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1Health Status, Expenditures and ResourcesMcGinnis, J. Michael, and William H. Foege. "Actual Causes of Death in the United States." Journal of the American Medical Association 270, no. 18 (November 10,1993): 2207-12.

Amazon logo Manning, Willard G., et al. The Costs of Poor Health Habits. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991, pp. 1-25. ISBN: 9780674174856.
2-3Paying for Health Care: History and MethodsReinhardt, Uwe E. "The United States: Breakthroughs and Waste." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (Winter 1992): 637-66.

Stone, Deborah A. "The Struggle for the Soul of Health Insurance." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (Summer 1993): 286-317.

Sapolsky, Harvey M. "Empire and the Business of Health Insurance." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 16, no. 4 (Winter 1991): 747-60.

Bergman, Abraham B., et al. "A Political History of the Indian Health Service." The Milbank Quarterly 77, no. 4 (1999): 571-604.
4The Quest for National Health Insurance: Clinton Health Care PlanEnthoven, Alain. "Managed Competition: An Agenda for Action." Health Affairs 7, no. 3 (Summer 1988): 25-47.

Amazon logo Eckholm, Erik. "Introduction." In The President's Health Security Plan. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 1993, vii-xvi. ISBN: 9780812923865.

Skocpol, Theda. "The Rise and Demise of the Clinton Health Plan." Health Affairs 14, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 66-85.

Heclo, Hugh. "The Clinton Health Plan: Historical Perspective." Health Affairs 14, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 86-98.

Peterson, Mark A. "The Politics of Health Care Policy: Overreaching in an Age of Polarization." In The Social Divide. Edited by Margaret Weir. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press, 1998, pp. 181-229.
5States as an AlternativeLeichter, Howard M. "Oregon's Bold Experiment: Whatever Happened to Rationing." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 24, no. 1, (February 1999): 147-159.

Jacobs, Lawrence, Theodore Marmor and Jonathan Oberlander. "The Oregon Plan and the Political Paradox of Rationing." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 24, no. 1 (February 1999): 161-180.

Swartz, Katherine and Deborah Garnick. "Lessons from New Jersey." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 25, no. 1 (February, 2000): 44-70.

Brown, Lawrence D., and Michael Spencer. "Window Shopping: State Health Reform Politics in the 1990s." Health Affairs 20, no. 1 (January/February 2001): 50-67.

Grob, Gerald N. "Deinstutionalization: The Illusion of Policy." Journal of Policy History 9, no. 1 (1997): 48-73.
6Markets as an AlternativeAmazon logo Wilkerson, John D. Chapter 1 in  Competitive Managed Care. Edited by Kelly Devers and Ruth Given. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997, pp 1-29. ISBN: 9780787903091.

Gold, Marsha. "The Changing US Health Care System: Challenges for Responsible Public Policy." The Milbank Quarterly 77, no. 1 (1999): 3-37.

Robinson, James C. "Theory and Practice in the Design of Physician Payment Incentives." The Milbank Quarterly 79, no. 2 (2001): 149-78.

Mechanic, David. "The Managed Care Backlash.'' The Milbank Quarterly 79, no. 1 (2001): 35-54.
7Comparative Systems: UKMorone, James A., and Janice M. Goggin. "Health Policies in Europe: Welfare States in a Market Era." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 20, no. 3 (Fall 1995): 557-69.

Klein, Rudolf. "Learning from Others: Shall the Fast be First." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 22, no. 5 (October 1997): 1267-78.

Giaimo, Susan, and Philip Manow. "Adapting the Welfare State - The Case of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany and the United States." Comparative Political Studies 32, no. 8 (December 1999). Read the British Case and Conclusion (From Reading Packet A).

Klein, Rudolf. "Why Britain Is Reorganizing Its National Health Service -- Yet Again." Health Affairs 17, no. 4 (July/August 1998): 111-25.

Enthoven, Alain C. "In Pursuit of an Improving National Health Care Service." Health Affairs 19, no. 3 (May/June 2000): 102-19.

Prottas, Jeffrey. "Rationing Human Organs for Transplant." In Transparency in Public Policy. Edited by Neal D. Finkelstein. NY: St.Martin's Press, 2000, pp. 71-92.
8Comparative Systems: Germany and JapanIkegami, Naoki, and Yoshinori Hiroi. "Factors in Health Care Spending: An Eight-Nation Comparison with OECD Data." In Containing Health Care Costs in Japan. Edited by Naoki Ikegami and John Creighton Campbell. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 1996, pp 33-44.

Campbell, John Creighton, and Naoki Ikegami. "Long-term Care Insurance comes to Japan." Health Affairs 19, no. 3 (May/June 2000): 26-39.

Hiroi, Yoshinori, and Taichi Ono. Building a Model for International Cooperation in the Area of Social Security: the Global Aging Trend and Japan's Experience. Tokyo: Institute for Health Economics and Policy, 1997, Part 2, Evaluation of the Experiences in Japan, 65-102.
9Comparative Systems: CanadaEvans, Robert G. "Canada: The Real Issues." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Winter 1992, 739-62.

Charles, Cathy, Johathan Lomas, Mita Giacomini, et.al. "Medical Necessity in Canadian Health Policy: Four Meanings and . . . A Funeral?" The Milbank Quarterly 75, no. 3 (1997): 365-94.
10Comparative AssessmentStone, Deborah A. The Limits of Professional Power. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1980, chapters 1, 2, 6 and 7.

Henke, Klaus-Kirk, et.al. "The German Health Care System: Structure and Changes." Journal of Clinical Anesthesiology, May/June 1994, 252-62.

Jost, Timothy. "German Health Care Reform: The Next Steps." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 23, no. 4 (August 1998): 697-712.

Giaimo, Susan, and Philip Manow. "Adapting the Welfare State - The Case of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany and the United States." Comparative Political Studies 32, no. 8 (December 1999). Read the German case.
11Medical ResearchBlumenthal, David, and Nigel Edwards. "A Tale of Two Systems: The Changing Academic Health Center." Health Affairs 19, no. 3 (May/June 2000): 86-101.

Fein, Rashi. "The Academic Health Center: Some Policy Reflections." JAMA 283, no. 18 (May 10, 2000): 2436-37.

Dresser, Rebecca. "Public Advocacy and Allocation of Federal Funds for Biomedical Research." The Milbank Quarterly 77, no.2 (1999): 257-74.

Groopman, Jerome. "The Thirty Years' War: Have we been fighting Cancer the wrong way?" The New Yorker, June 4, 2001, 52-63.

Harvey, Sapolsky. "The Truly Endless Frontier." Technology Review, November/December 1995.
12Politics of Health Risks IMarks, Harry M. The Progress of Experiment: Science and Therapeudic Reform in the United States, 1900-1990. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp 229-52.

Marcia, Angell. Science on Trial: the Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case. NY: W.W. Norton Co., 1996.

Satel, Sally L. "There is no women's health crisis." The Public Interest, no. 130 (Winter 1998): 21-33.

Bix, Amy Sue. "Diseases Chasing Money and Power: Breast Cancer and Aids Activism Challenging Authority." Journal of Policy History 9, no. 1 (1997): 33-47.
13Politics of Health Risks IISapolsky, Harvey M. "The Politics of Risk." Daedalus (Fall 1990): 83-96. 

Marcus, Alan I. "Sweets for the Sweet: Saccharin, Knowledge, and the Contemporary Regulatory Nexus." Journal of Policy History 9, no. 1 (1997): 5-32.

Jacobson, Peter D., and Kenneth E. Warner. "Litigation and Public Health Policy Making: The Case of Tobacco Control." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 24, no. 4 (August 1999): 769-804.

Melnick, R. Shep. "Tobacco Litigation: Good for the Body but Not the Body Politic." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 24, no. 4 (August 1999): 806-814.

Taubes, Gary. "The (Political) Science of Salt." Science 281, August 14, 1998, 898-907.
14Can There be Reform?Wildavsky, Aaron. "Doing Better and Feeling Worse: The Political Pathology of Health Policy." Daedalus 96 (1967): 105-23.

Amazon logo Wyke, Alexandra. "The Year 2050." Chapter 10 in 21st Century Miracle Medicine. New York, NY: Plenum Trade, 1997, pp. 211-238. ISBN: 9780306455650.

 








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