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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of ObamaCare last week. Read the amicus brief that Pioneer signed opposing the individual mandate. Pioneer’s new book, The Great Experiment: The States, the Feds, and Your Health Care, calls for state-led reforms as an alternative to the federal law.

via Pioneer Institute ›› Massachusetts Public Policy Research.

Books | Health Care in Canada: A Citizen’s Guide to Policy and Politics

Katherine Fierlbeck. Health Care in Canada: A Citizen’s Guide to Policy and Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. 382 + xiv pp. C$85.00 cloth; C$37.95 paper. Reviewed in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law published 30 March 2012, 10.1215/03616878-1597520. http://jhppl.dukejournals.org/cgi/rapidpdf/03616878-1597520v1

Credit Crunch Health Care: How Economics Can Save Our Publicly-Funded Health Services, Donaldson

World-leading health economist Cam Donaldson defends NHS-type systems on the same basis as their detractors: economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough: scarcity has to be managed. Donaldson goes on to show how we can get more out of our systems by addressing issues of value for money. In particular, he demonstrates what has been achieved through health care reform but questions how much more this can deliver relative to getting serious about priority setting.The issues addressed in the book have global relevance and this accessible book will therefore appeal to the public, health professionals and health policy specialists.

via Credit Crunch Health Care: How Economics Can Save Our Publicly-Funded Health Services, Donaldson.

Amazon.com: Reforming America’s Health Care System: The Flawed Vision of ObamaCare (HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION) (9780817912741): Scott W. Atlas MD: Books

Reforming America’s Health Care System: The Flawed Vision of ObamaCare (HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION) [Hardcover]

Scott W. Atlas MD

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Amazon.com: Obamacare: Dead on Arrival is Close Enough for Government Work (9781467929387): Jack Thomas: Books

Obamacare: Dead on Arrival is Close Enough for Government Work [Paperback]

Jack Thomas

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Amazon.com: Genetics, Health Care and Public Policy: An Introduction to Public Health Genetics (9780521529075): Alison Stewart, Philippa Brice, Hilary Burton, Paul Pharoah, Simon Sanderson, Ron Zimmern: Books

Genetics, Health Care and Public Policy is an introduction to the new discipline of public health genetics. It brings together the insights of genetic and molecular science as a means of protecting and improving the health of the population. This book sets out the basic principles of public health genetics for a wide audience of readers from those providing health care to those involved in establishing health policy. It provides one-stop introductory coverage of this rapidly developing and multidisciplinary field.

via Amazon.com: Genetics, Health Care and Public Policy: An Introduction to Public Health Genetics (9780521529075): Alison Stewart, Philippa Brice, Hilary Burton, Paul Pharoah, Simon Sanderson, Ron Zimmern: Books.

Gruber’s Health Care Reform Comic Book (no, Graphic Novel): A Review |

Gruber (along with co-author HP Newquest and illustrator Nathan Schreiber) manages to lay out in clear language and pictures how four very different people that are insured differently would deal with the aftermath of a heart attack. He narrates the possible scenarios in a Scott McCloud-like manner presenting the outcomes of an employee who is fully insured to the senior citizen on Medicare to the uninsured working poor. Gruber then lays out the double headed monster of rising costs and growing numbers of uninsured. His manner of presenting the opposition of the ACA in the form of four movie monsters both guarantee a laugh and key points to remember. He even manages to suss out the details of what an insurance exchange is and what it does in only a few effective panels.

via Gruber’s Health Care Reform Comic Book (no, Graphic Novel): A Review |.

Health Citizenship : Dorothy Porter – University of California Press

Health Citizenship

Essays in Social Medicine and Biomedical Politics

Dorothy Porter (Author)

Available worldwide

UC Medical Humanities Consortium, UC San Francisco

Perspectives in Medical Humanities

Paperback, 314 pages

ISBN: 9780983463931

November 2011

via Health Citizenship : Dorothy Porter – University of California Press.

Why IS Health Care Reform So Elusive? – Health Policy/Systems – Harvard Public Health Review – Harvard School of Public Health

John McDonough, HSPH professor of the practice of public health, was a senior adviser on the U.S. Senate committee responsible for developing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the landmark health care reform plan that President Barack Obama signed into law in March 2010. A former Massachusetts state legislator and executive director of the advocacy group Health Care for All, McDonough recently spoke with the Review about the revolutionary law, which he compares to the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Medicare and Medicaid Act of 1965. His new book is Inside National Health ReformOpens in New Window.

via Why IS Health Care Reform So Elusive? – Health Policy/Systems – Harvard Public Health Review – Harvard School of Public Health.

Rationing In Health Care: The Theory and Practice of Priority Setting, Williams, Robinson, Dickinson

The challenges faced by those rationing scarce health care resources have intensified following the economic downturn. This book tackles this challenge by exploring the latest thinking and practice on priority setting methods. In an accessible style the book brings together theories, practice and evidence from a wide range of disciplines and provides practical, evidence-based prescriptions for decision makers. It will be of interest to all health care managers and students of health care policy and management.

via Rationing In Health Care: The Theory and Practice of Priority Setting, Williams, Robinson, Dickinson.