One objection to the Urban Institute study that has merit, for example, has been made by Joseph Antos, the American Enterprise Institute's chief health economist.
They may require individuals to obtain a doctor's certification that their case has merit, for example, or require patients to exhaust all administrative appeals before filing, said Miles Zaremski, a health care lawyer in Northbrook, Ill.
"This government appoints people on merit: for example, Sally Morgan was herself appointed under this government; and the former Labour adviser Simon Stevens is about to take up the post of Chief Executive of NHS England.
In his review, Poe wrote, "among many inferior compositions of length, there were several shorter pieces of great merit;—for example 'Shelley's Obsequies' and 'The Nicthanthes'".
Still, for certain projects this explanation may have some merit, for example in health services research, a topic often restricted to the local health system.
Further research appears merited, for example focusing on specific hypotheses, such as investigating if there could be a hormonal, biomechanical, behavioral, psychological or nutritional aspect to the development of back pain at this time of life.
Often legislators are clearly exasperated discussing the merits of, for example, whether the state really needs an official folk dance.
But they are also trying to widen pay differentials further down the organisation: about 90% of American firms use merit pay, for example.There is no doubt that sticks and carrots can be badly used.
This merits further investigation, for example, in vascular endothelial cells, where inflammation is the basis for atherosclerosis, or in the muscle, where macrophage infiltration and activation can give rise to muscle insulin resistance [81,82], and where copious amounts of IL6 are produced during exercise [83].
Moreover, the use of the "best available source" data (a criterion of the QHES) does not pick up on the relative merits of using, for example, randomized controlled trial data versus meta-analysis data versus assumption or investigator opinion, so long as, it represents the "best available" data.
