Yet health insurers are unwilling, with the exception of pre-existing conditions, to take on this practice.

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In fact, we have become so accustomed to the tranquility and prosperity the continent has known for the past half-century that most of us forget that such conditions are very much the exception there, rather than the rule.

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These conditions are the leading cause of death worldwide with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa.

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In future all staff appointed by MPs without exception should become direct employees of the House of Commons, which would become centrally responsible for their employment terms and conditions, their contracts, and the payment of their salaries within the limit allowed - and will have the right to make an independent assessment of such contracts.

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