Contemporary Health Policy

by Longest, Beaufort B.

• ISBN13: 9781567931396
• ISBN10: 1567931391
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Foundation of the Amer College

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction to the Readings	1	(8)
Part I Relationships Between Health Policy and Health
Health and Health Policy	9	(30)
Beaufort B. Longest, Jr.
Medicare's Social Contract	39	(26)
Stuart Butler
Theda Skocpol
Robert M.Ball
E.J. Dionne
Rules of the Game: How Public Policy Affects Local Health Care Markets	65	(14)
Loel S. Solomon
Do Different Funding Mechanisms Produce Different Results? The Implications of Family Planning for Fiscal Federalism	79	(30)
Deborah R. McFarlane
Kenneth J. Meier
Sliding-Scale Premium Health Insurance Programs: Four States' Experiences	109	(16)
Leighton Ku
Teresa A. Coughlin
The States and Health Care Reform: The Road Traveled and Lessons Learned from Seven that Took the Lead	125	(40)
Pamela A. Paul-Shaheen
Part II Key Contemporary Health Policy Issues
The Political Economy of Medicare	165	(14)
Bruce C. Vladeck
A Framework for Considering Medicare Payment Policy Issues	179	(42)
The Dilemmas of Incrementalism: Logical and Political Constraints in the Design of Health Insurance Reforms	221	(38)
Thomas R. Oliver
Setting Performance Standards and Expectations for Patient Safety	259	(22)
Janet Corrigan
Linda Kohn
Molla Donaldson
Error in Medicine: Legal Impediments to U.S. Reform	281	(30)
Bryan A. Liang
Strengthening Consumer Protection: Priorities for Health Care Workforce Regulation	311	(40)
Leonard J. Finocchio
Catherine M. Dower
Noelle T. Blick
Christine M. Gragnola
The Changing Nature of Health Professions Education	351	(32)
John Naughton
Litigation and Public Health Policy Making: The Case of Tobacco Control	383	(34)
Peter D. Jacobson
Kenneth E. Warner
Social Movements as Catalysts for Policy Change: The Case of Smoking and Guns	417	(66)
Constance A. Nathanson
Genetic Privacy and Confidentiality: Why They Are So Hard to Protect	483	(12)
Mark A. Rothstein
Antitrust Enforcement in the Healthcare Industry: The Expanding Scope of State Activity	495	(18)
Fred J. Hellinger
Part III The Contemporary American Healthcare System
Expenditures	513	(14)
John K. Iglehart
Health Insurance Coverage	527	(12)
Robert Kuttner
Medicare	539	(14)
John K. Iglehart
Medicaid	553	(14)
John K. Iglehart
Index	567