"The United States must lead the world in the number of homes and people with access to affordable, world-class broadband connections.
In your own words: "We know that in a global economy that's more connective and more competitive that we're the party that will guarantee every American an affordable, world-class, life-long, top-notch education..."...
According to "Patients Without Borders: Everybody's Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Tourism," a new book by Josef Woodman, overseas care can trim 60 to 80percentt, or more, off the price of major surgeries.
"The affordable housing world is looking on in interest to see how we're doing this," she said.
Most significant, it makes exports more affordable on world markets, enhancing the ability of European companies to sell their goods in major markets like North America and Asia.
A sharply weaker euro, which has already slid nearly 10 percent against the dollar in the last year, would make high-quality goods produced in countries like Germany more affordable on world markets, providing a greater challenge to Chinese exports.
Advocates and analysts in the affordable housing world have talked about addressing some of this difficulty by cross-subsidizing buildings, a process that would have a mixed-income building in the Bronx, for instance, helping to offset the costs of a primarily low-income building in Brooklyn.
Add to that a stable political situation and offers affordable first world health care, and the advantages are compelling.
And there are effective democracies such as Germany and Scandinavian countries, which provide affordable welfare, world-class public services as well as political freedom and civil liberties.
Public and private service providers compete to provide affordable and world-class medical services [ 16].
