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Long-Term Care Insurance
LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE The feasibility of private long-term care insurance is central to the public policy debate over financing long-term care. The failure of the private market, even with public subsidies, to insure a substantial portion of the population has a bearing on the public... Read more |
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Medical economics
LONG-TERM CARE FINANCING The financing of long-term care services comes from a patchwork of funds from the federal, state, and local levels, and from private dollars, primarily paid from the consumer's own pocket. According to data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), almost... Read more |
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finance
finance theory and practice of conducting large public and private dealings in money. Important institutions of private finance include those that deal with insurance , banking , stocks (see stock ), bonds, and other securities. With the development of the national state, public... Read more |
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Health care reform
HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE. The term "health care system" refers to a country's system of delivering services for the prevention and treatment of disease and for the promotion of physical and mental well-being. Of particular interest to a health care system is how medical care is organized,... Read more |
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Banking and Finance
Banking and Finance. Encouraged by Alexander Hamilton, Robert Morris persuaded the Continental Congress to charter the Bank of North America in 1781. It lent money to the cash‐strapped Revolutionary government as well as to private citizens and served as a model for later commercial banks.... Read more |
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Mezzanine financing
Mezzanine Financing Mezzanine financing is a hybrid between debt and equity. In a multi-tiered financing of an operation, for instances, the sources of money will be senior debt, senior subordinated debt, subordinated debt, mezzanine debt, and finally the owner's own equity. In other words, the... Read more |
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Fiscal Policy
Fiscal PolicyI OVERVIEWHerbert SteinBIBLIOGRAPHYII WARTIME FISCAL POLICYRoy BloughBIBLIOGRAPHYI OVERVIEWFiscal policy is an aspect of public finance, of making and financing government expenditures. It is distinguished from other aspects of public finance in being concerned with decisions about... Read more |
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Development Banks
Development BanksBIBLIOGRAPHYThe label “development bank” attaches to a group of national financial institutions, in developing countries, that vary widely in size, source of funds, and scope of activity. Essentially, a development bank is a vehicle for mobilizing and channeling medium- and... Read more |
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Bills and Notes
BILLS AND NOTES An archaic term that designated the body of law currently known as the law of commercial paper, which governs the methods by which commercial transactions are financed and facilitated by the execution and transfer of documents that contain promises to repay debts according to the... Read more |
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Hayato Ikeda
Hayato Ikeda , 1899-1965, Japanese political leader, prime minister (1960-64). After serving as an official in the finance ministry (1925-48) he entered politics, gaining election to Japan's house of representatives (1949). During the next decade he held a variety of ministerial posts, including... Read more |
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Diadem Clarifies Terms of Private Financing.
...20, 1998--Diadem Resources Ltd...clarification on the terms of the private placement financing announced in a...whereby certain private investors would...per share for a term of 24 months from...the foregoing ... |