title: Political challenges for healthcare reform.
abstract: Bright ideas for health reform abound in Western nations, but moving proposals into policy requires surmounting political challenges. This paper briefly reviews three central challenges: installing reforms not merely "on the public agenda," but also high on the agendas of public and private stakeholders; designing for the reformed system a division of labour acceptable to key actors and institutions; and finding a reform model that is both substantively plausible and politically appealing. Successful hurdling of these challenges is easier said than done.
authors: Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailmar School of Public Health, Columbia University, 600 West 168th Street, New York, New York 10032, USA. lbrowncol@aol.com
authors: Lawrence D
authors: LD
authors: Brown
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000458:organization & administration; D005060:Europe; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States
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