This study used 1982-1986 data on 262 private community hospitals to evaluate the effects of selective contracting for inpatient services by California's Medicaid program. Selective contracting by Medicaid significantly reduced the rate of inflation in average costs per admission and per patient day, while slightly increasing average lengths of patient stays. Private sector contracting also red...

II The UK higher education sector creates far-reaching benefits for the public, private individuals and businesses, and is funded by a mix of public and private investment. Within this funding model, there are a number of possible sources of increased investment for universities. However, while it is important to explore all options, this document shows that public funding is constrained, while...

This paper investigates the extent to which private supplementary insurance and Medicaid, which vitiate the effect of Medicare cost-sharing, encourage elderly beneficiaries to seek additional medical care. A multivariate model of health services utilization is estimated with the Tobit technique, using the 1976 Health Interview Survey. We find that either private or public supplementation induce...

Computerization of the Ground Book and the property rights registration, led to a major improvement of the service quality. The computerizing, which started in the late 1980s, resulted in considerable cost savings for the government, citizens, banks, real estate agents, and other private enterprises using the register. At the time, the government made a bold decision to outsource the total effo...

During the last two decades, many countries around the world with unfunded social security system have experienced an ageing problem. Some have opted for a compulsory private saving scheme. New Zealand, on the other hand, maintains a unique two-pillar system: universal pension as a public pillar and voluntary savings as a private pillar. This paper provides a summary of findings from the litera...

Public health and private providers and facilities may shape the future of the US health system by engaging in new ways to deliver care to patients. "Accountable care" contracts allow private health care and public health providers and facilities to collaboratively serve defined populations. Accountable care frameworks emphasize health care quality and cost savings, among other goals. In this a...

A simple framework is developed to analyze the important role of the bond market for the welfare of a long horizon small investor when both inflation and the real interest rate are stochastic. Closed form solutions for investor utility in different settings are used to show that the welfare loss due to the absence of long term bond markets increases with the investor’s horizon and risk aversion...

1 gains in insurance coverage. The reform legislation now before Congress , however, cannot be relied on to control spending. The Obama administration and others have emphasized the cost-saving potential of prevention, comparative-effectiveness research, disease management, and health information technology. But there is little evidence that these worthwhile measures would produce meaningful co...

workers’ remittances constitute one of the most important sources of external finance for many developing countries. although it shows a decreasing trend in recent years, egypt after 1970s with her regular and massive labor migration to abroad has been still one of the gainer countries on remittances across the world. empirical studies that implemented for various countries reveal workers’ remi...