{"title":"California health care in the 21st Century. A vision for reform.","authors":"J Garamendi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi's proposal for revamping the state's health care system is considered by many to be an improvement on Alain Enthoven's version of managed competition because it separates insurance from employment and includes budgets and a single source of financing. Princeton sociologist Paul Starr, a prominent member of the national Health Care Taskforce, is a proponent of a similar plan on a national basis. This is an excerpt from the Executive Summary of the plan; in 1992 the California legislature approved a commission to study the proposal, only to have it vetoed by Governor Pete Wilson.</p>","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 1","pages":"15-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20997073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survival of the fittest. The 'competition' model for health care.","authors":"D Sigelman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The following are excerpts from an article first published in the Health/PAC Bulletin in 1981. This lengthy analysis was written in response to various proposals made during the late 1970s and early 1980s to unfetter the invisible hand of free-market competition in order to solve the nation's health care \"crisis.\" Twelve years later...the health care \"crisis\" is considerably more grave, and it has become even more popular to wave the \"invisible\" hand in the hope it will go away. Twelve years later, the objections Sigelman raises have not gone away either, and his conclusions--that in the face of the competition model, the need is greater than ever for consumers to organize to compel providers to deliver services that respond to the needs of the community--is, unfortunately, prophetic.</p>","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 1","pages":"37-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20998478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming full circle. Lessons from health care organizing.","authors":"T Mizrahi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 2","pages":"12-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21000497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letting their voices be heard. The role of legal advocacy in working for social justice.","authors":"V Shubert","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 2","pages":"28-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21000503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Random thoughts of a health activist.","authors":"E R Shaffer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 2","pages":"39-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21000508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Directions for health care reform.","authors":"N Oswald","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 1","pages":"28-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20998474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking for help...the experience of residential drug treatment.","authors":"D Gardner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 3","pages":"9-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21043952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The leap to health care reform. Starting from a different place.","authors":"O Fein","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 2","pages":"21-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21000500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}