Cash value health insurance: one answer to the crisis

To address the demand managed care has created and bring the health care economy closer to market equilibrium, we must find a way to balance value and cost, by both using new tools and looking at critical issues in a different way. Although the concepts of consumer-driven health care described in this article are not the only health care cost-management solution, they are surely a next logical step.     

充分认识十六大的重大意义

在新世纪召开的第一次党代表大会党的十六大的重大意义在于，这是我们党在新世纪召开的第一次代表大会。进入新世纪，国际局势发生了冷战结束以来最深刻的变化，单极与多极的矛盾、称霸与反称霸的斗争，将成为２１世纪相当一个时期内国际斗争的焦点；科学技术特别是高科技的蓬     

Palliative care: a paradigm of care responsive to the demands for health care reform in America

Palliative care is poised to become a universally available approach to health care which addresses both the needs of patients and families experiencing serious, progressive, and life-threatening illness, and also the costs of delivering such needed services. Palliative care and hospice are part of a continuum of care with palliative care provided at any time during the illness trajectory, while hospice care is offered at the end of life. Within the context of health care reform, we believe palliative care addresses critical economic imperatives while enhancing quality of life even as death approaches. As leaders in health care, advance practice nurses, specifically, and the nursing community in general are best positioned with the knowledge, expertise, and commitment to advance the specialty of palliative care and lead the way in the reform of America's health care system.     

Plan design innovations to control health care costs

Southern California Edison has achieved measurable success in health care cost management. Dr. Sokolov observes that the essence of SCE's problem-solving approach can be transferred to almost any organization.     

中共十五大与邓小平精神遗产的理论化序幕

邓小平具有理论创造的非凡勇气和气概，是中国共产党内继毛泽东之后又一位马克思主义经典作家。以科学的态度把邓小平精神遗产的理论化工作进行到底，是21世纪中国共产党的中国人民的首要任务。     

深入学习贯彻十七大精神加强大学生思想政治教育

本文较系统地阐述了学习贯彻十七大精神,加强大学生思想政治教育工作的重要意义,分析了当前大学生思想政治教育工作的现状,探讨提出了加强和改进大学生思想政治教育工作的基本策略,旨在将大学生思想政治教育工作在巩固的基础上提高,在深入创新中发展。     

An international agreement with full participation to tackle the stock of greenhouse gases

Greenhouse gas emissions build up an atmospheric stock which depreciates over time. We identify weakly renegotiation-proof equilibria with full participation in a game of international emission reduction. Treaties are easier to reach for long-lived than for short-lived gases.     

Lessons from the Canadian health care system

In a recent poll, 89% of Americans stated that the U.S. health care system needs fundamental changes; 61% said they would prefer a system like Canada's to the system currently in place. How does the Canadian system work? How well has it served Canadian's health needs?