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There is no universal formula, of course. Each country has its idiosyncratic values and conditions. Consequently, the five lecturers tried to avoid being prescriptive and stuck to mapping out the territory of citizen engagement. With the aid of examples from other polities - from Canada to Romania - they provoked the members of the Committee present, the youthful representatives of the NGO HERA, and the two journalists who participated into a review of activities past and future.
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We covered a lot of ground with Dr. Kutzin: privatization; medical savings accounts; voucher systems; hospital management, purchasing, and contracting; earmarked (hypothecated) tax revenues; tax-based systems vs. social insurance systems; and a myriad other subjects. The whole event has been taped and will be distributed to the members on a DVD.
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