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News release: “For the seventh year in a row, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has produced the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) and the National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR). These reports measure trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, and efficiency of care. The reports present, in …
Contingency Contracting: Improvements Needed in Management of Contractors Supporting Contract and Grant Administration in Iraq and Afghanistan GAO-10-357, April 12, 2010 “DOD, State, and USAIDs use of contractors to help administer contracts and grants was substantial, although the agencies did not know the full extent of their use of such contractors. GAO found that the …
News release and tables: “The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that total February exports of $143.2 billion and imports of $182.9 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $39.7 billion, up from $37.0 billion in January, revised. February exports were $0.3 …
Gulf War and Health – Volume 8: Update of Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War “For the United States, the 1991 Persian Gulf War was a brief and successful military operation with few injuries and deaths. However, soon after returning from duty, a large number of veterans began reporting health problems they believed …
Budget 2010 Securing the recovery – copy of Economic and Fiscal Strategy Report and Financial Statement and Budget Report March 2010 as laid before the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer when opening the Budget. Stephen Timms Her Majestys Treasury 24 March 2010 “The Governments economic objective is to build a …
News release: “The MetLife Mature Market Institute has a new guide, The Essentials: Medicare and Medicaid, available free to the public. The publication is a concisely written how-to guide for older Americans and their families, which answers basic and in-depth questions about both health care programs, including the most common: whats the difference between the …
The MetLife Study of Boomers in the Middle: An In-Depth Look at Americans Born 1952 1958, March 2010 “Distinguishable by a dramatic increase in birth rate following World War II, Baby Boomers now comprise one of the largest generations in U.S. history. They total about 77 million Americans and represent one-quarter of the total …
NIST Special Publication 800-122, Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Erika McCallister, Tim Grance, Karen Scarfone, April 2010. “The escalation of security breaches involving personally identifiable information (PII) has contributed to the loss of millions of records over the past few years. …
Too Big to Fail after FDICIA, Larry D. Wall, Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 1, 2010 “In 1993, when this article was originally published, Congress had recently passed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (FDICIA) to reduce taxpayers’ exposure to financial system losses, including their exposure at “too big to fail” financial …
Intellectual Property: Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods, GAO-10-423, April 12, 2010 U.S. Postal Service: Strategies and Options to Facilitate Progress toward Financial Viability, GAO-10-455, April 12, 2010 Information Security: Agencies Need to Implement Federal Desktop Core Configuration Requirements, GAO-10-202, March 12, 2010 Information Security: Concerted Effort Needed …
The Effects of Health Reform on the Federal Budget, April 2010 – Presentation by CBO Director Doug Elmendorf to the World Health Care Congress: “The underlying law and the subsequent reconciliation act that modified it will generate changes in direct spending and revenue that will reduce federal deficits by $143 billion (-$15 billion in 2019).”
News release: “Consumers with overwhelming credit card debt may be tempted to seek help from companies that promise to erase their debt for pennies on the dollar, but the Federal Trade Commission urges caution. In a new consumer publication, Settling Your Credit Card Debts, the FTC says that there is no guarantee that debt settlement …
