The COVID-19 pandemic underlines the importance of citizen support for and compliance with public health goals. This paper explores the contribution of governance to the staff’s work environment, and patient participation in public financed healthcare services. More staff control over their...

The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the value of CSRs that are solely...

The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to offer cost sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the actuarial value of CSR...

This paper presents results from the 2010 Health Confidence Survey (HCS), the 13th wave of an annual survey to assess the attitudes of the American public regarding the health care system in the United States. While confidence regarding various aspects of today’s health care system is not...

The Netherlands is an early mover in healthcare liberalisation. It has a dual policy towards competition enforcement in the sector: not only the general competition rules (the prohibitions on cartels and the abuse of dominance, and merger control) but also rules of sector specific competition...

Economic regulation by independent regulatory authorities is justified in a legal sense by theories based on delegation, (partial) ministerial responsibility and judicial review, or more recently on regulatory contracts and stakeholder representation. While none of these models is fully...

This Article explains the significance in Japan, hitherto little noticed elsewhere, of criminal law in regulating medical practice. The Article offers reasons of law and social structure for criminal law's role in Japanese medicine, reasons stemming in large part from the weakness of other...

Justice is so central to the mission of public health that it has been described as the field's core value. Our account of justice stresses the fair disbursement of common advantages and sharing of common burdens. It captures the twin moral impulses that animate public health: to advance human...

The charges filed by Michigan prosecutors against state public health officials related to the Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Flint raise difficult questions about accountability and responsibility for public health officials. Judging by the facts as alleged in the criminal charges, the...