.... of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Vision Care for the Nation’s Elderly: A Plea for Policy Direction Mordachai Soroka, State University of New York and Robert D. Newcomb, University of Alabnrnu in Birmingham Abstract. Eye care services are largely provided by two...

... Review Essay Imagining Medicare: Visions of the Future Edward F. Lawlor. Redesigning the Medicare Contract: Politics, Markets, and Agency. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 269 pp. $39.00 cloth. Daniel Shaviro. Who Should Pay for Medicare? Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

... Review Essay Public Health and Law: Past and Future Visions Lawrence O. Gostin. Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 491 pp. $65.00 cloth; $29.95 paper. What is public health law and why does it matter? Answering those ques- tions...

... of six Canadian HTA agencies. Chief executive officers and executives ( n = 11), evaluators ( n = 19), and communications staff ( n = 10) from these agencies were interviewed. Our results indicate that the target audience of HTA is frequently limited to policy makers, that three conflicting visions...

.... Despite their popularity, traditional evaluations of these efforts have produced negative or mixed results. This is often attributed to weak interventions or an insufficient period of time to observe an impact. This study examines two additional possibilities—the need for a well-articulated shared vision...

... here, as are the challenges posed by the highly competitive health care marketplace. We believe that long-term vision should guide short-term goals. The success of academic-community collaborative programs depends not only on the good will and vision of the participants but also on the medical...

... provides context and descriptive information about a model of local health care reform that is being tested in twenty-five communities around the nation. We introduce a value-based model of community-responsive health system change, the Community Care Network (CCN) Vision. We briefly describe a national...

...Carol A. Boyer; Bradford H. Gray Abstract David Mechanic has been a pioneering leader in the social and behavioral sciences of health, health services, and health and mental health policy for more than fifty years. One of David's most distinctive qualities has been his vision in identifying trends...

...Michael Birnbaum Michael Birnbaum interviews Donald Berwick shortly after his departure from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services about the national health care landscape. Berwick discusses the strategic vision, policy levers, operational challenges, and political significance of federal...

... the legislation would control costs by reforming how health care is organized, but any such effects have been both weak and unpopular. Now many commentators are accusing Democratic candidates of making the same mistake by prioritizing an ideological vision of “Medicare for All” over voters' worries about out...

... option—far more ambitious than anything seriously considered during the debate over the ACA—is not in the cards right now. But instead of giving up on it, advocates should recast it in an inspiring vision that can structure immediate initiatives designed to make its achievement more feasible...

... of the organization, they articulate conflicting visions of maintenance, with those in favor of the policies describing maintenance primarily in terms of external legitimacy and those in opposition describing maintenance primarily in terms of internal cohesion. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019...

...Lawrence D. Brown; Michael K. Gusmano Abstract The development of professional policy analysis was driven by a desire to apply “science” to policy decisions, but the vision of apolitical policy analysis is as unattainable today as it was at the inception of the field. While there is powerful...

... from the liberal vision of a single-payer plan and adhered closely to the objectives of those who believed that the health care system should encourage the free market, it included provisions that will make coverage more affordable, reliable, and accessible. References Barrilleaux Charles...

... and established rules of the game. These restrictions tend to reinforce state intervention, prevent the emergence of consistent and coherent visions of future health policy, and stifl e policy innovation and implementation. In sum, reform measures tend to remain well within the priorities established within state...

... Depression, is the absence of the middle class from a coalition in favor of such a policy. This absence reflects both the constricted vision of the middle class and the spirited campaigns of groups like Blue Cross to make certain that middle-class needs were met in order to reduce pressure for government...

...Deborah A. Stone The politics of American health insurance is a struggle over which vision of distributive justice should govern: the solidarity principle or the logic of actuarial fairness. Actuarial fairness is central to American private health insurance. It is both an antiredistributive...

...Wendy E. Parmet The policy debate over AIDS has focused on how to balance the rights of individuals who have the disease against the rights of the public. This paper examines the nature of both sets of rights by analyzing the development of public health law and its dominant visions today...

... nurses force the change on hospitals. Hospital , on the other hand, is a journalistic account of one hospital; while acknowledging elements of conflict, it suggests that shared vision and workplace bonds are what hold together at least this particular hospital. What emerges from both works is a sense...

... Brandeis University The article by Stephen M. Shortell et al. asserts that a community part- nership with a common vision, strong governance, and effective man- agement is more likely to succeed than one that lacks that vision, gover- nance, and management. That assertion, however, does not answer...