The Wal-Mart Tax: Shifting Health Care Costs to Taxpayers [PDF]
[Excerpt] Maryland is the first state to hold giant companies such as Wal-Mart accountable for paying their fair share of workers’ health care costs. Maryland’s legislature voted overwhelmingly in January to enact the Fair Share Health Care Act over the ...
AFL-CIO
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A Profile of Medicaid Managed Care Programs in 2010: Findings From a 50-State Survey [PDF]
Examines types of Medicaid managed care organizations and contracts by state, including managed care organizations and primary care case management programs; issues for measuring, monitoring, and improving quality; and implications of health ...
Dyke Snipes +3 more
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Marine Reserves: Is There a Free Lunch? [PDF]
This paper employs a spatial and intertemporal model of renewable resource exploitation to investigate the effects of marine reserve creation. The model combines the H. S.
Sanchirico, James, Wilen, James
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Headed for a Crunch: An Update on Medicaid Spending, Coverage and Policy Heading Into an Economic Downturn [PDF]
Presents findings from a survey of state Medicaid officials on trends in spending, enrollment, policy actions, and budgets for fiscal years 2008-2009.
Caryn Marks +5 more
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Hume y la teoria institucional [PDF]
This paper shows the links between Hume’s philosophy of customs, and the basic principles of institutional theory. This relationship has been suggested by contemporary economists such as Vernon Smith and others, who see in Hume the origins of today’s ...
Carlos Mellizo
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Radio Spectrum and the Disruptive Clarity OF Ronald Coase. [PDF]
In the Federal Communications Commission, Ronald Coase (1959) exposed deep foundations via normative argument buttressed by astute historical observation. The government controlled scarce frequencies, issuing sharply limited use rights.
David Porter +2 more
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Covering Kids & Families Evaluation: Case Study of Illinois: Exploring Links Between Policy, Practice and the Trends in New Medicaid/SCHIP Enrollments [PDF]
Evaluates the impact in Illinois of the RWJF project to increase enrollment in Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs. Outlines state policy changes; outreach, simplification, and coordination activities; and 1999-2005 enrollment ...
Christopher Trenholm +3 more
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Recycling and Exhaustible Resources [PDF]
A previous paper (Smith, 1972) dealt with the economics of extracting an exhaustible resource when there exists a high-cost inexhaustible substitute technology which must ultimately become economical to operate in conjunction with primary extraction ...
Smith, Vernon L.
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"Unveiling Behavioral Dynamics in Health Policy Decision-Making: Lessons from Prof. Vernon Smith, Prof. Guido Calabresi, and Perspectives on Overreaction" [PDF]
Matteo Maria Cati
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