It's called Medicare, and even today, it is one of the largest single-payer systems on Earth, enrolling more than 47 million people.
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The prices of these drugs in Europe are often dramatically lower than in the U.S., which the report says could be because of the negotiating power of single-payer systems over private insurance.
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Cleveland Clinic is organized into patient-centered institutes based around single diseases or organ systems.
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Green Mountain is the seller of the Keurig single-serve brewing systems that are gaining popularity in homes as well as in places that sell coffee, like Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks.
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The review of "every single one of our systems: housing, health, benefits", was being led by immigration minister Mark Harper, he said, and would "make sure that we are not a soft touch for those who want to come here".
Doctors use the scoring systems to single out patients who could benefit from counseling about lifestyle changes, such as losing weight and quitting smoking, or from preventive interventions such as low-dose aspirin and cholesterol drugs, says Yul Ejnes, the chairman of the American College of Physicians board of regents.
It is now consolidating a number of existing systems with a single, integrated vendor suite.
Among single stocks, Cisco Systems led gains across 27 of the 30 Dow stocks.
With SmartView, users will be able to access multiple DVR systems from a single user interface.
As with existing RedEye products, RedEye Pro makes it easy to control these systems from a single button on their iPhones, iPads or PCs.
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The ability to monitor all key enterprise systems from a single browser allows utilities to continuously optimize their generation mix, carbon footprint, customer satisfaction and profitability while complying with a growing mix of emissions, security and renewable energy regulations.
Enterprises generally prefer to buy most of their IT hardware (PCs, servers, storage systems) from a single manufacturer.
Third, and most important, patients may be harmed when services are prioritised economically in single-tier health-care systems like Canada's.
When Celera signed up Compaq in 1998, the company put a great deal of importance on the ability of various supercomputing systems to run a single gene-mapping program.
The incumbent systems work with a single cost basis.
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France and Britain, for example, both have national electoral systems in which a single member of parliament is elected for each district, and thus only big parties that can win pluralities in a district gain seats.
The lighting, camera angles, wall-colour, acoustics and furniture are all designed to make two Halo systems feel like a single room when linked together, and to do away with the 15 minutes of messing around usually required to set up videoconferencing gear.
Cyras' god box combines the systems' layers into a single rack of software, chips and optical architecture.
The reforms "should tackle weaknesses in product market regulation, labour market institutions, tax systems, and strengthen the single market, " the body said.
The integrated system incorporates both the energy production capacity of UGE's 4K wind turbine and the EV charging capability of the GE Durastation in a single unit, with all required electrical systems located within the tower.
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Using IMM, firms get a single window to search across multiple silos and systems.
By utilizing this feature, manufacturers can convert existing single-camera smartphone designs to dual camera systems without the need for more expensive baseband processors.
No single country can develop basin wide tsunami detection systems.
The poster child for the single-event transaction would be former ImClone Systems (nasdaq: IMCL - news - people )chief Samuel Waksal , who pleaded guilty in 2003 and was sentenced to seven years and three months for insider trading and fraud (the same scandal that ensnared Martha Stewart ).
This has necessarily resulted in a duplication of efforts and the building of multiple systems to serve different audiences where a single would suffice.
The calls, often to expensive destinations in poor countries, sometimes last days, Mr Crooks says, because cheats use forwarding systems to serve many customers with a single call.
Those trends are largely due to the lack of a single enormous mega-breach like the Heartland Payment Systems hacking incident that likely spilled more than 100 million account numbers last year.
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Terry Fogarty, in charge of unmanned systems at Kaman, says that the single-pilot-manned K-MAX can be flown up to 12 hours a day on logging operations, requiring a change of pilots.
Cheaper cell phone apps and bigger-screened, in-dash car navigation systems are posing a challenge to the single-purpose portable gadgets, even though prices have dropped by hundreds of dollars in the past several years.
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