Lawrence D Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence D Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence D |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Fresh Historical Light on the Political Economy of US Health Care Policy
A desert menu
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Fomenters of Fiasco
Policy responses to COVID-19 in the United States have been constrained by electoral calculi that run from the executive to the legislative branch of the central government and thence also to the federal bureaucracy and the states. The policy outcomes are as disappointing for US democracy as they are for the health of the US population
Single-Payer Health Care in the United States
The adoption of a single-payer health care system, a recurring dream of progressive American reformers, now enjoys sustained attention in the run-up to the 2020 national elections. Some compelling arguments support the case for single payer, and its political prospects may indeed be on the rise, but myriad obstacles beset it, and a full-throated Democratic endorsement of it carries disquieting risks
Aligning Ideologies and Institutions
How effective was organizational reform implemented inside one critical New York City health agency? Specifically, we examine the extent to which the reorganization of the HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) into the Medical Insurance Services Administration (MICSA) achieved three goals: (1) realizing synergies among the component MICSA programs; (2) cross‐fertilizing ideas among MICSA agencies; and (3) facilitating HASA operations through th…
Pedestrian Paths
Path dependence, a model first advanced to explain puzzles in the diffusion of technology, has lately won allegiance among analysts of the politics of public policy, including health care policy. Though the central premise of the model—that past events and decisions shape options for innovation in the present and future—is indisputable (indeed path dependence is, so to speak, too shallow to be false), the approach, at least as applied to health p…
Les défis de la réforme de Medicare aux États-Unis
Adopté en 1965, parallèlement à Medicaid un programme spécifiquement destiné aux citoyens à bas revenus, Medicare était le condensé politique du modèle d'assurance-maladie national dont les réformateurs rêvent depuis longtemps, en vain. Il offrait une couverture maladie aux personnes âgées (et, par la suite, en 1972, aux invalides), couvrait les soins hospitaliers et médicaux, mais pas les médicaments délivrés en ambulatoire ni les soins de longu…
Policy fixes, public funds, and political frustration
In Western nations health reform has become a ceaseless quest in which myriad ameliorative strategies compete for policy prominence. Although health policy researchers and analysts mainly focus on measures to improve the workings of the health care system (for example, evidencebased medicine and information technology) or to transform it (for instance, priority setting and managed competition), in practice, the reforms at center stage are those t…
Remèdes, financement public et insatisfaction politique
Dans les pays occidentaux, la réforme du système de santé est devenue une quête incessante qui met en concurrence une multitude de stratégies visant à ce que le système fonctionne mieux. Bien que chercheurs et analystes spécialistes de la politique de santé concentrent leur attention sur les solutions destinées à améliorer le fonctionnement des systèmes de soins (médecine basée sur des faits-EBM-, technologies de l'information par exemple) ou à l…
Comparing Health Systems in Four Countries
The Rekindling Reform initiative examined the health systems of 4 countries: Canada, France, Germany, and Great Britain (United Kingdom). From the 4 country reports published in this issue of the American Journal of Public Health, 10 crosscutting themes emerge: (1) coverage, (2) funding, (3) costs, (4) providers, (5) integration, (6) markets, (7) analysis, (8) supply, (9) satisfaction, and (10) leadership. Lessons for the United States are presen…
Interval Estimation for a Binomial Proportion
We revisit the problem of interval estimation of a binomial proportion. The erratic behavior of the coverage probability of the standard Wald confidence interval has previously been remarked on in the literature (Blyth and Still, Agresti and Coull, Santner and others). We begin by showing that the chaotic coverage properties of the Wald interval are far more persistent than is appreciated. Furthermore, common textbook prescriptions regarding its …
Urban Health Policy
National Health Reform
Health care, like many other arenas of social policy, offers plentiful evidence both to those who picture the policy process as highly dynamic and innovative and to those who prefer to portray it as beset by deadlock and stalemate. Over the last two decades federal policymakers have invented an array of programs designed to make the system more efficient—health maintenance organizations, peer review organizations, health systems agencies, certifi…
The Politics of Health-Care Reform
Essay| April 01 1992 The Politics of Health-Care Reform Lawrence D. Brown Lawrence D. Brown Lawrence D. Brown is a professor and head of the division of public health administration at the Columbia University School of Public Health. He has written on the politics of health-care policy formulation and administration. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1992) 91 (564): 173–175. https://doi.org…
Politics and Health Care Organization
Among various health cost containment strategies proposed during the 1970s, none has held more sustained fascination than the health maintenance organization (HMO). For many years, policy analysts in search of market- and incentive-based alternatives to command and control regulation have argued that medical groups combining prepayment and group practice, and offering comprehensive medical services within a fixed budget, would hold down costs bot…
Politics and Health Care Organization
New Policies, New Politics
Competition and Health Care Policy
Since 1970 federal policymakers have tried to strengthen competition and incentive-based market forces as alternatives to regulation in containing health costs. The effort to stimulate the growth of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) throughout the country has had limited results, and federal plans to promote competition by enacting changes in the health insurance market have so far come to little. Coalitions in some localities have shown gr…
Rulemaking by improvisation
Comparing Health Systems in Four Countries
The Rekindling Reform initiative examined the health systems of 4 countries: Canada, France, Germany, and Great Britain (United Kingdom). From the 4 country reports published in this issue of the American Journal of Public Health, 10 crosscutting themes emerge: (1) coverage, (2) funding, (3) costs, (4) providers, (5) integration, (6) markets, (7) analysis, (8) supply, (9) satisfaction, and (10) leadership. Lessons for the United States are presen…
Fomenters of Fiasco
Policy responses to COVID-19 in the United States have been constrained by electoral calculi that run from the executive to the legislative branch of the central government and thence also to the federal bureaucracy and the states. The policy outcomes are as disappointing for US democracy as they are for the health of the US population
Urban Health Policy
Politics and Health Care Organization
Les défis de la réforme de Medicare aux États-Unis
Adopté en 1965, parallèlement à Medicaid un programme spécifiquement destiné aux citoyens à bas revenus, Medicare était le condensé politique du modèle d'assurance-maladie national dont les réformateurs rêvent depuis longtemps, en vain. Il offrait une couverture maladie aux personnes âgées (et, par la suite, en 1972, aux invalides), couvrait les soins hospitaliers et médicaux, mais pas les médicaments délivrés en ambulatoire ni les soins de longu…
New Policies, New Politics
Competition and Health Care Policy
Since 1970 federal policymakers have tried to strengthen competition and incentive-based market forces as alternatives to regulation in containing health costs. The effort to stimulate the growth of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) throughout the country has had limited results, and federal plans to promote competition by enacting changes in the health insurance market have so far come to little. Coalitions in some localities have shown gr…
Rulemaking by improvisation
Politics and Health Care Organization
New Policies, New Politics
Competition and Health Care Policy
Since 1970 federal policymakers have tried to strengthen competition and incentive-based market forces as alternatives to regulation in containing health costs. The effort to stimulate the growth of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) throughout the country has had limited results, and federal plans to promote competition by enacting changes in the health insurance market have so far come to little. Coalitions in some localities have shown gr…
Politics and Health Care Organization
Among various health cost containment strategies proposed during the 1970s, none has held more sustained fascination than the health maintenance organization (HMO). For many years, policy analysts in search of market- and incentive-based alternatives to command and control regulation have argued that medical groups combining prepayment and group practice, and offering comprehensive medical services within a fixed budget, would hold down costs bot…
The Politics of Health-Care Reform
Essay| April 01 1992 The Politics of Health-Care Reform Lawrence D. Brown Lawrence D. Brown Lawrence D. Brown is a professor and head of the division of public health administration at the Columbia University School of Public Health. He has written on the politics of health-care policy formulation and administration. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1992) 91 (564): 173–175. https://doi.org…
National Health Reform
Health care, like many other arenas of social policy, offers plentiful evidence both to those who picture the policy process as highly dynamic and innovative and to those who prefer to portray it as beset by deadlock and stalemate. Over the last two decades federal policymakers have invented an array of programs designed to make the system more efficient—health maintenance organizations, peer review organizations, health systems agencies, certifi…
Urban Health Policy
Interval Estimation for a Binomial Proportion
We revisit the problem of interval estimation of a binomial proportion. The erratic behavior of the coverage probability of the standard Wald confidence interval has previously been remarked on in the literature (Blyth and Still, Agresti and Coull, Santner and others). We begin by showing that the chaotic coverage properties of the Wald interval are far more persistent than is appreciated. Furthermore, common textbook prescriptions regarding its …
Comparing Health Systems in Four Countries
The Rekindling Reform initiative examined the health systems of 4 countries: Canada, France, Germany, and Great Britain (United Kingdom). From the 4 country reports published in this issue of the American Journal of Public Health, 10 crosscutting themes emerge: (1) coverage, (2) funding, (3) costs, (4) providers, (5) integration, (6) markets, (7) analysis, (8) supply, (9) satisfaction, and (10) leadership. Lessons for the United States are presen…
Policy fixes, public funds, and political frustration
In Western nations health reform has become a ceaseless quest in which myriad ameliorative strategies compete for policy prominence. Although health policy researchers and analysts mainly focus on measures to improve the workings of the health care system (for example, evidencebased medicine and information technology) or to transform it (for instance, priority setting and managed competition), in practice, the reforms at center stage are those t…
Remèdes, financement public et insatisfaction politique
Dans les pays occidentaux, la réforme du système de santé est devenue une quête incessante qui met en concurrence une multitude de stratégies visant à ce que le système fonctionne mieux. Bien que chercheurs et analystes spécialistes de la politique de santé concentrent leur attention sur les solutions destinées à améliorer le fonctionnement des systèmes de soins (médecine basée sur des faits-EBM-, technologies de l'information par exemple) ou à l…
Les défis de la réforme de Medicare aux États-Unis
Adopté en 1965, parallèlement à Medicaid un programme spécifiquement destiné aux citoyens à bas revenus, Medicare était le condensé politique du modèle d'assurance-maladie national dont les réformateurs rêvent depuis longtemps, en vain. Il offrait une couverture maladie aux personnes âgées (et, par la suite, en 1972, aux invalides), couvrait les soins hospitaliers et médicaux, mais pas les médicaments délivrés en ambulatoire ni les soins de longu…
Pedestrian Paths
Path dependence, a model first advanced to explain puzzles in the diffusion of technology, has lately won allegiance among analysts of the politics of public policy, including health care policy. Though the central premise of the model—that past events and decisions shape options for innovation in the present and future—is indisputable (indeed path dependence is, so to speak, too shallow to be false), the approach, at least as applied to health p…
Aligning Ideologies and Institutions
How effective was organizational reform implemented inside one critical New York City health agency? Specifically, we examine the extent to which the reorganization of the HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) into the Medical Insurance Services Administration (MICSA) achieved three goals: (1) realizing synergies among the component MICSA programs; (2) cross‐fertilizing ideas among MICSA agencies; and (3) facilitating HASA operations through th…
Single-Payer Health Care in the United States
The adoption of a single-payer health care system, a recurring dream of progressive American reformers, now enjoys sustained attention in the run-up to the 2020 national elections. Some compelling arguments support the case for single payer, and its political prospects may indeed be on the rise, but myriad obstacles beset it, and a full-throated Democratic endorsement of it carries disquieting risks
Fomenters of Fiasco
Policy responses to COVID-19 in the United States have been constrained by electoral calculi that run from the executive to the legislative branch of the central government and thence also to the federal bureaucracy and the states. The policy outcomes are as disappointing for US democracy as they are for the health of the US population
A desert menu
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
A Fresh Historical Light on the Political Economy of US Health Care Policy
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