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The four health systems of the UK: How do they compare?
"Since political devolution in 1999, there has been increasing policy divergence between the health systems of the four countries of the United Kingdom (UK)."
WHO | European Observatory on Health Systems and Policieis

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Belfast Telly | First pictures from picket lines across Northern Ireland as eleventh hour bid fails to end NHS walkout
"As it currently stands, while Mr Smith is in a position to gather additional funds, he cannot instruct the Northern Ireland Civil Service on how it should be spent. And the Department of Health has said there is no legal basis for it to allocate any additional funds from Westminster to be used to provide pay parity for health staff in Northern Ireland."
Belfast Telly | [IE] Hospital consultants to be offered 250,000-euro salary for public-only contract
"[']Consultants['] appointed since October 2012 are paid a lower rate, ranging from 135,600 to 187,700 euro per year, if they agree to work in public hospitals only."

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Philippe said in a letter to unions and employers that he was prepared to withdraw plans to raise the retirement age for full pension benefits by two years to 64 if certain conditions were met.
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He made the concession after talks between the government and trade unions to break the deadlock failed on Friday.
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Philippe aims to present the reform bill on Jan. 24 so that it can be discussed in parliament starting in mid February with the aim of passing a law before the summer break.

He said in the letter he expected unions and employers to agree on how to ensure the long-term financing of the pensions system in April. If they failed to agree, the government would pass decrees guaranteeing the pension system is [solvent] by 2027, he added.

Several dozen protesters, including some Louvre employees, staged the demonstration after an appeal from several hard-left trade unions against President Emmanuel Macron's planned changes to the retirement system, which they said will "lower everyone's pensions."
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"I think it's fine if they want to protest but they shouldn't block the plans of the people who have flown over here to see an exhibition of Leonardo," said Ben Garrett of Dallas, Texass.

Gerhard Jehle of Germany, who had bought his ticket in advance, shared that view, and said he was "badly informed about the extent of the strike."

"I don't understand how this happens," Jehle said. "Public transport doesn't function. The unions have to be controlled with an iron hand."

The Unsa union, which has the largest membership among employees of the RATP Paris transport network, announced over the weekend that it would be suspending its strike from Monday - 46 days after it first began unlimited action against plans to reform the French pension system.

Although some other unions, including the hardline CGT, are continuing the strike, the return of the Unsa members was enough for RATP to offer a near- normal service on Monday, to the relief of weary Parisian commuters.
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Throughout the week there will continue to be localised strikes and protests over the government's plans to do away with the 42 different 'pension regimes' that France currently has and replace them with a single universal pension.

Lawyers, firefighters, and even police forensics experts have thrown down their uniforms and joined the protests in France.

Now, tax collectors are throwing down the tax code and joining in the mass protest.

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— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) January 25, 2020

french lawyers on the picket line, what is better than a goth union pic.twitter.com/kjJ99N5AZq

— Hegel's kegels🌹☭🐶 (@marxfangirl1848) January 31, 2020

avoiding the need for a vote after the opposition filed more than 40,000 amendments to the draft law.

As the list of exemptions grows longer, opposition parties have mocked a reform that is becoming universal in name only.