Pupils with greater needs -- because of poverty, limited English or disability -- bring more regular district money.
There should be risk-adjusted premiums so that insurers would not be disadvantaged by covering people with greater needs.
Providers are accused of "cherry-picking" the easiest to help claimants while "parking" those with greater needs with little or no contact.
But requiring each insurance company to offer a basic package with catastrophic coverage would ensure that individuals with greater needs would not be excluded.
Other city governments in New Jersey are shrinking, but no other community is cutting as deeply as Camden, and none started with greater needs.
It costs an average of £600 a week to be cared for in a nursing home – and much more for those with greater needs such as dementia sufferers.
Senators John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, and Lincoln Chafee, Republican of Rhode Island, want to redirect a large share of the unused money to states with greater needs.
During the interview, he denied suggestions it was being harder hit than more prosperous areas, such as his Oxfordshire constituency, and said he was proud to lead a government that "generously supports areas with greater needs".
The unwritten rule at work here, Burkett says, is that people with greater needs should receive more, and people with fewer needs should do more, which goes against the doctrine of equal pay for equal work and is a step back to the days when married men were paid more than single men because they had families to feed.
For example, a humanitarian organisation may agree with authority X to provide services to a population Z despite their lack of needs to ensure access is gained to population Y with greater needs.
However, carers have their own needs and it may be that those with greater needs have less access to services to help them.
