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Tribute to Andy Hyman
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - March 15, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Howard, H. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

Diffusion of ACA Policies across the American States
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - March 15, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Editorial Note/Introduction Source Type: research

Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - January 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Brandon, W. P. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Books Source Type: research

Media Messages and Perceptions of the Affordable Care Act during the Early Phase of Implementation
Public opinion about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been polarized since the law's passage. Past research suggests these conditions would make any media influence on the public limited at best. However, during the early phase of implementation, locally broadcast ACA-related media messages—in the form of paid health insurance and political advertisements and news media stories—abounded as advocates, insurance marketers, and politicians sought to shape the public's perceptions of the law. To what extent did message exposure affect ACA perceptions during the first open enrollment period? We merge data on volume...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - January 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Fowler, E. F., Baum, L. M., Barry, C. L., Niederdeppe, J., Gollust, S. E. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Report on Health Reform Implementation Source Type: research

Directing Discipline: State Medical Board Responsiveness to State Legislatures
State medical boards are increasingly responsible for regulating medical and osteopathic licensure and professional conduct in the United States. Yet, there is great variation in the extent to which such boards take disciplinary action against physicians, indicating that some boards are more zealous regulators than others. We look to the political roots of such variation and seek to answer a simple, yet important, question: are nominally apolitical state medical boards responsive to political preferences? To address this question, we use panel data on disciplinary actions across sixty-four state medical boards from 1993 th...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - January 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Lillvis, D. F., McGrath, R. J. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

The Politics of Prevention: Lessons from the Neglected History of US HIV/AIDS Policy
This article draws on a large set of original interviews with policy makers, thousands of news articles, and extensive documentation to reconstruct the history of three areas of debate and decision making about HIV prevention since 1990: needle exchange, HIV testing, and sex education for at-risk groups. These histories illuminate three key lessons. First, scientific evidence has less power to drive public health policy in the United States than in the United Kingdom, which is used as a comparison case to contextualize US choices within a broader range of options. Second, moral concerns weigh so heavily in the United State...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - January 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Padamsee, T. J. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

Can Payment Reform Be Social Reform? The Lure and Liabilities of the "Triple Aim"
The formulation of the triple aim responds to three problems facing the US health care system: high cost, low quality, and poor health status. The purpose of this article is to analyze the potential of the health care system to achieve the triple aim and, specifically, the attempt to improve population health by rewarding providers who contain costs. The first section of the article will consider the task of improving population health through the health care system. The second section of the article will discuss CMS's efforts to pay providers to achieve the triple aim, that is, to improve health care and population health...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - January 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Tanenbaum, S. J. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

The New Politics of US Health Care Prices: Institutional Reconfiguration and the Emergence of All-Payer Claims Databases
Prices are a significant driver of health care cost in the United States. Existing research on the politics of health system reform has emphasized the limited nature of policy entrepreneurs’ efforts at solving the problem of rising prices through direct regulation at the state level. Yet this literature fails to account for how change agents in the states gradually reconfigured the politics of prices, forging new, transparency-based policy instruments called all-payer claims databases (APCDs), which are designed to empower consumers, purchasers, and states to make informed market and policy choices. Drawing on pragma...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - January 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Rocco, P., Kelly, A. S., Beland, D., Kinane, M. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

The Politics of Framing Policy Solutions and Whether Policies Address Problems
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - January 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Grogan, C. M. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Editor ' s Note Source Type: research

Books Received
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - November 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Books Received Source Type: research

Medicaid Politics and Policy
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - November 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Camillo, C. A. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Books Source Type: research

Medicaid Expansion in a Litmus State: The Missouri Struggle
For a century Missouri was a bellwether state in presidential elections, always picking the winner. Since 2008 it has been experiencing a partisan divide along urban/rural lines with President Obama losing the state twice. The battle over Medicaid expansion found a Democratic governor unable to convince a Republican legislative majority to support ACA-based expansion. The more highly partisan legislative environment has rendered traditional bargaining and negotiations impossible on the controversial question of Medicaid expansion. Despite supportive advocacy by hospitals and the business community, the Republican legislati...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - November 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Brasfield, J. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Report from the States Source Type: research

The Promise (and Pitfalls) of Public Health Policy Surveillance
Though public health policy surveillance is an integral tool in correlating the law to scientifically based public health law studies, drawing accurate legal conclusions from collected data can be challenging. Data may be of poor quality, inaccessible to law and policy makers, or inapplicable to other jurisdictions over time and place. As Burris et al. (2016) advocate, modern, sophisticated, and interactive data collection systems would render more precise legal analysis tied to public health improvements. Although policy surveillance is promising, public health officials, health care providers, attorneys, and researchers ...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - November 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Hodge, J. G. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Commentary Source Type: research

Policy Surveillance: A Vital Public Health Practice Comes of Age
This article makes the case for the practice of policy surveillance to help end the anomalous treatment of law in public health research and practice. Policy surveillance is the systematic, scientific collection and analysis of laws of public health significance. It meets several important needs. Scientific collection and coding of important laws and policies creates data suitable for use in rigorous evaluation studies. Policy surveillance addresses the chronic lack of readily accessible, nonpartisan information about status and trends in health legislation and policy. It provides the opportunity to build policy capacity i...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - November 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Burris, S., Hitchcock, L., Ibrahim, J., Penn, M., Ramanathan, T. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Commentary Source Type: research

Public Health Law and Institutional Vaccine Skepticism
Vaccine-hesitant parents are often portrayed as misinformed dilettantes clinging to unscientific Internet chatter and a debunked study that linked the MMR vaccine and autism. While this depiction may be an accurate portrayal of a small (but vocal) subset, scholars have unearthed a more complex picture that casts vaccine hesitancy in the context of broader notions of lack of trust in government and industry. At the same time, commentators have highlighted limitations of the vaccine injury compensation program and US Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg have argued that preemption laws that provide ...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - November 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Parasidis, E. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Commentary Source Type: research