AEI is rereleasing some of its most prescient and groundbreaking works from its earliest thinkers and innovators. These books, part of a series called AEI Classics, are available for download as Adobe Acrobat PDFs.
"This scholarly and readable book describes how the U.S. Congress functions as it deliberates and develops health policy. Chapters cover the committee organization and jurisdictions, the budgeting process, how information informs decisions, congressional oversight functions, and case study analysis of the failed Clinton health reform plan. The book is a final product of a project to assess and improve the way Congress functions. It offers a nonpartisan, well-researched, and current view of how Congress is organized and equipped to approach and determine health policy. The editors and authors are all experts in their field, and they present a detailed and well informed analysis. This book will be useful to individuals (healthcare professionals, advanced students, scholars) who have an interest in understanding the complex dynamics and influences on health policy. It offers a thoughtful, behind-the-scenes perspective that will be appreciated by those from the health care sector as well as from political science and policy analysis. Each chapter is clearly written with useful notes. Despite multiple authors, there is no duplication of material, and the text is well edited. Each chapter takes a fairly complicated topic and presents an interesting discussion and analysis, drawing on fairly current examples of health issues (AIDS funding, Medicare hospital and physician payment reform and oversight, the 1989 Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act and the Clinton health care reform effort). This book represents a scholarly and timely addition to the field of health policy studies. It can serve as a reference or an informed text on how Congress works and the complex interplay of factors thathave shaped its efforts to deliberate and establish national health policy and oversight."--Judith A. Cooksey
Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at AEI and a regular contributor to Roll Call. Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Senior Fellow in American Governance at the Brookings Institution.
In Making a Killing: The Deadly Implications of the Counterfeit Drug Trade, AEI resident fellow Roger Bate analyzes the burgeoning international trade in counterfeit drugs and recommends steps that governments and law enforcement agencies could take to stop it.
The promise of "healthy aging" offers significant opportunities for economic growth and development for Europe in the decades ahead--if governments and citizens are willing to grasp them.
