How federalism could spur bipartisan action on the uninsured.

Enhancing Federalism to Address Medicaid and the Uninsured

Statement for the Record American College of Physicians 25 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington, DC 20001 Senate Finance Committee Roundtable Discussion Medicare Physician Payments: Perspectives from Physicians

The American College of Physicians (ACP) applauds Chairman Baucus and Ranking Member Hatch for holding this roundtable discussion and for the committee’s bipartisan efforts in trying to develop a solution to Medicare’s physician payment system, which has been a burden on physician practices for over a decade. We share your view that “we need physicians to suggest changes to the Medicare physici...

آسیب‌ها و چالش‌های نظام تک حزبی برای فدرالیسم (مطالعه موردی : عراق تحت حاکمیت حزب بعث)

The existence of single-party systems in the world today, on the one hand, and the fact that federal governments in some parts of the world, meanwhile, make the two cases more contemplative. On the other hand, with the advent of both systems in Iraqi society, it is questioned how the interaction of a single-party system with federalism and what problems and challenges have arisen in this regard...

Policy Capacity for Health Reform: Necessary but Insufficient; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”

Forest and colleagues have persuasively made the case that policy capacity is a fundamental prerequisite to health reform. They offer a comprehensive life-cycle definition of policy capacity and stress that it involves much more than problem identification and option development. I would like to offer a Canadian perspective. If we define health reform as re-orienting the health system from acut...

Localizing climate change: stepping up local climate action

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the current literature and ideas on how local climate change action (both mitigation and adaptation) could be intensified. Approach: A literature review on the current views of effective local climate action within academic journals and policy documents was undertaken. Additional data on Australian grassroots community activities was compiled fro...