This issue brief is part of a continuing series of policy papers published by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Coverage Initiatives program, housed at AcademyHealth, and the National Academy for State Health Policy on the state health policy implications of ERISA's preemption clause.1 The purpose of the brief is to explore the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2004 decision that ERISA preempt...

Markov Regenerative Stochastic Petri Nets (MRSPN) have been recently recognized as a valuable tool to model systems with non-exponential timed activities. Some restrictive assumptions should be speci ed in order to arrive to analytically and numerically computable models. The usual assumption is that at most a single non-exponential transition, with associated enabling memory policy, can be ena...

The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 (ADA) deregulated the domestic airline industry. Specifically, ADA ended dual administrative system, which allowed states to regulate intrastate airfare and permitted federal government’s Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) interstate airfare. also included a broad preemption clause prevent from reimposing economic regulations on air travel. prohibits “State . [fr...