The FDP plan would mark a decided shift toward a "two-class health-care system, " warns Gerd Glaeske, director of health economics and policy at the University of Bremen's Center for Social Policy Research.

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The agreement sets up a two-tiered compensation system for potential class members.

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An old-established two-party system is giving way to a far more polarising class divide.

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This movement is not consciously race-based, but it is certainly creating a two-tiered system and that inevitably leads to racial segregation as well as class segregation.

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So he curbed or cancelled more than 30 weapons systems including the army's Future Combat System, the F-22 Stealth fighter, two missile defence systems and the Zumwalt-class destroyer.

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