivers to Restructure the Medicaid Program . Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 37 : 91 – 179 . Congressional Budget Office (CBO) . 2010 . Letter from Douglas Elmendorf to Nancy Pelosi , March 20 . Dickerson J...

... -930. Bittner , E. 1967 . Police Discretion in Emergency Apprehension of Mentally Ill Persons. Social Problems 14 : 279 -292. Bond , G. R. , L. D. Miller, R. D. Krumwied, and R. S. Ward. 1988 . Assertive Case Management in Three CMHCs: A Controlled Study. Hospital and Community...

...Jeffrey A. Buck; Mark S. Kamlet Many proposals for financing health care for the uninsured recommend expanding the Medicaid program. They often advocate extending Medicaid to all those under the poverty level and standardizing program benefits. However, the proposals have ignored important problems...

...Lynn M. Morgan Adele E. Clarke. Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and the Problems of Sex . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 438 pp. $45.00 cloth. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 JHPPL 25.3-05.BkRevs (565-612) 5/12/00 11:59 AM Page 565...

... National Health Service: Implementation Problems in London John H. James Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster District Health Authority Often Americans, even experienced observers...