But that is tough to explain to an electorate that has always struggled to make sense of America's insanely complex health-care system.
Survivors who have navigated the often-complex cancer system can share what they know with patients who are starting at square one and are often unsure where to turn.
We also appreciated that most functions remain governed by standard switches, buttons and dials instead of an annoyingly complex menu-driven multimedia system of the sort that tends to hamper most upscale cars these days.
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Our days were governed by an extraordinarily complex but well-defined scheduling system.
But besides being important in themselves, the pension reforms' success or failure may determine Mr da Silva's chances of implementing a long list of other equally important and equally controversial measures from revamping the country's complex and growth-stifling tax system, to modernising the deeply inefficient and corruption-prone judiciary and police.
The Maya are well-known for their complex calendar system, which some say predicts the end of the world in December 2012 (an interpretation that experts on the civilization call absurd).
In New Jersey, elected officials can start collecting their lawmakers' pension once they qualify for it (based on a complex system of accumulating so-called retirement credits), yet stay in office and also garner a salary.
If the Clinton Administration -- which has shown itself astoundingly indifferent to the dangers posed by China's penetration of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, political system and economy -- proves reluctant to commission such a study, it should be mandated by the Congress.
Instead I have organized my professional life with a complex, highly personal system of post-it notes, matchbook covers and coffee-stained legal pads.
The market for an anti-fat pill would be enormous, and the quest for one will continue even though Dr Rossetti's research shows that the leptin-regulation system is more complex than had been realised.
The document for submission to the Memory of the World Register is the Deed of Endowment of the Rab' i-Rashidi, and details the justification for the complex, the management system, administration and the budget of the endowed properties, which included land in present-day Afghanistan, Asia Minor, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq and Syria.
The voting system is highly complex, with two-thirds of the 498 elected seats being decided by proportional representation and the rest by a first-past-the-post system.
Most businesses haven't spruced up billing and accounting to keep pace with the complex services, creating a system riddled with waste--paying bills for inactive lines, ignoring discounts and failing to spot employee fraud and curb excessive dial-up time from workers' homes.
The pecking order, the rivalry and the system of kick-backs is immensely complex and subtle.
Character builds are deep and the loot and gem-leveling system make those builds even more complex.
Despite massive unemployment, firms are discouraged from hiring by over-mighty unions, wage controls and a complex system of payroll levies, not to mention a lack of suitable skills among the workforce.
The health care system around the world has never been more complex--or financially overburdened.
Most non-Americans, along with plenty of Americans, would not share Mr Friedman's view that this highly complex system is a monument to human ingenuity and social co-operation, but instead see it as appalling excess.
In Iran's complex political system, the head of state is answerable to the conservative-dominated parliament and bound by the absolute rule of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The court system say: a pre-requisite of our having a complex society at all.
In signing the deal, the UAW agreed to a highly unusual two-tier wage system, meaning certain workers in the same manufacturing complex will get paid less than their peers.
Lady Manningham-Buller said the legal system had coped for many years with complex terrorist cases without recourse to "special arrangements" such as control orders, which she described as "terrorist ASBOs".
The KDDI system, is able to detect more complex behaviour by using analytical software - held on a server back at base - to match patterns of common movements.
With Mr Palocci at his elbow, Lula might have scaled back the ruinously expensive pension system, brought sanity to labour-market regulation and simplified a fiendishly complex tax code.
This is as tax-efficient as America's federal donor system but the paperwork is so complex that only 40% of donors bother with it.
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The reality is more complex than those designations imply, as patent rights in the United States under the first-to-file system will depend on the interplay between the dates of filing and of any pre-filing disclosures of the invention.
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Once at the motor sports complex, journalists took turns testing all-wheel-drive XJs and smaller XFs, which also get the system as an option for 2013, by flinging them through various obstacle courses, every one of which was covered in several inches of snow with thick ice underneath.
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Nuance positions its system as an alternative to increasingly complex remote controls used to navigate the content and services available on Internet-connected televisions.
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It is hoped that this will address the so-called "too big to fail" problem, that pushing these enormous firms into a full-blown and complex bankruptcy process during the height of the financial crisis - as happened with Lehman Brothers - could destroy the entire financial system.
When integrated with many older SA-5 SAMs, a number of large missile-detection and -tracking radars and an up-to- date ABM complex around Moscow, the Kremlin is in the enviable position of denouncing our prospective national missile defense system while preserving (in fact, while modernizing) its own extant one.
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