Laura Katz Olson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1004794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Katz Olson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura Katz |
| FAMILY NAME | Olson |
| SIGNATURE | OLSON L K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lehigh University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Disorder
Response to Peter A. Swenson
Left Feminists Across Generations
Judith: Laura, you were my first women’s studies professor. I will never forget the special kindness of you coming to pick me up at my college and driving me to Lehigh for your morning class with A
Elder Care Journey
"If a society is judged by how well it treats its most vulnerable members, Laura Katz Olson, a prominent health policy scholar, demonstrates that we have a long way to go in how we serve frail and disabled elders in need of long-term services and supports at the end of their lives. Olson develops a compelling narrative that describes the subtle and not-so-subtle indignities imposed on elders and their caregivers navigating the complex maze of hea…
The Affordable Care Act and the Politics of the Medicaid Expansion
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) seeks near-universal health insurance coverage in the USA. Medicaid is central to this expansion: half of the newly enrolled population was initially scheduled to participate in the program by extending eligibility to all households with income at or below 138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level. However, in 2012 the Supreme Court ruled that states had a choice of whether to adopt the expansio…
Financing Medicaid
Financing Medicaid: Federalism and the Growth of America’s Health Care Safety Net, by Shanna Rose, is an important contribution to the growing literature on Medicaid policy and politics. Despite the fact that the program is the second largest entitlement program in the nation, the fourth largest item on the federal budget, and the second largest item on nearly every state budget, there is a paucity of books on the program. There are even fewer th…
Medicaid, the States and Health Care Reform
Health care reform in the US is relying extensively on Medicaid for achieving universal health coverage. This article addresses the question of whether Medicaid is an appropriate foundation for reducing the ranks of the uninsured, given its dependence on economic conditions and the vulnerability of state budgets, along with the ever-changing preferences of governors and legislators. This article assesses the effects of the ebb and flow of Medicai…
The Political Economy of Competition in a Global Economy
Aging is a woman's problem
The Political Economy of Aging
Policy Analysis and the Aging
The Political Economy of Worker Pension Funds
Increasing concentration of economic power within the corporate sector, as well as the extent of corporate control by a few financial institutions such as commercial banks, have been subjects of intense scrutiny and debate in recent years. However, the role of private and public worker retirement trusts in providing power for institutional investors has not been adequately addressed. Pension fund assets, which were relatively inconsequential prio…
Aging and Policy Analysis
Energy
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 177 power plant economical in the power range needed for road vehicles. For portable energy storage the tankful of gasoline is going to be hard to beat, and for energy conversion the gasoline engine is so far ahead of the competition in specific power and economy that investment in development ofalternative forms of power is hard tojustify, except as a public-relations gesture. The book is a very expensive pape…
Energy
Air Pollution Along the U. S.-Mexican Border
The Affordable Care Act and the Politics of the Medicaid Expansion
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) seeks near-universal health insurance coverage in the USA. Medicaid is central to this expansion: half of the newly enrolled population was initially scheduled to participate in the program by extending eligibility to all households with income at or below 138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level. However, in 2012 the Supreme Court ruled that states had a choice of whether to adopt the expansio…
Aging is a woman's problem
Air Pollution Along the U. S.-Mexican Border
Energy
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 177 power plant economical in the power range needed for road vehicles. For portable energy storage the tankful of gasoline is going to be hard to beat, and for energy conversion the gasoline engine is so far ahead of the competition in specific power and economy that investment in development ofalternative forms of power is hard tojustify, except as a public-relations gesture. The book is a very expensive pape…
Energy
Aging and Policy Analysis
The Political Economy of Worker Pension Funds
Increasing concentration of economic power within the corporate sector, as well as the extent of corporate control by a few financial institutions such as commercial banks, have been subjects of intense scrutiny and debate in recent years. However, the role of private and public worker retirement trusts in providing power for institutional investors has not been adequately addressed. Pension fund assets, which were relatively inconsequential prio…
The Political Economy of Aging
Policy Analysis and the Aging
Aging is a woman's problem
The Political Economy of Competition in a Global Economy
Medicaid, the States and Health Care Reform
Health care reform in the US is relying extensively on Medicaid for achieving universal health coverage. This article addresses the question of whether Medicaid is an appropriate foundation for reducing the ranks of the uninsured, given its dependence on economic conditions and the vulnerability of state budgets, along with the ever-changing preferences of governors and legislators. This article assesses the effects of the ebb and flow of Medicai…
Financing Medicaid
Financing Medicaid: Federalism and the Growth of America’s Health Care Safety Net, by Shanna Rose, is an important contribution to the growing literature on Medicaid policy and politics. Despite the fact that the program is the second largest entitlement program in the nation, the fourth largest item on the federal budget, and the second largest item on nearly every state budget, there is a paucity of books on the program. There are even fewer th…
The Affordable Care Act and the Politics of the Medicaid Expansion
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) seeks near-universal health insurance coverage in the USA. Medicaid is central to this expansion: half of the newly enrolled population was initially scheduled to participate in the program by extending eligibility to all households with income at or below 138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level. However, in 2012 the Supreme Court ruled that states had a choice of whether to adopt the expansio…
Elder Care Journey
"If a society is judged by how well it treats its most vulnerable members, Laura Katz Olson, a prominent health policy scholar, demonstrates that we have a long way to go in how we serve frail and disabled elders in need of long-term services and supports at the end of their lives. Olson develops a compelling narrative that describes the subtle and not-so-subtle indignities imposed on elders and their caregivers navigating the complex maze of hea…
Left Feminists Across Generations
Judith: Laura, you were my first women’s studies professor. I will never forget the special kindness of you coming to pick me up at my college and driving me to Lehigh for your morning class with A
Disorder
Response to Peter A. Swenson
Political science (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works)