For every benefit trumpeted, though, a question is raised.
And as for whether customers would be prepared to accept that resources are more narrowly focused to deliver a broader benefit, this is a question for each organisation to ask of its residents.
Strong, clinically meaningful evidence that shows statins reduce all cause mortality in secondary prevention means that balancing treatment risks with benefits reduces to a question of the potency (and perhaps other properties) of which statin to prescribe rather than a choice between treatment or no treatment.
Merkel said that if, for example, someone came to Germany from eastern Europe and worked only for a short time but acquired a lifelong claim on welfare benefits, "then I see a question about which we must talk again".
A source in the room said Harkin's remarks were more of a speech about the dangers of reducing entitlement program benefits than they were a question to Obama.
Now I think it is a benefit, the question is, the question that you and others will need to decide is, what are the relative benefits of doing this vs. doing other things" (Practice C, Provider 2).
In the good times of 1998, with the clock on welfare benefits running out, Barbara Ehrenreich had a question: How, she wondered, would the four million women (most with children) soon to be pushed off the rolls and into the labor market make their way on wages of $6 or $7 an hour -- an amount that it was universally agreed was not a living wage?
"You have to ask yourself a question: 'Who benefits if this bill to rein in Wall Street or large financial institutions is strangled by a filibuster?' " Mr. Dodd asked.
