Home Office: Working from a Private Place

Working Paper Series Congressional Budget Office Washington, D.C. PRIVATE SAVINGS, MEDICAID AND UNCERTAIN NURSING HOME EXPENSES

The Medicaid program is the largest payer of nursing home services in the nation. The magnitude of program spending and the anticipated program growth as the baby boom cohort ages have raised questions about how Medicaid affects private savings. This paper, which extends previous research, examines how high but uncertain nursing home expenses interact with Medicaid assistance to affect the savi...

Private Practice—Does It Have a Place?

The National Health Service and the private sector should be complementary; each needs the other. It is highly improbable that the Health Service will be privatised; much more likely that private practice will be publicised by bringing it within the National Health Service. This article discusses the size and growth of the private sector, looks at cost containment and quality and examines the p...

No place like HOME.

Place Oriented Virtual Private Networks

Today’s network infrastructures are inadequate to cover the needs of small groups or new requirements that popup daily from the ever-increasing demand for more sophisticated services. Place-Oriented VPNs are based on the agent technology and can be built on top of existing infrastructure by any user. We expect that in the future this flexible, dynamic and low cost approach that supports not onl...

The Fauna: a Place to Call Home