Health Care Policy Reform in America

This work tracks the role of the states in US health care policy reform. It reviews the challenges faced by the states in dealing with rising costs and looks at their policy competence and role in managed care, whilst focusing on the outcomes of policy reform in states such as Hawaii and Oregon.

Howard M. Leichter

Health Care Reform in America: back to the laboratories, The Competence of States and the health of the public, State Government and Health Insurance Market Reform, Medicaid Managed Care, The Federal-State relationship in health care reform, Rationing of health care in Oregon, Hawaii: the health state revisited, The Little State that could-couldn't: Vermont, Health care reform in Minnesota, Health care reform in Kansas.