It is enjoying increased traffic in high-value technology items and in health-care products (an area in which all four firms are developing specialist divisions).
In a benchmarking of best practices, both countries have a more efficient use of money in the public sector, better value for money in education and health care, fewer persons permanently placed on social welfare and a more friendly rhetoric towards business, growth and job creation.
But what had happened was there was a huge shortfall in the value of retiree health care benefits.
We rely on a third-party payment system that dramatically reduces any incentive for the patient to be a value-conscious shopper in the health care marketplace.
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Healthcare providers have the choice to get ahead of that inevitability or be behind the eight ball if they choose to ignore the data on the value of patient engagement in driving positive health outcomes.
Evelyn Bromet, professor of psychiatry at SUNY Stony Brook, says the study's real value may be in the picture of mental health that emerges over time.
In assessing the value of a senior health-service manager or council chief, for example, the line between core competence and bonus-worthy brilliance might be hard to define.
Update: A reader pointed out to me that the Affordable Care Act requires employers to start reporting the value of employee health insurance benefits starting in 2012 (for benefits provided in 2011).
That core value--promoting health--got lost in the go-go '80s and '90s, reduced, it seems, to cynical sloganeering.
It must mean that people value good health and they're better off investing in it than in other diversions.
Stephen Dorrell, did his best to redefine the cost of the NHS to the public purse in terms what he called "the best-value health service".
Most importantly, we must do everything in our power to encourage, value and support the dedicated health workers, whose efforts are critical to realizing one of the greatest public health successes of our time.
In fact, because health is such a crucial value, I would argue that the ability of healthcare facilities to profit from their work is essential to the maintenance of an innovative healthcare system that delivers the optimal care.
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Under Bush's proposal--and this is what he didn't say in his speech--the value of that employee's health insurance policy would be considered taxable income.
Gold is a great predictor of our economic health because as the most constant, objective measure of value in existence, its price is the single best measure of the value of the most important price in the world: the U.S. dollar.
Housing is not gold-like in the sense that gold priced in all currencies tends to rise when currencies decline in value, but the historical correlation between commodity spikes and nominal housing health is very real, and was there during the Bush years for all to see.
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With their stocks down, health care REITs are cheap in comparison with the estimated liquidating value of their assets.
Or of adding value in the way messages are delivered or indeed creating highly protected communities around services like health.
We believe that the tools in health reform will help keep health care cost growth low while improving the value of care for consumers.
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There is a good deal of evidence that this approach results in lower hospitalization rates, better value, lower overall healthcare cost as well as improved patient health.
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The core economic distortion in the current health market is that consumers rarely have the incentive to seek the best value for their money.
The discomforts and agonies that attend ill-health and old age afford the opportunity and the invitation to participate in the redemptive value of Christ's suffering and death.
While there may be more tax dollars flowing from middle class pocketbooks to the federal government, in return for this money the middle class will be receiving more than the value of what they paid that return coming in the form of tax credits that will allow them to buy health insurance, often for the first time.
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