More likely it is corporate buck-passing, designed to help chief executives get around the new rule.
Will there be real investment, or just more buck-passing between federal agencies and states?
Rather than delivering better care it will reinforce the culture of buck-passing and mutual blame.
But this would require the two levels of government to stop buck-passing and get their act together.
Now look at the mess this country has made of medical insurance, with a mishmash of mandates and buck-passing.
There's too much buck-passing when it comes to vulnerable adults or senior citizens.
Perhaps he will note that when he becomes responsible for appointing regional governors a change that will take effect this year his scope for buck-passing will shrink.
That buck-passing attempt did little to bolster investor morale.
"There are real risks that perverse incentives will be created that will undermine partnerships that have taken time to develop and foster an unproductive culture of buck-passing and mutual blame between health and social care, " the report said.
In the event, for all the nastiness, buck-passing and back-biting this mass of material exposes, it only reinforces Mr Pollard's conclusions: that the BBC's lines of accountability were deeply flawed and that members of its lavishly paid and top-heavy management saw it as their priority, in a crisis, to flunk responsibility rather than take it.
The alliance- set up after a public meeting against the plans - said Mr Jones's announcement was "an exercise in buck passing that still isn't over".
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