Emerging Hybrids? Health Care Policy Research in Canada and the United States

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
Denver Lewellen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Health Care Expenditures ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Single Payer ◽  
And Shifts

Since the 1980s, reductions in public expenditures stemming from neoliberal economic pressures have resulted in health care restructuring within the western hemisphere for single-payer systems as well as within the tiered health care system in the United States. These initiatives commenced alongside the fallout of economic crises in core capitalist countries beginning in the 1970s (see MacGregor 2001; Navarro 1996). In Canada and the United States, resulting reductions in health care expenditures have led to the downsizing of inpatient services and shifts towards outpatient community care.

Selling Cost Containment

1993 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-119
Author(s):  
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost ◽  
Sandra J. Tanenbaum
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Reform ◽  
Cost Containment ◽  
Health Care Expenditures ◽  
The United States ◽  
Single Payer

Health care expenditures in the United States have continued to grow despite efforts to control them. This Article discusses the need for health care reform, outlines the model that reform should follow, and considers why the United States has not progressed toward a workable solution. It introduces a single-payer approach to cost containment and explains how such an approach could be “sold” in the United States. Finally, the Article examines various ways to mobilize support for such health care reform.

Medical Expenditures on and by Immigrant Populations in the United States: A Systematic Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 601-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila Flavin ◽  
Leah Zallman ◽  
Danny McCormick ◽  
J. Wesley Boyd
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Health Care Expenditures ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Health Insurance Markets ◽  
Private And Public

In health care policy debates, discussion centers around the often-misperceived costs of providing medical care to immigrants. This review seeks to compare health care expenditures of U.S. immigrants to those of U.S.-born individuals and evaluate the role which immigrants play in the rising cost of health care. We systematically examined all post-2000, peer-reviewed studies in PubMed related to health care expenditures by immigrants written in English in the United States. The reviewers extracted data independently using a standardized approach. Immigrants’ overall expenditures were one-half to two-thirds those of U.S.-born individuals, across all assessed age groups, regardless of immigration status. Per capita expenditures from private and public insurance sources were lower for immigrants, particularly expenditures for undocumented immigrants. Immigrant individuals made larger out-of-pocket health care payments compared to U.S.-born individuals. Overall, immigrants almost certainly paid more toward medical expenses than they withdrew, providing a low-risk pool that subsidized the public and private health insurance markets. We conclude that insurance and medical care should be made more available to immigrants rather than less so.

PERCENTAGE OF UNINSURED CHILDREN HAS INCREASED

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
pp. 1051-1051
Author(s):  
STUDENT
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Insurance ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Uninsured Children

The proportion of children in the United States without private or public health insurance increased from roughly 13 percent to 18 percent between 1977 and 1987, according to a new study by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). The growth in the proportion of uninsured children in poor and low-income families over the decade was even more dramatic—it rose from 21 percent to 31 percent.

Catholic Church Advocacy and the Affordable Care Act

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanine Kraybill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
The United States ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
The Government ◽  
Universal Health

The American Catholic Church has a long history in health care. At the turn of 19th century, Catholic nuns began developing the United States’ first hospital and health care systems, amassing a high level of professionalization and expertise in the field. The bishops also have a well-established record advocating for healthcare, stemming back to 1919 with the Bishops’ Program for Social Reconstruction, which called for affordable and comprehensive care, particularly for the poor and vulnerable. Moving into the latter part of the 20th century, the bishops continued to push for health care reform. However, in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade (1973), the American bishops insisted that any reform or form of universal health care be consistent with the Church’s teaching against abortion, contraception, and euthanasia. The bishops were also adamant that health care policy respect religious liberty and freedom of conscience. In 1993, these concerns caused the bishops to pull their support for the Clinton Administration’s Health Security Act, since the bill covered abortion as a medical and pregnancy-related service. The debate over health care in the 1990s served as a precursor for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) opposition to the Obama Administration’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) contraception mandate. The ACA also highlighted a divide within the Church on health care among religious leaders. For example, progressive female religious leadership organizations, such as the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) and their affiliate NETWORK (a Catholic social justice lobby), took a different position than the bishops and supported the ACA, believing it had enough protections against federally funded abortion. Though some argue this divide lead to institutional scrutiny of the sisters affiliated with the LCWR and NETWORK, both the bishops and the nuns have held common ground on lobbying the government for affordable, comprehensive, and universal health care.

Single-Payer Health Care in the United States: Implications for Plastic Surgery

2020 ◽  
Vol 145 (6) ◽  
pp. 1089e-1096e
Author(s):  
Nicholas G. Cuccolo ◽  
Dustin T. Crystal ◽  
Ahmed M. S. Ibrahim ◽  
Samuel J. Lin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
The United States ◽  
Single Payer
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