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This study examines the extent to which uncompensated care is provided by hopitals in Miami-Dade County, USA, other than Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH), and whether the greater access to surtax-funded care at JMH might cause patients to pass up facilities nearer to the homes.

Health services accessibility. --- Hospital care. --- Hospitals. --- Medically uninsured persons. --- Medically uninsured persons --- Hospitals --- Health services accessibility --- Hospital care --- Economics, Hospital --- Medical Indigency --- Uncompensated Care --- Medically Uninsured --- Health Services Accessibility --- Delivery of Health Care --- Economics --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Persons --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Patient Care Management --- Population Characteristics --- Health Services Administration --- Health Care --- Medical care --- Finance.

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In 1999, a scientific committee assembled under the auspices of the National Research Council issued a critique of RAND's 1994 "Controlling Cocaine" report. The committee concluded, "The findings of the RAND study do not constitute a persuasive basis for the formation of cocaine control policy." In the current document, RAND's Drug Policy Research Center rebuts the committee's claim. The Center shows that most of the committee's criticisms rest on an incomplete understanding of the model used in the RAND report or, when taken into account, do not result in important changes in the findings based on the model. The two remaining criticisms are that the data on cocaine treatment effectiveness are not adequate to support modeling and that the mode of price transmission down the cocaine production "pipeline" may be different from that assumed. The Center acknowledges these points as potentially valid but holds that models need not have negligible probability of error to be useful as decision aids.

Cocaine industry --- Drug traffic --- Drug control --- Mathematical models.