...Carol S. Weissert; William G. Weissert; Deborah R. McFarlane; Fred W. Hosler Carol S. Weissert and William G. Weissert. Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 361 pp. $45.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. Copyright © 1998 by Duke...

...Carol S. Weissert; William G. Weissert State legislative staff may influence health policy by gathering intelligence, setting the agenda, and shaping the legislative proposals. But they may also be stymied in their roles by such institutional constraints as hiring practices and by turnover...

...Carol S. Weissert; Susan L. Silberman In the past few years, eleven states have directed medical schools in their states to produce more primary care practitioners or to change the training of physicians to make careers in primary care more attractive to medical students. This article outlines...

...William G. Weissert; Jennifer M. Elston; Melissa Constable Musliner; Elizabeth Mutran We investigate what aspects of adult day care are regulated by licensure and certification requirements, whether differences exist among centers according to their regulatory status, and the relationship between...

...William G. Weissert; Timothy Lesnick; Melissa Musliner; Kathleen A. Foley The Arizona Long-Term Care System is the first capitated, long-term care Medicaid program in the nation to operate statewide. It promotes an extensive home and community-based services program intended to lower long-term care...

...William G. Weissert Recent expansion of Medicaid coverage to home-and community-based long-term care moves that payment program away from its traditional institutional bias. But tension over the appropriate role of home care and fears of budget-busting have caused the current administration to set...

...Carol S. Weissert; Jack H. Knott; Blair E. Stieber Recent calls for restructuring of the nation's health care system have highlighted the deficiencies in the current system of education for the health professions. Of particular concern are the dominance of specialization and hospital-based training...

...William G. Weissert America's long-term care system has been widely criticized for many shortcomings. It relies too heavily upon institutional services, it is too costly, it forces inappropriate levels of care upon patients by offering too few options, in too many instances it offers inferior...

...Bruce Jacobs; William Weissert A majority of elderly Americans have the bulk of their assets tied up in the houses they own. Reverse mortgages could tap this home equity, providing loan disbursements without requiring older homeowners to make monthly payments on principal and interest...

...Deborah R. McFarlane; Fred W. Hosler, M.D. Kant Patel and Mark E. Rushefsky. Health Care Politics and Policy in America . Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1995. 290 pp. $75.95 cloth; $29.95 paper. Carol S. Weissert and William G. Weissert. Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy...

... Politics, Policy, and Law 18 : 851 -69. Weissert , W. G. , and C. M. Cready. 1988 . Determinants of Hospital-to-Nursing Home Placement Delays: A Pilot Study. Health Services Research 23 : 619 -47. Weissert , W. G. , and M. C. Murliner. 1992 . Access, Quality, and Cost Consequences...

... Care Politics and Policy in America (Kant Patel and Mark E. Rushefsky) and Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy (Carol S. Weissert and William G. Weissert), 6:1012–1015 McFarlane, Deborah R., and Kenneth J. Meier. Do Different Funding Mechanisms Produce Different Results...

... and Leech 1998; Browne 1995; Hansen 1991; Hayes 1981; Hojnacki 1997; Hula 1999; Kollman 1998; Krehbiel 1991; Olson 1965; Peterson 1993, 1995a, 1998a; Sabao 1984; Walker 1991; and Weissert and Weissert 1996. JHPPL 26.5 20 Peterson 10/29/01 4:42 PM Page 1151...

...: The Redistributive Agenda behind Market-Based Health Care Reform, 2:427–465 Foley, Kathleen A. See Weissert Frankford, David M. Community, Professions, and Participation (special section editor’s note), 1:101–104 The Normative Constitution of Professional Power, 1:185–221 Review of Clinical Reasoning...

.... Health Care Financing Review 16 ( 3 ): 11 -25. Weisberg , S. 1985 . Applied Linear Regression. 2d ed. New York: Wiley. Weissert , W. G. 1985 . Seven Reasons Why It Is So Difficult to Make Community-Based Long-Term Care Cost Effective. Health Services Research 20 ( 4 ): 423 -434...

... (Weissert and Weissert 2008 ). The proliferation of 1115 “research and demonstration” and 1915(c) home- and community-based services waiver approvals under the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations gave state officials the administrative flexibility they craved, say, to enroll beneficiaries in managed...

... Politics, Policy and Law Health Politics and Policy Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy. 4th ed. William Weissert and Carol Weissert. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. 395 pp. $35.00 paper. The Health and Wealth of a Nation: Employer-­Based Health Insurance...

... . Caring for the Disabled Elderly: Who Will Pay? Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. Weissert , William G. , Cynthia M. Cready, and J. E. Pawelak. 1988 . The Past and Future of Home- and Community-Based Long-Term Care. Milbank Quarterly 66 ( 2 ): 309 -88...

... (Weissert and Weissert 1996). What is important about the rejection of these options is what it says about the role of regulation relative to competition. For all the criticism about the intrusiveness of health care regulation, the reality is that seri...

.... 432 pp. $74.00 paper. Health Politics and Policy The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World’s Most Troubled Drug Culture. Richard DeGrandpre. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 312 pp. $24.95 cloth. Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy. 3rd ed. Carol S. Weissert...