A key test of a political system is its capacity to solve important societal problems. Few policy areas in the U.S. are more problem-ridden than health care. Medical care is expensive and wasteful, and the quality often falls short of best practice. One idea to improve health care is to...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) allows state variation in implementing health reform. Critical to a stable health insurance market under reform is the use of risk adjustment to share risks across insurance plans. The ACA requires states to implement risk adjustment, but a California-specific risk...

This is an edited transcript of a debate sponsored by the Commonwealth Club of California and the Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley. The speakers were Laurence H. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and...

The U.S. is the only developed country without some form of national health insurance. Yet, public opinion polls have consistently reported solid majorities in favor of such a system. In this paper, we examine whether attitudes toward different roles of government and beliefs that may be related...

Summary The premium rates paid for statutory health insurance in Germany play a key role in the competition among health care funds. With the most recent health care reform (GKV-Wettbewerbsstärkungsgesetz GKV-WSG), a range of new products have been introduced that could erode the advantageous...

Abstract Two important unresolved issues in the evaluation of health care programs are the treatment of indirect costs and the selection of the appropriate discount rate. This paper emphasizes the role of distortionary taxation in addressing these issues. It establishes that: (i) indirect...

Two important unresolved issues in the evaluation of health care programs are the treatment of indirect costs and the selection of the appropriate discount rate. This paper emphasizes the role of distortionary taxation in addressing these issues. It establishes that: (i) indirect government-paid...

Abstract Der Artikel schildert Teilergebnisse eines Forschungsprojektes über Gesundheitsdienstleistungen am Beispiel der seltenen Krankheit ALS. Dargestellt wird die Interaktionsarbeit der Gesundheitskoordination, die PatientInnen bei der Bewältigung der Krankheitsfolgen Hilfestellung bietet...

Abstract Di Crescenzo and Longobardi [Di Crescenzo and Longobardi, On cumulative entropies, J. Statist. Plann. Inference 139 2009, 12, 4072–4087] proposed the cumulative entropy (CE) as an alternative to the differential entropy. They presented an estimator of CE using empirical approach. In...