Tag: USA

November 15, 2021

On Monday, Biden signed the highly anticipated $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The package hits almost every part of American Infrastructure; roads, bridges, water and sewage, broadband, public transit, ports railways and power grids. According to USA Today, the package, which […]

April 28, 2021

As the world’s fifth-largest economy, California can show the world how to rebuild into a self-sustaining, circular manufacturing system that reduces trash pollution and ensures products get recycled and remanufactured within our state,” California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery […]

February 27, 2017

That is the conclusion reacted by CMS’ Office of the Actuary.  As published in a recent Health Affairs article: Under current law, national health expenditures are projected to grow at an average annual rate of 5.6 percent for 2016–25 and represent 19.9 percent […]

January 5, 2017

Public power issuers “will likely manage the projected long-term decline in residential electricity consumption by using their inherent rate flexibility and lowering capex,” said Fitch Ratings in a Dec. 27 news release. The rating agency noted that although electricity sales […]

December 13, 2016

Solar power in America is on a roll. Over the last decade, the cost of solar installations in the U.S. has fallen by more than 70 percent, and every year has had more solar installed than the last. Since 2010, […]

August 2, 2016

U.S. hydropower capacity could grow from 101 gigawatts to nearly 150 GW of combined electricity generation and storage capacity by 2050, according to a report released July 26 by the Department of Energy. Half of that growth could occur by […]

July 19, 2016

The answer may be yes.  One of the big inpediments to value-based pricing of pharmaceuticals was that any discount given to any single organization based on outcomes needed to be reflected in the Medicaid price.  Since outcomes are subject to random noise, there will inevitably […]

July 13, 2016

13% of our population is at least 65 years old. That is approximately 53 million Americans who would potentially be receiving some form of senior care services this decade. This rapid graying of America is only rivaled by the rapid […]