Though the Brazilian government offers health-care services, budget constraints have left the public system strained.
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Therefore, they get discharged from the public system at age 18 and lose their health care coverage.
Others think that people will use the public system once word spreads that it offers good, free care.
Fifth, private-sector firms can offer retirement schemes in competition with the public system.
Also, nobody knows how ANSES (the public system) will manage the funds.
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When a public system fails, repeatedly, to meet these minimal objectives, parents ask only for a choice in the education of their children.
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In Chile, which does not adjust for risk, the Isapres notoriously seek to return members to the public system once they reach old age.
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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This would actually worsen the funding situation of the public system, because taxes diverted to private accounts cannot be used to meet the government's obligations.
Some like Chile and Mexico completely replaced the public system.
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Once the virtues of the public health care option have been proven and accepted, the public system can be funded by a national sales tax to support public health care.
First, junior doctors are now aware that a qualification in plastic surgery is a licence to print money by enabling them to circumvent payment ceilings and other constraints on the public system.
In reality, many charter schools cater to the well-to-do over the poor, and are structured in such a way as to harvest the best students while leaving under-achievers behind in the public system.
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That public system supported largely by the state and the state university systems, not so much in the North East, mostly in the Midwest and the West, flourished, grew dramatically in the post-World War II era.
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It makes perfect sense for the Federal Government to conduct a real-life test of a new public system using an up and running company that currently accounts for about 5% of the health care market in the United States.
Meanwhile, in Germany, about 12.5% of Germans who are civil employees or above a certain income opt out of the public system altogether and rely solely on private coverage--even though they know it is well nigh impossible to return to the public system once they switch.
We may be better angels now than before, and we may be too distracted enough by cheap entertainment to avoid a life of crime, but we are still failing one another on a very basic level in not just our criminal justice system, but our public education system and our basic social contract.
While charters are still a part of the public school system, vouchers operate outside the bounds of public education.
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The public health system makes it simple to get medical data, and public opinion supports the use of it.
But the public school system proves that this is untrue: inner-city Catholic schools far outperform public schools, despite much lower budgets.
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Dad was a legendary high school athletic director for the Bismarck public school system.
Most Americans are unaware of just how high variants our public education system is.
Soon after the Supreme Court's decision, the Milwaukee public school system made an unprecedented offer.
The workers can seek treatment at state hospitals through Brazil's precarious public health system.
Puerto Rico, like so many places, faces real challenges to improve its public education system.
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Every government budget has been cut, including the amount spent on Spain's public health system.
Refiners must sell 40% of their output to the public distribution system at a loss.
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