Then there are more subtle abuses, the ones to which younger Medicare recipients may find themselves vulnerable.
But there need to be stronger protections against subtle abuses designed to drive sick people out of private plans.
But Mr. Reiersen and other industry executives say there has also been an increase in subtler abuse.
If gross negligence and a breach affecting millions, including children, provokes only a minor fine and warning like this — two years after the fact, by the way — what hope do we have that the FTC will act as an effective deterrent for the subtler abuses and far richer companies that net neutrality protected people against?
His approach isn't always subtle, sometimes abusing the powers that be in terms that would make Frankie Boyle blanch – as when he suggested the Brazilian president, a former victim of brutal state torture, had brought it upon herself – but it's won him a considerable domestic following among those who find his uncompromising style a breath of fresh air.
The episode provides a nuanced look at power dynamics in sexual encounters and how commonly subtle power abuses take place.
9 As previous local studies 6, 10 conducted in similar settings have revealed that intimate partner violence in Chinese couples is predominantly psychological in nature, 'violence' is therefore broadly defined in this study: it is not confined to violence in the sense of hitting, kicking or similar but also includes the more subtle form of abuse such as psychological abuse.
In our study AHC is defined by the NorAQ questionnaire and encompasses both subtle types of abuse and potential overt physical, mental or sexual abuse.
Six sites reported use of the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI), 5 used the Youth Self-Report, 5 indicated use of the CRAFFT, 2 reported using the Global Appraisal of Individual Needs-Quick Version 3 (GAIN-Q3), and 1 site used the Child and Adolescent Needs & Strengths (CANS).
Subtle types of abuse, like emotional, verbal and economic, are much more difficult to demonstrate. .
