Reforming Reading Reform

Reforming Healthcare Reform

Current scholarship has not addressed the systemic problems that occur in the process of implementing healthcare reform, tending instead to focus on proposing single reform measures to cure specific problems or on constitutional problems related to the Affordable Care Act. 1 To address that gap, this article carefully analyzes a case study of Medicare‘s efforts to control unnecessary hospital a...

Reforming the Reform Process: Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe

As communist regimes throughout Central and Eastern Europe have fallen one by one under the weight of economic failure and popular discontent, the task of transforming these countries into stable and vibrant liberal democratic societies has commanded the attention of many Western governments and international organizations. Given the rapid and extremely destabilizing deterioration in the levels...

Reforming the Reform: Public Health Policy in the Dominican Republic

Introduction: (First paragraph only) The Dominican Republic is located south of Florida and east of Cuba, on the Eastern side Hispaniola; on the western side is Haiti. The Republic operates as representative democracy, with a bicameral national congress comprised of a Senate with 32 members and a Chamber of Deputies that operates similarly to the United States House of Representatives. Election...

Health Reform in the 21st Century: Reforming the Health Care Delivery System

State Owned Entity Reform in Absence of Privatization: Reforming Indian National Laboratories and Role of Leadership

The literature on state-owned entity (SOE) reform has been focused on privatization. We however show that even in the absence of property rights, SOEs may significantly improve performance and document 42 Indian state-owned laboratories over 1993-2006 starting from a base of negligible U.S. patents, being granted more patents than all domestic private firms combined. Patent licensing revenue in...