Responsabiliser les malades: Une innovation qui marche
Nous disposons maintenant de preuves montrant que les malades sont parfaitement capables de décider quels sont leurs propres intérêts et de prendre des décisions éclairées sur la façon de dépenser l'argent qui leur est alloué pour leurs soins. Ces preuves sont fournies par une expérience innovatrice appelée Cash and Counselling (C&C- qu'on pourrait traduire par du Comptant et des Conseils) et menée dans le cadre du programme Medicaid en Arkansas, en Floride et au New Jersey. Le C&C est un " projet de démonstration " spécial qui consiste à faire exactement cela. Et il connaît un succès extraordinaire; les gens font la queue pour y participer là où il existe et des programmes semblables sont mis en oeuvre dans d'autres États pour répondre à la demande
AIMS On-Line February 27, 2004
AIMS presents a fresh perspective on the future of Canada’s cities with Patrick Luciani's op-ed Save Us From City Saviours, Wendell Cox on how urban planners are threatening the quality of life in our cities, Brian Lee Crowley's take on HRM's response to "White Juan" and much more
Snow Daze: If HRM can’t keep its streets open, what’s it good for?
According to AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley, writing in the Halifax Herald, “snowstorms can be powerful politically because they focus attention on something everybody understands: cities keep the streets open and people are harmed and angered when they can’t get where they need to go. Scent and lawn chemical bans, long debates about whether cats should be leashed and absurd foot-dragging on cleaning up the hurricane damage in Point Pleasant Park merely leave most people bemused. But no one is unaffected when overnight your street is turned into an impassable bog and remains that way for day. Both the Chronicle Herald and Times & Transcript versions are included.
AIMS National and International Profile Continues to Build
Framing the Debate on Healthcare, Education and Canada - US Relations
Smart Growth
AIMS and internationally recognised urban development expert Wendell Cox spoke in front of an audience of Atlantic Canadians concerned about urban development issues.
Cash and Counselling: Empowering healthcare
Facing spiralling healthcare costs, the some states are embracing a program called “Cash and Counselling”. The premise is simple, but the effect is profound. The idea is to give certain Medicaid beneficiaries a cash allowance with which to purchase needed services and let people make choices about how to spend their healthcare dollars wisely. No one is forced into this program. Not everyone wants these responsibilities. But for those who choose to use it, the program is wildly popular and an unqualified success
AIMS On-Line February 5, 2004
Latest in AIMS’ “Atlantica” Series Verifies Importance of Cross-Border Synergy, and two columns from Brian Lee Crowley - Farmed Salmon: The moral panic du jour and Scientific Consensus: The first refuge of scoundrels.
Save Us From City Saviours
Over the past few years mayors, urban planners, and smart-growth and anti-suburban advocates have been arguing that wealthier cities will create investment to benefit the entire country. Civic boosters say they believe by cities keeping more of their taxes, the whole country wins. If Toronto wins, so does Truro. AIMS’ senior fellow on urban affairs asks “Do cities create wealth, or are they where most of Canada's wealth is generated?” In this commentary published in the Globe and Mail, Patrick Luciani says the distinction isn't simply a matter of economic hairsplitting.
International urban expert challenges thinking behind HRM land freeze
Wendell Cox says rationing land "defies logic...in a region thirsting for growth"
A River Divides It
Vermont is driving retail business out of state with its sales tax. The Atlantica project is examining the International Northeast as one interconnected economic zone. As part of this multi-year research initiative, AIMS is releasing A RIVER DIVIDES IT: A Comparative Analysis of Retailing in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire authored by Art Woolf, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont.