Health Insurance and Public Policy: Risk, Allocation, and Equity

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Tables and Figures ix
• Introduction xi
• REFERENCES xxi
• PART I OVERVIEW OF HEALTH POLICY IMPACTS 1
• 1: National Health Insurance: A Qualitative Assessment of Several Proposals 3
• 2: Biting the Bullet? Post-1980 Congressional Processes and Medicare Decisions 25
• 3: Evaluating the Social Impacts of Health Insurance Policy 51
• PART II PROVISION OF CARE FOR THOSE IN NEED 59
• 4: Financing Health Care Coverage for Displaced Workers 61
• INTRODUCTION 61
• CONCLUSION 71
• REFERENCES 72
• 5: The Uninsured and Hospital Care in the Inner City: Patient Dumping, Emergency Care, and Public Policy 73
• 5: The Uninsured and Hospital Care in the Inner City 73
• REFERENCES 83
• 6: Does Mission Really Matter? Measuring and Examining Charity Care and Community Benefit in Nonprofit Hospitals 87
• REFERENCES 99
• PART III HEALTH INSURANCE IMPLEMENTATION 101
• 7: Fulfilling the Promise of Medicare 105
• NOTES 119
• NOTES 120
• 8: Health Policy Goals and Firm Performance: A Transaction Cost Analysis of the Arizona Medicaid Experiment 123
• CONCLUSION 134
• NOTES 135
• NOTES 136
• 9: Insuring Persons in High-Risk Categories 139
• REFERENCES 150
• 10: The Codification of Compassion: Impact of DRGs on Hospital Performance 153
• CONCLUSION 167
• REFERENCES 168
• PART IV PREVENTION AND RISK 171
• PART IV PREVENTION AND RISK 173
• NOTES 188
• REFERENCES 188
• 12: Who's Afraid of Being Sued: The Medical Malpractice Insurance Controversy 193
• REFERENCES 207
• Selected Bibliography 209
• Name Index 213
• Subject Index 219
• About the Contributors 223
• Policy Studies Organization publications issued with Greenwood Press/Quorum Books 226

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