Insurers would have to offer a range of plans, labeled (in order of increasing benefits) bronze, silver, gold and platinum.
The little research that has been undertaken on indigenous innovation focuses on the macro-economic level and addresses the inherent difficulty of increasing benefits from international trade for developing countries.
"A minimum benefit increase is a staple of a lot of Republican plans to cut benefits because they want the veneer of increasing benefits," she said.
Obama expressed support for lifting the cap as part of a solution to the program's long-term funding shortfall during a Democratic presidential debate in September 2007, but not in the context of increasing benefits.
In my best Don LaFontaine voice, I'll say: "In a world of increasing benefits, longer life expectancies, shrinking revenue and growing unfunded liabilities, requiring employees to pay at least 50% of the cost of their pensions would be a useful parameter".
31 In our meta-analyses, arranged by year of trial start, there are no visible time trends and the idea of increasing benefits over time remains hypothetical.
In the pre-planned treatment-by-marker analysis, there was a significant interaction between HER1 3 expression and treatment (HR=0.58; 95% CI, 0.39 0.87; P=0.008) in favour of increased benefit from exemestane in HER1 3-negative patients.
Controlled studies of magnets and reflexology failed to demonstrate any increased benefit of treatment over placebo.
It found no increased benefit of additional brief intervention doses given at 1 and 6 months.
