As a result, councils and the NHS will have to go on delivering expensive crisis care that the state can no longer afford.
In per capita terms, Syria was the most expensive crisis, at close to $700 per capita, followed by $322 per capita in South Sudan, she added.
And that means better, more systematic and cheaper IT service instead of expensive, crisis-intervention IT visits to your office.
In this mode, a few million new jobs could be created easily and help the new administration achieve significant chunks of its health care reform agenda disease prevention, instead of expensive crisis management.
But the economic burdens also are real -- women are kept out of the economy, unable to attain financial independence, or unable to function at their best, while expensive crisis intervention and social services tax community resources.
This historic declaration formally recognized the existence and need to improve the lives of a large group of people living in places in what are likely to become central to this century's most expensive health crisis.
Priscilla Linn, Belfast, Me.: I absolutely agree with your premise that oil must become prohibitively expensive so the crisis will be significant enough to warrant attention from the government.
The idea is that health and social care, by jointly investing in early help to prevent or delay debilitating need, can break their expensive dependence on crisis services and enable more people to live independently at home.
Besides the risk from a Greek default or the spread of contagion, European banks are also heavily reliant on short-term borrowing, which is riskier and more expensive in a crisis like the one after Lehman's collapse, Mr. Finch and Mr. Abouhossein said.
