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Third, and most important, patients may be harmed when services are prioritised economically in single-tier health-care systems like Canada's.
ECONOMIST: Letters | The
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On Wednesday, the Work and Pensions Committee (at 9.30am) has its first evidence session on the draft to create a single-tier state pension.
BBC: Week ahead in committees
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Introducing a White Paper on a single-tier state pension, he said the first such review would take place under the next government, in 2017.
BBC: State pension age to be reviewed every five years
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The effective abolition of the separate state second pension, and its incorporation into the new enhanced single-tier version, will end the complicated system of so-called "contracting out".
BBC: 'Simpler' flat-rate state pension unveiled
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The Department for Work and Pensions confirmed that under a single-tier pension there would be no contracting out so workers would pay more national insurance, but as a result they would get a better state pension.
BBC: Flat-rate pensions plan revealed
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These include whether the remaining bits of two-tier local government should be merged into a single tier, whether London's model a 12-member assembly plus elected mayor is the right one for the regions, and how regional assemblies would fit with a new House of Lords.
ECONOMIST: Regional aid
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Every week, we will publish a single piece of top-tier long-form journalism about big issues in technology and science.
BBC: Good news - journalism matters
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Doncaster's rating has been published in the Audit Commission's Comprehensive Performance Assessments (CPA) - the annual data for all English single tier and county councils.
BBC: Troubled council is one of worst
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The Queen's speech is likely to propose an end to the multiple-tier appeal system for asylum seekers, replacing it with a single level of adjudication.
BBC: Call for radical asylum changes
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As with other teams that lack the first-tier payrolls of the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox, a single bad trade or contract mistake could sink him.
FORBES: Return Of The Rockies
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This last tier will either be a single or double based on if the market was able to bounce to 1090-1100.
FORBES: The Short Play For The Big Head-And-Shoulders