Health Care Reform

Authors: DeGrazia, David
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article suggests that a single-payer health insurance, combined with competitive private delivery, would be the most cost-effective way of achieving the major goals of health care reform in the U.S. It describes the state of the...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2008.0011

Authors: Blacksher, Erika
Publication Type: Journal Article
Abstract: An essay is presented on the promotion of healthy behaviors in the U.S. It discusses the two basic forms of the proposals to promote healthy behaviors. Based on the article, state legislatures are planning or have implemented polici...
Year: 2008

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Authors: Blacksher, Erika
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The author comments on prevention as one of the core principles of health care reform sought by U.S. President Barack Obama. He says making prevention a principle of health reform involves changing health-related habits and rediscov...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0205

Authors: Menzel, Paul ; Gold, Marthe R. ; Nord, Erik ; Pinto-Prades, Jose-Louis ; Richardson, Jeff ; Ubel, Peter
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the need to include ethical factors in cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA). Importance of the concept in health care distribution; Economic implications in the delivery and administration of health care; Ethical factors to b...
Year: 1999

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Authors: MacPherson, Peter
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Explores the evolution of managed care in Las Vegas, Nevada as a useful model for authorities trying to understand how new mechanisms will work out all over the United States. Dominance of investor-owned model; Inadequate and tenuou...
Year: 1997

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:19

Authors: Macauley, Robert
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Offers observation on how physicians in the U.S. engage in civil disobedience to provide necessary medical care for patients. Reason behind the need to reform the health care system; Definition of civil disobedience; Practicalities ...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2005.001

Authors: Levine, Mark A. ; Wynia, Matthew K. ; Schyve, Paul M. ; Teagarden, J. Russell ; Fleming, David A. ; Donohue, Sharon King ; Anderson, Ron J. ; Sabin, James ; Emanuel, Ezekiel J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: An essay is presented on a consensus ethical framework to guide proposals for health care reform. The ethical framework is based from the work of Ethical Force Program, which utilizes a standardized process derived from well-accepte...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2007.0076

Authors: Lantos, John
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Deals with the ethics and consequences of trying to objectively compare the many services physicians offer in their practice. Aspects of the issue concerning physicians's compensation; Changes in the roles of physicians; Composition...
Year: 2003

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Authors: Kenny, Nuala ; Chafe, Roger
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: An essay is presented on the health care system in Canada. The author addresses the debate over the direction of the country's health care reform. They believe the Canadian medical care system needs to be reformed. They mention diff...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2007.0073

Authors: Jennings, Bruce
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Asserts that the US has de facto health care rationing based on ability to pay and asks how to reconstruct health care policy. The `decent minimum'; Moving beyond individualism....
Year: 1990

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:04

Authors: Hadorn, D. C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Examines the priority list of health services developed by the Oregon Health Services Commission (OHSC) under the 1989 Oregon Basic Health Services Act (OBHSA). Role of quality of life; Background; Ethical considerations; Quality-ad...
Year: 1991

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:57

Authors: Gruber, Jonathan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article examines the reform of health insurance system in Massachusetts. Affordability of the health insurance is cited as one of the factors to be addressed in the universal insurance coverage in the U.S. Rightists are said to ...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0077

Authors: Goold, Susan Dorr ; Baum, Nancy M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article scrutinizes a bill passed by the Massachusetts legislature that mandates nearly universal health insurance coverage. Additional expenses of around $346 per month will be paid by a family should one of them develop diabet...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0075

Authors: Garland, M. J. ; Hasnain, R.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: States that the 1989 Oregon Legislature passed a package of bills that will greatly alter the health care system in Oregon. Broadening Medicaid eligibility; Expanded access to healthcare; Role of federal government; Possible risks; ...
Year: 1990

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:51

Authors: Fleck, Leonard M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the issues of health care rationing and health care reform in the U.S. Association between health reform and health care rationing; Reasons for the disapproval of laws requiring insurance companies to cover costs of last c...
Year: 2002

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:48

Authors: Fins, Joseph J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents hospital formulary committees' regulation of the purchase and use of drugs as a working model for health care reform nationwide. Combination of cost-effectiveness analysis, peer review and medical education; The formulary a...
Year: 1993

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:48

Authors: Fleischman, Alan R.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the role of physicians in setting moral and ethical priorities in the health care reform debate. Need for physicians to be aware that the provision of universal insurance and access to health care is not sufficient to ensu...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:49

Authors: Emanuel, Ezekiel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents several propositions for health care reform in the U.S. Attitude of doctors and patients toward the health care system; Increase in health care costs; Details of the increasing number of uninsured U.S. citizens; Need for re...
Year: 2002

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:44

Authors: Dwyer, James
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the rights of illegal immigrants to health benefits under the framework of law and social responsibility. Argument of nationalists on the rights of illegal immigrants to health-care access; Link between access to care and ...
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:42

Authors: Daniels, Norman
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the `Principles and Values' published by the White House Domestic Policy Council under the heading `Ethical Foundations of Health Care Reform' as part of President Bill Clinton's health care reform package. Informal attemp...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:33

Authors: Daniels, Norman
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Bioethics' traditional focus on clinical relationships and exotic technologies has led the field away from population health, health disparities, and issues of justice. The result: a myopic view that misses the institutional context...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0058

Authors: Callahan, Daniel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article examines if the legislation in Massachusetts on nearly universal health insurance coverage can inspire the creation of the universal health care in the U.S. Discontentment with U.S. health care is expressed in public opi...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0070

Authors: Campbell, Courtney S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: State that gridlock, partisan politics, empty wallet, and the blame game have surfaced recently in the state of Oregon and brought efforts to implement the controversial Oregon Health Plan (OHP) to a virtual standstill. How a March ...
Year: 1993

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:20

Authors: Callahan, Daniel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Proposes a plan for improving the program for the long-term needs of the elderly under Medicaid. Improbability of reform via full subsidization of the program; Plan as giving the elderly the option of exchanging their right to exten...
Year: 1993

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:18

Authors: Brody, Howard
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the status of medical care in the United States. School lunch program analogy of medical care; Difficulties of health care reform; Views on medical care; Findings of the Study to Understand Prognosis and Preferences for O...
Year: 1995

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