Miller, Edward Alan Nadash, Pamela Cohen, Marc A
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
The growing need for long-term services and supports (LTSS) poses significant challenges to both individuals and government. This article documents the continuing failure to tackle this problem at the national level-a failure that was most recently seen in the fallout from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which included the single piece of national l...
Morone, James A
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
Despite unprecedented partisanship, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) traced a familiar political arc: a loud debate full of dramatic symbols, a messy legislative process, clashes over implementation, a slow rise in popularity, entrenchment as part of the health care system, and growing support that blocked Congress from repealing. The politics of the ...
Lantz, Paula M Rosenbaum, Sara
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was designed with multiple goals in mind, including a reduction in social disparities in health care and health status. This was to be accomplished through some novel provisions and a significant infusion of resources into long-standing public programs with an existing track record related to health equity. In this art...
Patashnik, Eric M
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) was established as part of the Affordable Care Act to promote research on the comparative effectiveness of treatment options. Advocates hoped this information would help reduce wasteful spending by identifying low-value treatments, but many conservatives and industry groups feared PCORI would...
Miller, Edward Alan Huberfeld, Nicole Jones, David K
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
The Trump administration's "Healthy Adult Opportunity" waiver follows a long history of Republican attempts to retrench the Medicaid program through block grants and to markedly reduce federal spending while providing states with substantially greater flexibility over program structure. Previous block grant proposals were promulgated under the pres...
Kreitzer, Rebecca J Smith, Candis Watts Kane, Kellen A Saunders, Tracee M
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
This paper focuses on whether and the extent to which the resources made available by Title X, the only federal policy aimed specifically at reproductive health care, are equitably accessible. Here, equitable means that barriers to access services are lowest for those people who need them most. We use geographic information systems (GIS) and statis...
Greenhalgh, Susan
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
Industry influence on health science and policy is a critical issue of our day. In 2015, the New York Times revealed that Coca-Cola paid scientists to form a Global Energy Balance Network promoting the notion that exercise, not dietary restraint, is the solution to the obesity epidemic-a claim few accept. This article examines the organizational dy...
Haeder, Simon F Sylvester, Steven Callaghan, Timothy
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
This article provides a detailed picture of the mindset of Americans about Medicaid work requirements and the important roles that perception of deservingness and racial bias play in public attitudes. We conducted a large original survey to investigate public attitudes toward work requirements. We analyze the predictors of overall support for work ...
Adolph, Christopher Amano, Kenya Bang-Jensen, Bree Fullman, Nancy Wilkerson, John
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
Social distancing is an essential but economically painful measure to flatten the curve of emergent infectious diseases. As the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spread throughout the United States in early 2020, the federal government left to the states the difficult and consequential decisions about when to cancel events, close schools and b...
Campbell, Andrea Louise
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has allowed researchers to examine mass policy feedback effects-how public policies affect individuals' attitudes and political behaviors-in real time while using causal models. These efforts help address criticisms of the extant feedbacks literature and have revealed new policy feedback effects and new information on ...
