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Assessing the Interaction between National Flood Insurance Contracts and Federal Income Assistance Programs
by Jon-Francis Winkles
Download the Full Text Executive Summary This paper evaluates potential responses to the implementation of long-term flood insurance contracts via the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by looking at the interaction between a long-term contract and various federal income assistance programs over...
The Rising Cost of Health Care: Where should we draw the line??
LAST FORUM OF THE YEAR!! YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS IT!! Cosponsored by the Health Care Policy Club Does America spend too much on healthcare? The United States spends approximately $2.5 trillion on health care annually, and this number is expected to rise as life expectancy continues to increases and...
Rashtriya Swasthaya Bima Yojana: A Public-Private Partnership Micro Health Insurance Model for Achieving Goal No. 1 of UN Milennium Development Goals
The UN Millennium Development Goal to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger is the most broadly supported specific development goal that the world has ever agreed upon. Health risks probably pose the greatest threat to the lives and livelihoods of poor households (Jutting, 2004), and a short-term health...