Beyond Path Dependence: Explaining Healthcare Reform and Its Consequences

abstract

• This essay reviews recent developments in the field of health policy. It identifies a variety of frameworks brought forward to explain the enactment of health reform, including pivotal politics, path dependence, and multiple streams. It further identifies various challenges for the implementation of reform with a particular focus on statefederal relations and cost containment.

authors

• Haeder, Simon

published proceedings

• POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL

altmetric score

• 503.18

author list (cited authors)

• Haeder, S. F.

citation count

• 26

complete list of authors

• Haeder, Simon F

publication date

• April 2012

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• Policy Studies Journal (PSJ)  Journal

keywords

• Affordable Care Act
• Health Politics
• Health Reform
• Insurance Exchange
• Medicaid
• Policy Implementation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2012.00446.x

start page

• 65

end page

• 86

volume

• 40

issue

• s1

URL

• https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.2012.00446.x