In response to overall growth in Medicare program expenditures and growth in expenditures per Medicare beneficiary, the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) was created and charged with developing proposals to ¿reduce the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending.¿ Contents of this report: (1) Intro.; (2) Medical Inflation; (3) Structure and Operations of IPAB; (4) The Determination Process; (5) The IPAB Medicare Proposal Process; (6) Procedures for Congress. Consideration: Procedures for Considering IPAB-Implementing Bill; Procedures for Considering Joint Resolution Discontinuing the IPAB Process; Additional Considerations; (7) Implementation of Board Medicare Proposals. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.

Three librarians from Scottsdale, Arizona provide library staff with an introduction to the mystery genre and offer tips and techniques for providing advice to mystery readers in the library. They include some of their own bibliographies, but refer readers elsewhere for fuller ones. They also include a brief history of the genre to pass on to readers new to it.