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Robert I. Field

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Government As The Crucible For Free Market Health Care: Regulation, Reimbursement, And Reform, Robert Field May 2011

Government As The Crucible For Free Market Health Care: Regulation, Reimbursement, And Reform, Robert Field

Robert I. Field

Political debates over economic policy commonly pit the virtues of the free market against those of government oversight. Regulatory policy then becomes an ongoing contest between the public and private sectors, infusing policy debates with a sense that it is necessary to choose between them. On closer examination, this duality is false. On a fundamental level, free-market entrepreneurs and government regulators are not opponents, but are, on the contrary, partners in a common enterprise. Across a range of major industries, one party could not exist without the other. In no industry is this interplay more important than in health care. …


A Proposed Ethical Framework For Vaccine Mandates: Competing Values And The Case Of Hpv, Robert I. Field, Arthur L. Caplan May 2008

A Proposed Ethical Framework For Vaccine Mandates: Competing Values And The Case Of Hpv, Robert I. Field, Arthur L. Caplan

Robert I. Field

Debates over vaccine mandates raise intense emotions, as reflected in the current controversy over whether to mandate the vaccine against human papilloma virus (HPV), the virus that can cause cervical cancer. Public health ethics so far has failed to facilitate meaningful dialogue between the opposing sides. When stripped of its emotional charge, the debate can be framed as a contest between competing ethical values. This framework can be conceptualized graphically as a conflict between autonomy on the one hand, which militates against government intrusion, and beneficence, utilitarianism, justice, and nonmaleficence on the other, which may lend support to intervention. When …


A Taxonomy Of American Health Care Regulation: Implications For Health Reform, Robert I. Field Dec 2007

A Taxonomy Of American Health Care Regulation: Implications For Health Reform, Robert I. Field

Robert I. Field

No abstract provided.


How Can We Improve Drug Safety?, Robert I. Field Oct 2007

How Can We Improve Drug Safety?, Robert I. Field

Robert I. Field

No abstract provided.


Health Savings Accounts, Robert Field Dec 2006

Health Savings Accounts, Robert Field

Robert I. Field

Despite the increasing “consumer-like” role of patients in choosing health savings accounts (HSAs), do these plans nonetheless leave those who are most sick and vulnerable out in the cold? And what will be the impact of HSAs on Medicare?


Beyond Drug Coverage: The Cumulative Effect Of Privatization Reforms In The Medicare Modernization Act, Robert I. Field, Richard G. Stefanacci Dec 2006

Beyond Drug Coverage: The Cumulative Effect Of Privatization Reforms In The Medicare Modernization Act, Robert I. Field, Richard G. Stefanacci

Robert I. Field

No abstract provided.


Regulation Of Homeopathic Drug Products, John Borneman, Robert Field Dec 2005

Regulation Of Homeopathic Drug Products, John Borneman, Robert Field

Robert I. Field

No abstract provided.


The Future Of Public Health: What Will It Take To Keep Americans Healthy And Safe?, Robert Field Aug 2005

The Future Of Public Health: What Will It Take To Keep Americans Healthy And Safe?, Robert Field

Robert I. Field

No abstract provided.


What Will Medicaid Look Like In 2010?, Robert Field Jul 2004

What Will Medicaid Look Like In 2010?, Robert Field

Robert I. Field

No abstract provided.


What Should Medicare Look Like In 2010?, Robert Field Aug 2003

What Should Medicare Look Like In 2010?, Robert Field

Robert I. Field

No abstract provided.


Toward A Policy Agenda On Medical Research Funding, Robert Field, Barbara Plager, Rebecca Baranowski, Mary Anne Healy, Margaret Longacre Apr 2003

Toward A Policy Agenda On Medical Research Funding, Robert Field, Barbara Plager, Rebecca Baranowski, Mary Anne Healy, Margaret Longacre

Robert I. Field

No abstract provided.


The Financial Impact Of Over-The-Counter Availability Of Oral Contraceptive Pills, Mingfang Zhu, Albert Wertheimer, Robert Field Dec 2001

The Financial Impact Of Over-The-Counter Availability Of Oral Contraceptive Pills, Mingfang Zhu, Albert Wertheimer, Robert Field

Robert I. Field

The oral contraceptive pill has been safely and effectively used for over 40 years. It seems reasonable to ask whether the pill should be made available over-the-counter (OTC) without a physician's prescription. If so, what will be the subsequent change in cost due to OTC pill availability? A cost-effectiveness model was adapted and modified to estimate the current contraceptive methods' cost and OTC pill availability cost. The possible changes from other contraceptive methods to the use of a potential OTC pill were assumed in this study. Using a predictive model, it was found that in the United States alone, nearly …


Can Health Systems Heal Themselves?, Robert Field Sep 2001

Can Health Systems Heal Themselves?, Robert Field

Robert I. Field

No abstract provided.


New Ethical Relationships Under Health Care's New Structure: The Need For A New Paradigm, Robert I. Field Dec 1997

New Ethical Relationships Under Health Care's New Structure: The Need For A New Paradigm, Robert I. Field

Robert I. Field

No abstract provided.


Quality In The Physician-Patient Relationship: Legal Trends As Facilitators Of Business Trends, Robert I. Field Dec 1995

Quality In The Physician-Patient Relationship: Legal Trends As Facilitators Of Business Trends, Robert I. Field

Robert I. Field

No abstract provided.