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Voucherizing Medicare
This article explores the evolving language of Medicare reform and recent conflicts over "voucherizing" Medicare. The Medicare reform debate is, in part, a contest over how to frame policy alternatives in order to enhance (or diminish) their political viability. "Voucherizing" has emerged as a powerful rhetorical weapon in that fight. Yet the accompanying debate is often misleading about both the current state of Medicare and the necessity of altering its programmatic structure to ensure future stability. (Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law)
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Oberlander, J. Tags: Behind the Jargon Source Type: research

Essential Health Benefits and the Affordable Care Act: Law and Process
This article explores two questions. First, is the state-by-state approach a lawful exercise of HHS's authority? Second, did HHS in fact evade the procedural obligations that are meant to shape the exercise of its discretion? (Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law)
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Bagley, N., Levy, H. Tags: Report on Health Reform Implementation Source Type: research

Relative Value Health Insurance
This article proposes a new paradigm for rationalizing health care expenditures called "relative value health insurance," a product that would enable consumers to purchase health insurance that covers cost-effective treatments but excludes cost-ineffective treatments. A combination of legal and informational impediments prevents private insurers from marketing this type of product today, but creative use of comparative effectiveness research, funded as a part of health care reform, could make relative value health insurance possible. Data deficits, adverse selection risks, and heterogeneous values among consumers create ob...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Korobkin, R. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Maternity Leave Duration and Postpartum Mental and Physical Health: Implications for Leave Policies
This study examines the association of leave duration with depressive symptoms, mental health, physical health, and maternal symptoms in the first postpartum year, using a prospective cohort design. Eligible employed women, eighteen years or older, were interviewed in person at three Minnesota hospitals while hospitalized for childbirth in 2001. Telephone interviews were conducted at six weeks (N = 716), twelve weeks (N = 661), six months (N = 625), and twelve months (N = 575) after delivery. Depressive symptoms (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale), mental and physical health (SF-12 Health Survey), and maternal childbirt...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Dagher, R. K., McGovern, P. M., Dowd, B. E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Going for the Cure: Patient Interest Groups and Health Advocacy in the United States
Citizen groups, though celebrated during their sudden arrival on the lobbying scene, are vastly outnumbered by groups representing elite, occupationally based interests. Sensitive to the odds that nonoccupational groups face, this study asks what factors have allowed patient groups to form and become active in federal politics. Using three distinct data sets — a survey of patient groups, content analysis of group websites, and in-depth interviews with group representatives and policy makers in Washington, DC — this study assesses the activities of patient groups in the United States and argues that patient advo...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Keller, A. C., Packel, L. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Framing Incremental Expansions to Public Health Insurance Systems: The Case of Canadian Pharmacare
Canada is the only country in the world to offer universal comprehensive public health insurance that excludes outpatient prescription medicines. Few scholars have attempted to explain this policy puzzle. We study media coverage of prescription drug financing from 1990 to 2010 to elucidate how the policy problem and potential solutions have been framed in media discourse and identify the actors that have dominated media texts. We confirm previous analyses that have revealed the significant role played by policy elites in media coverage of health reform debates. We also find that proposed expansions to public coverage are p...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Daw, J. R., Morgan, S. G., Collins, P. A., Abelson, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Participation without Representation? Senior Opinion, Legislative Behavior, and Federal Health Reform
Why do legislators sometimes engage in behavior that deviates from the expressed policy preferences of constituents who participate in politics at high rates? We examine this puzzle in the context of Democratic legislators' representation of their senior citizen constituents on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). We find that legislators' roll-call votes on the ACA did not reflect the stated preferences of their respective senior constituents; by contrast, these roll-call votes did reflect the preferences of nonsenior adults. We draw upon a theoretical framework developed by Mansbridge to explain ...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Bradley, K. W. V., Chen, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Editor's Note
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Grogan, C. M. Tags: Editor ' s Note Source Type: research