Economists, policy entrepreneurs, and health care reform
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- The new, `hidden' socialism. // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;4/11/94, Vol. 21 Issue 17, p15
Cites an article in the March 28, 1994 issue of `Forbes' in which Peter Brimelow explains that the health care plan proposed by President Bill Clinton is driven by the need to compel private companies to pay for expanding social programs. Clinton's intention that 80% of the cost of extending...
- Health economics outlook: Two theories of health economics. Musgrave, Gerald L. // Business Economics;Apr95, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p7
Provides two theories and suggestions for health care reform in the United States. Diffuse nature of the health care industry; Political influence of suppliers; Views on health, health care goods and services, medicine and economics; Policy alternatives.
- The great health system reform myths of the 1990s. Hixson, Jesse S. // Business Economics;Apr95, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p14
Describes various myths and falsehoods in the American health care system. Political feasibility of the health care system; Approaches to correcting structural economic problems in the health care system; Benefits of competition between health plans.
- Getting it right on health care reform. Wiener, Joshua M. // Brookings Review;Winter94, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p5
Opinion. Discusses issues surrounding the Bill Clinton Health Care Plan. Government-run national health insurance plan versus market-oriented reform plan; Taxation problems for the government-run model; Assessment of alternative; Cost containment method; Assessment of tax cap included in the...
- How to share the burden. Weiner, Joshua M.; Illston, Laura Hixon // Brookings Review;Spring94, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p16
Discusses the economic aspects of long-term health care reform in the 1990s. Rising costs of health care and nursing homes for the elderly; Increasing strain on the American economy; Proposal of the Bill Clinton administration on long term-health care; Public and private sector initiatives;...
- Money talks. Conlan, Michael F. // Drug Topics;8/22/94, Vol. 138 Issue 16, p64
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- Determining the dollar value of illness. // FoodReview;Sep-Dec93, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p57
Informs on how the dollar value of illness is determined. Why costs of foodborne illness are societal benefits foregone; What cost of illness (COI) estimates include; Medical costs; Productivity loss; Lives lost; Landefeld and Seskin's estimates of these values; Fisher, Chestnut and Violette's...
- Three new seminars added to fall 1994 HFMEF calendar. // hfm (Healthcare Financial Management);Jul94, Vol. 48 Issue 7, p16
Reports on the addition of three seminars to the Healthcare Financial Management Educational Foundation's fall 1994 calendar. Titles; Topics covered; Date and venue; Contact information.
- HFMEF launches Managed Care Institute this fall. // hfm (Healthcare Financial Management);Aug84, Vol. 48 Issue 8, p16
Reports on Healthcare Financial Management Educational Foundation's (HFMEF) launching of `The 1994 Managed Care Institute--Critical Success Factors for Capitation.' Date and venue; Design; Purpose of the institute; Offerings.
- Introducing fees for services with professional certainty. Flierman, Henk A.; Groenewegen, Peter P. // Health Care Financing Review;Fall92, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p107
Surveys a change in payment system of general practitioners from capitation to a mix of one-half capitation and one-half fee for service in Copenhagen, Denmark. Rate of increase between services; Effect of the introduction of fees for services in 1987; Changes in single diagnostic and curative...
