March 1, 1999
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Kalkines, Arky, Zall & Bernstein produced a report evaluating state legislative initiatives intended to preserve the autonomy of the physician-patient relationship within the new cost and clinical constraints of managed care.
March 1, 1998
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The southern states have the highest proportion of citizens living in areas that have a shortage of health professionals.
May 1, 1998
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Program Result
George Washington University compared consumer protections under state-regulated health care plans with protections available under employer-paid self-insured plans, which federal law exempts from state regulations.
August 31, 1998
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Program Result
During 1997 and 1998, The Alliance for Health Reform produced a series of four forums on the topic of vulnerable populations and managed care.
August 1, 1998
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Program Result
The Washington-based Alpha Center for Health Planning sponsored a conference to explore how major changes in the system of health care financing and delivery will affect the health care delivery system and access to health services in rural areas.
August 31, 1998
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Program Result
Brandeis University's Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare planned, organized and conducted a conference on financing and delivering care for the poor and uninsured. They also published a book of papers on the same topic.
November 1, 1998
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Program Result
The National Conference of State Legislatures sponsored a symposium to bring together private and public policymakers to discuss key issues concerning 24-hour coverage, a program designed to control costs associated with workers' compensation and health care.
January 1, 1997
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Program Result
Norman J. Ornstein, Ph.D. of the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, and Thomas E. Mann, Ph.D. of the Brookings Institution, Washington, wrote a book, Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy (AEI/Brookings, 1995), about how Congress could improve its work in health policy.
April 1, 1997
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Program Result
Mathematica Policy Research carried out and analyzed the first national household survey of public attitudes toward various government policy measures designed to limit youth access to tobacco products and make those products less attractive to young people.
November 1, 1996
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Program Result
Researchers at George Washington University, Washington, conducted a nationwide questionnaire survey to gather information on health policy and public health concerns of officials from governors' offices and legislative staff in almost every state.
