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NAME-DANNY BROWN
AGE-23
Gender-male
The United States has four decades of experience with the combination of public
funding and private health care management and delivery, closely analogous to reforms
recently enacted or proposed in many other nations. Extensive research, herein
reviewed, shows that for-profit health institutions provide inferior care at inflated prices.
The U.S. experience also demonstrates that market mechanisms nurture unscrupulous
medical businesses and undermine medical institutions unable or unwilling to tailor care
to profitability. The commercialization of care in the United States has driven up costs
by diverting money to profits and by fueling a vast increase in management and
financial bureaucracy, which now consumes 31 percent of total health spending. The
Veterans Health Administration system--a network of government hospitals and clinics-has emerged as the leader in quality improvement and information technology,
indicating the potential for public sector excellence and innovation. The poor
performance of U.S. health care is directly attributable to reliance on market
mechanisms and for-profit firms, and should warn other nations from this path.
Taxation
Ameansbywhichgovernmentsfinancetheir
expenditurebyimposingchargesoncitizensand
corporateentities.
Governmentsusetaxationtoencourageordiscourage
certaineconomicdecisions.Forexample,reductionin
taxablepersonal(orhousehold)incomebythe
amountpaidasinterestonhomemortgageloans
resultsingreaterconstructionactivity,andgenerates
morejobs.Seealsotaxationprinciples.
Criminal Law
riminal law, in its widest sense, includes substantive criminal law, the operation of penal
institutions, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE and evidence, and POLICE investigations (see
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION).
Criminal law, in its widest sense, includes substantive criminal law, the operation of
penal institutions,criminal procedureand evidence, and policeinvestigations (see
Criminal Investigation). More precisely, the term refers to substantive criminal law - a
body of law that prohibits certain kinds of conduct and imposes sanctions for unlawful
behaviour.
In general, the prohibitions contained in criminal offences are concerned with protecting
the public at large and maintaining the accepted values of society. These values include
the preservation of morality (through such laws as theobscenityandprostitution
offences); protection of the person (eg, murder and assault offences); protection of
property (eg, theft and fraud offences); preservation of the public peace (eg, incitement
toriotand causing a disturbance offences); and preservation of thestate(eg,treason
offences).
Underlying the various theories explaining the purpose of criminal law is the basic
premise that criminal law is a means by which society reaffirms its values and
denounces violators. A change in values entails a change in the types of conduct society
wishes to prohibit. Amendments to theCriminal Codein areas such as sexual offences,
abortion, pornography and punishment for murder demonstrate that Canadian criminal
laws develop, at least to some extent, in response to changing social values.
ThemostimportantlessonthatIhavelearnedasPrimeMinisteristhatwe
reallydonotknowwhatkindofchallengeswewillfacetogetherinthefuture.
Asprimeminister,youneedtobeabletodealwithandrespondtodifficult
challengesandunexpectedsurprises.Oneexampleofthisistheglobal
financialcrisisthatwewereforcedtorespondtoseveralyearsago.Atthat
time,ourgovernmenttookextraordinaryactiontodowhatwasnecessaryto
protecttheCanadianeconomy.
Letmegiveyouanotherexample.Wesawseveralyearsagotheotherparties
criticizingourgovernmentforrefusingtospendCanadiantaxpayersmoneyto
bailouttheGreekfinancialsystem.Atthetimetheyevensaidourdecision
broughtshametoCanada.Ifyoufast-forwardseveralyearstotoday,Ithink
nearlyallCanadianswouldagreethatweabsolutelymadetherightdecision
whenwedecidednottospendCanadiantaxpayersmoneybailingoutthe
Greekeconomy.Lookingforward,wereallydonotknowwhatiscomingin
termsoftheglobaleconomy.
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