On December 12, 1985, the President signed into law House Joint Resolution 372 (Public Law 99-177), the debt limit bill which contains a section on deficit reduction procedures. This section is the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (also called the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings bill). This new law includes several provisions affecting the Medicare and Medical programs.

____________________________________________________________________ ii Chapter 1_____________________________________________________________________1 1. Towards Improving Representative Democracy in Canada _____________________________ 1 1.1. Defining Democracy: A “Dynamic Balance” ______________________________________________1 1.2. The Contemporary Model: Representative Democracy __________...

NOTES Unless otherwise indicated, all years referred to in Chapter I are calendar years and all years in Chapter II are fiscal years. "Growth during 1988" or "growth in 1988" means growth from the end of 1987 to the end of 1988 except where otherwise specified. "Growth between 1987 and 1988" means the percentage difference between the annual average levels in 1987 and 1988. Unemployment rates t...

We consider the problem of outcomes based budget allocations to prevention programs across different states to achieve greater geographical healthcare equity. We use Diabetes Prevention and Control Programs (DPCP) by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an example. We present a robust weighted sum model for outcome adjusted budget allocation. An inverse linear programming tech...

This paper discusses the shoestring evaluation approach, which was developed to assist evaluators in conducting evaluations that are as methodologically sound as possible when operating with budget and time constraints and with limitations on the types of data to which they have access. The approach is used in two main scenarios. In the first scenario, the evaluator is not called in until the p...

This article is about numerical control of HIV propagation. The contribution of the article is threefold: first, a novel model of HIV propagation is proposed; second, the methods from numerical optimal control are successfully applied to the developed model to compute optimal control profiles; finally, the computed results are applied to the real problem yielding important and practically relev...