Republicans repeat formulas — government support equals dependency — that make sense according to free-market ideology, but oversimplify the real world.
"That is frankly a terrible formula for government, it could end up with a sort of crippled government".
By not providing a concrete formula, the government is inviting companies to save themselves a bundle at employees' expense.
An unrestricted process that follows the evidence wherever it leads would present too many uncertainties to fit his strongman formula of government, analysts said.
Fuel oil prices, on the other hand, were listed as having fallen, even though they actually rose, because of the formula the government uses to adjust for seasonal variations.
Other requests relate to allegations that Tenet manipulated its pricing to affect the formula the government uses to calculate payments from federal health programs for treating the sickest patients.
From its liberal "people's constitution" of 1997 to Mr. Thaksin's autocratic centralization of power, to the military coup, to the new constitution, Thailand has not yet settled on a formula for government.
Yet doctors must still wait for Congress to handle the sharp payment cuts they perennially face under Medicare as a result of the formula the government uses to pay doctors.
At the same time, in practice this new formula of government emerged in a very piecemeal and haphazard way, often driven by the circumstances of the moment, not least the circumstances of party politics.
In recent years, many Chinese consumers have been skeptical of locally made infant milk formula after government inspections found that widespread contamination of formula with the industrial chemical melamine had caused kidney-related illnesses, some fatal, in hundreds of thousands of infants and children.
