Swiss vote rejects single health insurer plan
This article from Business Insurance magazine discusses a Swiss vote rejecting a proposal for a single health insurer. Voters turned down the proposal to replace the 87 insurers currently operating with one state-run insurer
Finally, a limit on Ottawa’s Robin Hood act
The Globe and Mail relied heavily on AIMS equalization expertise for this article explaining the reasons for changes to the program in the 2007/08 federal budget.
New Brunswick may get failing fiscal grade
AIMS' annual review of the fiscal health of Atlantic Canada made front page news in the Telegraph Journal. Co-author and AIMS Director of Research Ian Munro explains in this article that while New Brunswick was the top performer in the 2006/07 budget there's still lots of room for improvement.
Welcome to the New Nova Scotia
In this op/ed AIMS Acting President Charles Cirtwill gives Nova Scotians some big ideas to think about. He explains that looking to Ottawa for more cash is not the way to the New Nova Scotia promised in the last election.
Could Do Better 3
Grading Atlantic Canada's 2006/07 Finances
Could Do Better 3
AIMS latest paper, Could Do Better 3: Grading Atlantic Canada's 2006/2007 Provincial Finances, points out that governments have not learned the lessons of spending restraint and fiscal prudence - and taxpayers will be the ones to pay.