The merger combines the two market leaders in broadband home management, and promises to deliver a best-in-class solution that includes interactive home security, energy management and home health care solutions to broadband service providers, home security companies and utilities.

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The top three professions adding the most jobs: registered nurses, home health aides and customer service representatives.

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I've been fighting more generally to improve health care for veterans because it is outrageous that so many service members are returning home and being told to take a number and wait in line for the health care they need.

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Treating people in hospital is expensive so when possible, the health service is attempting to treat people at home.

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In return, the public get a service which the press fairly enough contrasts favourably with the horrors of Britain's national health service, enjoying unhurried consultations, and home visits at weekends, for instance.

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What Japan will need in the coming decades is a way of reorganising its society and shifting the workers it has away from jobs that are unneeded and into health care, home maintenance and other jobs in the service sector.

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