Borrowing a term from economists, insurers warned that unlimited mental health benefits posed a "moral hazard" to employers and insurers.
But the extension of veterans' benefits posed a unique problem, because it's not DOMA, but another federal law that governs those benefits, and limits their availability to spouses "of the opposite sex".
Any erosion of health care benefits poses a singular threat to labor leaders, whose arsenal of tools to attract workers into union membership has dwindled alongside the decline of their organizations and their concomitant loss of influence around the country.
James Wetzler, former chief economist on Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation and a former New York State tax commissioner, warned that increasing tax burdens on the affluent, while reducing or eliminating their retirement benefits, poses the danger of "creating a class of influential people — relatively high earners — with a vested interest in eliminating the program".
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said the government's proposed changes to firefighters' retirement benefits posed a "vicious attack" on their pensions.
These groups used printed literature that included information on the aims of the study, study procedures, risks and benefits posed by study measurements, rights and responsibilities of participants and researchers, publication of results, and protection of privacy.
Fojo and Grady [ 11] as well as Smith and Hillner [ 12] have argued that the spiraling cost of cancer care, and particularly cancer therapeutics that achieve only marginal benefits, pose the need for guidance from oncologists about how to address these costs.
Without such clear wishes previously expressed while the individual was capable, the requirement of direct benefit poses a genuine barrier to research in diseases such as Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
Sunday's vote ended an energetic campaign by Swiss biologists to convince the public that transgenic laboratory animals are essential to biomedical research, and that genetic engineering can provide benefits without posing a serious threat to the environment.
As suggested by Coté et al. [20] the costs and benefits of posing should be considered from both the cleaner and client's perspectives.
