TOPIC TEN: U.S. HEALTH CARE REFORM AND HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS IN OTHER COUNTRIES
REFERENCES
U.S. HEALTH CARE REFORM SUGGESTED READING:
Re: Patients’ Rights Bills
SR10-1. Marcia Angell, M.D., "Patients’ Rights Bills and Other Futile Gestures," The New England Journal of Medicine,(June 1, 2000): 1663 -1664.
Re: HMOs/ MCOs
SR10-2. Laura B. Benko, "Ohioans Could Vote on HMO Liability," Modern Healthcare (May 1, 2000): 38.
SR10-3. Jon Gabel, "Ten Ways HMOs Have Changed During the 1990s," Health Affairs (May/ June, 1997): 134 - 145.
SR10-4. Grant T. Savage, Ph.D., Kim Sydow Campbell, Ph.D., Tom Patman, and et al., "Beyond Managed Costs," Health Care Management Review (Winter, 2000): 93 - 108.
Re: Fraud and Abuse and Other Laws
SR10-5. Rosemary S. Keskinen, M.D., "I Was Sued For Medicare Fraud - Over an Innocent Error," Medical Economics (March 22, 1999): 70 - 82.
SR10-6. Barbara Kirchheimer and Mark Taylor, "$745 Million and Far to Go,"Modern Healthcare (May 22, 2000): 2 - 3.
SR10-7. Scott Hensley, "SEC Racks Down on AHERF," Modern Healthcare (May 9, 2000).
Re: Antitrust
SR10-8. Elizabeth Thompson, "Docs Seek Antitrust Relief From States," with subtitle "While Federal Lawmakers Debate Antitrust Exemption, State Pass Laws Giving Docs Bargaining Clout, Modern Healthcare (May 1, 2000): 36.
Re: Unionization of Physicians
SR10-9. Elizabeth Thompson, "Organized Doctors," Modern Healthcare (February 28, 2000): 35 - 40.
Re: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
SR10-10. Ed Egger, HIPAA Offers Hospitals the Good, the Bad and the Ugly," Health Care Strategic Management (April, 2000): 1, 21 - 23.
SR10-11. Donna E. Shalala and Uwe E. Reinhardt, " Viewing the U.S. Health Care System From Within: Candid Talk From HHS," Health Affairs (May/June, 1999): 47 - 55.
Re: Physician Leadership and Other
SR10-12. James S. Forrester, M.D., "Why Politics - Like Medicine - Is a Noble Calling," Medical Economics (April 24, 2000): 89 - 91.
SR10-13. Michael Pretzer, "Will Health Care Decide Who Goes to the White House?," with subtitle "The Candidates are Talking About it, and Voters are Listening. It Isn't Clear, Though, That the Complex Issues of Medicare, Patients' Rights, and the Uninsured Will Remain No, 1 in November," Medical Economics (April 10, 2000): 263 - 268.
HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS IN OTHER COUNTRIES SUGGESTED READING:
SR10-14. Lucinda McCray Beier, "My Twelve Years in the U.K. Health System," Health Affairs (May/June, 2000): 185 - 190.
SR10-15. Nick Black, "High-Quality Clinical Databases: Breaking Down Barriers," The Lancet (April 10, 1999): 1205 - 1206.
SR10-16. Frank Dobson, "Modernizing Britain’s National Health Service," Health Affairs (May/ June, 1999): 40 - 41.
SR10-17. Linda Grabbe, Ph.D., "Understanding Patients From the Former Soviet Union," Family Medicine (March, 2000): 201 206.
SR10-18. David Kernick, "Costing Interventions in Primary Care," Family Practice (Oxford University Press, 2000): 66 - 70.
SR10-19. Myfanwy Morgan, "Measuring Process and Outcomes: Professional Compliance, Professional Opinions and Patients’ Well-Being," Family Practice (Oxford University Press, 2000): S21 - S25.
SR10-20. Mark Sculpher, "Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions Designed to Increase the Utilization of Evidence-Based Guidelines," Family Practice (Oxford University Press, 2000): S26 -S31.
SR10-21. Carolyn Hughes Tuohy, "Dynamics of a Changing Health Sphere: The United States, Britain, and Canada," Health Affairs (May/ June, 1999): 114 - 134.