The rocky road to health reform: some lessons from New Zealand.

Decentralisation; The Question of Management Capacity: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Political and Cultural Foundations of Long-term Care Reform; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

This paper comments on Naoki Ikegami’s editorial entitled “Financing long-term care: lessons from Japan.” Adding to the editorial, this paper focuses on analyzing the political and cultural foundations of long-term care (LTC) reform. Intergenerational solidarity and inclusive, prudential public deliberation are needed for the establishment or reform of LTC systems. Amon...

Currency Reform in Turkey and Lessons from Re-Denomination and Euro Changeover

Re-denomination was not only a zero dropping and new coin minting operation but also a significant milestone in Turkey. Before the currency reform, multiple zeros had posed several difficulties in expressing monetary values, transactions, bookkeeping and statistical records, data processing software, payment systems, price labels etc. So, removing six zeros from national currency became a ...

Health System Reform in the United States

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

The economics of clinical negligence reform in England

In Britain, the NHS spends millions of pounds a year compensating patients injured during medical treatment. As in many other jurisdictions, compensation is paid if the patient can demonstrate that treatment was supplied negligently. However, concern over the cost, effectiveness and administrative efficiency of this approach has led jurisdictions like Sweden, New Zealand and some US states to a...