Health Care Policy Reform in America - Innovations from the States

This completely new edition of a best-selling text for practitioners and policy analysts alike tracks the increasingly important role of the states in U.S. health care policy reform and the experience that policy-innovating states have accumulated to date. The first part of the book deals with health issues common to all states. Chapter 1 shows how the states have, by default and design, become the "laboratories" of health care reform and reviews the challenges faced by the states in dealing with rising health care costs, declining insurance coverage of the population (about 35 million uninsured), and the transfer of programmatic responsibility in health policy from the federal to the state level. Chapters 2-5 deal with the states' policy competence and capacity and their role in managed care; health insurance market reform; and Medicaid. Chapters 6-10 examine the successes and failures of notable health policy reform efforts in Hawaii, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont, and Kansas."Health care workers, policy-makers, social scientists, and the general public have much to gain by reading this book". -- Choice (on the first edition)

List of contents

Health Care Reform in America: back to the laboratories, The Competence of States and the health of the public, State Government and Health Insurance Market Reform, Medicaid Managed Care, The Federal-State relationship in health care reform, Rationing of health care in Oregon, Hawaii: the health state revisited, The Little State that could-couldn't: Vermont, Health care reform in Minnesota, Health care reform in Kansas.

About the author

Howard M. Leichter

Summary

This work tracks the role of the states in US health care policy reform. It reviews the challenges faced by the states in dealing with rising costs and looks at their policy competence and role in managed care, whilst focusing on the outcomes of policy reform in states such as Hawaii and Oregon.

Product details

• Authors: Howard M. Leichter, Leichter Howard M.
• Assisted by: Howard M. Leichter (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781563248993
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-899-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Sozialwesen und soziale Dienste, Gesundheitssystem und Gesundheitswesen, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Social welfare & social services, United States of America, USA, Social welfare and social services, Central / national / federal government policies, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Central government policies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Health Care