Sentences with phrase «subsidising private»

Doctors Reform Society president Dr Tim Woodruff suggested the Federal Government's policy of subsidising private health premiums was driven by an ideological commitment to private health insurance, rather than a concern for equity and efficiency, while public health specialist Associate Professor Peter Sainsbury said the Productivity Commission report ignored the fact that the private health insurance industry was in desperate need of reform.

The government is going to offer equity loans to first - time buyers on a massive scale as well as investing in new home building by subsidising private developers.

Food industry sources say the major retailers are using private label groceries to gain market power and increase profit margins at the expense of branded suppliers, which are subsidising private label with profits from brands.

Generally, Capitalist Governments have chosen to subsidise private food production, and rely on welfare payments to ensure they everyone can access this food.

The plan to subsidise private education was bitterly opposed in a country that has had a free, and secular, system of education since 1882.

I propose taking a portion of the money that subsidises private industry and giving it to new bodies set up to allocate resources on the basis of a democratic vote.

Additionally, Spain has the most subsidised private schools, bilingual schools and fully independent international schools, including American and British schools.

The purpose of this paper is to compare the efficiency of the Spanish public and publicly - subsidised private high schools using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) fed by the results provided by a

«The Tories would introduce a voucher system that would cut over # 1bn from state schools to subsidise the private education of a few.

To address this, the national government launched a scheme to subsidise private companies for each rural user connection they made.

The Swiss healthcare system is a combination of public, subsidised private and totally private systems.

We offer our staff something a bit different from your average agency and here's why... * Table tennis and pool table, break out area, music throughout office * Free lunch every day * WR High Flyers Club corporate days; helicopter charter, Michelin Star restaurants, sporting events * Search licences and advertising quota via Broadbean on Reed, CV - Library, Totaljobs, Jobsite Regular involvement in projects to influence decisions and «have your say» Package: * Salary # 23K - # 30K based on previous track record * Commission # 62.5 K OTE is based on # 180K billings pa * Clear career progression path * Healthcare Cash Plan and subsidised Private Medical Insurance * Pension * 23 days holiday (negotiable) + bank hols Previous recruitment consultant experience and a provable track record is essential.

Not exact matches

This would see Australia move towards a European - style system of publicly - subsidised universal health insurance provided by competing private health funds.

The existence of the private school sector effectively subsidises the state sector by billions of pounds a year already.

Employers have been allowed to keep hammering down wages and this is where we find ourselves: a consumer economy in which people can't afford to buy, a private sector subsidised by tax credits to the cost of the national economy and the moral catastrophe of people working and in poverty.

Private housing was included as wealth but the right to occupy subsidised housing was not (whether social housing or via housing benefit).

After several rounds of electorally unpopular increases in contribution rates and raising the retirement age, Gerhard Schröder's government introduced tax - subsidised, funded private and occupational pension schemes.

Nor is there much of a case for special pleading, either in Ms Follett's case that her security needs were somehow terribly special or in Mr Law's case that his (perfectly reasonable) wish for a private life should be subsidised (unwittingly) by the taxpayer.

Mettler examines three parts of the American submerged state — subsidised bank - based student lending, private healthcare, and tax expenditures — and details the Obama administration's efforts to reform them.

The squeezed middle, the working poor (6.5 million in their households today) and the jobless are afflicted by pay freezes and pay cuts, energy bill hikes, accelerated private rent increases, a swelling housing benefit budget that subsidises rich landlords but not the tenants, waiting lists for a home swollen by the bedroom tax and only half the houses needed being built, nearly a million of the jobless sanctioned last year and deprived of all their unemployment benefit for 4 or 13 weeks for trivial infringements, the seriously disabled suffering big benefit cuts for not getting jobs they manifestly can't do, to name but some.

Ken makes the point Thatcher never cut mainstream public services but made savings and corrected the balance with the private sector through privatising subsidised nationalised industries.

In doing so, he will hand private developers billions of pounds to help to build up to 400,000 subsidised homes by the end of the decade.

«It is low - paid private sector workers working beyond retirement age... who are subsidising public sector pensions while receiving none of the benefits.

«Michael Howard has appointed the same old faces to promote the same old faded and unpopular policies, redirecting NHS and education funds towards subsidising those able to afford private treatment and private education,» he said.

«Zoning of protected areas and forest conservation on private land, combined with subsidising farmers to increase yields on degraded pastures rather than create new ones, has seen deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon decline steeply since 2004 — although it's too early to say if this success will be sustained,» said co-author Dr Bernardo Strassburg of Brazil's International Institute for Sustainability.

Subsidising places for pupils in private schools just reinforces the idea that you can only get a decent education in the UK if you go private.

After this time you will have to take over provision of veterinary care yourself, e.g. pet insurance, private vet, using our subsidised service or if eligible PDSA services.

How does one stimulate and subsidise the market whilst maintaining the drives for efficiency and cost effectiveness that characterise private sector projects?

«The expectation of subsidised plants in the future would deter private investment in generation and otherwise distort the market.»

Other firms are engaged in similar activity — sports and yoga classes, subsidised gym memberships, private medical insurance, numerous supportive networks (LGBT, gender, disability, to name a few) and employee assistance programmes appear particularly common.

Perks, meanwhile, range from the usual package of subsidised gym membership and private health insurance to, er, green tea.

The likes of paid study leave, and possible employment benefits such as private healthcare and subsidised gym membership are also enticing.

The funding, or subsidising, by a core public authority of a function carried out by a private body may be indicative of that function being public.

Perks: 25 days» holiday, employer pension contribution, gym membership subsidy, private healthcare, life insurance, long - term disability insurance, dental insurance, employee assistance programme, childcare vouchers, Bright Horizons back - up care and subsidised staff restaurant.

The government has also set aside $ 150 million to subsidise courses for union members to take selected courses through the NTUC - Education and Training Fund, improve the National Jobs Bank, and work with private placement firms to deliver better job matching services for professionals.

Annual benefits include 28 days holiday, pension scheme, private medical insurance, permanent health insurance, life assurance, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, social club, sports teams, subsidised gym membership, subsidised restaurant and discounts at local retailers.

Some of the typical benefit options school leavers and graduates could be offered in their first year include private health cover and dental insurance, subsidised gym membership, bonuses and relocation expense reimbursement.

She embarked on a major project looking item by item at the services that should (or shouldn't) be publicly subsidised under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, as well as reviews into primary health care and private health insurance.

These included maternal age at delivery, parity (1, 2, ≥ 3 children), socioeconomic position (grouped into four categories: 1) unskilled / semiskilled manual; 2) skilled manual / nonmanual; 3) managerial / technical; and 4) professional), maternal education (< O level: indicating no qualification; O level: indicating completion of school examinations at age 16; and > O level: indicating completion of college or university education at or after age 18), maternal smoking during first trimester in pregnancy (yes / no), housing tenure (mortgaged, subsidised renting, private renting), income (measured in quintiles), and maternal depressive symptoms measured using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale [40] at 32 weeks gestation