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Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (2): 467–482.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Jonathan Oberlander Abstract This article explores the evolving language of Medicare reform and recent conflicts over “voucherizing” Medicare. The Medicare reform debate is, in part, a contest over how to frame policy alternatives in order to enhance (or diminish) their political viability...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1982) 7 (2): 488–501.
Published: 01 April 1982
... the implications of proposals to use health maintenance organizations and vouchers to promote competition. We conclude that, as they stand, pro-competitive proposals could cause a significant deterioration in the position of the poor, especially if costs continue to rise, and that their effects are likely...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2003) 28 (1): 41–76.
Published: 01 February 2003
... in its most general sense to include vouchers, a schedule of pre-
mium reductions, tax credits, or free enrollment with no premium.
Short et al. s Older Americans and Health Insurance Reform 53
gibility for the Loprest-Moon subsidies is limited by a means test. One
could also limit access...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2008) 33 (2): 155–197.
Published: 01 April 2008
..., but that they can nevertheless be met. A proposal to fund a universal health insurance voucher system with a value-added tax illustrates issues that would arise for tax-financed plans in general and provides a broad framework for a bipartisan approach to universal coverage. We discuss significant problems...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1992) 17 (2): 233–254.
Published: 01 April 1992
... with politics and inadequate information and built on long-term relationships between government and contract agencies. The operations and practices of contracting have important implications for the ongoing debate on the desirability of vouchers for health care insurance and for reform in the contracting...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (6): 1065–1100.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Miriam Laugesen Market-oriented health policy reforms in the 1980s and 1990s generally included five kinds of proposals: increased cost sharing for patients through user fees, the separation of purchaser-provider functions, management reforms of hospitals, provider competition, and vouchers...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1997) 22 (2): 595–631.
Published: 01 April 1997
... uncertainty about the future performance of managed care plans. I therefore conclude that policy makers should move cautiously in embracing managed care and that Medicare should not adopt financial incentives, such as vouchers, that are intended to push beneficiaries into HMOs. However, Medicare beneficiary...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2003) 28 (6): 1003–1032.
Published: 01 December 2003
...,” usable for funeral expenses. (For a
summary and critique of these proposed policies, see Murray 1996.) Schol-
ars have also discussed vouchers for unreimbursed medical expenses, free
driver’s licenses and tags, income tax credits, and outright cash payments
(Jasper et al. 1999).
The primary...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1982) 6 (4): 578–620.
Published: 01 August 1982
... of a political decision about how much to spend on
health care.”3* Anti-regulatory rhetoric aside, government, not individual
consumers, will ultimately decide whether, for example, low-income pre-
mium vouchers or the ceiling on tax-exempt employer premium contribu-
tions are set too high to achieve...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1982) 7 (1): 54–79.
Published: 01 February 1982
... incentives
Insurance reform Vouchers
Consumer information
centers
70 Journal of Health Politics...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1978) 2 (4): 447–453.
Published: 01 August 1978
... enroll with one source of medical
care in advance and for an extended period, perhaps a year.
What the consumer needs is a voucher or health card that allows him to
shop for services from a selected set of health insurers or health institu-
tions. The Federal Employees Health Benefits program...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1982) 7 (1): 316–320.
Published: 01 February 1982
... cheaper coverage; Medicare vouchers set at 95 percent of the pro-
gram’s adjusted average per capita costs; imposition of a 10 percent copayment on
each Medicare hospital day after the first, with a catastrophic cap on out-of-pocket
costs, and an end to the current limit on allowable Medicare days...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2018) 43 (4): 651–682.
Published: 01 August 2018
... . Oberlander Jonathan . 2014b . “ Voucherizing Medicare .” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 39 , no. 2 : 469 – 84 . Oberlander Jonathan . 2016 . “ Implementing the Affordable Care Act: The Promise and Limits of Health Care Reform .” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 41...
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Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2012) 37 (2): 201–226.
Published: 01 April 2012
.... Trembeth J. Jones K. B. Geen J. Lynch L. A. Roberts Z. E. . 2007 . The Effects of Dietary Advice and Vouchers on the Intake of Fruit and Fruit Juice by Pregnant Women in a Deprived Area: A Controlled Trial . Public Health Nutrition 10 : 559 – 565 . Cahill K. Perera R...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1997) 22 (4): 937–992.
Published: 01 August 1997
... were asked to assess
included—in addition to the community-based strategies described later
—uniform national programs like Social Security, employer-based
960 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
arrangements modeled on current pension benefits, market models rely-
ing on vouchers...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1981) 5 (4): 720–741.
Published: 01 August 1981
... contribution, could be varied perhaps to 30
percent. The government contribution, if spent on a qualified health plan,
would be refundable as a tax credit and adjusted so that the taxpayer could
receive the credit periodically, rather than at the end of the year.36
,For the poor, vouchers would...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2000) 25 (5): 953–958.
Published: 01 October 2000
... that beneficiaries received their benefits. In the
new model, government is restricting its role to something like paying
a voucher on behalf of beneficiaries, letting each monitor his or her own
benefits as an informed consumer in the managed care market.
Government as “Best Supporting Actor”
However we define...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1979) 4 (2): 176–199.
Published: 01 April 1979
... insurance, so that
virtually the entire population is covered.
The sickness funds issue vouchers to members and their dependents.
When a person ‘visits a physician, he presents a voucher, which serves
both as evidence of his insurance coverage and also as the claim form that
the physician...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2001) 26 (1): 175–180.
Published: 01 February 2001
... organization with the
fact that the Medicare debate during the 1990s has largely moved in a
direction toward more enthusiasm for managed care and voucher-based
approaches to reform, which the AARP has traditionally opposed. Vogel’s
primary example...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2001) 26 (1): 180–182.
Published: 01 February 2001
... in a
direction toward more enthusiasm for managed care and voucher-based
approaches to reform, which the AARP has traditionally opposed. Vogel’s
primary example of distortion is the AARP’s campaign against the 1995
Republican-sponsored Medicare reforms. He argues...
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