Regulatory regimes and state cost containment programs
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Kenneth E. Thorpe shows that decentralized multipayer systems of provider reimbursement can work as well as Canada's single-payer system at controlling health care costs. Decentralized multipayer systems exist in several US states. However, Thorpe fails to give details about the political bargaining between providers and payers that he says allows multipayer systems to function. A more careful analysis of cost containment in New York and Massachusetts shows that federal officials planning national health care reform should study state techniques for reining in hospital costs.
Publication Name: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0361-6878
Year: 1993
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Dynamics without change: the new generation
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The author discusses state health care reform efforts in the 1990s. Topics include the new emphasis on markets and decentralization of power, the lack of broad popular support for reform efforts, and the limitations of incremental improvements in health care insurance.
Publication Name: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0361-6878
Year: 2000
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The politics of reform
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The author discusses problems faced by state policy-makers in promoting health care reforms and in reshaping the market for individual health insurance.
Publication Name: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0361-6878
Year: 2000
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