Have the ACA's Exchanges Succeeded? It's Complicated

Surgical results: a justification of the surgeon selection process for the ACAS trial. The ACAS Investigators.

PURPOSE The selection of surgeons to participate in a prospective randomized trial comparing the efficacy of a surgical method with medical management is critically important because it will have a direct impact on the outcome of the study and the future use of the operation. We report the success of the method used for selecting surgeons who participated in the Asymptomatic Carotid Atheroscler...

Labour Reform and Labour Mobility within Cities: have the Hartz reforms succeeded?

Failing where others have succeeded: Medial Frontal Negativity tracks failure in a social context.

Most of us can appreciate that it feels worse to fail when people around you are successful than when others are also failing. Indeed, comparison with other individuals is of central importance within social groups. Despite the importance of relative success or failure for human decision making and even well-being, the underlying neurobiological substrate of this social comparison process is no...

sMe stOck exchanges - shOuld they have a greater rOle?

Access to finance is widely recognized as one of the main impediments for growth and development of the small and medium enterprises. This article presents certain aspects of development of stock exchanges oriented towards small and mediumsize enterprises. It aims to contribute towards the growing debate on funding of small and medium enterprises through dedicated stock exchanges and serve as a...

Steps to reduce favorable risk selection in medicare advantage largely succeeded, boding well for health insurance exchanges.

Within Medicare, the Medicare Advantage program has historically attracted better risks-healthier, lower-cost patients-than has traditional Medicare. The disproportionate enrollment of lower-cost patients and avoidance of higher-cost ones during the 1990s-known as favorable selection-resulted in Medicare's spending more per beneficiary who enrolled in Medicare Advantage than if the enrollee had...