... of Health Politics,Policy and Law 27 (1): 49 -91. Spitz, B., and G. Ritter. 2002 . Commentary: Evaluating Community Partnerships: A Response. Journal of Health Politics,Policy and Law 27 : 93 -103. Communications Publisher’s Note Unsolicited responses...

...Bruce Spitz Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) are repeatedly described as a general solution to the health care crisis and a specific solution to the problems confronting Medicare and Medicaid. The potential incorporation of HMOs into Medicaid has promised to improve the states' ability...

...Judith Feder; Bruce Spitz This paper analyzes the politics of hospital payment over the last decade. The authors explain how provider interests and judgments became a standard for appropriate hospital payment; the impact of that standard on hospital costs; and the political obstacles to imposing...

...Bruce Spitz 970 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law medication, and intensive monitoring and guardianship of the mentally ill in the community are proposed as avenues for change. Curiously, no mention is made of the extraordinary costs these changes would gener- ate...

...Bruce Spitz; John Abramson We often think of health policy and health services research as offering solutions to cost, quality, and access problems. Many of us see health policy as simply ineffective. But any activity that has the power to cure can also do harm. Is it possible that the health...

...Bruce Spitz; Grant Ritter © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Communications Publisher’s Note Unsolicited responses to articles that appear in JHPPL are wel- come and will be considered for publication. Send items to Mark Schlesinger, Editor, Yale...

...Bruce Spitz The pell-mell restructuring of health care into massive regional delivery systems has disrupted long-standing relationships between local leaders and residents and their community health care systems. This diminished role of communities in our new world of health care is ironic...

...Bruce Spitz Duke University Press 2007 American Academy of Actuaries, CMS Medicaid Rate Certification Work Group. 2005 . Actuarial Certification Rates for Medicaid Managed Care Programs . Health Practice Note 2004-1. Washington, DC: American Academy of Actuaries. Bailit, M., L...

...Bruce Spitz; Grant Ritter Commentary Evaluating Community Partnerships: A Response Bruce Spitz Spitz Consulting Group...

...Deborah Stone Duke University Press 2007 Spitz, B., and J. Abramson. 2005 . When Health Policy Is the Problem: A Report from the Field. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 30 : 327 -365. Remembering Bruce Spitz...

...Michael S. Sparer; Deborah Stone Remembering Bruce Spitz Introduction Bruce Spitz died suddenly on Labor Day, September 4, 2006, at the age of fifty-nine. He was a stalwart contributor to this journal and many others...

...John Abramson Duke University Press 2007 Remembering Bruce Spitz Introduction Bruce Spitz died suddenly on Labor Day, September 4, 2006, at the age of fifty-nine. He was a stalwart contributor to this journal and many...

...William H. Turner Duke University Press 2007 Remembering Bruce Spitz Introduction Bruce Spitz died suddenly on Labor Day, September 4, 2006, at the age of fifty-nine. He was a stalwart contributor to this journal...

...Stanley S. Wallack Remembering Bruce Spitz Introduction Bruce Spitz died suddenly on Labor Day, September 4, 2006, at the age of fifty-nine. He was a stalwart contributor to this journal and many others and was a most...

...Linda A. Bergthold Duke University Press 2007 Remembering Bruce Spitz Introduction Bruce Spitz died suddenly on Labor Day, September 4, 2006, at the age of fifty-nine. He was a stalwart contributor to this journal...

...). Remembering Bruce Spitz Introduction Bruce Spitz died suddenly on Labor Day, September 4, 2006, at the age of fifty-nine. He was a stalwart contributor to this journal and many others and was a most vibrant, funny, creative, brilliant observer of American...

... makers and analysts have invested considerable time, resources, and effort in each of these issues. Despite these investments, in each case there is surprisingly little evidence that public policy and private practices are evolving in a con- structive manner. Indeed, Bruce Spitz and John Abramson...

...James R. Knickman © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Commentary on “When Health Policy Is the Problem” James R. Knickman Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Bruce Spitz...

... share the financial burden of paying for these programs? And, more generally, how closely should states regulate the private man- aged care industry? In this issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Bruce Spitz argues that a federal law intended to increase payments to private...

... the mental health and child welfare systems. His current research focuses on the use of financing instru- ments to secure access to high-quality mental health care for children in the welfare system. Bruce Spitz was the president of the Spitz Consulting Group, a firm that specializes in strategic...