Selected Papers and Reports

The following is a list of health policy related papers and reports made available on the internet by either the author or the publisher. Access to these papers and reports via this link is restricted to my students or colleagues at the University of Washington, and no permission is granted or implied for their use beyond personal educational purposes.

 

No. 1 "A Conversation with Victor Fuchs: An Economists View of Health Care Reform."

http://faculty.washington.edu/mukboy/home/CONFUCHS.HTM

No. 2 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (2002) National Health Expenditure Projections: 2001-2011.

http://cms.hhs.gov/statistics/nhe/default.asp

No. 3 Gabel, Hunt, and Kim (1997). The Financial Burden of Self-Paid Insurance on the Poor and Near Poor. The Commonwealth Fund.

http://www.cmwf.org/programs/insurance/gabel251.asp

No. 4 Starr, Paul. What Happened to Health Care Reform?. The American Prospect. Issue 20 (Winter 1995): pp. 20-31

http://www.prospect.org/archives/20/20star.html

No. 5 The Washington Post/Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University National Survey on "Issues in the 2000 Election: Health Care". The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation. July, 2000

http://www.kff.org/content/2000/3038/Toplines.pdf

No. 6 Guest, Almgren and Hussey. (1998)The Ecology of Race and Socioeconomic Distress: Infant and Working Age Mortality in Chicago. Demography Vol. 35 (1) pp. 23-34.

http://faculty.washington.edu/mukboy/home/gra6.pdf

No. 7 Almgren, Guest, Imerwarh and Spittel. (1998) Joblessness, Family Disruption and Violent Death in Chicago, 1970-1990. Social Forces Vol 76 (4) pp. 1437-1464.

http://erreserves.hslib.washington.edu/fall/sw561b03.pdf

No. 9 Bedetti, Duchan, Schoen and Shikles (1999). Can't Afford to Get Sick: A Reality for Millions of Working Americans . The Commonwealth Fund.

http://www.cmwf.org/programs/insurance/budetti_sick_347.pdf

No. 10 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Health Care. UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the Henry T. Kaiser Foundation.

http://www.kff.org/content/2000/1525/

No. 11 Health Care Financing Administration (2000). Medicare Basics.

http://www.medicare.gov/Basics/Overview.asp

No. 12 Medicaid: A Primer. The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation.

http://www.kff.org/content/1999/2161/

No. 13 World Health Report 2002. World Health Organization.

http://www.who.int/whr/2002/en/

No. 14. Canada's Healthcare System. Health Care Policy Division. Health Canada.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/care/index.html

No. 15. Anderson, Gerald (1998). Multinational Comparisons of Health care : Expenditures, Coverage, and Outcomes. Center for Hospital Finance and Management Johns Hopkins University

http://www.cmwf.org/programs/international/ihp_1998_multicompsurvey_299.asp

No, 16 Bell, Judith (1996). Saving Their Assets: How to Stop Plunder at Blue Cross and Other Nonprofits. The American Prospect Vol 26: 60-66.

http://www.prospect.org/archives/26/26bell.html

No. 17 Sprinkle, Robert (1997). Corporatism in Question: A Note on Managed Care. Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy: 1-9.

http://www.puaf.umd.edu/ippp/managed.htm

No. 18. Wynne, Michael. (2000) The Rise and Fall of Columbia HCA. The Corporate Health Care Homepage.

http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/health/columb_update.html

No 19 The Urban Institute. (1998) Can Private Insurance Solve the Long-Term Care Problems of the Baby Boom Generation? Report of the Urban Institute

http://www.urban.org/TESTIMON/wiener3-9-98.html

No 20 Wiener and Stevenson (1998) Long-Term Care for the Elderly:Profiles of Thirteen States. Report of the Urban Institute

http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/occa12.html

No 21 Talking with Your Parents about Medicare and Health Coverage: Longterm Care. (2000). Henry J. Kaiser Foundation Guide.

http://www.kff.org/docs/parents/pages/longterm.html

No 22 Cost Implications of Human Organ and Issue Transplantations, an Update: 1999. Milliman and Robertson Research Reports.

http://www.milliman.com/files/HRR40(600k)(1).pdf

No 23 Almgren, Gunnar (1993). Living Will Legislation, Nursing Home Care, and the Rejection of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: An Analysis of Bedside Decision-Making in Three States. Journal of Health and Social Policy 4 (3). Pp. 43-63.

http://faculty.washington.edu/mukboy/home/gra8.pdf

No 24 Davis (1996). Medicaid: The Health Care Safety Net for the Nation’s Poor. New York: The Commonwealth Fund: 1-12

http://www.cmwf.org/programs/health_care/senfi2.asp

 

No 25 Guyer, Jocelyn (2000). Health Care after Welfare: An Update of Findings from State-Level Leaver Studies. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

http://www.cbpp.org/8-16-00wel2.pdf

No 26 Schear, Stuart. (1996) The Ultimate Self-Referral: Medicare Reform, AMA Style. The American Prospect No. 25: 68-72

http://www.prospect.org/archives/25/25sche.html

No 27 Guyer, Jocelyn. Medicaid and the Uninsured: Low Income Parents Access to Medicaid 5 Years After Welfare Reform. The Kaiser Foundation Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, June 2002.

http://www.kff.org/content/2002/20020628/4052.pdf

No 28 Schneider, William. (1998) The Nation; Health Care; Enemy is Bureaucrats, HMO or Feds. Los Angeles Times on July 12, 1998, made available by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

http://www.aei.org/ra/raschneider2.htm

No 29 Goozner, Merrill. (2000) The Price Isn't Right. The American Prospect. Vol 11 (20)

http://www.prospect.org/archives/V11-20/goozner-m.html

No 30 Calfee, John. (1999)Why Pharmaceutical Price Controls Are Bad for Patients. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

http://www.aei.org/oti/oti10198.htm

No 31 Haase and Aldrich (2000). An Outpatient Prescription Drug Benefit for Medicare. The Century Foundation.

http://www.ideas2000.org/Issues/Health/Drug_Benefit.pdf

No 32 Cost Overdose: Growth in Drug Spending for the Elderly: 1992-2010 Families USA Publication 00-107

http://www.familiesusa.org/media/pdf/drugod.pdf

No 33 Fuchs, James, Mays and Schaefer (2000) Analyzing Options to Cover Prescription Drugs for Medicare Beneficiaries. The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation.

http://www.kff.org/content/2000/20000725a/HPA.pdf

No 34 The Best Value in Medicine Today: How Prescription Drugs Account for a Fraction of the Health Care Cost Increases While Helping to Offset Other Health Care Costs. PhRMA Policy Papers June 2002.

http://www.phrma.org/publications/policy/2002-06-11.420.pdf

No 35 Families USA Analysis of New Bush Medicaid Policy Families USA Commentary

http://www.familiesusa.org/media/updates/bushmedicaid.htm

No 36 Policy Challenges Posed by the Aging of America. A discussion briefing prepared fo the The Urban Institute Board of Trustee's Meeting May 1998.

http://www.urban.org/template.cfm?Template=/TaggedContent/ViewPublication.cfm&PublicationID=8216&NavMenuID=95

No 37 Powers, Madeline and Ruth Faden. Inequalities in Health, Inequalities in Health Care: Four Generations of Discussion about Justice and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Kennedy School of Ethics Journal Vol 10 (10) February 2002

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/kennedy_institute_of_ethics_journal/v010/10.2powers.html