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Tax Collections Continue to Tumble
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Needed: Better Way to Compare Health Plans
National health reform will rely on consumer choice and competition to control costs whether or not there is a public insurance option, according to this Institute report. Rational consumer choice, however, is difficult without standardizing health insurance plans, so that value can be easily compared. States may have to play a key role in such standardization.
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Researchers Present Recent Work
Trends in state and local government finance, social welfare spending, and gambling revenues to states are among the topics Rockefeller Institute researchers have explored in recent conference papers and presentations.
T. Gais, L. Dadayan and S. Bae on social welfare spending
Donald Boyd on state budgets and health reform
Donald Boyd on fiscal sustainabillity
Lucy Dadayan on gambling revenues to the states
Robert Ward on state budget gaps
A Tribute to Richard P. Nathan's Leadership
Richard P. Nathan has retired from the Rockefeller Institute, after 20 years. He brought to the Institute a rich background in policy and politics, and as Acting Director Thomas Gais writes in this message, he left the organization with a distinctive mission and method of conducting research. His own writing often reflected his concern for injecting better analysis into public decisions.
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