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Thus, with the 1939 amendment, the idea of economic security became a family-based program rather than an individual-based one, and one that provided benefits for retirement, disability, premature death, and medical costs after retirement.
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Although an individual-based society can also be a good society, when it comes to a crisis, you can only hope that people will be less selfish, and more selfless.
Amy Chavez: No Looting in Japan Amy Chavez 2011
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Although an individual-based society can also be a good society, when it comes to a crisis, you can only hope that people will be less selfish, and more selfless.
Amy Chavez: No Looting in Japan Amy Chavez 2011
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The only way to get true competition is to scrap the nonsensical system of employer-based coverage and move toward individual-based coverage instead.
Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers 2009
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Throughout the campaign, she was her husband's chief policy adviser, usually agreeing with him but occasionally pushing him to the left, urging a more fundamental change, such as creating an individual-based system to achieve universal health-care coverage, rather than the employer-based system.
Elizabeth Edwards dies; lived her pain on a public stage Patricia Sullivan 2010
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Throughout the campaign, she was her husband's chief policy adviser, usually agreeing with him but occasionally pushing him to the left, urging a more fundamental change, such as creating an individual-based system to achieve universal health-care coverage, rather than the employer-based system.
Elizabeth Edwards dies; lived her pain on a public stage Patricia Sullivan 2010
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Throughout the campaign, she was her husband's chief policy adviser, usually agreeing with him but occasionally pushing him to the left, urging a more fundamental change, such as creating an individual-based system to achieve universal health-care coverage, rather than the employer-based system.
Elizabeth Edwards dies; lived her pain on a public stage Patricia Sullivan 2010
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Rudy Giuliani's health plan will reportedly involve moving people away from employer-based health insurance, and transition people into being players in an individual-based insurance market.
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But people seem to forget that the US Constitution is utterly unique in the world save the Phillipine Constitution in that ours is individual-based while all other governments have the party as the fundamental political entity.
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That is to say that while decentralized economies are per se more efficient than centralized ones, family/nation/religion/race based economies are less efficient than individual-based economies.
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