His plan also would end Medicare as we know it by turning it into a voucher system, shifting thousands of dollars in health care costs to seniors.
It also plans to unshackle health-care costs from labor costs by freezing the amount employers pay into the system and shifting from income-based contributions toward a flat-rate health insurance premium.
Nearly every state in the U.S. has enacted some form of pension changes in the past four years, ranging from increasing contributions from workers to more-severe moves, such as Rhode Island's decisions to suspend cost of living raises until the pension plan is financially healthy and shifting workers into a system that combines a traditional pension with a 401(k)-style account.
Analysts argue that revaluation is in order, a stance that received a boost last May when Kuwait de-pegged its dinar from the dollar, shifting to a floating basket exchange system.
Many countries are tightening their immigration laws, shifting to a skills-based immigration system and setting citizenship tests for would-be immigrants.
"It is a big new idea in a system like ours, and it is part of the way the ground is shifting under us in higher education, " said Kevin Reilly, president of the University of Wisconsin System, which runs the state's 26 public-university campuses.
Many other states are looking at shifting their dual eligible populations to either the fully capitated system that California has adopted or managed fee-for-service plans.
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Overall, what the transition is really financing is the increased savings and investment involved in shifting from a pay-as-you-go system to a fully funded system, just as with eliminating the unfunded liabilities of any underfunded pension plan.
Our third leading performer was Novell, ahead 40%, now shifting into supporting users of the Linux open-source operating system.
Nokia this morning also announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with Microsoft (MSFT) in its deal to begin shifting its smart phones over to the Windows Phone 7 operating system and away from Symbian.
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They include more oversight over the financial system and executive pay, extending health insurance to the 15% of Americans who lack it, shifting energy consumption from fossil to renewable fuels, and redistributing income from the wealthy to the middle-class.
The slower Bacs payment system - which underlies telephone and internet banking services - has also failed to show any trend of savers shifting their money.
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