One solution is for Congress to divest its responsibility for Medicare management and instead create a public corporation to run the program, subject to broad fiscal discipline.
It is time to divest digital responsibility also to scientists in all relevant fields so that they are invested in managing open and vulnerable health information in the digital age.
Being a crippled man-child, divested of responsibility, takes on a kind of erotic aura in "The Pillowman," and McDonagh could have been something truly new — an Orwell of the stage — if he hadn't opted, ultimately, to be the Big Daddy himself, in 2010's dreadful play "A Behanding in Spokane," and again here.
This is especially important in the context of decentralization, where government is divesting more responsibility and resources to provincial and district levels in an effort to strengthen institutional capacity to deliver services.
Finally, the idea that business can't divest itself of responsibility won wide agreement.
Richards has moved in recent days to speed up the process and divest himself of responsibility for deciding on Capello.
The university has refused calls to divest, saying its responsibility is to generate a healthy financial return for its $36bn endowment.
In addition it would be unethical and compromise research quality to divest decision making responsibility from experts to lay users, who generally lack research expertise and do not have the necessary technical knowledge.
Indeed, the pressure on public companies to produce short-term returns for investors is leading employers to divest themselves of responsibilities towards their workforce.
Critics argue that the accords allow Israel to continue its occupation of areas captured in the 1967 Middle East war while divesting itself of responsibility for the welfare of the population.
In 1994, Union Carbide (owned by Dow Chemical since 2001) sold the company's Indian subsidiary, and hence (or so it claims) divested itself of all responsibility for the plant, the disaster and its aftermath.
