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Beyond Path Dependence: Explaining Healthcare Reform and Its Consequences
Author(s) -
Haeder Simon F.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2012.00446.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , politics , path dependence , health care , path (computing) , state (computer science) , political science , health care reform , focus (optics) , field (mathematics) , public administration , public economics , health policy , economics , computer science , neoclassical economics , law , algorithm , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics , programming language , physics , mathematics , optics
This essay reviews recent developments in the field of health policy. It identifies a variety of frameworks brought forward to explain the enactment of health reform, including pivotal politics, path dependence, and multiple streams. It further identifies various challenges for the implementation of reform with a particular focus on state–federal relations and cost containment.