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J Health Polit Policy Law (1992) 17 (4): 970–971.
Published: 01 August 1992
... of mental illness and homelessness. Paul A. Lombardo, University of Virginia Henry Aaron. Serious and Unstable Condition: Financing America’s Health Care. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1991. 158 pp. $22.95 cloth, $8.95 paper. Henry Aaron’s Serious...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (2): 373–391.
Published: 01 April 2013
... Gains and Serious Challenges Adam Sonfield Guttmacher Institute Harold A. Pollack...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1980) 5 (1): 120–141.
Published: 01 February 1980
... general categories: (1) controls on reimbursement; (2) controls on the supply of facilities; and (3) controls on utilization. Events surrounding them reveal that any effort to constrict the flow of resources to the health care industry will engender serious opposition. In addition, there are serious...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1983) 8 (1): 164–172.
Published: 01 February 1983
...Donald R. Cohodes Access to capital will be a serious problem for a subset of our nation's hospitals in the 1980s. Without adequate capital to modernize or maintain life-safety codes, certain facilities may have no other choice than to close their doors. The consequences of closure are far-reaching...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1986) 11 (4): 633–645.
Published: 01 December 1986
...Harvey M. Sapolsky Prospective payment promises improvement for a health care system plagued by inefficiency and rising costs, but is likely to disappoint. Serious efforts to control costs threaten the system's access and quality objectives and will be resisted. Moreover, serious cost containment...
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Published: 01 April 2018
Figure 1 Baseline Public Attitudes about Stigma, Willingness to Pay for Mental Health System Improvements, and Policies to Expand Mental Health Services in the No-Exposure Control Arm ( N  = 342) Notes : a Serious mental illness b Respondents were first asked, “Would you be willing to pay More
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2018) 43 (1): 5–18.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., it might frustrate the goal of paying for value. We conclude that the best-price rule is not as serious a problem as it is sometimes made out to be but that it is also not simply a convenient excuse for refusing to try something new. The law here is complex, and moving to a pay-for-value model for drugs...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (2): 255–266.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Jerry L. Mashaw Chief Justice John Roberts's opinion upholding the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been hailed as an act of judicial statesmanship that saved the Supreme Court from serious criticism as a partisan, political institution. This article argues...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (1): 71–92.
Published: 01 February 2006
... for converting research results into policy actions, including the following: How are researchers to address policy relevant questions? How are they to acquire the attention of top policy makers to a specific problem? When is the issue at hand serious but not yet critical? And lastly, how are researchers...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (3): 531–574.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Mary D. Naylor; Ellen T. Kurtzman; Edward Alan Miller; Pamela Nadash; Peter Fitzgerald Abstract Health care in the United States is fragmented, inefficient, and rife with quality concerns. These shortcomings have particularly serious implications for adults with disabilities and functionally...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (6): 1137–1149.
Published: 01 December 2016
....” In short, the discussions surrounding vaccine hesitancy that dominate public discourse detract from serious debate as to whether amendments to vaccine-related laws can address the limitations of the existing framework governing immunizations. This commentary examines these issues through a public health...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (1): 1–67.
Published: 01 February 1990
... to be a major source of expenditure growth. These findings cast serious doubt on the claim that cost containment can be achieved via market reforms that rely heavily on direct consumer payments and cost sharing as instruments of financing. A comparative analysis of the historic record of the United States...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1993) 18 (3): 695–722.
Published: 01 June 1993
...William A. Glaser The United States has serious and worsening problems in the delivery and financing of health. The debate about reform has inspired many schemes that are persuasive in their presentation, but they are unrealistic: some cannot be enacted by Congress, others would not improve...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1993) 18 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 February 1993
... that must be resolved if the plans are to be successfully implemented, the most serious being the fiscal impacts that such proposals would have on states. The current Medicaid matching formula fails to reflect either the size of a state's Medicaid program or its ability to pay for it. As a result...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1991) 16 (4): 695–718.
Published: 01 August 1991
... Blue Cross from the 1930s to the recent past and show that labor's participation in the plan was crucial to Blue Cross's success in the plan's early decades. By the late 1950s, serious tensions developed over rate increases and the participation of labor in Blue Cross governance. Ultimately, the issue...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (2): 357–385.
Published: 01 April 1990
... of the health care field. To avoid serious errors and confusion, drug abuse health policies must recognize the very different needs of the public and private sectors. The public sector, where poor addicts receive drug treatment provided or purchased by the government, has long suffered from chronically...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (3): 571–589.
Published: 01 June 1990
... to these problems. This pattern is evident in the evolution of Superfund, the national program to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites. The prolonged process of reauthorization in the 1980s contributed to serious program delay and failed to resolve a number of fundamental questions concerning the national...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1996) 21 (4): 805–822.
Published: 01 August 1996
... begun during deinstitutionalization, in which persons with serious and persistent mental illnesses receive services from community-based providers rather than in state hospitals. Finally, my results suggest that contracting will continue to be an important state policy tool in further development...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1997) 22 (6): 1329–1357.
Published: 01 December 1997
... costs by substituting home care for institutional care. Because the program is statewide, finding a suitable control group to evaluate it was a serious problem. A substitute strategy was chosen that compares actual costs incurred to an estimate of what costs would have been in the absence of home...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1994) 19 (4): 837–864.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Teresa A. Coughlin; Leighton Ku; John Holahan; David Heslam; Colin Winterbottom In recent years the growth of Medicaid spending has been a serious state budgetary problem. Between 1988 and 1992, state Medicaid expenditures increased at an average annual rate of 21 percent. Even when accounting...