... Coarse Correction—And Way Off Target Robert G. Evans University of British Columbia The comments by Gaynor and Vogt, and Pauly, seem to me to touch my article at so few points that a...

...Jean Reith Schroedel; Daniel R. Jordan Scholars have devoted considerable attention to analyzing the social construction of AIDS. To explore the politics of AIDS policymaking, this research uses Schneider and Ingram’s (1993) theory of the social construction of target populations to evaluate the...

.... Commentary Hitting the “Target” in Health Care Cost Control Alan B. Cohen Boston University Ever since health care costs in the United States began their steep and...

.... Cavarak. Montreal: South End. The New NIH and FDA Medical Research Policies: Targeting Gender, Promoting Justice Karen L. Baird...

... policies. It first distinguishes targets from systems of control. Targets can then be divided into categories of service (e.g., hospital care, pharmaceutical treatment) and components of cost (e.g., price and volume). Systems can be classified in terms of the degree of pooling of finance, ranging from no...

... England Journal of Medicine 320 ( 2 ): 102 -108. Commentary Goals, Targets, and Tactics: Making Health Care Policy Decisions Explicit R. Adams Dudley and Harold S. Luft University of...

...Mark A. Goldberg Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Reference Hirschman , Albert O. 1970 . Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Two Backlashes: Targeted Reforms...

... goals for the states that may be impossible to achieve. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Hard Choices: Targeting Long-Term Care to the “At Risk” Aged William G. Weissert, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Abstract. Recent expansion of Medicaid...

...Adam Oliver Over the past twenty years, the emphasis of reform attempts to improve efficiency within the English National Health Service (NHS) has oscillated between markets and targets. Both strategies are informed by standard economic theory but thus far have achieved varying degrees of success...

...Jeremy C. Green Peter H. Schuck and Richard J. Zeckhauser. Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2006. 170 pp. $24.95 cloth. Duke University Press 2009 Pierson, P. 1994 . Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan...

... n.d. ). In addition to targeting specific states for I&R change, the Tobacco Institute tracked all bills related to I&R reform in all fifty states, identifying 1,267 bills to establish or amend the initiative and referendum processes between 1991 and 1997. While TI achieved few direct...

... ultimate goal is to assess the benefits of price controls independent of specific assumptions about the controversial issues of demand inducement and income targeting. Using a simple extension of the Feldman/ Sloan model, we find that price controls can be and almost certainly are welfare-improving as long...

... the claims process was well targeted, thelevel of claims making and receipt was low, with the ratio of successful claims to potentially compensable events being approximately 1:30. Comparison of social and clinical characteristics of the two data sets revealed a degree of selectivity. Compared with...

...Marc A. Cohen; Nanda Kumar; Thomas McGuire; Stanley S. Wallack Congress is considering proposals to improve its financing of long-term care. The key issue is whether it should support a social insurance program or a program targeted to a population group defined by income and assets. Social...

... statewide targeted investment to reduce poor birth outcomes. It describes how the initiative is a result of the convergence of the triad of well-defined problems, a credible array of potential solutions, and favorable political process. It then describes the Birth Outcomes Initiative in Louisiana, a...

...Jeffrey M. Prottas; Helen Levine Batten We report the results of a representative random-sample telephone survey of the public's willingness to donate organs. Our goal was to identify differences within the public and target groups who might be receptive to educational efforts to increase donation...

... and measure of the target population in the SCHIP funding formula. Legislative decisions on formulas are, by nature, based on compromises that balance competing policy objectives. The analyst's role is to continually review current research standards, data quality, and relevant formula inputs and make...

... that policy advocates make when deciding which states to target with their resources. Our results indicate that focusing on innovative states, that is, those that tend to adopt new policies faster, offers a valuable boost in the speed of diffusion. Even better, though, is a strategy that targets policy...