Resources for health are mobilized within government wide expenditure frameworks.
The difficulties concerned can be illustrated by a comparison between two recent efforts to compile and compare national contributions to world-wide expenditures on health-related R&D.
Look at SUNY's budget: out of a total annual system-wide expenditure of $11 billion, only $3.5 billion is from the state.
But defining UK-wide expenditure is also controversial.
Overall, the provision/maintenance of equipment was the largest system-wide expenditure.
The exact contribution from private sectors and from out-of-pocket spending are unknown, because data from the private sector are scant, and no population-wide household expenditure survey has ever been conducted.
But the wide gulf in expenditures, as evidenced by the new campaign finance filings, offer a painful reminder to Democrats of the significant resources that were consumed by a race that at first was not expected to be competitive.
These and other tax expenditures enjoy wide support, and it is almost impossible to imagine them being abolished, even in return for lower statutory tax rates.
The difference, however, was just shy of statistical significance, because of wide variations in medical expenditures and the small numbers of immigrant enrollees, which made the study's margin of error wide.
No mention is made of any exemptions from this tax, so we may assume that it will apply to food, medical care, rent, home and auto purchases and a wide variety of other expenditures now exempt from state sales taxes.
-the mantra of all tax reform initiatives these days is "lower the rates, broaden the base" where the latter means ending certain tax expenditures (a wide variety of tax breaks and credits ranging from the Earned Income Credit -- a wage subsidy for low wage workers -- to the reduced rate on capital gains).
