{"title":"The American Health Security Act of 1993.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The American Health Security Act (S 491, HR 1200) was introduced in the U.S. Senate by Paul Wellstone (D-MN) and in the House of Representatives by John Conyers (D-MI) and Jim McDermott (D-WA), along with 54 co-sponsors. The legislation, which replaces and strengthens the 1992 bill proposed by former Rep. Marty Russo and Sen. Wellstone, presents a single-payer alternative to managed competition proposals. This summary is excerpted from material provided by Sen. Wellstone's office.</p>","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 1","pages":"43-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20998481","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 rise of the health care consumer.","authors":"C Rudder","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 2","pages":"32-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21000505","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":"Managed care as health care rationing.","authors":"A Springer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article is based on the author's presentations to the New York State Governor's Health Care Advisory Board's Task Force on the President's Health Care Plan, November 22, 1993, and to a hearing of the New York State Attorney General on the experience of consumers with health insurers and health maintenance organizations, September 20, 1993. His comments deal with the effects of the Clinton health care reform proposal and other forms of managed care on those most in need of care. Particularly interesting are his suggestions for protecting the rights of health care consumers.</p>","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 4","pages":"26-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21043787","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":"There is such a thing as a free lunch. Social policy in the Clinton health plan.","authors":"N McKenzie, A Levin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 3","pages":"22-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002571","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":"'To make a difference'. The Lincoln Collective.","authors":"H Osborn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Lincoln Collective was born in 1970 as a grassroots effort of health and community workers to start the kind of nonhierarchical community-oriented program described in this article. The idea of two residents who were already at Lincoln Hospital, the notion was given official approval because of the influx of young, American-trained physicians and nurses it would bring. But, as the experiment was advertised by word of mouth to members of the Student Health Organization, the Medical Committee for Human Rights, and other health workers involved in antiwar activities, the hospital, administration got more than it bargained for.</p>","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 2","pages":"19-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21000499","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":"What we've learned about containing health care costs.","authors":"A Sager","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 2","pages":"41-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21001725","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":"Time to think about winning.","authors":"L Lowe","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 2","pages":"49-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21001729","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":"Toward a client-centered understanding of drug treatment.","authors":"K McGowan, R Sorge","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article reports some of the results of a study of the content of drug treatment in New York City that is being conducted by Health/PAC's Drug Treatment Policy Project and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The research is led by a steering committee made up of clients of drug treatment services, providers and administrators of drug treatment programs, and legal and financial advocates for drug users. This article reflects 20 months of meetings and discussions by the steering committee; over 50 interviews with drug users, advocates, drug treatment providers, and program administrators about the experience, structure, and policies of drug treatment in New York City; and an analysis of the major evaluations of drug treatment services in New York City, supplemented by informal telephone surveys of facilities by staff. The Drug Treatment Policy Project has found services in New York City as a whole to be less than enlightened or adequate. But, in the course of the research, many programs were found to be both helpful and effective, mostly as a result of the efforts and personal risks taken by individuals who filled in gaps or by programs that, because they were community based, went to extraordinary efforts on behalf of their clients to make sure that a variety of options and services were available. We hope to outline these successes in another article.</p>","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 3","pages":"4-8, 11-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21043173","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":"A community response to the needs of drug users. Stand Up Harlem.","authors":"K McGowan, N McKenzie","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In our first article reporting the results of a study by Health/PAC's Drug Treatment Policy Project, \"Toward a Client-Centered Understanding of Drug Treatment\" (Fall 1993 issue), we discussed the general inadequacy of public drug treatment services in New York City and the myriad obstacles that exist to obtaining treatment. This article maintains the client-centered perspective in examining an alternative approach that has been successful in helping drug users.</p>","PeriodicalId":75898,"journal":{"name":"Health PAC bulletin","volume":"23 4","pages":"4-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21043788","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}