Indeed, the private insurance that Medicare beneficiaries have the option to purchase through Medicare Advantage — a Republican enactment that offers a privately run alternative to Medicare — is more expensive than traditional Medicare.
Charter schools, state-financed, privately run alternatives to traditional public schools, have unusual freedom to operate, but they must submit to periodic and grueling review.
The Better Medicare Alliance's raison d'etre is to widen the federal spigot of taxpayer dollars already gushing into the bank accounts of insurance companies that operate Medicare Advantage plans, those privately run alternatives to traditional Medicare.
46 As a final step, we ran alternative mediation models to rule out plausible competing interpretations of the data and to verify whether our hypothesised model best fit the data.
Experts say the Iranian government has a handful of reasons to establish a state-run alternative to the Internet.
But for ordinary Iranians it could be a well-run alternative to the Internet, which in Iran is often still accessed through dial-up connections.
Academics across the political spectrum point to state-run workers' compensation schemes as a rare example of a government-run alternative to litigation in America: a way to help injured workers without making them fight it out in court.
TennCare, the state-run alternative to Medicaid, set up in 1994, alone eats up a fifth of Tennessee's annual budget of $9.6 billion.A month ago, politicians found they had to plug a hole of nearly $1 billion.
Mr. Weber rejected the ministers' proposal for a church-run alternative to detention, but offered his own: In groups of 5 or 10, twice a week, the church could bring in the Indonesians they vouched for, and lawyers committed to the lengthy process of seeking their full case files.
It's enough to say that a series of coincidences involving a Twitter battle and a viral video gives Ray the idea for a D.I.Y., player-run alternative to N.B.A. competition—one that, not coincidentally, also entails a meeting with Netflix.
The accuracy of that supposed whip-count aside, Conrad's opposition to offering consumers a government-run alternative to private insurance companies goes deeper than political pragmatism.
