Alaska is one of the chief beneficiaries of the Universal Services Fund, which is financed mainly through long-distance phone taxes.
The Scottish finance minister also launched an attack on Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont's review of universal services, like free bus travel, describing it as a "cuts commission".
Hospital chain Universal Health Services (nyse: UHS - news - people ) is avoiding ratio states.
Other competitors in the healthcare sector include: Health Management Associates (HMA), Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS), and MedCath (MDTH).
But my problem with contemporary welfarism is that it has long moved beyond its original remit of providing a safety net or delivering universal public services.
Tenet Healthcare, HCA Holdings, Universal Health Services, Community Health Systems, Health Management Associates, to name but a few, are all publicly traded hospital companies.
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"Many communities have five radiation centers that should have one or two, " says Kevin Gross, president of Universal Health Services, a national hospital chain that also provides radiation therapy.
The first hospital I visited, McAllen Heart Hospital, is owned by Universal Health Services, a for-profit hospital chain with headquarters in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and revenues of five billion dollars last year.
"Many communities have five radiation centers that should have one or two, " says Kevin Gross, president of Universal Health Services (nyse: UHS - news - people ), a national hospital chain that also provides radiation therapy.
Providing universal coverage of preventive services is by no means a guarantee that people will get them.
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But the default position across the Scottish Parliament's parties has been to defend public services and universal provision as the top priority.
He sees his report as complementing the Independent Budget Review under Crawford Beveridge which, among many other things, questioned the universal provision of certain services.
Tayo recently granted me an interview during which he talked about the idea behind his company, the benefits of a cashless society, the Nigerian opportunity, and reiterated his mission to transform lives by delivering innovative and universal access to financial services to Nigerians.
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That'll be Carwyn Jones , leader of Labour in this neck of the woods, where the Labour line is that universal, rather than means-tested services, are a key part of progressive politics (and that cutting universal benefits brings you relatively little cash but a whole lot of political pain).
Then, there's the Channel Store, where you can get more services, a universal Search and Settings.
It would also accelerate progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, which call for a two-thirds reduction in under-five mortality, a three-quarters reduction in maternal mortality, and universal access to reproductive health services.
The conference is organized in support of the International Year for Sustainable Energy for All (2012) and the initiative of the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, which sets the goals for improved energy efficiency, doubling the use of renewable energies and universal access to modern energy services by 2030.
We know that universal access to voluntary family planning services would prevent 150, 000 maternal deaths and 25 million abortions every year.
The second consists in significantly improving the functioning of our democratic regimes by assuring the universal distribution of its goods and services such as education, health, housing, social security, and even recreation.
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The rich countries, on their part, could do themselves and the world a huge favour by putting their efforts into reducing their greenhouse-gas emissions and following through on promised aid, including for universal access to family-planning services, rather than on raising their own fertility rates.
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Other competitors in the services sector include: Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), National Health Investors (NHI), and Health Care REIT (HCN).
They will still be pretty rich, and their welfare services will remain more generous and universal than elsewhere.
Obama aides have said the job will be crucial as the new administration overhauls financial-services regulations, attempts to pass universal health care and tries to forge a new approach to controlling emissions of greenhouse gases.
While I laud these groups and countless others organized around specific scams, there still also needs to be a non-governmental organization dedicated to universal investor protection across all non-banking financial services.
They fear draft regulations explaining how housing benefit will work when it is wrapped into the Universal Credit will leave tenants unable to claim for many services.
We will be lobbying for a clear road map for the SDGs and one that prioritizes women's representation, binding agreements on universal access to reproductive health and pledges to deliver those services.
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