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Health care policy is an important issue in the ongoing debate about centralized versus decentralized government. This book illustrates how theories of federalism and intergovernmental relations can provide a useful framework for examining how to "divide up the job" of providing health care. It assesses the capacity of the states to actually implement health care policy changes and weighs the merits of alternative visions of the role of states and the federal government in health care policy.

Health care policy is an important issue in the ongoing debate about centralized versus decentralized government. This book illustrates how theories of federalism and intergovernmental relations can provide a useful framework for examining how to "divide up the job" of providing health care. It assesses the capacity of the states to actually implement health care policy changes and weighs the merits of alternative visions of the role of states and the federal government in health care policy.

This comprehensive analysis of the competitive health care reforms of the 1980s includes the role of managed care in competitive policy reforms, the effects of competition on the hospital industry, the case against competition, the prospects for rationing care, and comparisons with Canada and the United Kingdom. The volume ends with a discussion of competitive reform and the future.

This comprehensive analysis of the competitive health care reforms of the 1980s includes the role of managed care in competitive policy reforms, the effects of competition on the hospital industry, the case against competition, the prospects for rationing care, and comparisons with Canada and the United Kingdom. The volume ends with a discussion of competitive reform and the future.

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