A Reevaluation of the Effects of State and ACA Dependent Coverage Mandates on Health Insurance Coverage

We study state and federal health insurance coverage mandates for young adults. Despite consistent findings that the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) federal mandate was effective, research has disagreed on whether preexisting, state-level mandates were successful in increasing coverage. We reconsider the issue with a new analytical perspective and newly available accurate data on state mandates. We show that the impact of the state mandates was substantive and concentrated among young adults between ages 19 and 23. Our estimates indicate that dependent coverage rose by 3.9 percentage points and overall coverage rose by 3.3 percentage points. Crowd-out of coverage through young adults’ own jobs was negligible. For those above 23, we find little evidence of changes in coverage. We incorporate these insights into analysis of the ACA's mandate, showing its effects were focused among those who were not eligible for state mandates, or were eligible but older than 23. Our results suggest that eligibility restrictions played important roles in limiting the scope of the state mandates, but they can be practical and effective tools for policymakers looking to ensure or expand coverage for young adults in the face of uncertainty about the ACA.     

Entsicherte Verhältnisse – (Un)Möglichkeiten fürsorglicher Praxis

Starting point of the article are the upheavals of employment relationships in modern, post-Fordist societies. These are characterised by the increasing relevance of efficiency in social lives because of blurring boundaries between paid work and private life or growing processes of precariousness through uncertainties of social regulation. The author argues that these processes are accompanied by shifting conflicts between paid work and private care responsibilities, which are still oriented at the Fordist gendered division of work and gender classification but should not be seen as a simple repetition of those. By presenting three case studies from an empirical research project on the retail trade in Brandenburg and Berlin, specific problems of the reconciliation between paid work and private care as well as ways to solve these are analysed. The article ends with a discussion whether (often forced) changes in life style open some (often precarious) capabilities for questioning the gendered division of labour which has been formerly taken for granted.     

日本的社区警察和交番制度

日本的交番制度至今已有120年的历史。交番原则上被设立在城市地区,通常实行轮班制的工作方式。从1993年开始,日本的交番警察被称作社区警察。目前,虽然社区警察的工作方式、职责、人员管理、快速反应机制等都已形成体制,但其仍然存在一些有待解决的问题,如交番中社区警察的空岗现象和社区警察逐门走访时所面临的尴尬等。     

要重视对教育客体的人本关怀

高校要重视对教育客体的人本关怀,即强调客体身体素质、科学素质和人文素质的融合与发挥;尊重教育客体的主体地位,帮助教育客体在教育过程中真正找到“自我”的存在,鼓励和引导其优良个性发展;加强教育客体社会关系的协调意识。     

物业小区管理的专制特征与社会化服务之路

我国终止单位住房分配制度并实施住房自有化改革之后,小区物业管理行业随之兴起,但业主与物业管理公司之间的冲突与抗争不断加剧.究其原因,是对物业小区实行了区域封闭的专制式管理.城市化发展较早国家的相关经验对我国具有借鉴意义.美国和加拿大已经建立起较为完善的共管式公寓治理体系,物业管理是借助开放的社会化服务实现的.因此,积极发展专业服务机构为物业小区提供技术服务,将是打破我国物业小区封闭式管理模式、减少业主与物业服务公司利益冲突、实现社区利益和谐的基础条件.     

陵县新型农村合作医疗制度实施状况调查报告

陵县新型农村合作医疗制度自建立以来已有两年时间，为了解陵县新型农村合作医疗制度的政策内容和实施情况，笔者运用问卷调查和访谈调查的调查方法，在陵县宋家镇、梅镇和神头镇进行调查。通过对调查结果的整理分析，发现陵县新型农村合作医疗制度实施过程中存在着宣传不足、医疗费用高、农民享受不方便等情况。针对调查中发现的问题，提出了完善陵县新型农村合作医疗制度的建议，包括加强宣传、扩大报销范围、控制药品价格、建立引进医师机制等。     

在思想政治工作中注重人文关怀和心理疏导的思考

胡锦涛总书记在党的十七大报告中强调指出：“加强和改进思想政治工作，注重人文关怀和心理疏导，用正确方式处理人际关系。”这一精辟而深邃的论述，深刻揭示了新时期思想政治工作的内在规律，赋予了思想政治工作以人为本的理念和与时俱进的创新品质，极大地丰富了我们党的思想政治工作的内涵，为我们如何加强和改进社会转型期的思想政治工作提供了根本遵循和明确方向，具有重大理论和现实意义。本文从提高思想认识、梳理当前存在的主要问题、提出相应对策三个方面做些微探，以期为深入学习贯彻胡总书记这一重要讲话精神，取得加强和改进思想政治工作的新成效，起到“抛砖引玉”作用。     

论社区治安防范与物业保安的职责

在社区治安防范工作中，物业保安队伍具有人数多、与居民接触频繁、熟悉防范要求等优势，但由于物业保安的工作机制不完善、队伍整体素质不高等原因，物业保安的职能作用并没有得到有效发挥。基层公安机关要通过通报治安形势、加强防范指导、开展监督检查以及完善奖惩措施等途径促使物业保安有效发挥职能作用。     

论父母责任的构造--对父母责任制度的反思与重构

父母责任的构造 ,指父母责任的构成要素以及各要素之间的相互关系。其以主观性价值———保护未成年子女的利益与父母自由权 ,与客观性价值———损害填补与预防损害 ,两者的统一 ,以及合理的归责原则———过失责任原则构成价值要素 ,将责任严格建立在父母违反事实存在的监督义务基础之上 ,在未成年子女致人损害行为客观存在并造成他人损害时 ,父母作为整体就自己的过失负责。我国现行立法、《草案》、及学者《建议稿》等理论学说强调对损害的填补 ,着眼于父母子女关系而采严格责任原则 ,其合理性值得反思 ,逻辑上也存在矛盾 ,父母责任制度势必要求整体重构。     

Immeasurable Pleasure and Meaningful Imperfection: Raising Good Citizens in a Bad State

Previous research has shown that a party's election results can depend on visibility and tone in the media. Using daily content data from the major news bulletins and daily survey data from the 2007 national election campaign in Denmark (N = 5,083), our analysis improves upon two central aspects of this earlier research. First, the effects on vote choice of the parties' visibility and tone in the media are studied concurrently in the same model. Second, a distinction is made between the effects of direct exposure to specific news content and the effects of the cumulative information environment created by the media. Overall, it is found that the more visible and the more positive the tone toward a given party is, the more voters are inclined to vote for this party. The effects are primarily effects of the information environment, not effects of direct exposure, though undecided voters are also directly affected. In the discussion, central conditions for the strength of media effects are identified.