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Workshop Democracy: Making Policy In Cote D'Ivoire, Max Levin
Workshop Democracy: Making Policy In Cote D'Ivoire, Max Levin
Max Levin
Development experts would benefit from a better understanding of how policy is made in developing countries. In this article, I describe how health policy is made in Cote d’Ivoire, from the perspective of a Westerner embedded in the Ministry of Health for 10 months. I provide a narrative of how one health system reform—performance-based financing—moved from policy idea to enacted reform. I describe the origins of the reform in Cote d’Ivoire, how the government came to support the reform, and then the mechanics of how the reform was enacted. I then present observations on how policymaking in Cote d’Ivoire differs …
Reform Of The United States Health Care System: An Overview, Robert B. Leflar
Reform Of The United States Health Care System: An Overview, Robert B. Leflar
Robert B Leflar
This essay, written for readers unfamiliar with the details of American health law and policy, portrays the essential features of the battle for health reform in the United States and of the law that survived the battle: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The essay summarizes key aspects of the U.S. health care system and how it compares in terms of costs and results with other advanced nations’ systems. The political and legal conflicts leading up to and following PPACA’s enactment are described. The major features of the law, attempting to address problems of access to health care, …
Reform Of The United States Health Care System: An Overview, Robert B. Leflar
Reform Of The United States Health Care System: An Overview, Robert B. Leflar
Robert B Leflar
This essay, written for readers unfamiliar with the details of American health law and policy, portrays the essential features of the battle for health reform in the United States and of the law that survived the battle: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The essay summarizes key aspects of the U.S. health care system and how it compares in terms of costs and results with other advanced nations’systems. The political and legal conflicts leading up to and following PPACA’s enactment are described. The major features of the law, attempting to address problems of access to health care, quality, …
Commerce Games And The Individual Mandate, Leslie Meltzer Henry, Maxwell L. Stearns
Commerce Games And The Individual Mandate, Leslie Meltzer Henry, Maxwell L. Stearns
Leslie Meltzer Henry
While the Supreme Court declined an early invitation to resolve challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”), a recent split between the United States Courts of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (sustaining the PPACA’s “individual mandate”) and the Eleventh Circuit (striking it down) virtually ensures that the Court will decide the fate of this centerpiece of the Obama Administration’s regulatory agenda. Whatever the Court’s decision, it will likely affect Commerce Clause doctrine- and related doctrines - for years or even decades to come. Litigants, judges, and academic commentators have focused on whether the Court’s “economic activity” tests, …
Reasons To Pass Health Reform, Robert B. Leflar, Hershey Garner Md
Reasons To Pass Health Reform, Robert B. Leflar, Hershey Garner Md
Robert B Leflar
Column 5 (of 5) on the health reform debate
Health Reform: Arkansas Impacts, Robert B. Leflar
Health Reform: Arkansas Impacts, Robert B. Leflar
Robert B Leflar
Column 4 (of 5) on the health reform debate
Towards A New Moral Paradigm In Health Care Delivery: Accounting For Individuals, Meir Katz
Towards A New Moral Paradigm In Health Care Delivery: Accounting For Individuals, Meir Katz
Meir Katz
For years, commentators have debated how to most appropriately allocate scarce medical resources over large populations. In this paper, I abstract the major rationing schema into three general approaches: rationing by price, quantity, and prioritization. Each has both normative appeal and considerable weakness. After exploring them, I present what some commentators have termed the “moral paradigm” as an alternative to broader philosophies designed to encapsulate the universe of options available to allocators (often termed the market, professional, and political paradigms). While not itself an abstraction of any specific viable rationing scheme, it provides a strong basis for the development of …
Medical Malpractice Reform?, Robert B. Leflar
Medical Malpractice Reform?, Robert B. Leflar
Robert B Leflar
Column 3 (of 5) on health reform: Medical malpractice reform proposals
Health Bills: What's At The Core, Robert B. Leflar
Health Bills: What's At The Core, Robert B. Leflar
Robert B Leflar
Column 2 (of 5) on the health reform debate: explanation of the legislation.
Health Care: Yellow Lights, Red Flags, Robert B. Leflar
Health Care: Yellow Lights, Red Flags, Robert B. Leflar
Robert B Leflar
Column 1 (of 5) on the health reform debate
Beyond I-Got-Mine-Jack Health Care, Erin Ryan
Beyond I-Got-Mine-Jack Health Care, Erin Ryan
Erin Ryan
This op-ed urges those who warn that health care reform will lead to rationing not to forsake the victims of the rationing we already have, with a personal story.