Health Policy, Federalism and the American States

Download or read book Health Policy, Federalism and the American States written by Robert F. Rich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.