Download or read book HMO Office of Health Maintenance Organizations Annual Report to the Congress written by United States. Office of Health Maintenance Organizations and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Politics and Health Care Organization written by Lawrence Brown and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among various health cost containment strategies proposed during the 1970s, none has held more sustained fascination than the health maintenance organization (HMO). For many years, policy analysts in search of market- and incentive-based alternatives to “command and control” regulation have argued that medical groups combining prepayment and group practice, and offering comprehensive medical services within a fixed budget, would hold down costs both by their own efficient operations and by the competitive pressures they would apply to the conventional systems. During the 1970s, three presidents and five Congresses worked to formulate and implement legislation to increase the HMO presence nationwide, with very modest results. Some observers concluded that but for the well-intended but counterproductive efforts of the federal government, HMOs might thrive. Indeed, the Reagan administration has called for an end to direct federal financial involvement in building HMOs—though it has also promised legislation to promote HMOs and a newly competitive health care system based on revamped financial incentives and reinvigorated markets. In this book, Lawrence D. Brown, a senior fellow in the Brookings Governmental Studies program, examines the interplay between politics and policy in the federal HMO development effort between 1970 and 1980. He argues that the basic explanation for the disappointments of the policy analysts and federal supporters of HMOs lies not in a political miscarriage but in the overambitious promises of the policy strategy itself. Tracing the poor fit between policy and politics revealed by federal efforts to translate the attractive HMO idea into a workable strategy, Brown concludes that the episode augurs poorly for the competitive reforms frequently offered as a nonregulatory solution to rising health care costs in the 1980s.

Download or read book Working Papers on Major Budget and Program Issues in Selected Health Programs written by United States. Congressional Budget Office and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Summary of Office of Health Maintenance Organizations Annual Report to the Congress written by United States. Office of Health Maintenance Organizations and published by . This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Health Maintenance Organizations written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book HMO Office of Health Maintenance Organizations Annual Report to the Congress written by United States. Office of Health Maintenance Organizations and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Can Health Maintenance Organizations be Successful written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Health Maintenance Organizations Can Help Control Health Care Costs written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book HMO Health Maintenance Organizations Annual Report written by United States. Public Health Service. Division of Health Maintenance Organizations and published by . This book was released on with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Health Maintenance Organization Act Amendments of 1978 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Policy Manual written by United States. Office of Health Maintenance Organizations and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Health Maintenance Organization Amendments of 1981 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Effectiveness of Grant Programs Aimed at Devoloping Health Maintenance Organizations and Community Health Networks Department of Health Education and Welfare Office of Economic Opportunity written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economic Report on the Health Maintenance Organization and Its Effects on Competition written by Lawrence G. Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guide to Health Maintenance Organization Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Federalism and Health Policy written by Alan Weil and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 2003 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The balance between state and federal health care financing for low-income people has been a matter of considerable debate for the last 40 years. Some argue for a greater federal role, others for more devolution of responsibility to the states. Medicaid, the backbone of the system, has been plagued by an array of problems that have made it unpopular and difficult to use to extend health care coverage. In recent years, waivers have given the states the flexibility to change many features of their Medicaid programs; moreover, the states have considerable flexibility to in establishing State Children's Health Insurance Programs. This book examines the record on the changing health safety net. How well have states done in providing acute and long-term care services to low-income populations? How have they responded to financial incentives and federal regulatory requirements? How innovative have they been? Contributing authors include Donald J. Boyd, Randall R. Bovbjerg, Teresa A. Coughlin, Ian Hill, Michael Housman, Robert E. Hurley, Marilyn Moon, Mary Beth Pohl, Jane Tilly, and Stephen Zuckerman.

Download or read book HMOs and the Politics of Health System Reform written by Joseph L. Falkson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: