1-20 of 608

Search Results for sixty

Save search
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article

Health Insurance for Americans Approaching Age Sixty-five: An Analysis of Options for Incremental Reform

Available to Purchase
Pamela Farley Short, Dennis G. Shea, M. Paige Powell
J Health Polit Policy Law (2003) 28 (1): 41–76.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-28-1-41
Published: 01 February 2003
...Pamela Farley Short; Dennis G. Shea; M. Paige Powell This article provides a systematic evaluation of the options for incremental health insurance reforms aimed at older Americans nearing age sixty-five. It presents three basic arguments for giving special consideration to this age group: (1) early...
View articletitled, Health Insurance for Americans Approaching Age <span class="search-highlight">Sixty</span>-five: An Analysis of Options for Incremental Reform View PDF for article titled, Health Insurance for Americans Approaching Age <span class="search-highlight">Sixty</span>-five: An Analysis of Options for Incremental Reform
Image
Figure 1. Belief That the ACA Has Helped Self/Family Thus Far, People under Age Sixty-Five, Pooled Data Sets

Belief That the ACA Has Helped Self/Family Thus Far, People under Age Sixty...

Available to Purchase
in Is the Affordable Care Act Cultivating a Cross-Class Constituency? Income, Partisanship, and a Proposal for Tracing the Contingent Nature of Positive Policy Feedback Effects > Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Published: 01 February 2018
Figure 1 Belief That the ACA Has Helped Self/Family Thus Far, People under Age Sixty-Five, Pooled Data Sets More
Journal Article

Residential Care for the Elderly

Available to Purchase
Jens Alber
J Health Polit Policy Law (1992) 17 (4): 929–958.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-17-4-929
Published: 01 August 1992
...Jens Alber This article maps variations in a standardized way in residential care for elderly people in three Western nations. Measured by the number of available places per person aged sixty-five and over and by the number of staff members per bed in nursing homes, the United Kingdom has the most...
View articletitled, Residential Care for the Elderly View PDF for article titled, Residential Care for the Elderly
Journal Article

Expanding Health Insurance Coverage: Who Will Pay?

Available to Purchase
Joel C. Cantor
J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (4): 755–778.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-15-4-755
Published: 01 August 1990
... of paying for health care under Medicaid varies little among generations, whereas the cost of employer-sponsored care is lowest in households headed by persons over sixty-five years old. Low health status populations do not pay disproportionately higher taxes or premiums to finance either the Medicaid...
View articletitled, Expanding Health Insurance Coverage: Who Will Pay? View PDF for article titled, Expanding Health Insurance Coverage: Who Will Pay?
Journal Article

Rebounding with Medicare: Reform and Counterreform in American Health Policy

Available to Purchase
Paul Starr
J Health Polit Policy Law (2018) 43 (4): 707–730.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-6527996
Published: 01 August 2018
... argues that Medicare provides a platform for such a strategy and that the next fiscally and politically feasible step is the creation of a new “Midlife Medicare” program that would extend protection to people fifty to sixty-four years of age. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018...
View articletitled, Rebounding with Medicare: Reform and Counterreform in American Health Policy View PDF for article titled, Rebounding with Medicare: Reform and Counterreform in American Health Policy
Journal Article

Partial Progress: Governing the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Nhs, 1948–2008

Available to Purchase
John Abraham
J Health Polit Policy Law (2009) 34 (6): 931–977.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-2009-032
Published: 01 December 2009
...John Abraham Coinciding with sixty years of the U.K. National Health Service (NHS), this article reviews the neglected area of the governance of the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS. It traces the relationships between the pharmaceutical industry, the state, and the NHS from the creation...
View articletitled, Partial Progress: Governing the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Nhs, 1948–2008 View PDF for article titled, Partial Progress: Governing the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Nhs, 1948–2008
Journal Article

No-Fault Cerebral Palsy Insurance: An Alternative to the Obstetrical Malpractice Lottery

Available to Purchase
Andrew D. Freeman, John M. Freeman
J Health Polit Policy Law (1989) 14 (4): 707–718.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-14-4-707
Published: 01 August 1989
...Andrew D. Freeman; John M. Freeman Sixty percent of malpractice premiums paid by obstetricians go to cover suits for alleged birth-related cerebral palsy (CP). Yet substantially less than half of that money goes to CP victims, and less than 10 percent of children with CP receive any compensation...
View articletitled, No-Fault Cerebral Palsy Insurance: An Alternative to the Obstetrical Malpractice Lottery View PDF for article titled, No-Fault Cerebral Palsy Insurance: An Alternative to the Obstetrical Malpractice Lottery
Journal Article

Americans’ Political Participation in the 1993–94 National Health Care Reform Debate

Available to Purchase
Mollyann Brodie
J Health Polit Policy Law (1996) 21 (1): 99–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-21-1-99
Published: 01 February 1996
... disproportionately more likely to be self-identified conservatives, less likely to favor an employer mandate plan, more likely to be fifty to sixty-four years old, more likely to be men, and more likely to have greater interest in and knowledge of the health care issue. Even in California, where a single-payer...
View articletitled, Americans’ Political Participation in the 1993–94 National Health Care Reform Debate View PDF for article titled, Americans’ Political Participation in the 1993–94 National Health Care Reform Debate
Journal Article

Variation in State Spending for Long-Term Care: Factors Associated with More Balanced Systems

Available to Purchase
Robert L. Kane, Rosalie A. Kane, Richard C. Ladd, Wendy Nielsen Veazie
J Health Polit Policy Law (1998) 23 (2): 363–390.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-23-2-363
Published: 01 April 1998
... of long-term care provided under Medicaid. The average Medicaid long-term care expenditure on persons sixty-five years and older varies from $2,720 in New York to $380 in Arizona. Likewise, payments for home and community-based services (HCBS) vary from $1,180 in New York to $29 in Mississippi. Only...
View articletitled, Variation in State Spending for Long-Term Care: Factors Associated with More Balanced Systems View PDF for article titled, Variation in State Spending for Long-Term Care: Factors Associated with More Balanced Systems
Journal Article

The Hospital Support Game Revisited

Available to Purchase
David B. Smith, Carl G. Homer
J Health Polit Policy Law (1977) 2 (2): 257–265.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-2-2-257
Published: 01 April 1977
... by marshalling the support of their respective constituents. This political gamesmanship gave way in the late sixties and early seventies to greater cooperation and a significant consolidation of the hospitals. The authors hypothesize that an important factor influencing this development was the change...
View articletitled, The Hospital Support Game Revisited View PDF for article titled, The Hospital Support Game Revisited
Journal Article

Generic Drug Names and Social Welfare

Available to Purchase
Félix Lobo, Roger Feldman
J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (3): 573–597.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-2079505
Published: 01 June 2013
... by the World Health Organization, INNs are a common, global, scientific nomenclature designed to overcome this failure. Taking stock after sixty years, we argue that the contribution of INNs to social welfare is paramount. They enhance public health by reducing errors and improving patient safety. They also...
View articletitled, Generic Drug Names and Social Welfare View PDF for article titled, Generic Drug Names and Social Welfare
Journal Article

A Response to Rudolf Klein: A Battle May Have Been Won but Perhaps Not the War

Available to Purchase
David J. Hunter
J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (4): 871–877.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-2210512
Published: 01 August 2013
...David J. Hunter The British National Health Service (NHS) is undergoing possibly the most far-reaching set of changes in its sixty-five-year history. While some commentators (like Rudolf Klein) insist that little of substance is likely to change, others consider that the politics of reform may...
View articletitled, A Response to Rudolf Klein: A Battle May Have Been Won but Perhaps Not the War View PDF for article titled, A Response to Rudolf Klein: A Battle May Have Been Won but Perhaps Not the War
Journal Article

Arkansas's Novel Approach to Expanding Health Care Coverage

Available to Purchase
Joseph W. Thompson, J. Craig Wilson, Andrew Allison, Mike Beebe
J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (6): 1277–1288.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-2829483
Published: 01 December 2014
... demonstration waiver, the state will use federal funding via a premium assistance model to secure private health insurance offered through the newly formed health insurance marketplace to those individuals aged nineteen to sixty-four who have incomes at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level...
View articletitled, Arkansas's Novel Approach to Expanding Health Care Coverage View PDF for article titled, Arkansas's Novel Approach to Expanding Health Care Coverage
Journal Article

Iowa Wavering on Medicaid: From Expansion to Modernization

Available to Purchase
Brad Wright, Andrew J. Potter, Matthew C. Nattinger
J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (2): 287–300.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-3476293
Published: 01 April 2016
... expiration of a preexisting section 1115 waiver that served sixty-five thousand Iowans. The Iowa Health and Wellness Plan emphasizes personal responsibility and private involvement. Key features include beneficiary premiums, incentives for healthy behaviors, and premium assistance for some beneficiaries...
View articletitled, Iowa Wavering on Medicaid: From Expansion to Modernization View PDF for article titled, Iowa Wavering on Medicaid: From Expansion to Modernization
Journal Article

Directing Discipline: State Medical Board Responsiveness to State Legislatures

Available to Purchase
Denise F. Lillvis, Robert J. McGrath
J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (1): 123–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-3702794
Published: 01 February 2017
... data on disciplinary actions across sixty-four state medical boards from 1993 through 2006 and control for over-time changes in board characteristics (e.g., composition, independence, budgetary status), regulatory structure, and resources. We show that as state legislatures become more liberal...
FIGURES | View All (4)
View articletitled, Directing Discipline: State Medical Board Responsiveness to State Legislatures View PDF for article titled, Directing Discipline: State Medical Board Responsiveness to State Legislatures
Journal Article

Housestaff Activism: The Emergence of Patient-Care Demands

Available to Purchase
Lily M. Hoffman
J Health Polit Policy Law (1982) 7 (2): 421–439.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-7-2-421
Published: 01 April 1982
... service as well as the positions of physicians, patient-care demands arise and become infused with demands for participation and control in decision-making. Common factors in the politicization of housestaff have been the contribution of activists of the sixties as leaders, and the impact of fiscal crisis...
View articletitled, Housestaff Activism: The Emergence of Patient-Care Demands View PDF for article titled, Housestaff Activism: The Emergence of Patient-Care Demands
Journal Article

Health Promotion, Jogging, and the Pursuit of the Moral Life

Available to Purchase
Muriel R. Gillick
J Health Polit Policy Law (1984) 9 (3): 369–387.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-9-3-369
Published: 01 June 1984
... because of the political climate of the sixties. Once the popular movement was underway, researchers began studying the role of exercise in preventing coronary heart disease, confirming that exercise does confer some benefit. In the seventies, exercise attracted a new, wider audience—not because...
View articletitled, Health Promotion, Jogging, and the Pursuit of the Moral Life View PDF for article titled, Health Promotion, Jogging, and the Pursuit of the Moral Life
Image
Figure 2. Belief That the ACA Will Make Family's Health Care Situation Better in the Long Run, People under Age Sixty-Five, Pooled Data Sets

Belief That the ACA Will Make Family's Health Care Situation Better in the ...

Available to Purchase
in Is the Affordable Care Act Cultivating a Cross-Class Constituency? Income, Partisanship, and a Proposal for Tracing the Contingent Nature of Positive Policy Feedback Effects > Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Published: 01 February 2018
Figure 2 Belief That the ACA Will Make Family's Health Care Situation Better in the Long Run, People under Age Sixty-Five, Pooled Data Sets More
Image
Figure 4. Predictive Margins, Belief That ACA Will Help Self/Family in the Long Run, People under Age Sixty-Five, by Party (with 95% Confidence Intervals). / Margin plot illustrates results for hypothetical non-Hispanic white married men with children, of median ideology, age 30–49 years.

Predictive Margins, Belief That ACA Will Help Self/Family in the Long Run, ...

Available to Purchase
in Is the Affordable Care Act Cultivating a Cross-Class Constituency? Income, Partisanship, and a Proposal for Tracing the Contingent Nature of Positive Policy Feedback Effects > Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Published: 01 February 2018
Figure 4 Predictive Margins, Belief That ACA Will Help Self/Family in the Long Run, People under Age Sixty-Five, by Party (with 95% Confidence Intervals) Margin plot illustrates results for hypothetical non-Hispanic white married men with children, of median ideology, age 30–49 years. More
Image
Figure 3. Predictive Margins, Belief That ACA Has Helped Self/Family Thus Far, People under Age Sixty-Five, by Party (with 95% Confidence Intervals). / Margin plot illustrates results for hypothetical non-Hispanic white married men with children, of median ideology, age 30–49 years.

Predictive Margins, Belief That ACA Has Helped Self/Family Thus Far, People...

Available to Purchase
in Is the Affordable Care Act Cultivating a Cross-Class Constituency? Income, Partisanship, and a Proposal for Tracing the Contingent Nature of Positive Policy Feedback Effects > Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Published: 01 February 2018
Figure 3 Predictive Margins, Belief That ACA Has Helped Self/Family Thus Far, People under Age Sixty-Five, by Party (with 95% Confidence Intervals) Margin plot illustrates results for hypothetical non-Hispanic white married men with children, of median ideology, age 30–49 years. More