The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) requires a new fiscal analysis of Medicare’s finances as part of the annual Medicare Trustees’ Report. This analysis is intended to supplement the separate analyses of the Hospital Insurance (HI) and Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) Trust Funds. While the Trustees are not required to include this new analysis ...

of anatomical specimens, housed in his Museum in Leicester Square and guarded by young William Clift. Matthew Baillie and Everard Home, the executors of Hunter's Will, enlisted the help of Lord Auckland and Sir Joseph Banks (the President of the Royal Society), and by their influence a Committee of the House of Commons was appointed and the result was that the Government granted £15,000 to purc...

Proportional representation (PR) is often discussed in voting settings as a major desideratum. For the past century or so, it is common both in practice and in the academic literature to jump to STV (Single Transferable Vote) as the solution for achieving PR. Some of the most prominent electoral reform movements around the globe are pushing for the adoption of STV. It has been termed a major op...

To what extent are women free to choose where to give birth? How discourses of risk, blame and responsibility influence birth place decisions Kirstie Coxon, Jane Sandall & Naomi J. Fulop a Division of Women’s Health, Women’s Health Academic Centre (King’s Health Partners), King’s College London, London, UK b Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, London, UK Published ...