The New Jersey League of Women Voters convened a nonpartisan, off-the-record gathering of policymakers from across the state in 1992 to discuss the potential impact on New Jersey of health care reform changes proposed at the national level. In 1993, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provided funding to the League of Women Voters of New Jersey Education Fund to sponsor the Capitol Forums on Health & Medical Care, a series of nonpartisan policy forums about health care in New Jersey. The Forums Institute for Public Policy was established in 1997 as a nonprofit organization to administer the New Jersey Policy Forums on Health and Medical Care.
Issue briefs developed for the New Jersey Policy Forums on Health and Medical Care were deposited with the New Jersey State Library when the Forums Institute for Public Policy closed its doors in 2009. The New Jersey League of Women Voters transferred the copyright for earlier issue briefs to us as well. The entire collection of issue briefs are available online in PDF format.
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| Issue Brief Number |
Title |
Date |
| 1 |
Maintaining a commitment -- access to hospital care |
October 1992 |
| 2 |
New Jersey's health care reform legislation: summary and comments |
February 1993 |
| 3 |
Health care purchasing power in New Jersey |
April 1993 |
| 4 |
Managed care -- keystone of the health care delivery system in the 1990s? |
February 1994 |
| 5 |
Medicaid managed care |
March 1994 |
| 6 |
Medicaid funding of chronic and long term care -- and Databook |
May 1994 |
| 7 |
National initiatives and implications for New Jersey health care reform: an unfolding saga |
September 1994 |
| 8 |
Public oversight of managed care |
October 1994 |
| 9 |
The uninsured -- an unresolved problem |
April 1995 |
| 10 |
Restructuring health care delivery in New Jersey |
April 1995 |
| 11 |
Quality assurance -- guidelines and measurement |
June 1995 |
| 12 |
How will New Jersey fund charity care & subsidized health insurance after December 31? |
October 1995 |
| 13 |
The numbers game: how data shapes health care priorities & funding |
January 1996 |
| 14 |
The relationship of ethics & economics in the evolving health care delivery system |
March 1996 |
| 15 |
Public health at the crossroads: past, present, future. Part I: national, state, and local overview |
June 1996 |
| 16 |
Public health at the crossroads: past, present, future. Part II: the urban-suburban connection |
July 1996 |
| 17 |
Will the business and financial realities of the 21st century eliminate the role of state government in health care decision making? Part I: not-for-profits -- viable or obsolete? |
October 1996 |
| 18 |
Will the business and financial realities of the 21st century eliminate the role of state government in health care decision making? Part II: conversions -- process, protection, profit |
December 1996 |
| 19 |
Does New Jersey need to renew its commitment to the health of our children? Part I: 0-10 years of age - safety net? |
February 1997 |
| 20 |
Does New Jersey neet to renew its commitment to the health of our children and adolescents? Part II: 10-18 years of age - safety net? |
March 1997 |
| 21 |
Look who's looking at New Jersey: why? what? how? |
June 1997 |
| 22 |
Must data be so deadly: how should information inform health policy decision-making? |
September 1997 |
| 23 |
The uninsured: an ongoing unresolved problem - funding charity care in New Jersey |
October 1997 |
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The Issue Brief Review 1997 |
1997 |
| 24 |
Mental health policy in a managed care environment: implications for access, quality and cost |
December 1997 |
| 25 |
From policy to people: the implementation maze. New Jersey KidCare: a case process |
February 1998 |
| 26 |
Free market or "Free-for-All": competition, regulation and consumer protections |
June 1998 |
| 27 |
Where does the "public" fit into "public policy"? Trigger points, access, impact |
September 1998 |
| 28 |
Health information confidentiality: are we sleeping while technology erodes our privacy? |
November 1998 |
| 29 |
Demographics, diversity and accountability: the health of New Jersey's communities in 1999 |
February 1999 |
| 30 |
Public oversight of managed health care: coverage-consolidation-costs and [supplement?] |
April 1999 |
| 31 |
Health care policy trends in the next millennium: the issues shaping our future |
September 1999 |
| 32 |
New Jersey's public health agenda for the next millenium: healthy New Jersey 2010 |
December 1999 |
| 33 |
The future of employer-based health plans |
March 2000 |
| 34 |
Reaching out to the uninsured: New Jersey's initiatives to expand health insurance coverage |
September 2000 |
| 35 |
New Jersey public health financing in a changing environment: implications for policymakers |
December 2000 |
| 36 |
The nursing workforce shortage: impacts on health and medical care in New Jersey |
April 2001 |
| 37 |
Limited access and high costs. What can New Jersey do about prescription drugs? |
September 2001 |
| 38 |
Hot health policy issues for state policymakers -- what's new and different for 2002 |
February 2002 |
| 39 |
Domestic preparedness in the age of terrorism: the roles of public health and emergency response systems |
April 2002 |
| 40 |
Domestic preparedness in the age of terrorism: the roles of public health and emergency response systems |
May 2002 |
| 41 |
Medical malpractice insurance in 2002: crisis or opportunity for New Jersey policymakers? |
October 2002 |
| 42 |
Calming the perfect storm -- health care quality initiatives in 2002 |
December 2002 |
| 43 |
Coverage initiatives and programs for New Jersey's uninsured: survival in the time of budget deficits and cutbacks |
February 2003 |
| 44 |
The status of New Jersey's employer-based health insurance coverage |
June 2003 |
| 45 |
Employer-sponsored health insurance coverage part II: regulatory issues |
September 2003 |
| 46 |
Public health and emergency preparedness systems and resources: issues and status in 2004 |
March 2004 |
| 47 |
Public health and emergency preparedness in New Jersey: part II |
June 2004 |
| 48 |
An overview of charity care in New Jersey -- past, present and future |
September 2004 |
| 49 |
The values that underline states' health care decision-making |
November 2004 |
| 50 |
2005 hot health policy issues for state policymakers |
February 2005 |
| 51 |
Financing long-term care in New Jersey and across the nation |
May 2005 |
| 52 |
Long-term care in New Jersey -- part II: from medicaid reform to balancing federal, state and personal responsibility |
September 2005 |
| 53 |
Universal health care in Massachusetts: implications for New Jersey |
July 2006 |
| 54 |
The health policy landscape: 2007 and beyond |
April 2007 |
| 55 |
The more things change, the more they stay the same: fifteen years of Issue Briefs from New Jersey Policy Forums |
January 2008 |
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