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IntroductionGreetings from the Committee on Health Politics,I hope everyone‘s summer has been as pleasant as it has been here in St. Louis. The weather has been delightfully cool for summer along the Mississippi. The only thing hot about this St. Louis summer has been the Cardinals, and their play has delighted us the past three months. This is Part 1 of the Annual Meeting Newsletter. At this time of year the email list is updated, and problems are always discovered as members move or change email addresses. Or, I make errors entering new ones. Since there is a good deal of information and news items this year, I am sending out the basic letter with the COHP and related panels as Part 1. Then, in a few days Part 2 will be distributed with the additional information. So look for the next one as well. APSA Panels - Chicago - September, 2004We have a great panel lineup for the APSA meeting in Chicago. The meeting program begins Thursday September 2nd and concludes Sunday September 5th.There are two COHP panels, plus we have our usual lunch Business Meeting on Saturday. Note the early hour for the first panel. APSA is starting the program earlier. Check the meeting program for the location, as this information is not available in advance. Friday, Sep 3, 8:00 AM Comparative Perspectives on Health Policy Chair: Jim Brasfield, brasfijm@webster.edu, Webster University “Policy Instruments in Healthcare” Lennart Rijkers, lennartrijkers@hotmail.com, University Maastricht Kieke G.H Okma, kg.okma@minvws.nl, Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Support “Neo-Liberal Impacts on Administration Reform: Public/Private Partnerships in Health Policy” James W. Bjorkman, bjorkman@iss.nl, The Hague, Institute of Social Science “After the Market Model: Understanding Why It Lacked Public Legitimacy in Health Care” Miriam J. Laugesen, laugesen@ucla.edu, UCLA Discussant(s): Joseph White, jxw87@po.cwru.edu, Case Western University Saturday, Sep 4, 10:15 AM The 2004 Election: The Impact of Health Issues and the Consequences for Health Policies Chair: Thomas R. Oliver, toliver@jhsph.edu, Johns Hopkins University “The Many Dimensions of Health Politics” Theodore R. Marmor, theodore.marmor@yale.edu, Yale University “Children's Health Coverage and Electoral Policies” Alice Sardell, alsard@aol.com, Queens College and Sally S. Cohen, sally.cohen@yale.edu, Yale University “The End of Medicare as We Know It?” Mark E. Rushefsky, mer477f@smsu.edu, Southwest Missouri State University “Reproductive Health and the Presidential Election” Deborah R. McFarlane, dmcf@unm.edu, University of New Mexico Discussant(s): Howard M. Leichter, hleich@linfield.edu, Linfield College, Jonathan B. Oberlander, oberland@med.unc.edu, UNC-Chapel Hill Dutch Treat Annual Lunch Meeting for Committee Members All are invited. Date: Saturday, Sep 4, 12:30 PM Place: Miller's Pub, 134 South Wabash (Just down the street from the Wabash entrance to Palmer House) Other panels of interest with COHP members participating. (Hope no one was excluded) Aging Politics and Policy Group Date: Friday, Sep 3, 10:15 AM Chair: William G. Weissert, Florida State University “A Political History of Medicare and Prescription Drug Coverage: Missed Opportunities and Muddled Outcomes” Thomas R. Oliver, toliver@jhsph.edu, Johns Hopkins University “Explaining Medicaid Nursing Facility Reimbursement Policy: Incremental and Non- Incremental Change, 1980-1998” Edward Alan Miller, Yale University “The Politics of Aging, Asian Style” Laura Katz Olson, lko1@lehigh.edu, Lehigh University Discussant: Cynthia Massie Mara, czm10@psu.edu, Penn State Harrisburg Annual Lunch Meeting for Aging Politics and Policy Group. Friday, Sep 3, 1:00 PM The French Quarter, Palmer House Public Policymaking as Catalyst for Innovative and Unexpected Policy Responses by the Private Sector Date: Friday, Sep 3, 2:00 PM Chair: Joseph White, jxw87@po.cwru.edu, Case Western University “The Political Economy of Federal Health Spending, 1965-2010” Daniel Gitterman, Danielg@email.unc.edu, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Catch Me If You Can: Hospitals, Cost Shifting, and the Game of Medicare Payment Policy” Rick Mayes, bmayes@richmond.edu, University of Richmond Jason Lee, Lee-Jason@norc.net, National Organization for Research “Making Children Sick? Disability Policy, ADHD, and Epidemics” Jennifer Erkulwater, jerkulwa@richmond.edu, University of Richmond “Waiving Medicaid: Explaining Managed Care Innovation from Two Perspectives” Jennifer M. Jensen, jjensen@albany.edu, University at Albany, SUNY Ethan M. Bernick, bernick.ethan@uis.edu, University of Illinois, Springfield Discussants: Mark A. Peterson, markap@ucla.edu, University of California, Los Angeles Colleen M. Grogan, cgrogan@uchicago.edu, University of Chicago The Interest Group Politics of Health Care Policy Date: Saturday, Sep 4, 4:15 PM Chair: Jacob S. Hacker, jacob.hacker@yale.edu, Yale University “ The Politics of Health: The Changing Community of Organized Interests” Mark A. Peterson, markap@ucla.edu, University of California, Los Angeles “Lobbying the Clinton and Bush Administrations on Health Policy: Any Meaningful Differences?” Rogan Kersh, rtkersh@maxwell.syr.edu, Syracuse University “The Effects of Evidence-Based Debate Among Lobbyists on the Legislative Product, with Evidence from Medicare Hearings” Kevin M. Esterling, kevine@citrus.ucr.edu, University of California, Riverside “Interest Group Coalitions as Policy Making Institutions: An Analysis of Health Care Politics During the 108th Congress” Michael T. Heaney, michael.t.heaney@yale.edu, Yale University “Behind the Veil: How Interest Groups Quietly Win Even on Highly Salient Issues” William G. Weissert, Florida State University Carol S. Weissert, cweisser@fsu.edu, Florida State University Discussant: Marie Hojnacki, marieh@psu.edu, Pennsylvania State University The Politics of Health and Education Policy in Comparative and Historical Perspective Date: Saturday, Sep 4, 4:15 PM Chair: Jeffrey R. Henig, henig@tc.columbia.edu, Columbia University “The Historical Development of Public Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, 1945-1965” Gerard Boychuk, gboychuk@uwaterloo.ca, University of Waterloo “Universal Coverage, Health Inequalities, and the American Health Care System in Crisis (Again)” Rick Mayes, bmayes@richmond.edu, University of Richmond “Reformers Abroad: The U.S. Occupation and Postwar Development of Japanese Health Insurance Policy” Takakazu Yamagishi, Taka@jhu.edu, Johns Hopkins University “Guizot`s Dilemma: The Politics of Standardizing Education in France, 1808-1906” Nicholas Toloudis, nt156@columbia.edu, “Educating Politics: The Transformation of Federal Education Policy 1965-2002” Patrick J. McGuinn, pmcguinn@colby.edu, Brown University Discussants: Theodore R. Marmor, theodore.marmor@yale.edu, Yale University Jeffrey R. Henig, henig@tc.columbia.edu, Columbia University The Politics of Prevention: Protecting Public Health Date: Thursday, Sep 2, 10:15 AM Chair: Helen Morrow, helen.morrow@ttu.edu, Texas Tech University “Taking the Keys from Grandpa: Policy Diffusion Failure or Stealth Policy?” Elaine B. Sharp, esharp@ku.edu, University of Kansas Paul E. Johnson, pauljohn@ku.edu, University of Kansas “Smallpox Immuniztion - Policy Design and Mapping” Lelia B. Helms, lelia-helms@uiowa.edu, University of Iowa Selden E. Biggs, University of Iowa “What Makes Them Tick(et)? Enforcing Youth Access to Tobacco Laws” Michael J. Licari, michael.licari@uni.edu, University of Northern Iowa “Federalism and Tobacco Control: Do Institutions Matter?” Donley T. Studlar, dstudlar@wvu.edu, West Virginia University Hadii M. Mamudu, hadiim@yahoo.com, West Virginia University Discussant: Deborah R. McFarlane, dmcf@unm.edu, University of New Mexico Individual health policy papers on panels not exclusively focused on health include: “Innovation Through Litigation: Health Care and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms” Christopher P. Manfredi, Christopher.Manfredi@mcgill.ca, McGill University Antonia Maioni, antonia.maioni@mcgill.ca, McGill University Panel: Courts as Policymakers Date: Thursday, Sep 2, 8:00 AM “Administrative Responsiveness to the Disadvantaged: Federalism And Children's Health Insurance” Frank J. Thompson, thompson@albany.edu, SUNY, University at Albany Panel: Coordinating Administrative Processes in the U.S. Intergovernmental System Date: Thursday, Sep 2, 8:00 AM “Against All Odds: Health Care Reform in the States” Virginia H. Gray, vagray@email.unc.edu, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill David . Lowery, dlowery@fsw.leidenuniv.nl, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Panel: Parties and Interest Groups in State Policy Making Date: Thursday, Sep 2, 2:00 PMCOHP new Newsletter goal this yearA goal for the coming year is to have a newsletter distributed each month on the first of the month or shortly thereafter. This will be the September one, so next newsletter will be about the first of October. This newsletter will be most useful if people send me items to include. About a week in advance I will send a reminder email asking for items. But, send things anytime during the month. The newsletter will be as long or short as I have items.COHP web siteCOHP website http://www.cohealthpolitics.org/Check out the COHP website. Ted Anagnoson has been very good about keeping the COHP website up and running. This is the type of website that will work best if we can use it as a portal to be a central access point to a variety of links to other health policy websites. Use of hyperlinks has always been central organizing concept of the worldwide web since its beginning. COHP syllabus linksMany COHP members teach health policy courses and have websites and online syllabi that would be of interest to other members. So let us know if you have a useful site that we might link from the COHP webpage. I know many members have often been interested in seeing syllabi from the courses others teach.Other web sites of interestProbably most members are familiar with major health policy websites such as the Kaiser Family Foundation, http://www.kff.org, which has an extensive online collection of health policy materials, and now has an education section with material and webcam short presentations by staff on such issues as “the uninsured.”But, here are a couple of places that might be of interest to many of you: 1. Rockefeller Institute at SUNY Albany Reports on Medicaid Frank Thompson is a long time member of COHP whose research interest in Medicaid goes at least back to his 1981 book Health Policy and the Bureaucracy. He is now Dean of The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, and on their website: is a list of the Institute’s substantial collection of reports on Medicaid. The latest is "MEDICAID AND STATE BUDGETS IN FY 2004: WHY MEDICAID IS SO HARD TO CUT" by James W. Fossett and Courtney E. Burke. It is available as a downloadable PDF document on the website. In the summary of the report they make the following interesting observation: Cutting Medicaid was not a major element of most states budget balancing strategies. While almost every state enacted some form of Medicaid expenditure reduction, most were modest compared to the size of the budget gap and total Medicaid expenditures. In three states, Medicaid spending cuts amounted to more than 10 percent of the state budget-balancing package. 2. Analyses of the Kerry and Bush health plans If you are interested in a short comparative analysis of the Kerry and Bush health plans take a look at Ken Thorpe’s two short papers on the Emory University website: Books of interestA newsletter is not a good venue for book reviews, but here are a couple of books of note that you might wish to look at as you are exploring the book publishers' wares in Chicago.Jon Oberlander’s The Political Life of Medicare, University of Chicago Press, 2003. I used this book in my health policy class last Spring and found it worked well. Rick Mayes Universal Coverage: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance, University of Michigan Press, this new book is due to be published in December. Another new book set to appear later this Fall is Kant Patel and Mark E. Rushefsky The Politics of Public Health in the United States , ME Sharpe. Jacob Hacker’s new book The Divided Welfare State, Cambridge U. Press has been getting very good reviews. This summer I found very interesting John Berry’s The Great Influenza, Viking 2004, which is a comprehensive history of the 1918 pandemic. He rather convincingly concludes the epidemic probably began with a swine to human transmission in Haskell County, Kansas in 1918. Berry estimates that at least fifty million people subsequently died worldwide. He says: “Influenza killed more people in a year than the Black Death of the Middle Ages killed in a century; it killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years.” He tells an interesting story of the heroic efforts of public health officials to stem the tidal wave of this disease in the middle of a world war. ConclusionI apologize for all the worthy books or websites not listed. In future months I will need your help to be as inclusive as possible.Jim Brasfield, Webster University Case Western Reserve University Faculty PositionsDear friends,Please pardon this mass e-mail. But I’d like to draw your attention to the fact that Case’s Department of Political Science is doing a search for somewhere between one and three positions. It’s a pretty good place to work, in a decent city. Our Dean prefers junior appointments, but recognizes that we have a case for at least one more senior slot, and an argument that financing exists, and if we can agree on someone impressive I think we could make the appointment (but offer no guarantees). We have listed three job possibilities – American, I.R., and “Other” – and while I would put them roughly in that order of priority, we’re mostly looking for high quality. We also have a bit of a leaning towards people who will want to be involved in analyzing and discussing policy, as opposed to how many principled agents can dance on the head of a pin. The former would fit much better with a small department in a university with strong professional schools. So: if you have any suggestions, including in some of your cases a willingness to consider moving, please let me and/or Alec Lamis (as listed in the ad) know. Most of the department will be at APSA, including me, and if you know someone who would like to talk informally it might be possible to arrange that. And, of course, please feel free to share the attachment. The jobs are listed on the APSA listings already. All the best, Joe White Joseph White, Ph.D. Luxenberg Family Professor and Chair Department of Political Science Director, Center for Policy Studies Case Western Reserve University Mather House 111 11201 Euclid Avenue Cleveland OH 44106-7109 (216) 368-2426 joseph.white@case.edu Listing for American Politics Category of American Political Science Association e-job service, July 19, 2004. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: Open The Department of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University seeks one or more full-time, tenure-track colleagues across the discipline. American Politics, including legislative institutions, political behavior, and research methods defined broadly, is among our identified interests, but we are most interested in the excellence of a candidate’s work. Although appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor is strongly preferred, we have authorization to search for a senior candidate with a distinguished record of publication, research, service, and teaching. Case offers the student quality and class size of a strong liberal arts college within one of the nation’s major research universities. In addition to standard political science courses, faculty members have the opportunity to teach interdisciplinary seminars in the University’s new core curriculum. Teaching load is two courses per semester and compensation will be competitive and commensurate with qualifications. A successful candidate will have a research portfolio that is theoretically informed with real world applications, and might take advantage of collaborative opportunities such as with Case’s Schools of Law, Management, Medicine and Applied Social Sciences; its Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations; and new Department of Cognitive Science. Electronic submissions, including a letter of application, a writing sample, a c.v., and references, can be sent to Alexander.Lamis@case.edu. Alternatively, print versions of applications or portions thereof, such as reference letters, may be sent to Professor Alexander P. Lamis; Chair, Political Science Search Committee; Case Western Reserve University; Mather House 111; 11201 Euclid Avenue; Cleveland, OH 44106-7109. All applications received by 30 October, 2004 will be considered. Case Western Reserve University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and the department is strongly committed to fostering diversity within our community. Listing for International Relations Category of American Political Science Association e-job service, July 19 2004. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: Open The Department of Political Science seeks one or more full-time, tenure-track colleagues across the discipline. International Relations, including expertise in Asia or the Middle East or issues of conflict and its resolution, is among our identified interests, but we are most interested in the excellence of a candidate’s work. Appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor is strongly preferred, but we have authorization to search for a senior candidate with a distinguished record of publication, research, service, and teaching. Case offers the student quality and class size of a strong liberal arts college within one of the nation’s major research universities. In addition to standard political science courses, faculty members also have the opportunity to teach interdisciplinary seminars in the University’s new core curriculum. Teaching load is two courses per semester and compensation will be competitive and commensurate with qualifications. A successful candidate will have a research portfolio that is theoretically informed with real world applications, and might take advantage of collaborative opportunities such as with Case’s Schools of Law, Management, Medicine and Applied Social Sciences; its Mandel Center on Nonprofit Organizations; and new Department of Cognitive Science. Electronic submissions, including a letter of application, a writing sample, a c.v., and references can be sent to Alexander.Lamis@case.edu. Alternatively, print versions of applications or portions thereof, such as reference letters, may be sent to Professor Alexander P. Lamis; Chair, Political Science Search Committee; Case Western Reserve University; Mather House 111; 11201 Euclid Avenue; Cleveland, OH 44106-7109. All applications received by 30 October 2004 will be considered. Case Western Reserve University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and the department is strongly committed to fostering diversity within our community. Listing for Other Category of American Political Science Association e-job service, July 19 2004. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: Open The Department of Political Science seeks one or more full-time, tenure-track colleagues across the discipline. Case offers the student quality and class size of a strong liberal arts college within one of the nation’s major research universities. In addition to standard political science courses, faculty members also have the opportunity to teach interdisciplinary seminars in the University’s new core curriculum. Teaching load is two courses per semester and compensation will be competitive and commensurate with qualifications. A successful candidate will have a research portfolio that is theoretically informed with real world applications, and might take advantage of collaborative opportunities such as with Case’s Schools of Law, Management, Medicine and Applied Social Sciences; its Mandel Center on Nonprofit Organizations; and new Department of Cognitive Science. Although we have distinct interest in American Politics and International Relations, we are most interested in the excellence of a candidate’s work. Appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor is strongly preferred, but we have authorization to search for a senior candidate with a distinguished record of publication, research, service, and teaching. Electronic submissions, including a letter of application, a writing sample, a c.v., and references can be sent to Alexander.Lamis@case.edu. Alternatively, print versions of applications or portions thereof, such as reference letters, may be sent to Professor Alexander P. Lamis; Chair, Political Science Search Committee; Case Western Reserve University; Mather House 111; 11201 Euclid Avenue; Cleveland, OH 44106-7109. All applications received by 30 October, 2004 will be considered. Case Western Reserve University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and the department is strongly committed to fostering diversity within our community. This page created by J. T. Anagnoson. Last update: 10-10-04 TOP | American Political Science Association | Aging Policy and Politics Group | |