When it comes to health care, patients will be even more demanding of quality than they are in other aspects of their lives.
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By creating a financial incentive to increase the gap between cost of care and payments, ACOs may be accused of rationing care, even if payments are tied to quality of care, rather than quantity.
Furthermore, in practice invocation of the precautionary principle focuses attention solely on the possibility of harm, often ignoring information about the dose to which people are exposed, avoiding consideration of benefits of the agent in question and whether safer substitutes are available, and giving greater weight to studies that appear to indicate a hazard, even when these studies may be of poorer quality.
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Without sufficient saving and investment, our stock and quality of capital goods cannot even be maintained, let alone increase.
The results can be seen in the obviously high quality of any Onkyo-manufactured product, even before it is turned on.
Music and sound are such an important aspect of entertainment that their quality often defines your experience, even though they cannot be seen.
Since Google ranks sites partially by the quality of sites that link to them, he painstakingly contacted every site that seemed to be of low quality and linked to MySolitaire, asking them to remove their links, sometimes even sending cease-and-desist letters.
Even within a particular state, there can be big differences in the credit quality of municipal bonds.
And even the richest do not get the quality of care they think they should be getting.
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In this last aspect most biographies of athletes fail, for introspection is a rare quality among athletes and may even be a hindrance to them.
Used to be (remember those days?) that the high quality of some self-published books (and even proposals pre-word-processing) was a great way to quickly determine the commitment of the author and often even was a harbinger of the quality of the prose itself.
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However, so long as these banks retain assets of sufficient quality, they can continue to claim to be viable, or at least potentially viable - even if they are only alive because of credit they've received from the European Central Bank, for example, or from their national central banks.
Working many hours and telling everyone about it might be the best way to give your employer a sense of your commitment which they might even confuse with your quality.
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