... section of the article will consider the politics of payment reform as social reform. It will address proposals that health care payers and providers lead in addressing the social contributors to ill health and urge payment reformers to appreciate more fully the politics and policies of other sectors...

...Michał Sitek This article discusses the applicability of the new institutionalism to the politics of health care reform in postcommunist Central Europe. The transition to a market economy and democracy after the fall of communism has apparently strengthened the institutional approaches...

...Frank J. Thompson Thomas W. Grannemann and Mark V. Pauly. Reform Medicaid First: Laying the Foundation for National Health Care Reform. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute Press, 2009. 54 pp. $15.00 paper. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Grogan, C. 2008 . Medicaid...

...James Warner Björkman Okma Kieke G. H. and Crivelli Luca , eds. Six Countries, Six Reform Models: The Healthcare Reform / Experience of Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and Taiwan — Healthcare Reforms “Under the Radar Screen.” Singapore : World Scientific...

... of organizational options aimed at transforming health care systems and argues that more attention must be paid to reforming the delivery mechanisms that are so crucial for health care systems' overall performance. To support improvement, policies can rely on organizational assets in two ways. First, reforms can...

..., 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...

... of care regardless of who pays the bill. In early 2015 we conducted on-site interviews with key stakeholders in five states to explore their strategies for payment and delivery reform. We found that despite these states' similar goals, differences in their statutory authority and purchasing power, along...

...Dylan H. Roby; Christopher J. Louis; Mallory M. Johnson Cole; Natalie Chau; Bridgette Wiefling; David C. Salsberry; Evan King; Allen Miller Abstract The New York Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) waiver was viewed as a prototype for Medicaid and safety net redesign waivers...

... over Health Care Reform (2011) and Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol's Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (2010). Saldin recognizes that Medicaid remains a primary revenue source for nursing homes and that the omission of long-term care benefits from...

... and I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid” (Brewster 2017 ). It was impossible to predict on election night what health reform proposals Trump would actually support once he was faced with the unfamiliar reality of having to govern. Would he embrace the welfare state retrenchment proposals...

...Paul Starr Abstract America's major health care programs were all enacted on the rebound from defeat of more expansive progressive ideas. Chastened reformers have typically adopted rebound strategies that accommodate some sources of opposition, incorporate elements of counterreforms, and reflect...

... payment reform” (Guterman 2015 ). They rejoiced that Congress had moved beyond short-term measures and adopted reforms that could “catalyze increased efficiency and greater cost control” (Aaron 2015 : 1977). Now that the SGR is gone, Congress, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS...

...Robert E. Mechanic Abstract Policy makers and private health plans are expanding their efforts to implement new payment models that will encourage providers to improve quality and deliver health care more efficiently. Over the past five years, payment reforms have progressed faster in Massachusetts...

.... What does the ACA's performance to date tell us about the possibilities and limits of health care reform in the United States? I identify key challenges in ACA implementation—the inherently disruptive nature of reform, partisan polarization, the limits of “near universal” coverage, complexity...

... have suggested that such programs are defective and have recommended several policies designed to establish the conditions for a competitive market in health care. Alain Enthoven's Consumer-Choice Health Plan (CCHP), combines many of the elements of market reform and, as such, provides an opportunity...

... health care in Colorado. Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Research Note Judicial Involvement in Colorado Prison Health Care Reform Donald Rice, Colorado Department of Health Abstract. This article will discuss judicial involvement...

...-Reading the Invisible Hand: A Critical Examination of Pro-Competitive Reform Proposals Daniel W. Sigelrnan Abstract. The conviction that competition could discipline the medical market- place more adequately than regulation is rapidly ascendant among...

... highlights the findings of the author's study of regional planning for CT Scanner diffusion, and draws the implication that the existing system of planning and certificate-of-need regulation has been only marginally successful because of the absence of a proper incentive system. Under the reform proposal...

... care delivery, quality-of-care problems, and the uneven geographical distribution of facilities. A proposal for a reform of the health care system is outlined, and its principles enumerated. This reform, suggested by the Ministry of Health, reflects a new approach of separating the direct provision...