ABSTRACT
First published in 1997, this volume emerged in the ongoing struggle between those favouring centralized and those favouring decentralized government, and has three goals: 1) To illustrate how theories of federalism and intergovernmental relations can provide a useful framework for examining how to 'divide up the job in the health care area'; 2) To assess the capacity of the states to actually implement health care policy changes; 3) To weigh the merits of alternative visions of the future roles of states and the federal government in health care policy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|35 pages
Federalism, Health Policy, and the States
part Two|112 pages
Health Policy in the States: Overview
part Three|126 pages
Assessing the Capacity of the States
chapter Seven|22 pages
States and the Health Care Crisis: The Limits and Lessons of Laboratory Federalism
chapter Eight|17 pages
Variation in Health Care Policy in the American States: The Dog that didn’t Bark
part Four|32 pages
The Future of States in Health Care Policy