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.... G. Forthcoming. One Step Ahead of the Law: Markets and Medicine in the 1990s. In The Privatization of Health Care Reform , ed. M. G. Bloche. New York: Oxford University Press. Brennan, T. A. 1998 . The Role of Regulation in Quality Improvement. Milbank Quarterly 76 : 709 -731. Health Care...

...Karl Kronebusch; Mark Schlesinger; Tracey Thomas While the states engaged in an extended period of adopting and revising laws regulating managed care during the 1990s, there has been to date only limited empirical assessment of the impacts of these laws. For this analysis, we constructed a data set...

...Theodore R. Marmor The story of New York Blue Cross is one of complex interaction with state and federal regulators and also with hospitals, the medical profession, commercial insurers, and the public, who make up the regulatory environment. Negotiation, cooperation, and adaptation among parties...

...Stanley S. Wallack; Kathleen Carley Skwara; John Cai Neither rate regulation nor market competition alone is likely to contain health care spending in the long run. We need an approach to cost containment that can simultaneously address the major causes of rising health expenditures: higher prices...

...Daniel Carpenter © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Carpenter, Daniel P. 2000 . Protection without Capture: Drug Approval by a Politically Responsive, Bayesian Regulator . Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Working Paper No. 13. ———. 2002 . Groups, the Media...

...Eleanor Brooks; Kathrin Lauber Abstract The European Union's “good governance” program, known as Better Regulation, seeks to improve the quality of EU legislation by controlling the policy-making process. Despite its importance, it is rarely accounted for in the EU health policy literature. Seeking...

... to see a provider when needed. However, this line of thinking overlooks a crucial intermediary step: provider networks. As provider networks offered by health insurers link available medical services to insurance coverage, their breadth mediates access to health care. Yet the regulation of provider...

... regulation of DTCA. These organizations argue that the negative impact of such advertising outweighs the informational value claimed by the pharmaceutical industry. The industry maintains that further restrictions on DTCA are not warranted because it is successfully self-regulating via “guiding principles...

...Simone R. Singh; Gary J. Young; Lacey Loomer; Kristin Madison Abstract Do nonprofit hospitals provide enough community benefits to justify their tax exemptions? States have sought to enhance nonprofit hospitals' accountability and oversight through regulation, including requirements to report...

...David L. Weimer The allocation of cadaveric organs for transplantation in the United States is governed by a process of private regulation. Through the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), stakeholders and public representatives determine the substantive content of allocation rules...

.... ____. 1993 . A Theory of Incentives in Procurement and Regulation . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Leech, B., F. Baumgartner, T. La Pira, and N. Semanko. 2005 . Drawing Lobbyists to Washington: Government Activity and the Demand for Advocacy. Political Research Quarterly 58 : 19 -30. McAdams, D...

... called “performance-based regulation” to combat the problem. Performance-based regulation would impose on manufacturers a legal obligation to reduce the negative social costs of their products. Rather than involving them in litigation or forcing them to operate differently (as “command-and-control...

... called for increased government regulation. The mission of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) makes it an obvious candidate to lead a new regulatory effort. However, the FTC has a troubled history in the area of children's advertising regulation, and several political and legal factors constrain its...

...John A. Nyman; Cynthia R. Geyer It has been assumed that the best policy for promoting quality of life in nursing homes is direct regulation. In this paper it is argued that if our experience in regulating quality of care is any indication, we may not possess the political will to successfully...

...William M. Sage “Regulation by litigation” is a recently recognized trend in American legal governance that develops differently in each economic sector it affects. In health care, widespread litigation can be viewed as the product of three partial transformations: incomplete industrialization...

.... Health Services Research 26 : 223 -46. Rice , T. , and K. Thomas. 1992 . An Evaluation of the New Medigap Standardization Regulations. Health Affairs 11 : 194 -207. Shikles , J. 1990 . Medigap Insurance: Proposals for Regulatory Changes and 1988 Loss Ratio Data. Testimony before...

...David A. Lambert; Thomas G. McGuire This article studies determinants of two important sets of laws regulating insurance coverage for mental health care: mandated inclusion of minimum coverage for psychotherapy, and mandated coverage for psychologist services, the so-called freedom of choice (FOC...

...Alina Gildiner Laura Jones, ed. Safe Enough? Managing Risk and Regulation . Vancouver, BC: Fraser Institute, 2000. 279 pp. $19.95CDN cloth. S. Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman. Environmental Cancer—A Political Disease? New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. 256 pp. $40.00 cloth...

... Future Systems,” SCRIP 1561, 26 October, p. 6 . Blake , J. B. , ed. 1970 . Safeguarding the Public: Historical Aspects of Medicinal Drug Control. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Burstall , M. L. 1990 . 1992 and the Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry. London...