There was no effectivemaximum waiting time either for a GP appointment or for hospital treatment - although the hospital waiting lists stood at over 1.1 million and many patients were waiting more than 18 months even for the most urgent treatment, with rates of death from cancer and heart disease amongst the highest in Europe.
If Latinos are being diagnosed with advanced HIV infection and are quickly progressing to AIDS, they are missing important opportunities to get the maximum benefits of the highly effective treatments we currently have available.
In March, the independent reviewer of terror laws, David Anderson, said TPims could prove less effective than control orders because they can be imposed for a maximum period of two years only.
If no further action is taken by Congress, the maximum individual income tax bracket would increase to a stated rate of 39.6%, but an effective marginal rate of 40.8% for most high-bracket taxpayers due to a limitation on itemized deductions that would also come back in 2013.