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Medicaid Contradictions: Adding, Subtracting, and Redeterminations in Illinois
States are required to conduct annual Medicaid redeterminations. How these redeterminations are undertaken is crucial to determining the nature of Medicaid coverage. There can be wide variations in the proportion of clients disenrolled, with potentially large numbers of people disenrolled each year. This case study of Illinois Medicaid shows how, as the Affordable Care Act added people, redeterminations were taking people off the rolls—about 25 percent of all Medicaid clients were disenrolled in one year. Many of these people were no longer eligible, but it appears that a larger number were in fact eligible but simpl...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Koetting, M. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Report on Health Reform Implementation Source Type: research

Measuring Medicaid Physician Participation Rates and Implications for Policy
Policy makers continue to debate Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, and concerns remain about low provider participation in the program. However, there has been little research on how various measures of physician participation may reflect different elements of capacity for care within the Medicaid program and how these distinct measures correlate with one another across states. Our objectives were to describe several alternative measures of provider participation in Medicaid using recently publicly available data, to compare state rankings across these different metrics, and to discuss potential advantages ...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Sommers, B. D., Kronick, R. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Research Brief Source Type: research

Informed or Misinformed Consent? Abortion Policy in the United States
This article presents the findings of a comprehensive study of state-authored informed consent materials regarding embryological and fetal development. To conduct this study, we recruited a panel of experts in human anatomy to assess the accuracy of these materials in the context of the constitutional standard established in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania et al. v. Robert P. Casey et al. (505 U.S. 833 (1992)): that such information must be "truthful" and "nonmisleading." We find that nearly one-third of the informed consent information is medically inaccurate, that inaccurate information is concentrated pr...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Daniels, C. R., Ferguson, J., Howard, G., Roberti, A. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

Does Increased Spending on Pharmaceutical Marketing Inhibit Pioneering Innovation?
The pharmaceutical industry has been criticized for developing and aggressively marketing drugs that do not provide significant health benefits relative to existing drugs but retain the benefits of patent protection. Critics argue that drug marketing increases health care expenditures and provides a disincentive for pioneering drug innovation. However, evidence that marketing expenditures have any relationship to new drug approvals has been anecdotal. We hypothesized that, at publicly traded pharmaceutical firms, increased marketing expenditures will result in a reduced volume of pioneering new drugs in comparison to less ...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Arnold, D. G., Troyer, J. L. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

Editor's Note
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Grogan, C. M. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Editor ' s Note Source Type: research

Pain: A Political History
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Stockbridge, E. L., Lykens, K. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Books Source Type: research

"Mind the Gap": Researchers Ignore Politics at Their Own Risk
No matter how distasteful researchers find policy politics, effective policy requires that they engage. Drawing on her career bridging the research/politics gap in health care policy, the author makes a case for why and how researchers can do just that. (Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law)
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Feder, J. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Active Voice Source Type: research

(Public) Health and Human Rights in Practice
Public health's reliance on law to define and carry out public activities makes it impossible to define a set of ethical principles unique to public health. Public health ethics must be encompassed within—and consistent with—a broader set of principles that define the power and limits of governmental institutions. These include human rights, health law, and even medical ethics. The human right to health requires governments not only to respect individual human rights and personal freedoms, but also, importantly, to protect people from harm from external sources and third parties, and to fulfill the health needs...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Annas, G. J., Mariner, W. K. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Point-Counterpoint Source Type: research

In the Name of Population Well-Being: The Case for Public Health Surveillance
Surveillance is the radar of public health. Without tracking, often by name, the incidence and prevalence of both infectious and chronic disease, health officials would be unable to understand where and how to potentially intervene or what resources might be required to protect populations. Surveillance without individual informed consent has been challenged in the name of both bioethics and human rights. In this article we contend that a robust conception of public health not only justifies surveillance but, without disregarding the need to respect individuals, provides an affirmative duty to engage in surveillance. There...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Fairchild, A. L., Bayer, R. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Point-Counterpoint Source Type: research

Public Health Surveillance and Human Rights
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Pollack, H. A. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Point-Counterpoint Source Type: research

What Health Care Reform Means for Immigrants: Comparing the Affordable Care Act and Massachusetts Health Reforms
This article examines the ACA reform using the Massachusetts reform as a comparative case study to outline how citizenship status influences individuals' coverage options under both policies. The article then briefly discusses other states that provide coverage to ACA-ineligible immigrants and the implications of uneven ACA implementation for immigrants and citizens nationwide. (Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law)
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Joseph, T. D. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Report on Health Reform Implementation Source Type: research

Institutional Knots: A Comparative Analysis of Cord Blood Policy in Canada and the United States
This article investigates potential reasons for this discrepancy through a comparative analysis of the evolution of programs and policies on national cord blood banking in Canada and the United States. My analysis suggests that cross-national discrepancies in policy on public cord blood banking were determined primarily by institutional factors, principal among them formal governmental structure and the legacy of past policies. Institutional entrepreneurialism in the health sector played a constitutive role in the earlier evolution of national cord blood policy in the United States as compared to Canada. (Source: Journal o...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Denburg, A. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

The Politics of Native American Health Care and the Affordable Care Act
This article examines an important but largely overlooked dimension of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), namely, its significance for Native American health care. The author maintains that reading the ACA against the politics of Native American health care policy shows that, depending on their regional needs and particular contexts, many Native Americans are well-placed to benefit from recent Obama-era reforms. At the same time, the kinds of options made available by the ACA constitute a departure from the service-based (as opposed to insurance-based) Indian Health Service (IHS). Accordingly, the author...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Skinner, D. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

Common Sense or Gun Control? Political Communication and News Media Framing of Firearm Sale Background Checks after Newtown
In this study, we examine the American public's exposure to competing arguments for and against federal- and state-level universal background check laws, which would require a background check prior to every firearm sale, in a large sample of national and regional news stories (n = 486) published in the year following the Newtown shooting. Competing messages about background check laws could influence the outcome of policy debates by shifting support and political engagement among key constituencies such as gun owners and conservatives. We found that news media messages in support of universal background checks were fact-b...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: McGinty, E. E., Wolfson, J. A., Sell, T. K., Webster, D. W. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

Editor's Note
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Grogan, C. M. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Editor ' s Note Source Type: research