When: 26 April, 2007 – 28 April, 2007
Venue: Yale University
Where: New Haven, USA
Topic: Comparative Healthcare Policies
Proceedings: Review the 4th ICPA-Forum Workshop Program and visit the Photo Gallery.
Comparative Healthcare Policies
Abstract Deadline: 3 March 2007
Paper Deadline: 10 April 2007
Invitation:
A Special Issue on Healthcare Policies is edited by Professor Ted Marmor of Yale University. The papers will first be presented and reviewed at the 4th ICPA-Forum Workshop, April 26-28, 2007, at the School of Public Management, Yale.
Context:
The first aim of the 4th JCPA/ICPA-Forum Workshop sponsored by The Yale School of Management, Yale University, is to discuss draft papers for the upcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis on comparative healthcare policies featuring leading scholars from France, the UK, Germany, The Netherlands, the United States, and Canada. Further to the Special Issue we aim to widen the dialogue and audience and expand the scope of the dialogue on comparative policy analysis discussion. In l994, Joe White, Ted Marmor, and a number of others drafted an article on what they regarded as "sense and nonsense" in the American reform debate over the Clinton plan; as it came to be known, The No Holes Group Paper. The No Holes participants will reflect both on the historical document they composed in 1994 and their take on the comparative commentary.
It will place US health reform in a comparative and historical context, which is relatively rare in the history of US health politics. The aim is to turn the comparative dialogue into reflections which the US commentators
will take away from the comparative perspective.At the closing reception Iris Geva-May, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis and ICPA-Forum founder, will comment on (1) on the workshop's proceedings and content (2) the Journal's tradition of promoting Special Issues and the dialogue on comparative policy analysis through the workshop mode, and (3) will present Ted Marmor, Richard Freeman and Kieke Okma with the prize for 'Best JCPA Article, 2005' (Vol.7:4) on the promise and perils of comparative health policy research entitled "Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care."
Keeping with the aim of the ICPA-Forum, students will also attend (law student editors of the Yale Journal of Health Law, Policy and Ethics) along side presenters and the No Holes Group.
Finally, reflecting on the fact that there currently exists a huge interest in insurance reform in the US, it may be plausible that the states will be able to act in the light of stalemate between the Congress and the President, let alone within the Congress. A follow-up discussion on Sunday morning will explore this possibility and call upon local actors, other commentators who have written about state-led reform promise and barriers, and members of New York's activist reform community who have organized what they call the "Rekindling Reform Group."
Organizers:
Dr. Theodore Marmor, Professor of Public Policy & Management, Yale School of Management
Sponsored By:
School of Public Management, Yale University and ICPA-Forum
