...Timothy Stoltzfus Jost The Real Constitutional Problem with the Affordable Care Act Timothy Stoltzfus Jost Washington and Lee University Among the main provisions of the Affordable Care Act...

... . 2nd ed. Singapore : World Scientific . Fukuyama F. 2006 . The End of History and the Last Man . New York : Free Press . Ginsburg P. B. 2009 . Getting to the Real Issues in Health Care Reform . New England Journal of Medicine 361 ( 22 ): 2107 – 2109 . Hagist...

...Lawrence D. Brown As the challenges of maintaining (or, in the US case, attaining) affordable universal coverage multiply, the debate about what constitutes “real” reform intensifies in Western health care systems. The reality of reform, however, lies in the eyes of myriad beholders who variously...

... care organizations — that is to say, organizations that have the capacity to function as high-performing systems. The challenges confronting the development of more complete health care organizations are significant. Real health care system reforms may likewise require implementing ecologies of complex...

...Michel Grignon Real reforms attempt to change how health care is financed and how it is rationed. Three main explanations have been offered to explain why such reforms are so difficult: institutional gridlock, path dependency, and societal preferences. The latter posits that choices made regarding...

... . Glencoe, IL: Free Press. Wennberg, John E. 1984 . Dealing with Medical Practice Variations: A Proposal for Action. Health Affairs 3 (2): 6 -32. JHPPL 26.5 15 Millenson 10/29/01 4:37 PM Page 1069 Moral Hazard vs. Real Hazard...

...Joseph L. Falkson; Henry A. Leavitt Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 Response to Checkoway The Real Lessons of National Health Planning Joseph L. Falkson and Henry A. Leavitt, Health Sector Management, Inc...

... institutions overseen by boards of trustees. Canada and the United States view the challenges confronting the Canadian system differently. To Canadians, the real issue is how to improve the management of a popular, effective, and heretofore affordable system, so as to preserve it in a more hostile economic...

.... The Supreme Court’s PPACA Decision Legal, Imagined, and Real Worlds: Reflections on National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius Jerry L. Mashaw...

...Michael T. Heaney J. Eric Oliver. Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 240 pp. $28.00 cloth. Duke University Press 2007 Campos, Paul. 2004 . The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous...

...John Holahan; Avi Dor; Stephen Zuckerman We use data from 1983 and 1985 on the volume of Medicare physician services to analyze whether Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS), which resulted in a significant decline in hospital spending, led to a partially offsetting increase in real...

...Margaret A. Potter; Beaufort B. Longest, Jr. Nonprofit hospitals have traditionally enjoyed charitable exemption from real estate taxes because they provide specific social benefits. However, in the past three decades, major health policy changes at the federal levelmost significantly...

... in the former would be more effective than those in the latter and would also be less risky if failure occurs. Marc A. Rodwin calls for additional “real” coverage reforms so that all Americans would be protected from significant financial decline, if not ruin, when serious illness occurs. Finally, Thomas R...

... and concepts of epidemiological surveillance are described as a continuous systematic process that observes and reflects the real situation in society not only within but also across political boundaries. Outbreaks that affect more than one country show that a systematic comparative analysis of surveillance...

..., controls must be rooted in an analysis of the forces that have shaped the hospital's present form and structure. Factors to be considered are those that have defined what a “good” hospital is, who its real consumers are, and what economic and quality control factors must be part of the entire health system...

... interests on the one hand, and simplistic political slogans whose only virtue is that they cut the Gordian Knot (but provide no real enlightenment) on the other, then we need to be doing just this. We shall take a few things for granted: that cost-containment is not the be-all-and-end-all of policy...

... occurred regularly after brief periods of quiescence or oversupply. Usually, their recommendations have hinged on nurses changing their image. In fact, few of these studies have dealt with the real issues of nursing work, which are a narrow pay range, little extra pay for working on undesirable shifts...