We investigate the effects of political activity on pharmaceutical prices, focusing on the health care reform period in the early 1990s.We characterize firms based on their vulnerability to future price regulation and find that the more vulnerable firms were more likely to take various actions to forestall regulation, most notably coordinating on a specific percentage price increase during 1993...

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Re-denomination was not only a zero dropping and new coin minting operation but also a significant milestone in Turkey. Before the currency reform, multiple zeros had posed several difficulties in expressing monetary values, transactions, bookkeeping and statistical records, data processing software, payment systems, price labels etc. So, removing six zeros from national currency became a ...

The difficult current economic climate is riddled with change and uncertainty, and the hospital industry is not immune to the effects. In fact hospitals face an unprecedented series of challenges, including poor economic conditions, increasing competition, and greater reporting requirements. On top of these issues, the healthcare reform law looms, with a great deal of perplexity regarding its u...

Massachusetts' experience with health care reform may be predictive of the effects of national health care reform. Data on employment in the health care industry were examined to determine the impact of the Massachusetts reform on the state's health care workforce.

The time is now. Over the past decade, health care providers have heard about the unprecedented redesign of the health care system. With the presidential election fast approaching, waves of uncertainty are swirling around the Affordable Care Act. No matter the outcomes of the November elections and their impact to the health care reform bill, there are sustainable aspects that will continue to ...

Market-based health care reform during democratic transition in Bosnia and Herzegovina was complicated by the 1992-1995 war, that devastated the country and greater part of its health care infrastructure. The course of the transition and consequences of war for the health system and health professionals are presented here from the perspective of the author. The description of real-life situatio...

n announcing his health reform plan on September 22, 1993, President Bill Clinton spoke of six overarching principles: securi ty , savings, qual i ty , implicity, choice, and responsibility. You can be sure that all these key words have tested well in polling and focus groups. Throughout the coming months, political language will be critical in shaping the debate. Since healthcare reform is suc...