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Overview

Jonathan Oberlander is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans several interrelated fields, including economics and econometrics, general health professions, political science and international relations, clinical psychology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The primary focus areas of Oberlander's work include healthcare policy and management, primary care and health outcomes, social policy and reform studies, healthcare cost, quality and practices, employment and welfare studies, migration, health and trauma, and the political and economic history of the UK and US.

Recent publications by Jonathan Oberlander illustrate their engagement with contemporary health policy issues. Notable works include:

  • "Polarization, Partisanship, and Health in the United States," 2024, published in the Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law
  • "The Ten Years' War: Politics, Partisanship, And The ACA," 2020, published in Health Affairs
  • "Introduction to 'COVID-19: Politics, Inequalities, and Pandemic'," 2020, published in the Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law

Other relevant works connected to their field of study, although authored by coauthors, are also part of the broader context of their research network, such as "Access to Health Insurance and Health Care for Hispanic Children in the United States," 2021, in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and "Significance of Medicare and Medicaid Programs for the Practice of Medicine," 2020, published through UNC Libraries.

Jonathan Oberlander frequently collaborates with several colleagues, which contributes to a multidisciplinary perspective in their publications. These frequent coauthoring partners include:

  • Darren A. DeWalt
  • Theodore R. Marmor
  • Steven B. Spivack
  • Phillip M. Singer
  • David K. Jones

Their body of work is regularly published in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • Health Affairs
  • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

This range of publication venues reflects an interdisciplinary approach linking health policy, political dynamics, and healthcare systems. Oberlander's work contributes to ongoing discussions around health insurance access, partisanship in health policy, and the implications of major healthcare legislation in the United States.

Best Publications

  • The Political Life of Medicare

    Jonathan Oberlander

  • The Oregon Health Plan and the political paradox of rationing: what advocates and critics have claimed and what Oregon did

    Lawrence Jacobs;Theodore Marmor;Jonathan Oberlander

  • Pascal's Wager: Health Insurance Exchanges, Obamacare, and the Republican Dilemma

    David K Jones;Katharine W V Bradley;Jonathan Oberlander

  • Long Time Coming: Why Health Reform Finally Passed

    Jonathan Oberlander

  • Rationing medical care: rhetoric and reality in the Oregon Health Plan

    Jonathan Oberlander;Theodore Marmor;Lawrence Jacobs

  • The Obama Administration's Options for Health Care Cost Control: Hope Versus Reality

    Theodore Marmor;Jonathan B Oberlander;Joseph White

  • A New Threat to Immigrants’ Health — The Public-Charge Rule

    Krista M Perreira;Hirokazu Yoshikawa;Jonathan B Oberlander

  • Unraveling from Within? The Affordable Care Act and Self-Undermining Policy Feedbacks

    Jonathan Oberlander;R. Kent Weaver

  • Implementing the Affordable Care Act: The Promise and Limits of Health Care Reform.

    Jonathan Oberlander

  • Managed Care and Medicare Reform

    Jonathan B. Oberlander

  • Through the Looking Glass: The Politics of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act

    Jonathan Oberlander

  • Learning from failure in health care reform.

    Jonathan B Oberlander

  • Health Reform Interrupted: The Unraveling Of The Oregon Health Plan

    Jonathan Oberlander

  • The US health care system: On a road to nowhere?

    Jonathan Oberlander

  • Managed Competition for Medicare? Sobering Lessons from the Netherlands

    Kieke G.H. Okma;Theodore R. Marmor;Jonathan Oberlander

  • The Politics Of Health Reform: Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good Plans?

    Jonathan Oberlander

  • The patchwork: Health reform, American style.

    Theodore Marmor;Jonathan B Oberlander

  • Unfinished journey--a century of health care reform in the United States.

    Jonathan B Oberlander

  • From HMOs to ACOs: The Quest for the Holy Grail in U.S. Health Policy

    Theodore Marmor;Jonathan Oberlander;Jonathan Oberlander

  • The future of obamacare

    Jonathan B Oberlander

  • Throwing Darts: Americans' Elusive Search for Health Care Cost Control

    Jonathan Oberlander

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence R. Jacobs
Lawrence R. Jacobs University of Minnesota
Krista M. Perreira
Krista M. Perreira University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mardge H. Cohen
Mardge H. Cohen Rush University
Meredith B. Rosenthal
Meredith B. Rosenthal Harvard University
Adaora A. Adimora
Adaora A. Adimora University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jacob S. Hacker
Jacob S. Hacker Yale University
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Hirokazu Yoshikawa New York University
Tracey E. Wilson
Tracey E. Wilson SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Ellen Meara
Ellen Meara Harvard University

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