Download or read book Explaining Health Care Reform written by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reform Plan written by Bill Blanchet and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A devoted high school history teacher, Mr. Besserian enjoys motivating his students at the highly diverse Fillmore High School and tries hard to make his subject matter interesting. His efforts have earned him the Teacher of the Year Award and the respect of the faculty, not to mention the students themselves. But at a staff meeting, Besserian learns of the proposed academic improvement plan for Fillmore High that may fundamentally alter the school-and not for the best. Simply named the Reform Plan, it calls for community involvement on such a large scale that it will virtually turn the school into its own independent city, as well as impose corporate values on the students themselves. Besserian isn't at all sure this is such a wise idea and decides to unearth the truth behind the project by assigning his history class to research it. Besserian and his students start digging into the plan and uncover disturbing and dangerous information that underscores the precarious level of academic instruction in the school. The more they uncover, the more Besserian realizes that greed and corruption are the backbone of the supposed "Reform Plan." But can a lone teacher and a group of students possibly stop the juggernaut of Fillmore High's reform before it destroys the school's very foundation?
Download or read book Plan of Parliamentary Reform in the Form of a Catechism with Reasons for Each Article written by Jeremy Bentham and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Peoples Agenda for a New Century written by William Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1997-12-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Peoples Agenda for a New Century" is a book for those voters who, like the character in the movie "Network", are mad as hell and can't take it anymore. Our government, won with the price of blood from all our wars from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf, has been bought by the special interests who pay for the elections of our congressmen and president. This is the root of the many problems facing our nation today. These problems are discussed together with general principals for their solution. The proposed remedy is for the state governors to be empowered by the constitution to bring about election reforms. These reforms are: public financing of elections, strict monitoring of expenditures, control of federal officials' salaries and perks, establishing of election laws to replace the absurd electoral college, giving the people the right to make laws by the initiative and referendum process as is done in many states and other nations, giving the people a voice to advise the president on foreign policy issues, regulating political advertising for truth and integrity, establishing term limits for congressmen, forcing congress to vote on issues and not kill them in committees, and controlling the debt and deficit by the votes of the electorate on budget issues. Implementing reform will be a gigantic task, but could be accomplished by a powerful president, the governors, but most likely by a constitutional convention. Details of a constitutional convention are discussed. In addition to election reform and a national initiative-referendum, a constitutional convention should consider the office of vice-president, the power to declare war, terms limit for supreme court judges, gun control, jury reform, the environment, corporate tax laws, and modifying various supreme court decisions which favor criminals. After a national initiative-referendum is established, the book discusses what the people can do once they can by-pass a congress controlled by special interests. The people can by their vote cut wasteful defense and CIA budgets, enact measures to fight crime, eliminate all corporate welfare, increase corporate taxes, encourage job creation within the country, create a citizen identification data base, control interest rates on credit cards, make judgements on entitlement programs, cut government expenditures, improve education, privatize the Federal Aviation Administration, and restrict tobacco use. All these controversial proposals would be fought against by corporate and other special interests which also controls the publishing industry. Any editor publishing this book would be fired by his corporate bosses. Fortunately you can obtain this powerful book through the internet. It contains a reform agenda, which if enacted, would transform America.
Download or read book The Reform Plan written by Bill Blanchet and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A devoted high school history teacher, Mr. Besserian enjoys motivating his students at the highly diverse Fillmore High School and tries hard to make his subject matter interesting. His efforts have earned him the Teacher of the Year Award and the respect of the faculty, not to mention the students themselves. But at a staff meeting, Besserian learns of the proposed academic improvement plan for Fillmore High that may fundamentally alter the schooland not for the best. Simply named the Reform Plan, it calls for community involvement on such a large scale that it will virtually turn the school into its own independent city, as well as impose corporate values on the students themselves. Besserian isnt at all sure this is such a wise idea and decides to unearth the truth behind the project by assigning his history class to research it. Besserian and his students start digging into the plan and uncover disturbing and dangerous information that underscores the precarious level of academic instruction in the school. The more they uncover, the more Besserian realizes that greed and corruption are the backbone of the supposed Reform Plan. But can a lone teacher and a group of students possibly stop the juggernaut of Fillmore Highs reform before it destroys the schools very foundation?
Download or read book How Reform Worked in China written by Yingyi Qian and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China's economic reforms, arguing that universal principles and specific implementations are equally important. As China has transformed itself from a centrally planned economy to a market economy, economists have tried to understand and interpret the success of Chinese reform. As the Chinese economist Yingyi Qian explains, there are two schools of thought on Chinese reform: the “School of Universal Principles,” which ascribes China's successful reform to the workings of the free market, and the “School of Chinese Characteristics,” which holds that China's reform is successful precisely because it did not follow the economics of the market but instead relied on the government. In this book, Qian offers a third perspective, taking certain elements from each school of thought but emphasizing not why reform worked but how it did. Economics is a science, but economic reform is applied science and engineering. To a practitioner, it is more useful to find a feasible reform path than the theoretically best way. The key to understanding how reform has worked in China, Qian argues, is to consider the way reform designs respond to initial historical conditions and contemporary constraints. Qian examines the role of “transitional institutions”—not “best practice institutions” but “incentive-compatible institutions”—in Chinese reform; the dual-track approach to market liberalization; the ownership of firms, viewed both theoretically and empirically; government decentralization, offering and testing hypotheses about its link to local economic development; and the specific historical conditions of China's regional-based central planning.
Download or read book The Chicago Plan and New Deal Banking Reform written by Ronnie J. Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a comprehensive history and evaluation of the role of the 100 percent reserve plan in the banking legislation of the New Deal reform era from its inception in 1933 to its re-emergence in the current financial reform debate in the US.
Download or read book Growing Out of the Plan written by Barry Naughton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive study of China's economic reforms, from their beginnings at the end of 1978 through the completion of many of the initial reform measures during 1993. The features of Chinese reform that differ from the former USSR are highlighted.
Download or read book President Clinton s Health Care Reform Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draft of President Clinton's Health Security Plan.
Download or read book Health Care Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The True Gold Standard written by Lewis E. Lehrman and published by The Lehrman Institute. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the monetary reform plan -- Introduction -- The purpose of The True Gold Standard -- The properties of gold -- Restoration of the gold dollar -- How we get from here to there -- Conclusion. Appendix I: Excerpts from the United States Constitution -- Appendix II: Coinage Act of 1792 -- Appendix III: American monetary history in brief, price stability -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Download or read book Remedy and Reaction written by Paul Starr and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of the issues. Tracing health-care reform from its beginnings to its current uncertain prospects, Paul Starr argues that the United States ensnared itself in a trap through policies that satisfied enough of the public and so enriched the health-care industry as to make the system difficult to change. He reveals the inside story of the rise and fall of the Clinton health plan in the early 1990sùand of the Gingrich counterrevolution that followed. And he explains the curious tale of how Mitt RomneyÆs reforms in Massachusetts became a model for Democrats and then follows both the passage of those reforms under Obama and the explosive reaction they elicited from conservatives. Writing concisely and with an even hand, the author offers exactly what is needed as the debate continuesùa penetrating account of how health care became such treacherous terrain in American politics.
Download or read book Breaking the Cycle of Failed School Reform written by John M. Tharp and published by R & L Education. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how school reforms of the past 200 years share many common flaws. Based on an intensive three-year study of school reform in the United States, Breaking the Cycle of Failed School Reform analyzes and critiques the following historical reform movements: Lancastrian Plan, 1806; Age-graded Plan, 1848; Gary Plan, 1906; Trump Plan, 1959; School Development Plan, 1968; and Coalition of Essential Schools, 1984. Emerging from the study was a set of reform rubrics. These six rubrics, each corresponding to twenty-six distinct variables, provide today's educators a lens through which their schools can be assessed against the historic plans. This process allows educators to easily determine their school's strengths and weaknesses with a strong sense of historical perspective. The book concludes with a set of recommendations for practitioners, policy developers, and researchers for what has to be included if school reform is to be successful in the future.
Download or read book Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century written by White House and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-24 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important June 2018 report outlines the Administration's analysis and recommendations for structural realignment of the Executive Branch to better serve the mission, service, and stewardship needs of the American people. While some of the recommendations identified in this volume can be achieved via Executive administrative action, more significant changes will require legislative action as well. By sharing key findings, the Administration offers this report as a cornerstone to build productive, bipartisan dialogue around realigning the Federal Government mission delivery model to make sense in the 21st Century. As such, while some of the proposals are ready for agency implementation, others establish a vision for the Executive Branch that will require further exploration and partnership with the Congress. Finally, reorganization is one tool among many that this Administration is using to drive transformational change in Government. Meeting the needs of the American people, as well as the President's mandate for greater efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability, requires a range of transformational approaches to support reorganization. To that end, the President's Management Agenda (PMA) outlines a range of additional priorities and tools that, in combination, will create an Executive Branch that is prepared to meet the needs of the American people both now and in the future. The Administration welcomes constructive dialogue and consideration of all the tools, capabilities, and organizational principles that help support our mission and better serve the public. I. The Mandate for Reform * II. Organizational Reform Principles * III. Overview of Organizational Alignment Priorities * IV. Looking Ahead * V. Government-wide Reorganization Proposals * Appendix: Agency-Specific Reform Proposals * Department of Education and the Workforce * Consolidate Non-Commodity Nutrition Assistance Programs into HHS, Rename HHS the Department of Health and Public Welfare and Establish the Council on Public Assistance * Consolidate Mission Alignment of Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works with Those of Other Federal Agencies * Reorganize Primary Federal Food Safety Functions into a Single Agency, the Federal Food Safety Agency * Move Select USDA Housing Programs to HUD * Merge the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) * with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) * Consolidation of Environmental Cleanup Programs * Optimization of Humanitarian Assistance * Development Finance Institution * Structural Transformation of Central Washington-Based Bureaus at the U.S. Agency for International Development * Reorganizing the U.S. Office of Personnel Management * Consolidation of Federal Veterans Cemeteries * Reorganizing Economic Statistical Agencies * Consolidation of the Department of Energy's Applied Energy Offices and Mission Refocus. * Divesting Federal Transmission Assets * Restructure the Postal Service * DOT Mission Adjustments * Reform Federal Role in Mortgage Finance * Create the Bureau of Economic Growth * U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps * Improving NASA's Agility through Increased Use of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers * Management Consolidation of Federal Graduate Research Fellowships * Rationalize the Federal Real Property Approach * Consolidate and Streamline Financial Literacy Efforts * Streamline Small Business Programs * Consolidation of Certain Protective Details * Small Grants Consolidation * Transition to Electronic Government * Customer Experience (CX) Improvement Capability * Next Generation Federal Student Aid Processing & Servicing Environment * Solving the Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Shortage * The GEAR Center * Transfer of Background Investigations from the Office of Personnel Management to the Department of Defense. * Strengthening Federal Evaluation * Bibliography
Download or read book Lifting Up the Rocks of the Governor s Tax Reform Plan written by Bob Williams and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Restoring Quality Health Care written by Scott W. Atlas and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Restoring Quality Health Care, Dr. Scott Atlas examines the status of US health care, particularly in light of the Affordable Care Act, and presents a series of key reforms to meet the significant health care challenges facing the nation. Atlas proposes a six-point, strategic, incentive-based reform plan for US health care. The plan aims to instill market-based competition, empower consumers, and reduce the federal governments authority over health care. Those reforms focus on restoring the appropriate incentives in to increase the quality of health care and reduce its costs. Atlass plan restores the intended purpose of health insurance (to protect against the risk of significant and unexpected health care costs), enhances the affordability of twenty-first-century medical care, and ensures continued innovation. Were the plan to be implemented fully, private and federal government health expenditures would conservatively decrease by trillions of dollars during the decade and access to high-quality health care would significantly improve.
Download or read book The Washington Policy Center Education Reform Plan written by Liv Finne and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
