Lepont, Ulrike
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
In the late 2000s, the contention that quality improvements achieved by reforms in the delivery of care would slow the growth of costs throughout the US health care system became the predominant strategy for cost containment in the discourses and programs of all the 2008 presidential candidates. The question that this paper addresses is why, despit...
Bonica, Adam Rosenthal, Howard Blackwood, Kristy Rothman, David J
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
The distribution of physicians across geography and employers has important implications for the delivery of medical services. This study examines how the political beliefs of physicians influence their decisions about where to live and work. Physician relocation and employment patterns are analyzed with a panel constructed from the National Provid...
Sokol, Tomislav
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
The effect of EU policy and its legal framework on health care in CEE member states has been complex. In relation to health care access and financial sustainability, it has been detrimental in certain parts of CEE. This has primarily been to the result of economic/fiscal governance instruments of the EU and free-movement rules facilitating outflows...
Nikolić, Bruno
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
Ever-increasing health spending, which, according to future projections, continues to outpace economic growth, will further endanger the financial sustainability of health systems. In a quest to improve the efficacy and efficiency of the health system and thus strengthen its financial sustainability, member states are employing market-based mechani...
Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg Schrama, Reini
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
The European Union (EU) increasingly resorts to new forms of governance to establish unified health and welfare policies without member states having to transfer their sovereignty to a supranational level. European Administrative Networks are important instruments in the toolbox of new forms of governance, dealing with rulemaking, rule monitoring, ...
Hervey, Tamara Antova, Ivanka Flear, Mark L McHale, Jean V Speakman, Elizabeth Wood, Matthew
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
The principal effects of Brexit on health and health care will fall within the United Kingdom, and all forms of Brexit have overwhelmingly negative implications for health care and health within the UK. This article focuses on the external effects of Brexit ("Brexternalities") for health and health care. The EU is a particularly powerful institutio...
Greer, Scott L Brooks, Eleanor
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
European Union (EU) fiscal governance, especially the European Semester, is an ambitious new governance architecture involving surveillance and discipline, across both Eurozone and non-Eurozone member state policies, in pursuit of fiscal rigor. It is the most recent of several attempts to expand EU powers over member state policy with the goal of a...
Fierlbeck, Katherine
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
Löblová, Olga
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
Member states have consistently limited the European Union's competences in the area of health care reimbursement. Despite these efforts, there has been a slow but steady tendency toward harmonization of a key tool in reimbursement decision-making: health technology assessment (HTA), a multidisciplinary evaluation of "value for money" of medicines,...
Greer, Scott L Jarman, Holly
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Journal of health politics, policy and law
Public health is notoriously difficult to define, and that is the case for public health in the European Union as much as other political systems. In this article, the authors try to identify the actual scope and meaning of public health as it is institutionalized in the EU political system. Using a mixture of historical policy and legal analysis, ...