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Equity and Public Governance in Health System Reform : Challenges and Opportunities for China

Poláčkova Brixi, Hana - 2017

Achieving the objective of China's current health system reform, namely equitable improvements in health outcomes, will …-national levels are not well aligned with China's national priorities. To address the weaknesses in equity and efficiency that … characterize China's health system and health outcomes, China's health system reform may require complementary reforms to improve …

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Healthcare reform in Greece : progress and reform priorities

Kalavrezou, Niki; Jin, Hui - 2021

We review Greek public sector healthcare policies and health-related outcomes since 2010.We find that excess spending was successfully curtailed, elements of the institutional framework were modernized, and health outcomes have been relatively favorable. However, especially prior to Covid-19,...

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The market reform in Dutch health care : results, lessons and prospects

Jeurissen, Patrick; Maarse, Hans - 2021

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Tracing the Evolution of American Health Care Through Medicare

Garner, Craig B.; Berry, Judith M.; McCabe, David A. - 2012

With President Obama’s health care reform currently under intense partisan scrutiny in the United States, this article is an objective resource for understanding the ways in which Medicare has historically served as a weather vane for charting the changes to the American health care system....

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America's Healthcare Dilemma

Weisbrod, Burton A. - 2011

The article focuses on problems faced by American health-care industry. Current public policy efforts to contain costs are looking to increased competition as a solution, which is strange considering the difficulty consumers already have in judging the quality of health care, not to mention the...

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Distributive Injustice(s) in American Health Care

Havighurst, Clark C.; Richman, Barak D. - 2007

This article explores the hypothesis that the U.S. health care system operates more like a robber baron than like Robin Hood, burdening ordinary payers of health insurance premiums disproportionately for the benefit of industry interests and higher-income consumer-taxpayers. Thus, lower- and...

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Ethics in American Health 2 : An Ethical Framework for Health System Reform

Prah Ruger, Jennifer - 2008

I trace the evolution of ethical approaches to health policy in the United States and examine a number of critical unresolved issues pertaining to the current set of frameworks. Several themes emerge. First, fair procedures claim more attention than substantive and procedural principles. Second,...

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Cost Control and the Affordable Care Act : Cramping Our Health Care Appetite

Furrow, Barry R. - 2013

This article examines the usual explanations for high U.S. health care costs, including medical technology, physician spending, patient choices and others. It then looks at the Affordable Care Act and other regulatory ideas to slow and better rationalize the high costs of the American system,...

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Reforming Healthcare Reform

Fox, Jacqueline - 2016

Healthcare reform is not a singular event but, instead, a constant process that will continue into the foreseeable future. This Article proposes - for the first time - a creative solution to the acrimonious and debilitating method we currently use in assessing and implementing healthcare reform...

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Deal or No Deal? Outcomes from a Decade of Healthcare M&A

Hutchens, Bob - 2011

Despite the economic climate, many companies in the healthcare sector remain very well capitalized. And with the capital markets re-opening, we see growing momentum to re-evaluate portfolios and to exploit today's price environment. We studied 1,750 healthcare deals over the 1998-2008 period, to...

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