Health Economics: Scientific Expertise and Policymaking
This paper investigates the ways in which evidence about the U.S. healthcare system has been produced, evaluated, and translated into healthcare policy. The main argument of this essay is that there was a shift in the dominant mode of influence of economics. Where through the 1960s the central influ...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association Œconomia
2018-09-01
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| Series: | Œconomia |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/3091 |
| Summary: | This paper investigates the ways in which evidence about the U.S. healthcare system has been produced, evaluated, and translated into healthcare policy. The main argument of this essay is that there was a shift in the dominant mode of influence of economics. Where through the 1960s the central influence was of particular economists appointment to committees or advisory positions, this was replaced by the increasing importance of the cognitive infrastructure provided by the field of health economics by the 1990s which provided an “economic way of thinking” about healthcare policy. This case study provides a broader exploration into how scientific expert advice becomes operationalized in society, which in the case of health policy in the U.S., has remained salient up to the present with the recent passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. |
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| ISSN: | 2113-5207 2269-8450 |