The new insurance exchanges created by this law ensure coverage of preventive care and basic health services, including maternity care, which is often not provided in health plans in the individual insurance market.

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Township leaders are often the targets of sometimes violent demonstrations by angry farmers who object to the exorbitant fees levied by township governments to sustain their bloated bureaucracies and maintain basic services such as health care and education.

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But since the ANC effectively sides with Mugabe, these refugees are denied basic services like housing and health care.

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But when it comes to basic health services, unless those services are available in your village, you may never receive preventative care.

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Dr Dreze cites the example of Brazil where almost half of all health expenses is paid by the government (compared to barely a quarter by India), and where basic health services like immunisation and ante-natal care at birth are almost universal.

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The state's progressive tax-and-spend experiment is broken, threatening basic services, from courts and parks to education and health care for its most vulnerable citizens.

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Conditions for the refugees now in Kutum are poor, with the majority of those displaced from the camp living in open areas without basic services, such as clean water, food, sanitation facilities and health care, UNAMID said Friday.

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