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... approach for their AFDC recipients. Risk-based Medicaid managed care for AFDC recipients assumes a distinct purpose and meaning. The reform is not just about cost control and improving access but about enduring welfare concerns: deservingness, need, and empowerment. Despite recent federal policies...

...Daniel M. Fox Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw, and Philip L. Harvey. America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities. New York: Basic Books, 1990. xvii + 268 pp. $22.95 cloth. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991...

... a threat—to patients’ health and well-being. How can we mitigate the threats to patient welfare posed by financial incentives and guidelines? We propose and analyze six safeguards. These safeguards are not an attempt to revive the fee-for-service system, but an effort to make managed care ethical...

... Books Review Essay Commitment, Conservatism, and the Welfare State Eric Patashnik. Putting Trust in the U.S. Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 2000. 246 pp. $54.95 cloth; $19.95...

...Lawrence R. Jacobs Marie Gottschalk. The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. 320 pp. $47.50 cloth; $19.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002...

.... In elite rhetoric and political framing, Medicaid was increasingly cast as a broad-based social welfare entitlement of value to all Americans, including middle-class citizens. Some health care advocates began viewing Medicaid expansions as a potential path to achieving universal coverage in the United...

... of welfare state effects (redistribution, poverty reduction, and status preservation), and they test these assumptions by examining impacts of policy generosity on life expectancy (LE) over the last 40 years. Methods: The authors merge new and existing welfare policy generosity data from the Comparative...

..., the dynamics of this bridging function has differed in different phases of policy development (such as welfare-state establishment, retrenchment, and redesign), depending on the state of discourse in each realm. In the establishment phase in which most programs of universal health care coverage were adopted...

..., these imperatives did not seem so imperative. Instead of electoral risks, the main external constraints that Republicans faced related to the uneven entrenchment of the ACA, our next topic. The resilience of the welfare state is a result not just of its popularity among voters but also of its entrenchment...

...: Leaving the Decentralized Welfare Path? Karsten Vrangbæk University of Copenhagen Terkel Christiansen University...

...Brian K. Gran Jacob Hacker. The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 464 pp. $55.00 cloth; $23.00 paper. © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005...

...Laura A. Schmidt; James Wiley; Daniel Dohan; Denise Zabkiewicz; Laurie M. Jacobs; Stuart Henderson; Matthew Zivot Sharp declines in welfare rolls since the passage of welfare reform legislation have led many to label it a social policy success. Using data from prereform and postreform samples...

... , Edward . 1991 . America's Welfare State from Roosevelt to Reagan. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Cook , Fay , and Edith Barrett. 1992 . Support for the American Welfare State: The Views of Congress and the Public. New York: Columbia University Press. Culyer , A. J. 1986...

...Suzanne Mettler Andrea Louise Campbell. How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. 229 pp. $52.50 cloth; $19.95 paper. Duke University Press 2006 Soss, Joe. 2005 . Unwanted Claims...

...Steven Henry Lopez Jennifer Klein. For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. 376 pp. $22.95 cloth; $37.95 paper. Duke University Press 2006...

...Kieke G. H. Okma Paul Pierson. Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 213 pp. $17.95. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 References Heidenheimer , A. J. , H. Heclo, and C. Teich...

...Gerben DeJong The current debate on national health insurance has not given sufficient attention to the impact of various proposals upon income maintenance programs. Health and welfare benefits are difficult to coordinate and frequently work at cross purposes. Health care benefits are one...

... du risque,” in Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Econometrie, Paris 1953 , pp. 1 -20. 3 O. W. Anderson and Staff of theNational Opinion Research Center, Voluntary Health Insurance in Two Cities . Cambridge,Mass. 1957 . 4 K. J. Arrow, “Economic Welfare and the Allocation...

...Theodore R. Marmor Health policy debates rarely include broad review of cross-national experiences with related social policies. This article addresses the connection between medical policy concerns and the development of welfare states in the advanced industrial democracies following the oil...

... by the World Health Organization, INNs are a common, global, scientific nomenclature designed to overcome this failure. Taking stock after sixty years, we argue that the contribution of INNs to social welfare is paramount. They enhance public health by reducing errors and improving patient safety. They also...