Furthermore, facilities and districts are required to report on standardized national indicators to the national level and their performance is evaluated by measuring progress on these indicators, creating a disincentive for facilities to plan and budget for health priorities not represented by the indicators.
More important, though, is that it provides a disincentive for gold-plated plans that often drive up costs without improving outcomes.
A further comment indicated that a lack of opportunity to contribute to the development of the local teaching/training programme was also a disincentive to engagement; 'No involvement in planning, developing and delivering of local teaching/training programme'.
Writing in the Guardian, Mr Clegg said the universal credit plan would remove "artificial disincentives" to work.
In fact, the idea of "disincentivizing" employees is actually growing in popularity; an Aon Hewitt survey demonstrated that 53percentt of employers plan to begin implementing disincentives in the next 3-5 years.
Such a disincentive is also the goal of the state plan, said Mr. Kaminsky, whose hometown, Long Beach, N.Y., has such a program.
This could "create significant disincentives for private sector plans to provide supplemental prescription drug coverage," lawmakers said in their conference report on the Medicare bill.
After arguing that the statutes favored the HMO's view, Thomas claimed that this view was better economically, too: Efforts by the states to force HMOs "could create a disincentive to the formation of employee health benefit plans," he said, concluding that ERISA was meant to provide a nationally uniform system for regulating the plans.
This provision was included as a disincentive for employers considering dropping their current insurance plans once the insurance exchanges began operating as an alternative source of insurance.
How do the laws governing patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and sui generis intellectual property rights act as an incentive, a disincentive, or a neutral factor in determining the planning, content, and progress of genetics and genomics research and development programs?
"The pension system is a voluntary system, and if you force companies to artificially put more into their plan than is needed, that is a real disincentive," he said.
