Health policy on the high wire: thirteen days with a presidential campaign

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Recalling how the health care issue fared from Sep 8 to Sep 21 during Michael Dukakis's unsuccessful 1988 presidential campaign leads to several conclusions about health care and politics. These conclusions include the decisive influence of the electronic media and the necessity of making health care a first- rather than a second-tier issue if it is to receive adequate attention. Furthermore, the quick rise and fall of health care as an issue between Sep 18 and Sep 20 should caution health care advocates of future campaigns to observe such lessons in strategy as knowing the public mood and beginning early.

Personal narratives, Social policy, Presidential candidates, Political campaigns, Dukakis, Michael S.

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A policy transformed by politics: the case of the 1973 Australian Community Health Program

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Community health centers were considered as a form of health policy reform in Australia in the 1970s. Although the dominant reform became Medibank, a system of national health insurance, the health centers were instituted on a smaller scale than orginally conceived. As it turned out, the health centers complemented the Medibank program and served political purposes.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Accident & Health Insurance, Insurance Carriers, Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers, Legal/Government Regulation, Hospital and medical service plans, Medical Care Insurance, Laws, regulations and rules, Community health services, Health insurance, 1970s (Decade) AD

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State legislative staff influence in health policy making

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The authors discuss factors affecting the influence state legislative staff may have on the development of health policies, and constraints on their influence, which explain variations in influence in five states.

United States, States, Influence, Public employees, Government employees, Legislative bodies

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