Although they are progressive, out-of-pocket payments are not equitable in China and have the effect of excluding the poor from health care as they cannot afford to pay for medical care and so withdraw from treatment.
Although all taxes are more progressive than out-of-pocket payments, they constitute a lower financing share in total domestic financing.
The various taxes are more progressive than out-of-pocket payments (e.g., the Kakwani index of personal income tax is 0.195 compared with 0.064 for out-of-pocket payments).
The head of the political office, the office that drives the decision-making on who the President raises money and does campaign appearances, is Patrick Gaspard, a strong and tough progressive out of SEIU.
Several components of government budgets are affected by the macroeconomic situation in ways that operate to smooth the business cycle, with progressive income taxes and out-of-work benefits being the most prominent example.
A progressive weeding-out of the 1950s exotic conifers is in progress to restore the native broad-leaved population, in particular oak, beech and birch.
Origin Energy, which owns Australia's largest power station, Eraring, has proposed a progressive phase-out of brown coal generation in response to a Victorian government review of climate policy.
The CEUS pattern of the pancreatic body and left pancreatic lobe were evaluated during contrast uptake (wash-in phase), at PI and during progressive wash-out of contrast medium.
The New York Democratic gubernatorial primary -- in which the progressive, previously almost unknown, money-out-of-politics candidate, Zephyr Teachout, received over a one-third of the votes while raising less than $1 million to corporate-Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo's nearly $40 million war chest -- may have dashed Cuomo's future presidential aspirations.
The fact that social insurance payments would be graded according to income above a certain level means that that the scheme would be as progressive as paying it out of general taxation.
