It can greatly lessen the burdens on a health-care system that can hardly cope as it is.
Already some reckon the two will have to drop out of financing earlier rescues of Greece, Ireland and Portugal, placing even greater burdens on a shrinking number of creditors.
George Osborne, the Conservative chancellor of the exchequer and author of the fuel-tax cut, is reluctant to impose further burdens on a private sector that he is counting on to deliver economic growth.
Last term, he wrote the decision approving the limited use of race in college admission decisions, and voted to strike down a Texas law that the court said imposed unnecessary burdens on a woman's right to obtain an abortion.
The mayor also reiterated warnings that a strike could cripple the city, severely damaging businesses and the economy, generating layoffs and declines in tax revenues and imposing heavy new burdens on a deficit-ridden budget to pay for police overtime and extra ferries and buses.
Inter-individual heterogeneity in drug response is a serious problem that affects the patient's wellbeing and poses enormous clinical and financial burdens on a societal level.
