U.S. Health Policy and Health Care Delivery: Doctors, Reformers and Entrepreneurs

Economists, policy entrepreneurs, and health care reform.

Economists would have formulated several aspects of the health care reform debate differently than policy entrepreneurs did. Economists would have questioned whether health care costs must be contained and whether either competition or global budgets were a "magic bullet" for doing so. They also would have emphasized the distortive costs of subsidies and taxes necessary to reach universal cover...

Economists , Policy Entrepreneurs , and Health Care

Economists would have formulated several aspects of the health care reform debate differently than policy entrepreneurs did. Economists would have questioned whether health care costs must be contained and whether either competition or global budgets were a “magic bullet” for doing so. They also would have emphasized the distortive costs of subsidies and taxes necessary to reach universal cover...

Shaping Policy Change in Population Health: Policy Entrepreneurs, Ideas, and Institutions

Political realities and institutional structures are often ignored when gathering evidence to influence population health policies. If these policies are to be successful, social science literature on policy change should be integrated into the population health approach. In this contribution, drawing on the work of John W. Kingdon and related scholarship, we set out to examine how key componen...

AIDS and access to care: lessons for health care reformers.

An Overview of US Health Care Delivery

• To understand the basic nature of the US health care system • To outline the key functional components of a health care delivery system • To get a basic overview of health care reform and the Affordable Care Act • To discuss the primary characteristics of the US health care system • To emphasize why it is important for health care practitioners and managers to understand the intricacies of th...