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... efforts that reinforce its historical position, despite a loss of members. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 physicians interest groups rent-seeking lobbying American Medical Association The American Medical Association (AMA) has had a long-standing influence over health...

... higher medical malpractice and administrative costs; health care purchasing occurs in a fragmented marketplace; and rent seeking rewards providers with favorable prices at the expense of consumers. Of these explanations, rent seeking is compelling partly because it is more consistent than other...

...Joseph White Traditional Medicare is being threatened from two political directions. The current Republican coalition, on the right, simply dislikes social insurance in principle. It seeks privatization for its own sake. Another perspective, centrist and well established among political...

... 1 ( 2 ): 20 -53. Kessel , R. A. 1970 . The AMA and the Supply of Physicians. Law and Contemporary Problems (spring). Krueger , A. O. 1974 . The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society. American Economic Review 64 : 291 -303. Kuran , T. 1995 . Private Truths...

... by Tal Gross and Miriam J. Laugesen in this special issue examines many of the explanations that have been offered to explain why United States has higher prices than the other countries. With the possible exception of rent-seeking behavior (discussed below), the authors are correct...

...—that comport with the rent-seeking inter- ests of organized medicine. Cause and effect are not fully drawn by Feld- stein, but the health policy parameters of the American state, starting with early in the twentieth century as organized medicine was consoli- dating its...

... people away from the voluntary sickness fund scheme. Therefore, the emerging challenge of macro cost containment was accompanied in the Netherlands by the much more urgent and politically unacceptable threat of drift, caused by the rent-seeking strategies of private health insurers. In the early...

... turns out to hold much explanatory power. Another variable—high administrative costs throughout the system—is more persuasive, but it too leaves much of the puzzle unsolved. The most potent force, they argue, is rent seeking—successful lobbying by physicians, hospitals, and drug companies to keep...

... congressional committee chairs will remain in place to bedevil Democratic and Republican administrations with self-interested micromanagement of Medicare procurement and other rent-seeking behavior. The same justices would sit on the Supreme Court. As a political symbol, single payer stands as a reproachful...

...- oped world is clearly such an assertion. But the response that both gov- ernments and markets may “fail,” and that rent seeking is universal, leads one back into the realm of the a priori, where all things are possible and conclusions are reached only by convention (commonly in the form...

... and rent seeking to intro- duce his alternative theory, boundary politics. He then provides an entire chapter on global health governance, which was very much needed. I say this because — and as Lieberman also asserts — essentially nothing has been written in political science on the direct...

... and rent seeking to intro- duce his alternative theory, boundary politics. He then provides an entire chapter on global health governance, which was very much needed. I say this because — and as Lieberman also asserts — essentially nothing has been written in political science on the direct...

... and rent seeking to intro- duce his alternative theory, boundary politics. He then provides an entire chapter on global health governance, which was very much needed. I say this because — and as Lieberman also asserts — essentially nothing has been written in political science on the direct...

... conjecture, not as a proof in itself. Obviously, he admits, there should be fuller explanations for why particular norms emerge, what they do, and why they persist. This echoes the reasons he provided in 1963 for rejecting the special interest, rent-seeking explana...

... hope that stimulating competitive pressures on private providers will lower program costs, these gains may be swamped by the effect of firms engaging in rent-seeking and monopolistic behavior, seeking instead to limit competition and pad profits. The Delegated Welfare State found mixed evidence about...

... to assess the legality of proposed courses of action. Moreover, an otherwise laudable judicial zeal to respect our federal constitutional structure has occasionally trans- formed the state action doctrine into a blank check for state legislative concessions to rent-seeking private parties. The state...

... the state action doctrine as “a blank check for state legislative concessions to rent-seeking private parties.” At the same time, marketists like Lesser and Ginsburg recognize the potential utility of government- based payment and information pricing strategies for improving quality and lowering cost...

... insurance system is highly partisan. The Trump administration seeks to reduce the size of the nation's public insurance programs, while also scaling back regulatory oversight of the private insurance industry. One example is federal support for Medicaid work requirements. The administration also favors...

... of transparency, leakage, and rent-seeking stemming from political influence as a result of close ties with the government (Govindaraj and Herbst 2010 ). Over time, CMSs also frequently failed to adapt to the increasing complexity of the global pharmaceutical market. Together, these factors are believed to have...

... licensure for physicians more to the need for a public-interested legislative response to “uncertainty in the mind of the consumer as to the quality of the product” than to physician rent-seeking). 594 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law restraints embodied in state law are so likely...