With the framework of a privately delivered benefit already settled, industry lobbyists went to work on the details.
In a stunning announcement — privately delivered to players Sunday night and publicly announced Monday — Northeastern said it was dropping football.
Let's expand and improve on this most successful and popular of American institutions with publicly financed and privately delivered single-payer health care for all.
As the morning was coming to a close, he took the Ambassador's arm and privately delivered a message for the President.
In Denmark, for instance, emergency services have been privately delivered since the 1920s, but care for the elderly remains overwhelmingly a state concern.
Barack Obama used to support a single-payer system, in which health care is publicly financed but privately delivered, as it is in Medicare.
On Tuesday, Federal Reserve officials privately delivered the final stress test results to the banks after more than a week of intense negotiations.
And, while this should, of course, be accompanied by constructive, privately delivered criticism, various studies and articles, including this recent HBR piece, have touted the benefits of positive reinforcement.
Those of us on the left who support the act because it is better than doing nothing loudly lament not only its omission of a public option, but more importantly the fact that it is not a single-payer, publicly financed, privately delivered, health-care plan.
Reprints Related items The NHS: Sweetened pill, no cureJun 16th 2011Alas, some voters seem unable to distinguish between the way health care is funded and the way it is provided, believing that more privately delivered care will spell the end of the state-financed system.
