Lots of people can not afford to buy a home, something the council says contributes to the borough's high levels of homelessness - more than 3, 000 households are in temporary accommodation.
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The two men agree that these are best addressed by requiring all but the smallest companies to provide health insurance for their employees, by the provision of tax breaks for people who can not afford to buy cover and by setting up a (relatively low-cost) federally-backed insurance system that anyone could opt into if they choose not to go the private route.
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Studies have shown that not all these people are indigent: a quarter or more can afford insurance, but choose not to buy it.
"We do not believe that local people can afford to pay such charges, " he said.
Obama and Democrats respond that only people who can afford health insurance but choose not to get it would have to pay, amounting to about 1% of the population.
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Not many people in this world can afford to buy a large chunk of banking behemoth HSBC and get a fair amount of influence too.
Dr Graham Lucas, advisor in occupational mental health at Priory Healthcare which has drawn up a list of measures people can take to beat stress, said companies could not afford to ignore the problems of stress.
Because we believe people need to be homeowners, whether or not they can afford to pay for houses.
Of course, this may not matter to the sort of people who can afford this set to begin with.
His idea of government-sponsored insurance policies for people not on Medicaid or Medicare and who can't afford private insurance would eventually drive the private sector out of health care because of the government-sponsored companies' low, subsidized rates.
And can they afford not to mop up the community of people who want a cheap iPhone?
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"There are two kinds of people who do not go to the opera: those who can't afford it and those who are uninterested, " he adds.
It's the government's responsibility, not the developers', to provide housing for people who can't afford it at market prices, he says.
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Well here to tell us more is the Party's Leader, Jeffrey Titford who also happens to be a member of the European Parliament and when people come to you and say this is crazy, Britain can't afford not to be part of this, what's the most important reply you think that you can make?
Funding the 2% reserve through increased MIP premiums is not a prudent, make-sense business practice, because the people that can least afford it, must foot the bill.
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For instance, about three in four people in jail on any given day have not been convicted of anything, and are there only because they can't afford bail, because bail amounts have risen so much.
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