The way will then be open for those on the right and - it is worth emphasising - left of health policy who believe the funding model cannot cope, and that a form of social insurance, French, Swiss or German style, is necessary to meet the burgeoning demand for healthcare.

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The report concluded the "zero-ten" tax model proposed by the Policy Council was the only viable option.

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Myanmar, not normally cited as an outpost of progressive policy, has an HIV-prevention scheme seen as a model.

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Throughout the IYB steady progress was made towards the establishment of an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on the model of the IPCC, pivotal in assessing the science and raising global awareness of climate change.

UNESCO: Indigenous Peoples

The Department of Health and Human Services has identified a small-group policy offered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia as the model for Georgia.

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Messrs Bernanke and Gertler find that in the early and mid-1990s the Fed held interest rates below the level their model predicted if policy were aimed at future inflation.

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With the success behind it, SpaceX still needs to demonstrate the long-term strength of its business model, according to Howard McCurdy, a space policy expert and professor of public affairs at American University in Washington, D.

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Is the range-bound Linden Dollar of Second Life the future model of virtual currency and virtual monetary policy?

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The turning point arrived in 1999 when the new telecom policy changed the licensing fees from a fixed amount that wireless companies had been struggling to pay to a revenue-sharing model.

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