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HMO will be paid less for a patient than the provider would receive in the traditional fee-for-service Medicare program. This is ...

over the long run, the program was notWnancially sound, an argument that tarnished the program for the simple reason that it spr ...

at least partly right. Still, with deWcits ballooning, no one can safely predict the future of the programs. Clearly, an institu ...

have implemented massive tax cuts to produce the huge deWcits that threaten to deplete social security funds. Many of the argume ...

relatively comfortable politics of institutional gradualism, but the bold politics of a business class primed for class war. Ref ...

Navarro,V. , John,S., and Astudillo,J. 2004. Is globalization undermining the welfare state? The evolution of the welfare state ...

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By good fortune rather than training or planning, I was led from the 1970 s until now, into a series of oYcial and private engag ...

issue is the attempt at protecting the domestic energy supply from disruptive actions by foreign governments. The assumption tha ...

( 19 **) admonition: ‘‘scholars often neglect the hard realities that impinge on ideal solutions and the day-to-day requirements ...

agencies seem to have new roles almost everywhere, or themselves to be new, and studies of them are beginning to become availabl ...

What we must know is what are the uses and who are the users. We must know the gains and lossesand therefore, the interests like ...

AmericanWrms were interested in the Middle East, in competition with their British and Anglo-Dutch rivals. They desired governme ...

to be a positive and signiWcant inXuence on legislative productivity.’’ It worked well for passing the Carter program through th ...

arcane a matter as MTBE, except that it illustrates how ‘‘technical’’ matters may become the critical items that jam the entire ...

It provided a new reality to test the language of the Natural Gas Act of 1938. Under the law, the prices from the transmission c ...

long time ago that it would favor open access when and if it could. After all, the Commission had learned transmission policy in ...

4.3 What Is the Quality of the ScientiWc Advice? Energy policy also forces attention to the quality of scientiWc advice. It is a ...

expertise can become a bitter battle in which the holders of approach X give little, if any presumption of competence to the hol ...

Sea exploration, no drilling in the South China Sea, no SUV replacements, no renewable energy project can be brought in at a suY ...