Finally, the provision of food, e.g. milk and eggs, by livestock provides nutritional insurance and consumption smoothing opportunities for households.

最后，畜牧业提供食品，如奶和蛋，为家庭提供营养保险和平稳消费的机会。

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One is the tax break that favours health insurance provided by employers, which leads to excessively generous coverage and hence over-consumption.

其一是税收减免激励了雇主向员工提供健康保险，导致保险涵盖领域过于慷慨，并造成过度消费。

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The main rate of VAT, a consumption tax, will rise in January from 17.5% to 20%, and national-insurance contributions will also go up in April.

消费税——增值税的主要比率将会在一月从17.5%上升至20%，国家保险金额也会在四月有所增长。

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This also encourages over-insurance and over-consumption of health care.

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As you know, personal information like height, weight, medical conditions, propensity to take risks (skydiving and bungee jumping, etc.), alcohol consumption and recreational drug use are required disclosures on an insurance application.

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Again pundits derided the dissent, this time for getting hung up on the infamous hypothetical of government-compelled broccoli consumption and stubbornly failing to acknowledge that the individual decision not to buy health insurance (inaction again) is itself a regulable commercial act.

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