Before Obamacare, health care insurance regulation had been a state function, and each state had written laws mandating that all health insurance policies written in the state must cover certain services.
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They included cost of living and the tax climate for retirees (generally a function of state law).
Congo's war, for example, began because neighbouring countries invaded, but they were able to invade only because the Congolese state had ceased to function, leaving a vacuum.
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Through all this madness, the state assembly, remarkably, continues to function.
"There is a worsening of the respiratory function, related to the state of his depressed immune system, " Villegas said, reading an official statement on state-run VTV.
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Officials say that one function of party cells in the non-state sector is to help ensure that such enterprises uphold the law.
Coleridge believed (if such a searching and puzzling mind can ever be summed up), that all creation, especially man himself, was suffused with God, and that imagination was a function of the divine power, a recovered memory of a higher state.
The LCD display also shows the current function of the buttons directly below it, which, in the current state, means switching between tracks in our project.
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The digital "eyebrow" display at the top of the instrument panel provides high visibility for the Eco indicator and speedometer, while the lower liquid crystal meter display houses the new percentage style state-of-charge meter, power meter, battery temperature gauge, multi-function display, remaining energy gauge, capacity level gauge and distance to empty display.
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Another reason a state is suspected is that the virus is designed to gather information but has no clear monetizing function.
The four-engine Yun-20, or Transport-20, is a huge, multi-function airfreighter that can perform various long distance air transport tasks targeting cargo and passengers, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said.
"Schools have to function smoothly, and that would interfere, " said Carl Korn, a spokesman for the New York State United Teachers.
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