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American health policy : critical issues for reform

Title
  1. American health policy : critical issues for reform / edited by Robert B. Helms.
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  1. Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Lanham, Md. : University Press of America [distributor], 1993.

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Additional authors
  1. Helms, Robert B.
Description
  1. xviii, 414 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Health insurance > United States
  2. Medical policy > United States
  3. Medical care, Cost of > United States
Contents
  1. Foreword / Christopher C. DeMuth -- 1. Introduction / Robert B. Helms -- Pt. 1. What, If Anything, Is Wrong With Private Health Insurance? 2. Problems and Prospects in Multiple-Option Health Plan Settings / Harold S. Luft. 3. Managed Competition - Why We Don't Have It and How We Can Get It / Richard Kronick. 4. Biased Selection - Fairness and Efficiency in Health Insurance Markets / Roger Feldman and Bryan E. Dowd. 5. Why Preserve Private Health Care Financing? / Clark C. Havighurst -- Commentary on Part One / Stanley B. Jones, G. Robert O'Brien and Carl J. Schramm -- The Nature of the Problem - Discussion of Part One -- Pt. 2. What Should Be the Role for the Private Sector in Improving Access to Health Care? 6. Mandated Benefits and Compensating Differentials - Taxing the Uninsured / Michael A. Morrisey. 7. The Dilemma of Affordability - Health Insurance for Small Businesses / Catherine G. McLaughlin -- Appendix 7-A: List of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Project Locations.
  2. 8. Regulating the Content of Health Plans / Gail A. Jensen -- Commentary on Part Two / William J. Dennis, Donald W. Moran and Stephen Zuckerman -- The Role of the Private Sector - Discussion of Part Two -- Pt. 3. What Can Reform Achieve in Health Care Cost - Containment? 9. Innovations and Impediments in Private Sector Initiatives / Jack A. Meyer. 10. Medicare as the Basis for All-Payer Provider Payment Reform / Karen Davis. 11. The Five W's of Utilization Review / David Dranove. 12. The Hidden Costs of Budget - Constrained Health Insurance Systems / Patricia M. Danzon -- Appendix 12-A: Calculation of Private Insurance Overhead -- Appendix 12-B: Costs of Nonprice Rationing of Physicians' Services -- Commentary on Part Three / Robert M. Crane, Michael D. Bromberg and H. E. Frech III -- Containing Health Care Cost - Discussion of Part Three -- Pt. 4. What Are the Choices Among Policies to Achieve Reform? 13. Why Is Health Care So Hard to Reform? / Mark V. Pauly.
  3. 14. The Search for Adaptable Health Policy Through Finance-Based Reform / C. Eugene Steuerle. 15. Elimination of Employer-Based Health Insurance / Warren Greenberg -- Commentary on Part Four / Henry J. Aaron, Stuart M. Butler and Deborah Steelman -- The Role of Choice in Health Policy Reform - Discussion of Part Four -- Pt. 5. The Politics of Health Policy Reform -- Commentary / Dave Durenberger, Bill Gradison, Karlyn H. Keene, Sander M. Levin and Neil Newhouse -- Health Reform Politics - Discussion of Part Five.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.