Intensive Care How Congress Shapes Health Policy

by Ornstein, Norman J.; Mann, Thomas E.

• ISBN13: 9780815754633
• ISBN10: 0815754639
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

This volume weighs the importance of Congress in the failure to enact health reform by examining more broadly how Congress shapes health policy--on matters ranging from ambitious plans to achieve universal health insurance coverage to annual appropriations for public health agencies.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Introduction	p. 1
Congressional Structures and Processes	p. 23
Committees and Health Jurisdictions in Congress	p. 25
Budgeting and Health Policymaking	p. 53
How Health Policy Information is Used in Congress	p. 79
Congressional Oversight of Health Policy	p. 127
Health Policymaking	p. 143
Congress's "Catastrophic" Attempt to Fix Medicare	p. 145
Congress and Health Care Reform 1993-94	p. 181
How a Bill Did Not Become a Law	p. 227
Notes	p. 273
Index	p. 305
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