"The cost containment performance of health maintenance organization (HMO) plans relative to non-HMOs is examined using data from the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. When various compounding factors are controlled for, among the privately insured, nonelderly population, HMO enrollment is...

State-operated lotteries have recently been asserted by public administrators and academicians as panaceas for eradicating revenue disparities existing across public school districts in the American states. The purpose of this research project is to empirically test the hypothesis that lottery...

This study examines the effect of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) on the use of health care services among the privately insured non-elderly population. Using data from the 2000 Medical Expenditures Panel Survey, we find that HMO members are not particularly healthier than non-HMO...