...Suzanne Mettler Andrea Louise Campbell. How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. 229 pp. $52.50 cloth; $19.95 paper. Duke University Press 2006 Soss, Joe. 2005 . Unwanted Claims...

...Katharine W. V. Bradley; Jowei Chen Abstract Why do legislators sometimes engage in behavior that deviates from the expressed policy preferences of constituents who participate in politics at high rates? We examine this puzzle in the context of Democratic legislators' representation of their senior...

...Michael Birnbaum; Elizabeth M. Patchias That Medicare is universal for seniors is widely accepted by leading analysts. But in the context of developing detailed policies that seek to cover as many people as possible, it is inaccurate to make Medicare eligibility sound so simple and inclusive...

... Rates the Sixty Most Consistently Successful Stock Mutual Funds Open to New Investors . www.chathamjournal.com/weekly/business/money/cr-rates-mutual-funds-70127.shtml (accessed March 10, 2010) . Consumers Union . 2007 . Cha-Ching! Seniors Enrolled in Medicare Prescription Drug Plans Might...

... to these incentives, enabling the testing of how managed competition works in practice. The methodology used was a multiple case study of Israel's four sick funds. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews with 160 senior officials, analysis of national health insurance legislation, and analysis of published...

... short by the impending deadline for payments by the elderly, January 1990. Outright repeal rather than modification was the result. Our study confirms earlier studies, which show that trends of opinionin this case that of senior citizens over 65 years of agecould be forecast from mass media stories...

...Andrea Louise Campbell A recently developed analytic approach — policy feedback effects — provides health policy analysts with a crucial new tool for understanding the politics of health policy. Three cases — senior citizens' opposition to the Obama health care reform, tax breaks for employer...

...Figure 2 Trends in Race, Income, and Being a Senior on Support for the Clinton Health Care Plan   Notes : Coefficients from individual-level logistic model where approval of plan is the dependent variable. Bars around coefficient represent two standard errors. Along the x -axis is the date...

... among conservatives, those who see Medicaid as a short-term program, and racially resentful non-Hispanic whites. They show that groups that have historically been framed as deserving see high levels of support for their exemption (e.g., the disabled and senior citizens). Finally, the authors found...

.... 563 564 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law tax on inhabitants’ personal income. Hospital-based physicians are public em- ployees, fully salaried to the public board. Further, all hospital employees (including senior physicians) are organized into national unions, which...

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... of 2003 (MMA). Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle charged that “this is basically a corporate welfare bill for drug companies and health maintenance organizations (HMOs). We estimate that about one-quarter of all senior citizens will be worse off virtually the day this bill passes” (Serafini 2003...

... a J.D. degree, she is now a second-year medical student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Previously she was a senior analyst in the health program of the U.S. Congress’s Office of Technology Assessment. Lisa C. Dubay is a senior research associate at the Urban Institute whose work has...

... Management and Insur- ance Research at Georgia State University, where she also served as an associate professor of risk management and insurance. She has been a senior research asso- ciate at the Employee Benefit Research Institute in Washington, D.C., and has...

... Protection . Washington, DC: National Institute for Health Care Management. Market Decisions. 2000 . Poll on Drug Price Policy. Maine Times , 15 April. National Conference of State Legislatures. 2000 . State Senior Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs . Washington, DC: National Conference of State...

... Medicare, prospective payment, long-term care, and the pharmaceutical industry. He holds a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University and a joint B.A. in history and political science from University College of Dublin. Barbara Devaney, Ph.D., is a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy...

.... Smart is President and Nelson S. Hartunian is Senior Vice-president of the firm of Smart, Hartunian & Willemain, Belmont, Mass. Thomas R. Wille- main is Senior Vice-President of Smart, Hartunian & Willemain, and Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Uni...

... Offers Prescription Drug Card to Lure Innocent Seniors. USA Today , 5 March. Banville, Beurmond. 2000 . County Forums Address Drug Costs. Bangor (Maine) Daily News , 21 February, B2 . Barboza, David. 1999 . Two Sides Square Off on Genetically Altered Food. New York Times , 18 November, A30...