Politics, Health, and Health Care : Selected Essays

by Theodore R. Marmor and Rudolf Klein

• ISBN13: 9780300110876
• ISBN10: 0300110871
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2012-07-01
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Two towering figures in the field of health care policy analysis, Theodore R. Marmor and Rudolf Klein, reflect on a lifetime of thought in this wide-ranging collection of essays published in the wake of President Obama's health care reform. Presented as a kind of dialogue between the two, the book offers their recent writings on the future of Medicare; universal health insurance; conflicts of interest among physicians, regulators, and patients; and many other topics.

Author Biography

Theodore R. Marmor is professor emeritus of public policy, management, and political science at Yale University. Rudolf Klein is professor of social policy emeritus at the University of Bath.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Politics and Policy Analysis: Fundamentals	p. 1
What's Special About Health Care and Its Politics?	p. 22
The High Politics of Systems Change Over Time	p. 34
American Health Care Policy and Politics: The Promise and Perils of Reform	p. 37
Medicare's Future: Fact, Fiction and Folly	p. 53
From Church to Garage	p. 89
High Politics, Or Explanations of Great Conflicts in the World of Health Care	p. 102
The Politics of the Big Bang	p. 104
The Politics of Universal Health Insurance: Lessons for and from the 1990s	p. 127
Ideas: Movements and Influence	p. 152
Fads in Medical Care Policy and Politics: The Rhetoric and Reality of Managerialism	p. 155
The Politics of Medical Inflation	p. 176
The Great Transformation	p. 192
O'Goffe's Tale: Or What Can We Learn from the Success of the Capitalist Welfare States?	p. 201
Values, Policies, and Programs	p. 212
Values, Institutions and Health Policies: A Comparative Perspective	p. 214
Values Talk in the (English) NHS	p. 242
The State and the Medical Profession	p. 252
Doctors, Politics and Pay Disputes: "Pressure Group Politics" Revisited	p. 255
Constitutional and Distributional Conflict in British Medical Politics: The Case of General Practice, 1911-1991	p. 274
No Analysis without Comparison	p. 295
Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care	p. 297
Learning from Others: Shall the Last Be the First?	p. 319
Resources and Rationing	p. 329
Cutting Waste by Making Rules: Promises, Pitfalls, and Realistic Prospects	p. 332
The Politics of Health Care Rationing: Lessons from Oregon	p. 359
Rationing Health Care: The Dilemma of Choice	p. 380
Viagra: A Success Story for Rationing? A Possible Blueprint for Coverage of Other New, Much-Promoted Drugs	p. 387
Patients, Consumers, and Citizens	p. 403
The Politics of Participation	p. 406
Representing Consumer Interests: The Case of American Health Planning	p. 421
The Politics of Panics	p. 443
The Comparative Politics of Contaminated Blood: From Hesitancy to Scandal	p. 445
The Power of Professionalism: Policies for AIDS in Britain, Sweden, and the United States	p. 464
Politics of Health Crusades	p. 481
Tobacco Control in Comparative Perspective: Eight Nations in Search of an Explanation	p. 484
New Paradigms: Health Care to Population Health	p. 504
A New Perspective on Health: Learning from Lalonde?	p. 507
Acceptable Inequalities	p. 521
Coda: Looking Back, Looking Forward	p. 538
Credits	p. 541
Index	p. 545
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