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...Kenneth I. Kaitin Milton Silverman, Mia Lydecker, and Philip R. Lee. Bad Medicine: The Prescription Drug Industry in the Third World . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992. 358 pp. $29.95 cloth. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 922 Journal of Health Politics...

...Rickard F. Pfizenmayer This article examines the role of collective physician participation in the third-party reimbursement system. It critiques the Havighurst-Kissam analysis of the antitrust implications of professionally-developed relative value guides and using lessons derived from the only...

... University 1984 Origins of the “Third Psychiatric Revolution”: The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 David A. Rochefort, Northeastern University Abstract. In recent decades the community mental health movement has achieved a dramatic reduction in the census...

... who lack third-party coverage, modernizing the treatment system, developing new patterns of practice that use existing resources more efficiently, and developing a plan for treating intravenous drug users infected with the AIDS virus. In the private sector, the advent of working- and middle-class...

... characteristics. Overall, during a single nursing home episode only 10 percent of nursing home patients who entered as private payers received Medicaid at discharge. Roughly one-third of nursing home patients remained on Medicaid throughout their stay, and another third remained private payers throughout...

..., those models most politically feasible, the present medical care system with universal third party financing, and public utility process controls with universal third party financing, are the ones most likely to aggravate present cost-quality difficulties. Therefore, the recommended procedure...

... these planning programs are embedded in past social policy developments and institution-building, it is necessary to first compare the two countries' compulsory health insurance schemes. This is followed by a general profile of each health care system. A third section examines the formulation and implementation...

... of whether and how SBHCs can best integrate with existing resources to fill unmet local needs. Furthermore, despite the cautions of experts that third-party reimbursement (via traditional fee-for-service insurance or participation in health maintenance organizations) cannot cover clinic expenses...

... was one of the control over what was provided by the plans and who would pay for the costs of care. We posit that labor was never able to achieve an important role in the control of the third-party payer, and in the antilabor environment of the 1980s this proved detrimental to labor's interests...

... five forms of community benefit that might be associated with nonprofit forms of managed care. Using data from a national survey of firms providing third-party utilization review services in 1993, we test for ownership-related differences in these five dimensions. The results suggest that ownership...

... politically, a dimension that includes their political participation, their relationships to parties and electoral coalitions, the images they present to other political actors, and the legacy of public policies that affect them. Second, the groups have different medical and social needs. Third, the groups...

... programs of third-party payers, both public and private. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 References Annas , G. J. 1994 . Asking the Courts to Set the Standard of Emergency Care: The Case of Baby K. New England Journal of Medicine 330 ( 21 ): 1542 -1545. Capron...

... is misconceived. The first rests on the false assumption that the health care system includes a workable division of responsibility regarding access that assigns obligations concerning access to managed care organizations. The second and third criticisms wrongly assume that we in the United States have taken...

... unsatisfied patients in the European Union, with one of the lowest life expectancy levels. Second, Poland spends one of the lowest shares of gross domestic product on HC-related expenditures among OECD countries. Third, the country is facing medical personnel shortages. Methods: The analysis is based...

...David Barton Smith Abstract Unnecessary surgery has been a focus of health policy concern for decades. Such events are supposed to be prevented by the (a) self-policing of hospital medical staffs, (b) oversight of state medical boards, (c) third-party restrictions on payment, and (d) threat...

..., several of the mechanisms through which democracy has been shown to be beneficial for health have not traveled well to explain the performance of governments in this pandemic. Is there an authoritarian advantage in disease response? Third, after decades in which coercive public health measures have...

..., with messaging originating from diverse sponsors with multiple objectives. Second, partisan cues in news and political ads are abundant, likely contributing to the crystallized politically polarized opinion about the law. Third, partisan discussions of the ACA in political ads have shifted in volume, direction...

...: loss of the very federal funding on which the ability to provide coverage rests. The third wave would have gone further, not only destroying Medicaid's open-ended funding structure but also stripping states of the option to extend federally-financed assistance to all poor working-age adults. The effort...

... is not surprising, but the similar pattern cross-nationally is less expected. Three additional findings are more unexpected. First, the United States outperforms its European peers on several public health metrics. Second, the United States spends a comparable proportion of its health dollar on prevention. Third...