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Responsive Partisanship: Public Support for the Clinton and Obama Health Care Plans
We examine the contours of support for the Clinton and Obama health care plans during the 1990s and 2000s based on our own compilation of 120,000 individual-level survey responses from throughout the debates. Despite the rise of the Tea Party, and the racialization of health care politics, opinion dynamics are remarkably similar in both periods. Party ID is the single most powerful predictor of support for reform and the president's handling of it. Contrary to prominent claims, after controlling for partisanship, demographic characteristics are at best weak predictors of support for reform. We also show that Clinton and Ob...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - September 15, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Kriner, D. L., Reeves, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Editor's Note
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - September 15, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Grogan, C. M., Miller, E. A. Tags: Editor ' s Note Source Type: research

Books Received
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 30, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: Books Received Source Type: research

Pharmaceutical Policy Reform in the Russian Federation
Of Russia's 142 million citizens, fewer than 20 million are enrolled in outpatient drug coverage plans. The current government aims to establish universal health insurance including outpatient medicines. Based on the current political and regulatory environment, this report explores pharmaceutical pricing options for Russia that balance greater access to medicines with achieving government plans of boosting local pharmaceutical production. To match innovative medicine prices with their health benefits, in the long run, we suggest that Russia consider adopting value-based pricing, and in the short term, that it introduce di...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 30, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Rudisill, C., Vandoros, S., Antoun, J. G. Tags: Report from Europe Source Type: research

Introduction
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 30, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Light, D. W. Tags: Report from Europe Source Type: research

As the Nation Goes, So Goes Maine?
Historically, Maine has been a state with generous safety net programs and a track record of innovative efforts in health system reform, developed under the leadership of Democratic administrations and with frequent support from moderate Republicans. But the 2010 elections in Maine dramatically changed the political balance of power, anointing both a governor and a legislature ideologically at odds with the state's recent political past. Maine has become a bastion of resistance to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, with a reduced Medicaid program, defunded state access initiative, and no state exchange. In add...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 30, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Kilbreth, E. Tags: Report from the States Source Type: research

Supporting the Needs of State Health Policy Makers through University Partnerships
State Medicaid programs and other state health agencies need to monitor and evaluate changes in health insurance coverage, access to care, financing, and the quality of health care delivery. The availability of new financial resources through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is accompanied by raised expectations for such accountability. While state agencies often contract with universities on an ad hoc basis for specific policy projects, fourteen states have established formal state-university partnerships so that their analytic and technical needs can be addressed more readily. After a brief overview of thes...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 30, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Heller, D. J., Hoffman, C., Bindman, A. B. Tags: Report on Health Reform Implementation Source Type: research

Why FCTC Policies Have Not Been Implemented in China: Domestic Dynamics and Tobacco Governance
The international community, under the auspices of the World Health Organization, developed the landmark Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) to curb the global tobacco epidemic. As an internationally binding convention about global best practices on tobacco control, the FCTC has become an overriding source of policy transfer for developing countries in the fight against smoking. However, since its ratification of the first global norm over tobacco governance and against the grim background of the widespread tobacco-induced public health devastation within its borders, China has failed to genuinely pursue FCTC po...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 30, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Jin, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Evolving Norms at the Intersection of Health and Trade
There has been growing tension at the intersection of health and economic policy making as global governance has increased across sectors. This tension has been particularly evident between tobacco control and trade policy, as the international norms that frame them — particularly the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the World Trade Organization (WTO) — have continued to institutionalize. Using five case studies of major tobacco-related trade disputes from the principal multilateral system of trade governance — the WTO/General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade — we trace the evolution of the...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 30, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Drope, J., Lencucha, R. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Public Health and Agenda Setting: Determinants of State Attention to Tobacco and Vaccines
What determines government attention to emerging health issues? We draw on research in agenda setting and policy diffusion to explore the determinants of public health attention in the fifty American states. We find that intergovernmental influence has a strong and consistent influence over state attention to tobacco and vaccines from 1990 to 2010. While national attention to tobacco or vaccines also sparks attention in the states, this effect is smaller than the internal impact of gubernatorial attention and the horizontal influence of neighboring state attention. We find some support that problem severity matters; howeve...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 30, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Pacheco, J., Boushey, G. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

When Tobacco Targets Direct Democracy
Tobacco control advocates began to use ballot initiatives to enact tobacco control measures in the late 1970s. In response, the tobacco industry worked for over two decades to change laws governing initiative and referendum processes to prevent passage of such measures. In 1981 the tobacco industry's political lobbying arm, the Tobacco Institute, created a front group that presented itself as a neutral initiative research clearinghouse to effect changes in state initiative and referenda laws. In 1990 the Tobacco Institute began creating an in-house team and worked with third-party groups to try to change state initiative l...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 30, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Laposata, E., Kennedy, A. P., Glantz, S. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Cancer Prevention through Stealth: Science, Policy Advocacy, and Multilevel Governance in the Establishment of a "National Tobacco Control Regime" in the United States
This article investigates how the government initiated and sustained a program of "capacity building" through the scientific authority of the National Cancer Institute, beginning in the 1980s. There are several major questions to be answered: (1) How did this program manage to be adopted and sustained despite the well-documented hindrances to effective tobacco control policy at the federal level? (2) How did a tobacco control policy program become incorporated into the scientific research agenda of the National Cancer Institute? (3) How have science, social factors, and government at various levels interacted in this capac...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 30, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Studlar, D. T. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Editor's Note
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 30, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Grogan, C. M. Tags: Editor ' s Note Source Type: research

Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know * A New Era in U.S. Health Care: Critical Next Steps under the Affordable Care Act
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Cummings, S. M. Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Once You Know, You Are Responsible: The Road from Scholar to Activist
Conventional wisdom usually argues that academic research should be conducted with the highest level of objectivity possible. I seek to turn that argument on its head and suggest that taking sides, even pursuing activist tactics, in support of our subjects' goals may be not only desirable but also the most ethical option. Drawing on my own experiences with research and activism in HIV/AIDS, first in the United States and later in East Africa, I present the case for the mutually beneficial relationship between scholarship and activism. (Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law)
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Siplon, P. D. Tags: Active Voice Source Type: research