This could mean that council tax benefit will depend on where you live - a change to the concept of universal state benefits.
The idea is that, once evaluated providers are up and running, the state can pull back from universal vouchers and target state help on those with specific problems.
The APT tax can therefore be viewed as a universal brokerage fee levied by the state to finance the panoply of services it provides.
These included increasing the basic state pension in line with earnings, basing eligibility for the state pension on residency, introducing a universal pension for the over-75s and creating a National Pensions Saving Scheme with compulsory employer contributions.
Massachusetts, the first state to attempt universal coverage, is slashing its health budget by 12%.
And the rate of unnecessary ER admissions has remained steady at 15% even after universal health coverage passed in the bay state.
Indeed, genetic testing may become the most potent argument for state-financed universal health care.
But it warned that business was not ready for the Universal Credit system, which will replace many state benefits.
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The NAPF has proposed scrapping the second state pension in favour of a universal pension which would rise in line with average earnings.
The conceit was that a universal reform would cover everyone and all but pay for itself by reorganizing the state's health-care finances.
For some reason people associate the word 'basic' with 'universal' and assume that everyone is entitled to the full-rate basic state pension when they achieve whatever retirement age is relevant for them to be entitled to payment.
The staggering cost to the state was a big reason that Arnold Schwarzenegger's ambitious plan to extend universal health coverage with help from a mandate recently collapsed.
Again, the more transparent and modern the state is, the easier it will be to talk about means-testing currently universal benefits.
Significantly, the State increased funding for education and promulgated the universal basic education law which guarantees every child the right to free and compulsory education for nine years.
Still, in his January State of the State address, Hickenlooper only specifically called for universal background checks on gun purchases, and he appeared ambivalent about a measure limiting high-capacity magazines.
The SNP hopes to extend state paternalism further, promising free universal childcare and more generous state pensions.
Florida, home to Walt Disney World, for example, has state officials who inspect rides at theme parks with fewer than 1, 000 employees, but the state relies on large parks like Disney World and Universal Studios to regulate themselves.
"Insomnia is universal, " says Martin Scharf , director of the Tri-State Sleep Center in Cincinnati.
Imposing one-size-fits-all regulations on a state that already has universal health care and is leading the way on cost containment is counterproductive to say the least.
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Such reforms would expand coverage, but could exacerbate the third symptom, cost, as the experience of Massachusetts, a trailblazing state that has already implemented a plan for universal coverage, suggests.
By contrast, the Consul General in Stuttgart, Samuel Honaker, made the visa process "unnecessarily hard, " at least according to letters from Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures and an ardent rescuer, to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
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Instead, Universal argued, state common law applies. (As a side note, at the end of last year, the U.S. Copyright Office performed a study at the request of Congress and recommended that pre-72 sound recordings be placed under federal jurisdiction).
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We assume that the nation-state, that long-standing and remarkably influential European invention, is more or less universal.
Mr Johnson hopes the voters will remember their liking for pork-barrel spending (a universal preference, but understandable in a poor state).
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