Contents:
Volume I – Ideas, Interests and Institutions
Acknowledgements
Introduction Theodore Marmor and Claus Wendt.
PART I THEORETICAL APPROACHES
1. David Mechanic (1975), ‘The Comparative Study of Health Care
Delivery Systems’
2. T.R. Marmor, M.L. Barer and R.G. Evans (1994), ‘The Determinants
of a Population’s Health: What Can Be Done To Improve a Democratic
Nation’s Health Status?’
3. Michael J. Graetz and Jerry L. Mashaw (1994), ‘Ethics,
Institutional Complexity and Health Care Reform: The Struggle for
Normative Balance’
4. Rudolf Klein (1997), ‘Learning from Others: Shall the Last Be
the First?’
5. Theodore R. Marmor, Richard Freeman and Kieke Okma (2005),
‘Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of
Health Care’
PART II METHDOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISON
6. OECD (1987), ‘The Health Systems of OECD Countries’
7. Michael Moran (2000), ‘Understanding the Welfare State: The Case
of Health Care’
8. Viola Burau and Robert H. Blank (2006), ‘Comparing Health
Policy: An Assessment of Typologies of Health Systems’
9. Claus Wendt, Lorraine Frisina and Heinz Rothgang (2009),
‘Healthcare System Types: A Conceptual Framework for
Comparison’
PART III HEALTHCARE REFORMS AND THE POWER OF IDEAS
10. Alain C. Enthoven (1993), ‘The History and Principles of
Managed Competition’
11. Theodore R. Marmor (2000), ‘The Ideological Context of
Medicare’s Politics: The Presumptions of Medicare’s Founders versus
the Rise of the Procompetitive Ideas in Medical Care’
12. Susan Giaimo and Philip Manow (1997), ‘Institutions and Ideas
into Politics: Health Care Reform in Britain and Germany’
13. Thomas R. Oliver and Pamela Paul-Shaheen (1997), ‘Translating
Ideas into Actions: Entrepreneurial Leadership in State Health Care
Reforms’
14. Vandna Bhatia and William D. Coleman (2003), ‘Ideas and
Discourse: Reform and Resistance in the Canadian and German Health
Systems’
PART IV INTERESTS AND ACTORS IN THE HEALTHCARE ARENA
15. Jean De Kervasdoué and Victor G. Rodwin (1984), ‘Health Policy
and the Expanding Role of the State: 1945–1980’
16. Rudolf Klein (1979), ‘Ideology, Class and the National Health
Service’
17. Ellen M. Immergut (1990), ‘Institutions, Veto Points, and
Policy Results: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care’
18. Joseph White (2003), ‘Three Meanings of Capacity; Or, Why the
Federal Government Is Most Likely to Lead on Insurance Access
Issues’
19. Carolyn Hughes Tuohy (2003), ‘Agency, Contract, and Governance:
Shifting Shapes of Accountability in the Health Care Arena’
PART V INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND PERSISTENCE
20. David Wilsford (1994), ‘Path Dependency, or Why History Makes
It Difficult but Not Impossible to Reform Health Care Systems in a
Big Way’
21. Jacob S. Hacker (1998), ‘The Historical Logic of National
Health Insurance: Structure and Sequence in the Development of
British, Canadian, and U.S. Medical Policy’
22. Sven Steinmo and Jon Watts (1995), ‘It’s the Institutions,
Stupid! Why Comprehensive National Health Insurance Always Fails in
America’
23. Rudolf Klein (1998), ‘Why Britain Is Reorganizing Its National
Health Service – Yet Again’
24. Richard Freeman (1999), ‘Institutions, States and Cultures:
Health Policy and Politics in Europe’
25. Susan Giaimo and Philip Manow (1999), ‘Adapting the Welfare
State: The Case of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the
United States’
Volume II – Retrenchment, Priority Setting and Solidarity
An introduction to both volumes by the editors appears in Volume
I.
PART I LESSONS FOR HEALTH REFORM FROM CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISON
1. Richard Freeman and Michael Moran (2000), ‘Reforming Health Care
in Europe’
2. Richard B. Saltman (1997), ‘The Context for Health Reform in the
United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, and the United States’
3. Claus Wendt, Simone Grimmeisen and Heinz Rothgang (2005),
‘Convergence or Divergence of OECD Health Care Systems?’
4. Robin Gauld, Naoki Ikegami, Michael D. Barr, Tung-Liang Chiang,
Derek Gould and Soonman Kwon (2006), ‘Advanced Asia’s Health
Systems in Comparison’
5. Núria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde (2005), ‘Why Neoliberal Health
Reforms have Failed in Latin America’
PART II HEALTHCARE AND THE MARKET
6. Robert G. Evans (1997), ‘Going for the Gold: The Redistributive
Agenda behind Market-Based Health Care Reform’
7. Alan Jacobs (1998), ‘Seeing Difference: Market Health Reform in
Europe’
8. Donald W. Light (1997), ‘From Managed Competition to Managed
Cooperation: Theory and Lessons from the British Experience’
9. Sarah Thomson and Elias Mossialos (2006), ‘Choice of Public or
Private Health Insurance: Learning from the Experience of Germany
and the Netherlands’
PART III HEALTH POLICY RETRENCHMENT
10. Brian Abel-Smith (1992), ‘Cost Containment and New Priorities
in the European Community’
11. Joseph P. Newhouse (1993), ‘An Iconoclastic View of Health Cost
Containment’
12. Jacob S. Hacker (2004), ‘Privatizing Risk without Privatizing
the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy
Retrenchment in the United States’
13. Theodore R. Marmor, Jonathan Oberlander and Joseph White
(2009), ‘The Obama Administration’s Options for Health Care Cost
Control: Hope Versus Reality’
14. Naoki Ikegami and John Creighton Campbell (2004), ‘Japan’s
Health Care System: Containing Costs and Attempting Reform’
15. Ronald Dworkin (2000), ‘Justice and the High Cost of
Health’
PART IV PRIORITY SETTING AND RATIONING
16. A. Weale (1995), ‘The Ethics of Rationing’
17. Lawrence Jacobs, Theodore R. Marmor and Jonathan Oberlander
(1999), ‘The Oregon Health Plan and the Political Paradox of
Rationing: What Advocates and Critics Have Claimed and What Oregon
Did’
18. Chris Ham (1997), ‘Priority Setting in Health Care: Learning
From International Experience’
PART V THE PRINCIPLE OF SOLIDARITY
19. David Chinitz, Alex Preker and Jürgen Wasem (1998), ‘Balancing
Competition and Solidarity in Health Care Financing’
20. Hans Maarse and Aggie Paulus (2003), ‘Has Solidarity Survived?
A Comparative Analysis of the Effect of Social Health Insurance
Reform in Four European Countries’
21. Mark Schlesinger (1997), ‘Paradigms Lost: The Persisting Search
for Community in U.S. Health Policy’
22. Richard B. Saltman (1997), ‘Equity and Distributive Justice in
European Health Care Reform’
23. Eddy van Doorslaer, Xander Koolman and Frank Puffer (2002),
‘Equity in the Use of Physician Visits in OECD Countries: Has Equal
Treatment for Equal Need Been Achieved?’
PART VI INTENDED AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF HEALTHCARE
REFORMS
24. David Mechanic (2001), ‘The Managed Care Backlash: Perceptions
and Rhetoric in Health Care Policy and the Potential for Healthcare
Reform’
25. Jonathan Oberlander (2003), ‘The Politics of Health Reform: Why
Do Bad Things Happen To Good Plans?’
26. Gwyn Bevan and Ray Robinson (2005), ‘The Interplay between
Economic and Political Logics: Path Dependency in Health Care in
England’
27. Robin Gauld (2008), ‘The Unintended Consequences of New
Zealand’s Primary Health Care Reforms’
28. Uwe E. Reinhardt (1996), ‘Spending More Through “Cost Control”:
Our Obsessive Quest to Gut the Hospital’
Edited by Theodore Marmor, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Political Science, Yale University, US and Claus Wendt, Professor of Sociology of Health and Healthcare Systems, University of Siegen, Germany and Research Fellow, Mannheim Center for European Social Research, Germany
‘Why is healthcare reform a pervasive global phenomenon? Why do
policymakers continually reform their healthcare systems? Why do
ideas for reform, such as market mechanisms, which often have
little basis in evidence, continue to hold appeal? This impressive
and wide-ranging two volume collection of published articles has no
ready answers but it offers valuable insights to aid understanding
and policy learning. The editors are to be congratulated on
provoking debate about the purpose, nature and value of health
system reform. Policymakers are well-advised to consult this
collection before embarking on massive “redisorganisation” which
delivers limited results.’
*David J. Hunter, Durham University, UK*
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