Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 38:1

EDITOR'S NOTE

The Power of Ideas — Cost Effectiveness, Public Participation, and Fighting Disease - Colleen M. Grogan

ARTICLES

Reducing Variation in Health Care: The Rhetorical Politics of a Policy Idea - Sandra J. Tanenbaum

An Interdependent Analytic Approach to Explaining the Evolution of NGOs, Social Movements, and Biased Government Response to AIDS and Tuberculosis in Brazil - Eduardo J. Gómez

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND DELIBERATION

Who Governs Federally Qualified Health Centers? - Brad Wright

Voice and Choice by Delegation - Hester van de Bovenkamp, Hans Vollaard, Margo Trappenburg, and Kor Grit

Public Engagement in Health Technology Assessment and Coverage Decisions: A Study of Experiences in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom - Julia Kreis and Harald Schmidt

POINT-COUNTERPOINT

State Medicaid Policy and Health Reform - Harold A. Pollack

Sound Policy Trumps Politics: States Should Expand Medicaid - Austin B. Frakt and Aaron E. Carroll

The Medicaid Expansion Is Not Such a Good Deal for States or the Poor - Joseph Antos

IN MEMORIAM

Remembering Rick Brown - Thomas Rice and Mark A. Peterson

BOOKS

REVIEWS

Long-Term Care for the Elderly - Cynthia Massie Mara

Robyn Stone. Long-Term Care for the Elderly. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 2011.

The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine - Rick Mathis

Jeremy Howick. The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform / Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care: The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle - Rick Mayes

Paul Starr. Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Stuart Altman and David Shactman. Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care: The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle. New York: Prometheus Books, 2011.

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