So Republicans included language affirming the right of Medicare private contracting in a 1997 budget bill.
In 1997 Republicans, who controlled Congress, decided to clarify the issue of Medicare private contracting.
Washington Post staff writer Griff Witte has been covering the private contracting business.
Since 97 percent of doctors treat at least some Medicare patients, the restriction had the effect of killing Medicare private contracting.
He's been covering the private contracting business for the paper since February.
Our goal, obviously, is to get us out of the private security business -- private security contracting business.
She was clear that police forces needed to explore the idea that some roles were suited to private sector contracting, but denied she was responsible for creeping privatisation.
And the very process of giving power away requires civil servants to have certain skills, such as contracting with private and voluntary providers.
Guarton said Suffolk was contracting with a private nonprofit to operate a shelter for homeless families in a former motel.
However, it's here that there have been the most intensive and detailed negotiations - the unions have secured faster accrual rates (the speed at which pensions build up), protection for those within ten years of retirement and a promise to maintain pensions even if workers are transferred to the private sector after privatisation or contracting out.
However, Big Brother Watch says some public bodies may be sidestepping that restriction by sub-contracting the work to private security companies.
One past example of private sector in the NHS was the contracting out of cleaning services.
However, successive and continuing government policies (and again this is an international phenomenon) of privatisation, contracting out, public-private partnerships, the private finance initiative, academy and free schools - all aspects of the private provision of public services - have increasingly entwined the public and private sectors and now focused attention on how far freedom of information should reach.
Imagine what the old Labour party would have said had a Tory government proposed contracting a third of NHS operations to private firms. but this evening I want to analyse the second revolution in more detail.
Contracting parties could go without coverage or specify private adjudication.
And this bill also reduces waste and fraud in our contracting system, as well as our reliance on private contractors for jobs that federal employees have the expertise and the training to do.
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ACOs began contracting with the Medicare program this spring and now most private insurers like those operated by Aetna (AET), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Cigna (CI) and most Blue Cross plans are linking with ACOs to care for more patients.
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ACOs began contracting with the Medicare program this spring and now most private insurers like those operated by Aetna (AET), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI) and most Blue Cross plans are linking with ACOs to care for more patients.
These safeguards, which have been largely modeled on successful practices in the private sector, will increase stability, productivity, and certainty in Federal contracting by avoiding the disruption and disarray caused by the use of trafficked labor and resulting investigative and enforcement actions.
And contracting out can work only if the PT overcomes its distaste for decent private profits: the many risks in project-execution mean that otherwise investors will stay away.
In recent years, the U.S. government has assigned a private-sector organization, the National Bureau of Economic Research, to determine when the economy is contracting.
That is not official, but the latest jobs figures, which showed private-sector employment falling in each of the past three months, leave little doubt that the economy is contracting.
These initiatives cover a wide range of areas, from government contracting regulation, to more coordinated responses to trafficking, to better victim services, to innovative public-private partnerships that will create technology tools for survivors and law enforcement.
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