Health Care Politics: Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to Reform

The politics of health care reform.

Reform of the health care system is a complex process. Opinions vary as to the need for reform and the specific policy changes to be implemented. The Clinton administration has presented a proposal for health care policy reform, but alternative proposals have been recommended. A review of the legislative process indicates the many opportunities to amend or "kill" proposed health reform legislat...

A Network Approach to Interest Group Politics

A Multiprincipal, Multitask Model of Interest Group Competition: An Application to Land Reform Politics in Brazil

Abstract. This paper adapts the model developed by Dixit (1996) to analyze the case of interest group competition over land reform politics in Brazil. The model presents some important advances over earlier seminal economic models of interest group competition in the literature, such as Peltzman (1976), Becker (1983) and Denzau and Munger (1986) in that it considers that government agencies res...

President's Page: looking beyond the politics of health care reform.

So here we are— hoping that Congress has the will to create a new health care system that solves delivery problems, but once again gearing up to fight physician reimbursement issues, the sustained growth revenuemandated cuts, and attacks on Stark exemptions. y original intention with this column was to comment on how this is a year of health care reform. Below this brief commentary, which becam...

POLITICS: Automated Ideological Reasoning