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Index to Volume 40
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Index to Volume 40 Source Type: research

Books Received
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Books Received Source Type: research

Medicaid in Ohio: The Politics of Expansion, Reauthorization, and Reform
When, in 2012, the US Supreme Court held that Medicaid expansion sanctioned by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was essentially optional for states, it ushered in a newly contentious state politics. States led by Republican governors and legislatures opposed to the ACA had to decide whether to accept extensive federal funding to expand Medicaid for citizens in their states who were earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. This Report from the States focuses on Ohio, whose Republican governor successfully navigated the rancorous politics of Medicaid to expand the state's program in 2014. Working at odds with his...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Skinner, D. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Report from the States Source Type: research

State Innovation Waivers: Redrawing the Boundaries of the ACA
This article discusses possible waiver strategies aimed at exchange sustainability, coverage expansion, delivery system reform, and more. States have the option to make small, targeted fixes or bring more sweeping changes to their health landscapes. Though the application process is involved and states must still accomplish the aims of the ACA, 1332 waivers give them the opportunity to tailor the law to local politics, markets, and health systems. (Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law)
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Howard, H., Benshoof, G. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Report on Health Reform Implementation Source Type: research

Covered California: The Impact of Provider and Health Plan Market Power on Premiums
We describe the market shares of health plans in California and in each of the nineteen rating regions. We examine the empirical relationship between measures of provider market concentration — spanning health plans, hospitals, and medical groups — and rating region premiums. To do this, we analyze premiums for silver and bronze plans for specific age groups. We find both medical group concentration and hospital concentration to be positively associated with premiums, while health plan concentration is not statistically significant. We simulate the impact of reducing hospital concentration to levels that would ...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Scheffler, R. M., Kessell, E., Brandt, M. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

Reevaluating Reports of Defensive Medicine
We present new survey evidence on physician assessment of their own use of medically unnecessary care in response to medical liability and other pressures, including a randomized evaluation of the sensitivity of those responses to survey framing. We find that while use of such care is potentially quite prevalent, responses vary substantially based on survey framing, with the way the question is phrased driving differences in responses that are often as great as those driven by physician specialty or whether the physician has personally been named in a lawsuit. These results suggest that self-reported use of medically unnec...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Baicker, K., Wright, B. J., Olson, N. A. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

The Bodies Politic: Chronic Health Conditions and Voter Turnout in the 2008 Election
In this study, we use data from eight states from the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey to examine the associations between having diagnoses of five chronic conditions and turnout in the 2008 US presidential election. After adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics and some health-related confounding factors, we find that individuals with cancer diagnoses are more likely to vote, while those with heart disease diagnoses are less likely to vote. These associations differ by race and educational status; notably, African Americans and those with lower education with cancer are even more likely to turn out t...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - February 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Gollust, S. E., Rahn, W. M. 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 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Grogan, C. M. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Editor ' s Note Source Type: research

Block Granting Medicaid: A Model for Twenty-First Century Health Reform?
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - November 30, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Sparer, M. S. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Books Source Type: research

Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - November 30, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Baird, K. L. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Books Source Type: research

The Remarkable Staying Power of "Death Panels"
Sarah Palin's phrase "death panels" derailed proposed provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to pay physicians for end-of-life discussions with patients, a policy designed to make dying more humane, something all Americans desire. Even now, "death panels" has truth-value for approximately half of Americans and is used to paint ACA components as threatening to "pull the plug on Grandma." How can this be? To some, the death panels claim is simply a lie, an improvised explosive device hurled against any ACA provision. To others, the phrase's power stems from the public's lack of a common vocabulary to discuss end-of-life...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - November 30, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Frankford, D. M. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Behind the Jargon Source Type: research

The Impact of the ACA on Premiums: Evidence from the Self-Employed
This article examines the impact of the Affordable Care Act on premiums by studying a segment of the nongroup market, the self-employed. Because self-employed health insurance premiums are deductible, tax data contain comprehensive individual-level information on the premiums paid by this group prior to the establishment of health insurance exchanges. We compare these prior premiums to reference silver premiums available on the exchanges and find that exchange premiums are 4.2 percent higher on average among the entire sample but 42.3 percent lower on average after taxes and subsidies. We also examine which type of exchang...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - November 30, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Heim, B. T., Hunter, G., Lurie, I. Z., Ramnath, S. P. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Report on Health Reform Implementation Source Type: research

The Politics of Universal Health Coverage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Framework for Evaluation and Action
This article proposes a theory-based framework for analyzing the politics of health reform for universal health coverage, according to four stages in the policy cycle (agenda setting, design, adoption, and implementation) and four variables that affect reform (interests, institutions, ideas, and ideology). This framework can assist global health policy researchers, multilateral organization officials, and national policy makers in navigating the complex political waters of health reforms aimed at achieving universal health coverage. To derive the framework, we critically review the theoretical and applied literature on hea...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - November 30, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Fox, A. M., Reich, M. R. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

Like Surfers Waiting for the Big Wave: Health Care Politics in Italy
This article focuses on the main health reforms enacted in Italy over the past one hundred years. Such reforms were all undertaken in conjunction with a severe political and institutional crisis. The 1943 reform was approved a few weeks before the fall of the Fascist regime. The National Health Service, established by Law No. 833 of 1978 and enacted during one of the most turbulent times in the history of the country, represented the apex of the brief experience of the "national solidarity" governments. Even the 1992–93 reform was put into effect in the midst of the Tangentopoli scandal, which marked the transition f...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - November 30, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Toth, F. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

Explaining Large-Scale Policy Change in the Turkish Health Care System: Ideas, Institutions, and Political Actors
This article aims to explain the specific dynamics of large-scale reforms introduced within the framework of the Health Transformation Program in Turkey. It argues that confluence of the three streams — problem, policy, and politics — with the exceptional political will of the Justice and Development Party's (JDP) leaders opened up a window of opportunity for a large-scale policy change. The article also underscores the contribution of recent ideational perspectives that help explain "why" political actors in Turkey would focus on health care reform, given that there are a number of issues waiting to be address...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - November 30, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Agartan, T. I. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research