Third, and most important, patients may be harmed when services are prioritised economically in single-tier health-care systems like Canada's.

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On Wednesday, the Work and Pensions Committee (at 9.30am) has its first evidence session on the draft to create a single-tier state pension.

BBC: Week ahead in committees

Introducing a White Paper on a single-tier state pension, he said the first such review would take place under the next government, in 2017.

BBC: State pension age to be reviewed every five years

The effective abolition of the separate state second pension, and its incorporation into the new enhanced single-tier version, will end the complicated system of so-called "contracting out".

BBC: 'Simpler' flat-rate state pension unveiled

The Department for Work and Pensions confirmed that under a single-tier pension there would be no contracting out so workers would pay more national insurance, but as a result they would get a better state pension.

BBC: Flat-rate pensions plan revealed

Every week, we will publish a single piece of top-tier long-form journalism about big issues in technology and science.

BBC: Good news - journalism matters

Doncaster's rating has been published in the Audit Commission's Comprehensive Performance Assessments (CPA) - the annual data for all English single tier and county councils.

BBC: Troubled council is one of worst

The Queen's speech is likely to propose an end to the multiple-tier appeal system for asylum seekers, replacing it with a single level of adjudication.

BBC: Call for radical asylum changes

As with other teams that lack the first-tier payrolls of the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox, a single bad trade or contract mistake could sink him.

FORBES: Return Of The Rockies

This last tier will either be a single or double based on if the market was able to bounce to 1090-1100.

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