Title

New York'S Health Care Workforce Recruitment And Retention Act: An Investigation Of The Effects Of Nonrecurring Increases In Health Worker Wage On Health Worker Supply

Keywords

Blue Cross Blue Shield privatization; HCWRRA; Health Care Reform Act of 2000; HMO privatization

Abstract

This article analyzes New York's Health Care Workforce Recruitment and Retention Act of 2002. The analysis comes in 4 parts: part 1 provides a brief overview of New York's economy as it relates to health care, a feel for the political climate at the time, and a detailed presentation of the chain of events that connect this climate to the birth of the Health Care Workforce Recruitment and Retention Act of 2002; part 2 consists of a breakdown of the provisions contained within bill, including major and minor goals, intended effects, and the mechanics behind raising supporting funds; part 3 explores what actually happened by evaluating available data to determine whether the bill's 2 major goals of workforce recruitment and retention were fulfilled; and finally, part 4 will take all the aforementioned information to determine the overall success of the bill, the implications, and specific suggestions for future policy changes that time has revealed since its inception.Copyright © 2014 Wolters Kluwer Health Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

Health Care Manager

Volume

33

Issue

3

Number of Pages

214-219

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1097/HCM.0000000000000017

Socpus ID

84905222902 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84905222902

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