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| Jonathan B OberlanderSummaryAffiliation: University of North Carolina Country: USA Publications
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Through the looking glass: the politics of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization ActJonathan Oberlander
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 32:187-219. 2007..This essay explores the political lessons and policy legacies of the MMA, focusing on how the MMA fits with and deviates from established patterns in Medicare politics and how it will affect future reform...
Rationing medical care: rhetoric and reality in the Oregon Health PlanJ Oberlander
Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7240, USA
CMAJ 164:1583-7. 2001..Oregon's experience suggests that drawing the line on medicare coverage would be more difficult and less financially rewarding than advocates claim...
Public attitudes toward health care spending aren't the problem; prices areJonathan Oberlander
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:1285-93. 2009..S. health spending overlooks an alternative explanation for that spending: higher prices. There is evidence that price regulation can constrain spending and that the public will support that cost-control approach...
Beyond Incrementalism? SCHIP and the politics of health reformJonathan B Oberlander
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w399-410. 2009..Now that attention is turning to comprehensive health reform, what lessons can reformers learn from SCHIP's political adventures?..
The politics of paying for health reform: zombies, payroll taxes, and the holy grailJonathan Oberlander
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:w544-55. 2008..Finding a politically viable means to finance universal coverage remains a central barrier to enacting health reform...
Long time coming: why health reform finally passedJonathan Oberlander
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:1112-6. 2010..The result is historic legislation that, given the constraints imposed by both the U.S. political and health systems, is probably as good as it gets...
Health reform interrupted: the unraveling of the Oregon Health PlanJonathan Oberlander
Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:w96-105. 2007..However, in recent years OHP has lost substantial enrollment and struggled to live up to its core principles. This paper explores what went wrong in OHP and the implications of Oregon's experience for state-led health reform...
The politics of health reform: why do bad things happen to good plans?Jonathan Oberlander
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2003..Moreover, incremental reform may not be sustainable in the long run, for the same reason that makes it politically popular now: It does not change the status quo in the health system...
The US health care system: on a road to nowhere?Jonathan Oberlander
Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599 7240, USA
CMAJ 167:163-8. 2002..It is doubtful that incremental health reforms will significantly ameliorate these problems...
Medicare and the politics of prescription drug pricingJonathan Oberlander
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
N C Med J 64:303-4. 2003
The partisan divide--the McCain and Obama plans for U.S. health care reformJonathan Oberlander
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
N Engl J Med 359:781-4. 2008
Learning from failure in health care reformJonathan Oberlander
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA
N Engl J Med 357:1677-9. 2007
Significance of Medicare and Medicaid programs for the practice of medicineDarren A DeWalt
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 27:79-90. 2005..We discuss the implications of the relationship between CMS and clinical medicine and how this relationship has changed over time. We conclude with thoughts about potential future efforts at CMS...
Presidential politics and the resurgence of health care reformJonathan Oberlander
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
N Engl J Med 357:2101-4. 2007
Tilting at windmills: health reform and the 2004 US presidential electionJonathan Oberlander
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA
CMAJ 171:1035-6. 2004
Are Americans closer than we think to national health insurance?Jonathan Oberlander
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Medical School, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:103-4. 2002
