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The Urban Fiscal Crisis in the United States, National Health Insurance, and Municipal Hospitals

International Journal of Health Services, 1978
The fiscal stress which many U.S. cities are currently experiencing, the persistent problems of large-city local government hospitals, the recent decisions for selected public hospital closings in New York City and Philadelphia, and the prospective enactment of a program of national health insurance collectively raise questions about the viability of ...
J, Craig, M, Koleda
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Current National Health Insurance Policies for Thyroid Cancer Prophylactic Surgery in the United States

World Journal of Surgery, 2002
The efficacy of prophylactic thyroidectomy in patients with positive RET mutational analysis, familial thyroid cancer, or both has been reported. As cost has become critical to medical decision‐making, this study was designed to evaluate currently existing coverage policies for prophylactic thyroidectomy.
Alan P B, Dackiw   +2 more
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A Way to Achieve National Health Insurance in the United States: The Medicare Expansion Proposal

American Behavioral Scientist, 1993
The current crisis in the health care system in the United States, including constantly escalating costs and ever more limited access, calls for fundamental reform. Current reform proposals, including managed competition, would not solve the basic problems of cost and access as they continue to rely on employer-provided health insurance, which is the ...
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National Health Insurance in the United States: A Drama in Too Many Acts

Journal of Public Health Policy, 1999
Responding to the question, "Universal Health Care: How Can We Get There from Here?," this paper describes the history of governmental health insurance in the United States, analyzes the factors that have proved to be crucial to its establishment in other countries, and concludes that without a strong Labor Party, there will be no national health ...
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Toward National Health Insurance in the United States: An historical outline, 1910–1979

Social Science & Medicine. Part C: Medical Economics, 1980
Abstract The paper analyzes the legislative history of the movement toward national health insurance over the last 70 years and analyzes key periods in this history in terms of the value basis upon which legislation was proposed and also in terms of the decision making theory utilized throughout this period in the provision of health care for ...
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Copayment and National Health Insurance in the United States: A Critique of Work by Newhouse, Phelps, and Schwartz

International Journal of Health Services, 1977
In “Policy Options and the Impact of National Health Insurance,” Newhouse, Phelps, and Schwartz concluded that any national health insurance program which did not provide for high user copayments, particularly for ambulatory services, would swamp, and ultimately wreck, the health care delivery system, particularly for ambulatory services.
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The Fate of National Health Insurance in Canada and the United States: A Multiple Streams Explanation

Policy Studies Journal, 2001
This article uses the multiple streams lens to describe why Canada eventually adopted national health insurance in the 1960s, compared with the most recent attempt at adopting national health insurance in the United States. The analysis strengthens the lens by paying close attention to the impact of differing institutional frameworks on the streams. It
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The Scenic Road to Nowhere: Reflections on the History of National Health Insurance in the United States

The Forum, 2010
This historical essay looks at the changing meaning of health insurance over time and explains how broad economic and political forces have created that meaning at any one time but that these forces interact with the contingencies of the moment to produce a particular outcome.
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Recognition of International Board Certified Lactation Consultants by Health Insurance Providers in the United States

Journal of Human Lactation, 2013
Background: Insurance coverage for lactation management is proposed by the United States Affordable Care Act. International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs) are key providers of lactation services.
Ellen, Chetwynd   +4 more
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Why Some Countries Have National Health Insurance, others Have National Health Services, and the United States Has Neither

International Journal of Health Services, 1989
This article presents a discussion of why some capitalist developed countries have national health insurance schemes, others have national health services, and the United States has neither. The first section provides a critical analysis of some of the major answers given to these questions by authors belonging to the schools of thought defined as ...
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