Three years have passed since the financial crisis of 2008, and unemployment rates remain painfully high. As of August 2011, America…
In the National Pilot Program on Payment Bundling, a subset of Medicare providers will receive a single payment for an episode of acute…
Social Scientists seeking an ancient intellectual lineage can find antecedents for economics, sociology, and political science in the work…
The article
focuses on the plan of U.S. President Barack Obama to test the
pay-for-success approach as a financing model for social…
The article reviews the book "The Politics of Medicaid," by Laura Katz Olson.
“We know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time,” President Obama said in his State of the Union address this…
All six Republicans on the debt-reduction super committee have signed a no-new-taxes pledge, and that means the panel can only dig up extra…
Medicare is going to be cut. That is inevitable. There is no way to solve the nation’s long-term debt problem without reducing the growth…
Background: Data are lacking on the proportion of
physicians who face malpractice claims in a year, the size of those
claims, and the…
Crime, congestion and pollution mar all cities, from Los Angeles to Mumbai. But another force trumps the drawbacks of urban living: cities…