This is particularly evident in continuing fee-for-service incentives and a failure to effect serious cost containment.
Serious cost-containment will require hard bargaining with insurers, medical providers, pharmaceutical companies, and others who don't want this to happen.
Google turned in healthy third-quarter earnings largely thanks to the fact that Google is finally getting serious about cost containment.
Transfer of integrons between different bacterial species has been documented in the clinical setting, which poses a serious threat to containment of nosocomial infections (27 ).
He also said: "This election is about ending gross levels of income inequality" and called for serious Wall Street reform, containment of the billionaire class, free state college tuition and the expansion of various social programs.
This requires serious policy reforms where urban containment is in place and avoiding implementation elsewhere.
During the presidential- election campaign, Mr Bush complained that the Clinton administration was not serious about its stated policy of "containment plus regime change".
And the reported injection of seawater, he said, required a breach in the containment vessel, and meant serious long-term releases of radiation.
But the lack of an exterior passenger-side mirror — another casualty of cost containment — seemed not just a serious nuisance but a significant safety issue.
It's worth serious discussion, but while the idea of containment by deterrence is gaining ground in pundit-land, President Obama can't touch it; to do so would undermine the whole effort to halt Iran's program and, not incidentally, would be hazardous to his reelection.
