I had nothing to do with the latest special of JHPPL, but (or perhaps
therefore) members might well be interested in its content, which is a
series of short papers on various aspects of the US reforms. The authors
are a list of many of the great and the (sometimes) good in US health
policy scholarship. The ToC is as follows:
Special Issue:
Critical Essays on Health Care Reform
Special issue editor: Colleen M. Grogan
Editor's Note Colleen M. Grogan 367
Introduction Colleen M. Grogan 369
Part I: Political Significance of Reform 373
Big Ideas, Broken Institutions, and the Wrath at the
Grass Roots James A. Morone 375
Delegated Governance in the Affordable Care Act
Kimberly J. Morgan and Andrea Louise Campbell 387
They're Back: The Public Plan, the Reincarnation of Harry
and Louise, and the Limits of Obamacare Marie Gottschalk 393
You Call It Public, I Call It Private, Let's Call the Whole
Thing Off? Colleen M. Grogan 401
Reflections from Inside - Too Big to Fail:
The Enactment of Health Care Reform Judith Feder 413
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Part II: Political Understandings of Reform 417
Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks
The Elements of Surprise: How Health Reform Happened
Lawrence D. Brown 419
It Was a Different Time: Obama and the Unique Opportunity
for Health Care Reform Mark A. Peterson 429
Why Reform Happened Jacob S. Hacker 437
The Role of Specific Political Factors
Muddling Through the Muddled Middle Joseph White 443
Interest-Group Influence on the Patient Protection and
Affordability Act of 2010: Winners and Losers in the Health
Care Reform Debate Jill Quadagno 449
The Politics of Ideas: Where Did the Public Option Come
from and Where Is It Going? James Brasfield 455
Intergovernmental Politics
Federalism and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
of 2010: The Founding Fathers Would Not Be Surprised
Michael S. Sparer 461
The States' Role under the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act Scott L. Greer 469
Part III: The Politics of Cost Control and Regulatory Policy 475
Throwing Darts: Americans' Elusive Search for Health Care
Cost Control Jonathan Oberlander 477
Health Reform: Avoiding the Backlash Harold S. Luft 485
A Progressive Turn of Events Thomas Rice 491
Do We Really Want to Control Health Care Spending?
Michael K. Gusmano 495
The Real Constitutional Problem with the Affordable
Care Act Timothy Stoltzfus Jost 501
Contents v
Civilized Medicine: Physicians and Health Care Reform
Miriam J. Laugesen 507
Part IV: A Critical Look at Substantive Issues 513
Prevention and Public Health Harold A. Pollack 515
Getting to Universal Coverage with Better Safety-Net
Programs for the Uninsured Mark A. Hall 521
Behavioral Health and Health Care Reform David Mechanic 527
At Least We're Still Free to Choose to Die at Home:
A CLASS Act David M. Frankford 533
Affordability of Health Insurance to Small Business:
Implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act Edward Alan Miller 539
Part V: The Impact on Existing Programs 547
The Medicaid Platform: Can the Termites Be Kept at Bay?
Frank J. Thompson 549
"Obama Lies, Grandma Dies": The Uncertain Politics of
Medicare and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Daniel P. Gitterman and John C. Scott 555
Part VI: Critical Comparisons 565
Health Reform 2010: The Missing Philosophical Premises
in the Long-Running
Health Care Debate
Theodore R. Marmor 567
American Health Reform in Comparative Perspective:
Big Bang, Blueprint, or Mosaic? Carolyn Hughes Tuohy 571
Reflections from Afar-Obama's Health Reform in
European Perspective Kieke G. H. Okma 577
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Part VII: The Need for More Reform 581
Regulating the U.S. Health Care System: Failure in Motion
Peter D. Jacobson, Laura M. Napiewocki, and Leah A. Voigt 583
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Cost-Containment
Choices: The Case for Incentive-Based
Approaches
Mark V. Pauly 591
Why We Need Health Care Reform Now Marc A. Rodwin 597
Health Care Reform as a Halfway Technology
Thomas R. Oliver 603
Part VIII: Future Politics 611
Health Reform: The Politics of Implementation
Rogan Kersh 613
America's Critical Juncture: The Affordable Care Act
and Its Reverberations Lawrence R. Jacobs 625
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