We appreciate the statement of the Oversight Board on the desirability that the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics is maintained as a public, independent and separate instrumentality from the government of Puerto Rico.
The Health Insurance Services Administration, or ASES, which runs the Health Reform program for the medically indigent, announced it has received the approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for contracts with insurers that manage the government’s health plan and corresponding policies for the current fiscal year.
The American Statistical Association (ASA), the world’s largest community of statisticians, together with leaders of the Puerto Rican scientific community and more than 1,800 petition signers are urging Puerto Rico’s legislature and Gov. Ricardo Rosselló to keep its statistical agency independent.
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