Nowadays, most traditional industries are facing great challenges, and so is the traditional bus industry. To design or renew a route in a metropolis cost our government a considerable amount of money, and human resource as well. Effective as it might be when being put into use, an increasing volume of data is still being neglected. In our research, we apply multi-source data analysis technique...

In a sample of California hospitals, we find that the composition of the board of directors varies systematically across ownership types. For all ownership types, except government-owned, we find that poor financial performance is related to board and CEO turnover. However, different ownership types place different weights on levels of charity care and administrative expenses. Our overall findi...

Introduction The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) is a national health insurance scheme launched in 2008 by government of India to provide health insurance to households living below poverty line (BPL) in order to protect them from major health shocks that involve hospitalisation. In Chhattisgarh RSBY was launched in June 2009 and Durg was the first district to be enrolled under this schem...

BACKGROUND Access to tertiary care is a problem common to many small states, especially island ones. Although medical treatment overseas (MTO) may result in cost savings to high income countries, it can be a relatively high cost for low and middle income source countries. The purpose of this study was to estimate the costs of overseas medical treatment incurred by the households of medical trav...

A trend emerging in recent years has been travel from industrialized nations to developing countries such as India and Thailand for purposes of undergoing medical procedures, a phenomenon we call medical tourism. Medical tourism offers the prospect of greatly reduced expenses for health care as well as other advantages such as reduced waiting times, but there are risks associated with seeking h...

Senator Mitchell made his comment in the wake of a broad compromise that allowed CERCLA to pass both houses of Congress. The final bill deleted much of what was to make the Act "comprehensive," including private actions for damages and medical expenses.3 The Act that finally was signed into law by President Carter authorizes government cleanup of hazardous waste sites, but does not provide for ...

The playgroup movement started 10 years ago as a "do-ityourself" nursery school in London. It has now mushroomed into a national organization named the Preschool Playgroup Association (P.P.A.) with a membership of over 7,000 groups. Each branch area has an organizer whose expenses are paid by the local groups, and centrally there are two national advisers who are paid from a Government grant. T...

By reducing uncertainty about future medical expenses, comprehensive health insurance can reduce households’ precautionary saving. We examine this effect using Taiwan micro-data spanning the 1995 introduction of National Health Insurance. The effects of National Health Insurance are identified using employment-based variation in prior insurance coverage. Replacement of the households’ prior ins...