Integrating Health and Health Care: Richard Umbdenstock Q&A

Richard Umbdenstock, president and chief executive officer of the American Hospital Association, discusses the trend toward greater integration between public health and health care.

Policy Entrepreneurship in the Social Transformation of American Medicine

October 1, 2004 | Journal Article

While reviewing Starr's 1992 book The Social Transformation of American Medicine, Oliver explored how managed care and market competition have come to occupy their current level of prominence in the American health care system. Oliver asserted that ...

Managing the Unmanaged

August 1, 2008 | Journal Article

This study presents a case analysis of how three urban medical centers with differing ownership models within one metropolitan area, ration access to uncompensated care to uninsured patients.

A Quiet Revolution

March 1, 2004 | Journal Article

This paper considers law's impact on health system change. Federal courts and state regulators have remade the rules of the medical marketplace, restricting the methods available to managed care organizations to control costs. Legal conflict, howeve ...

Online Journal Issue Looks at how Social, Cultural and Political-Economic Issues Affect U.S. Health Care

March 1, 2006 | Program Result

Staff at the American Sociological Association published a special issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Health & Social Behavior entitled "Health and Health Care in the U.S.: Origins and Dynamics."

Hedrick Smith PBS Series Does a Complete Workup on Health Care

June 1, 2003 | Program Result

From 1998 to 2001, Spartanburg, S.C.-based Hedrick Smith Productions, headed by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith, produced two PBS programs examining managed care and other major health care issues. They also conducted an outreach campaign in connection with the programs.

Issue Briefs and Forum Outline Impact of Managed Care on Vulnerable Populations

August 31, 1998 | 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.

No Margin, No Mission

January 1, 2003 | Book

Although some claim that managed care in the United States is "dead," there are still many challenges and opportunities for positive change within the U.S. health care system. The goal of this book is to combine ethical analysis and real-world experience to provide practical lessons about managed care.

Medicaid Managed Care

September 4, 2012 | Report

Have states saved money using managed care for their Medicaid populations and have their beneficiaries received better access and higher quality services?

Building Health Systems for People with Chronic Illnesses

June 1, 2006 | Program Result

From 1992 through 2002, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) funded Building Health Systems for People With Chronic Illnesses.