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Specialty Service Lines In The United States Hospital System: Old Wine, New Bottles, Michael Sajovetz
Specialty Service Lines In The United States Hospital System: Old Wine, New Bottles, Michael Sajovetz
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The emergence of specialty service lines in the United States health care system presents many significant questions regarding the access to, provision of, and financing of healthcare. In general terms, specialty service lines represent the newest development in several important trends in the American hospital system and reflect important trends in the wider economy. Many claims have been made regarding the effect of physician-owned specialty hospitals, from their exemption from self-referral prohibitions, their diversion of services away from general hospitals that use high profit margins to subsidize the "safety net," and concerns regarding the over-provision of technologically complex treatments in …
China And The United States' Recovery From The Global Financial Crisis, Yufei Wang
China And The United States' Recovery From The Global Financial Crisis, Yufei Wang
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Faced with the global financial crisis, which has a large impact on the world's economy, China and the United Stated took different actions to pull the economy out of it, based on the fairly different financial, fiscal, and even political systems they have. This thesis focuses on the comparison of the financial and fiscal systems and trade structures between the two different countries, and how these have impact on their stimulus packages, thus influencing the economic recovery as a whole.