Background
Marmor, Theodore Richard was born on February 24, 1939 in Brooklyn. Son of James and Mira Bernice (Karpf) Marmor.
( On July 30, 1965, President Johnson flew to Independenc...)
On July 30, 1965, President Johnson flew to Independence, Missouri to sign the Medicare bill. The new statute included two related insurance programs to finance substantial portions of the hospital and physician expenses incurred by Americans over the age of sixty-five. Public attempts to improve American health standards have typically precipitated bitter debate, even as the issue has shifted from the professional and legal status of physicians to the availability of hospital care and public health programs. In The Politics of Medicare, Marmor helps the reader understand Medicare's origins, and he interprets the history of the program and explores what happened to Medicare politically as it turned from a legislative act in the mid-1960s to a major program of American government in the three decades since. This is a vibrant study of an important piece of legislation that asks and answers several questions: How could the American political system yield a policy that simultaneously appeased anti-governmental biases and used the federal government to provide a major entitlement? How was the American Medical Association legally overcome yet placated enough to participate in the program? And how did the Medicare law emerge so enlarged from earlier proposals that themselves had caused so much controversy?
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(No one misses the onslaught of claims about reforming mod...)
No one misses the onslaught of claims about reforming modern medical care. How doctors should be paid, how hospitals should be paid or governed, how much patients should pay when sick in co-payments, how the quality of care could be improved, and how governments and other buyers could better control the costs of care - all find expression in the explosion of medical care conference proceedings, op-eds, news bulletins, journal articles, and books. This collection of articles takes up a key set of what the author regards as particularly misleading fads and fashions - developments that produce a startling degree of foolishness in contemporary discussions of how to organize, deliver, finance, pay for and regulate medical care services in modern industrial democracies. The policy fads addressed include the celebration of explicit rationing as a major cost control instrument, the belief in a “basic package” of health insurance benefits to constrain costs, the faith that contemporary cross-national research can deliver a large number of transferable models, and the notion that broadening the definition of what is meant by health will constitute some sort of useful advance in practice.
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(Each topical chapter in this volume crystallizes the find...)
Each topical chapter in this volume crystallizes the findings of a five-year study, under the auspices of the Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, that probed the links between social hierarchy, the "macroenvironmental" factors in illness patterns, the quality of the "microenvironmental," and other determinants of health. In its aggregate, this volume will pro...
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(The role of government in medical care, however contentio...)
The role of government in medical care, however contentious and bewildering, is increasingly important given that the finance of medical care in Western democracies is now dominated by public expenditures. Why do governments choose the medical programs they do? How do particular struggles in medical care illustrate more general political conflicts? This book stems from Marmor's conviction that political science can provide answers to questions such as these. Furthermore, the essays presented here demonstrate that political analysis is a crucial element of any sensible approach to policy making. The essays are grouped intro three parts. Firstly, how the general findings of a political science illuminate disputes over medical care. Secondly, looks at political conflict in American medicine, such as paying doctors, representing consumers and restraining inflation. Lastly, the essays tie different sorts of political analysis to the appraisal of issues such as national health insurance in the 1970s and procompetitive reform in the early 1980s.
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( The reform of American medical care is the most importa...)
The reform of American medical care is the most important topic on the nation's domestic agenda and the centerpiece of the Clinton administration's plans for social policy and long-term economic development. This book, written by a preeminent analyst of medical politics and policy who is a frequent adviser to Congress, helps to clarify the current debate over the President's bill and the proposed alternatives to it. It is essential reading for 1994. Theodore Marmor, whose work has appeared in scholarly journals and books, as well as in the nation's major newspapers and magazines, here presents some of his most recent writings that illuminate the historical, political, and economic considerations lying behind various proposals now under debate. Marmor explains what we can and cannot expect from reform of American medicine, and he addresses the many conflicting claims about the remedies for America's problems with medical costs, quality, access, and organizations. He discusses, for example: —the misplaced faith that cutting waste will greatly ease our financial troubles and markedly improve our health; —the exaggerated arguments for "managed competition"; —the myths that either non-profit or for-profit institutions are the key to reform; —the misleading and fearful debate over rationing; —the lessons to be learned from Canada's and Japan's experiments with universal health insurance; —the controversial place of Medicare in the current reform struggle; —barriers facing implementation of any of the major health care proposals; —and the possibility of fusing different approaches to achieve reform.
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(The role of government in medical care, however contentio...)
The role of government in medical care, however contentious and bewildering, is increasingly important given that the finance of medical care in Western democracies is now dominated by public expenditures. Why do governments choose the medical programs they do? How do particular struggles in medical care illustrate more general political conflicts? This book stems from Marmor's conviction that political science can provide answers to questions such as these. Furthermore, the essays presented here demonstrate that political analysis is a crucial element of any sensible approach to policy making. The essays are grouped intro three parts. Firstly, how the general findings of a political science illuminate disputes over medical care. Secondly, looks at political conflict in American medicine, such as paying doctors, representing consumers and restraining inflation. Lastly, the essays tie different sorts of political analysis to the appraisal of issues such as national health insurance in the 1970s and procompetitive reform in the early 1980s.
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Political science and public management educator
Marmor, Theodore Richard was born on February 24, 1939 in Brooklyn. Son of James and Mira Bernice (Karpf) Marmor.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1966; postgraduate, Wadham College, University of Oxford, England, 1961-1962.
Assistant and associate professor political science University Wisconsin-Madison, 1967-1969. Associate professor public affairs University Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1970-1973. Professor University Chicago, 1973-1979.
Professor political science Yale University, New Haven, since 1979, chairman Center Health Studies, 1979-1985, professor public management School Organization and Management, 1983—2007. Adjunct professor JF Kennedey School Governor, Harvard University, since 2007. Visiting fellow Russell Sage Foundation, 1987-1988.
Consultant, lecturer in field.
(Each topical chapter in this volume crystallizes the find...)
( The reform of American medical care is the most importa...)
(The role of government in medical care, however contentio...)
(The role of government in medical care, however contentio...)
( On July 30, 1965, President Johnson flew to Independenc...)
(No one misses the onslaught of claims about reforming mod...)
Member Council on Foreign Relations, New York City, 1979-1980, President' Commision on 1980s, 1980. Social policy adviser Walter Mondale Presidential Campaign, 1984. Fellow Institute Medicine, National Academy Social Insurance.
Member United States Squash Racquets Association (board directors since 1983), Century Association (New York City), United Oxford and Cambridge Club (London), Lawn Club.
Married Jan Schmidt, October 20, 1961 (deceased 2003). Children: Laura Carleton, Sarah Rogers. Married Kieke G.H. Okma, May 11, 2007.