Its aim was to control costs by injecting more competition into the system, and to overhaul financing by introducing a central health fund.
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But I advised companies on both sides of the Littoral Combat System competition, and I saw how desperate they were to avoid being underbid.
But first voters have to make the basic decision: to open up the system to competition.
The promoter of the competition is Turner Broadcasting System Europe Limited, 16 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7HS ("Turner").
Fifth, private-sector firms can offer retirement schemes in competition with the public system.
Also, monetary policy liberalization and increased competition in the banking system will be key to improving credit and capital access for dynamic private companies.
Mr. Salem is highly critical of his fellow Egyptians for what he sees as their inability to move past the short-term goals of unseating Hosni Mubarak and opening the political system to competition.
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Instead, they should heed the lessons of Part D by swearing off price controls, continuing not to interfere with negotiations between insurers and drug makers, and most importantly, by fostering more competition within the healthcare system.
An advantage to this approach is that it would create real competition in the operating-system market.
One virtue of a private system is that competition allows choice and experimentation.
But we are also opening the health service to private and voluntary-sector partnerships, introducing a payment-by-results system, creating competition and allowing hospitals to become self-governing trusts.
Big Oil's manipulation of the system is preventing competition in the fuels marketplace, an activity that should be anathema in any free, competitive market.
The new colleges may shake things up a bit, but there is an endemic lack of competition in Australia's educational system.
Men (hire, fund, promote themselves), other women and minorities (jealousy, competition, insecurity) and the system (no math or science education, interest, encouragement) are oft cited for the lackluster numbers.
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Competition from rival open source operating system, Linux, is stalling Microsoft's growth in the server market, but desktop dominance remains intact: Windows installed in 94% of PCs being sold.
And speaking of state regulation, letting in foreign competition also provides an opportunity to correct one of the great flaws in the current system, which is that many states prevent competition even from American-owned companies who are from other states.
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But the challenge has always lain with the first half of Lincoln's phrase--that is, how to stoke that genius through a system that both rewards the inventor with a temporary business monopoly and protects the competition that lies at the heart of the free-market system.
In the American system the cartel, not competition, controls who is in the Big Leagues.
It cannot be accidental that the more successful university system is more open to competition.
Instead of pouring money into a broken system, we launched a competition that we call Race to the Top.
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Gensler has long pressed for more centralized trading of the products to promote competition and lower the risk to the system.
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Far from fearing private-school competition, the city's public system has embraced it: it has already absorbed three private religious schools (two Christian, one Hebrew).
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The company is doing well with its immunology and oncology drugs and has showed resilience against the competition from generic drugs in central nervous system therapeutic area.
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However, the jammer currently being used was designed in the era of vacuum tubes, so a competition has been launched to develop a system with more power, precision and versatility.
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Do you waste time lamenting on your 3 day time, or do you blow away the faster competition by having a much better ordering system, world-class customer service, top quality products, and clever packaging that delights customers?
There may be a new consensus that, even if the Areeda-Turner vintage views went too far in one direction, the success of the Bork-Bowman view has brought us too far the other way, has made our legal system too welcoming to price competition that may in fact be adverse to the public good.
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The system's use in any competition has to be approved by Fifa, but this is seen as a formality.
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Over-unionised and unaccountable, America's school system needs the same sort of competition that makes its universities the envy of the world.
Not much, if Webvan fails to move quickly, says Shaheen, because the competition is bound to knock off his delivery system.
If this election founds a system of vibrant two-party competition, Japan will have undergone a monumental change, no matter who wins.
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