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Universal health care systems vary according to the extent of government involvement in providing care and/or health insurance. In some countries, such as the UK, Spain, Italy and the Nordic countries, the government has a high degree of involvement in the commissioning or delivery of health care services and access is based on residence rights not on the purchase of insurance. Others have a much more pluralistic delivery system based on obligatory health with contributory insurance rates related to salaries or income, and usually funded by employers and beneficiaries jointly. Sometimes the health funds are derived from a mixture of insurance premiums, salary related mandatory contributions by employees and/or employers to regulated sickness funds, and by government taxes. These insurance based systems tend to reimburse private or public medical providers, often at heavily regulated rates, through mutual or publicly owned medical insurers. A few countries such as the Netherlands and Switzerland operate via privately owned but heavily regulated private insurers that are not allowed to make a profit from the mandatory element of insurance but can profit by selling supplemental insurance.

Universal health care is a broad concept that has been implemented in several ways. The common denominator for all such programs is some form of government action aimed at extending access to health care as widely as possible and setting minimum standards. Most implement universal health care through legislation, regulation and taxation. Legislation and regulation direct what care must be provided, to whom, and on what basis. Usually some costs are borne by the patient at the time of consumption but the bulk of costs come from a combination of compulsory insurance and tax revenues. Some programs are paid for entirely out of tax revenues. In others tax revenues are used either to fund insurance for the very poor or for those needing long term chronic care. The UK government's National Audit Office in 2003 published an international comparison of ten different health care systems in ten developed countries, nine universal systems against one non-universal system (the U.S.), and their relative costs and key health outcomes.^[3] A wider international comparison of 16 countries, each with universal health care, was published by the World Health Organization in 2004 ^[4] In some cases, government involvement also includes directly managing the health care system, but many countries use mixed public-private systems to deliver universal health care.

JVC takes pride in having developed a high-speed processor that’s capable of producing two simultaneous Full HD images. This invention led to the development of the world’s first consumer camcorder to offer 3D recording in Full HD – the new GS-TD1. The said gadget makes use of two camera lenses and two 3.32 megapixel CMOS sensors to take three-dimensional images like the way human eyes work. It is outfitted with JVC’s new high-speed imaging engine which is capable of simultaneously processing two Full HD images at 1920 x 1080i within a single chip.

The company also included in the said device its newly developed “LR Independent Format,” which makes the GS-TD1 the world’s first consumer-oriented camcorder that is proficient enough in 3D shooting in Full HD. Other shooting modes offered by this new camcorder are “Side-by-Side Format” for AVCHD (3D) as well as conventional AVCHD (2D) shooting. This new camcorder also employs the company’s 3D Twin HD GT Lens that features extra-low-dispersion glass for you to capture crisp, high-contrast images, and multiple aspherical lenses for fine image reproduction.

JVC GS-TD1 has many other remarkable features such as 3D optical 5x zoom, 3.5” 3D touch panel LCD monitor, and Optical Axis Automatic Stabilization System which is aimed for disparity control to deliver depth to 3D images. It also makes use of the company’s BIPHONIC technology which makes it capable of producing dynamic 3D sound and Automatic Parallax Adjustment to maximize your 3D-video comfort zone. To purchase, check out availability of this JVC camcorder HD at Amazon.

Gamers! Move from being a spectator to an in-game front-liner! 3D technology is no longer limited to big cinemas and home theaters but in gaming laptops as well. ORIGIN and NVIDIA worked together to deliver cutting edge 3D gaming closer to who else? Gamers. By Combining the raw power and performance of the ORIGIN EON15-3D laptop with NVIDIA’s advanced 3D gaming graphics card and vision kit, PC games can now be played in an immersive stereoscopic 3D.

3D gaming can be easily experienced on the road and across the world with the EON15-3D. Users can choose from a selection of Intel processor and configure their system with up to 8GB of memory. They can immerse themselves in 3D gaming on EON15-3D’s 15.6 HD screen or alternatively by using the HDMI port to power any 3D ready monitor. For bigger bragging rights, they can even connect the NVIDIA powered ORIGIN EON15-3D to a 3D projector and go at it.

The benefits of 3D gaming includes having a complete view of the battlefield specially in real-time strategy games, easier inventory windows, quest logs, party tracking management in MMORPG, earlier enemy detections and faster reaction in shooter gamers and wider and more realistic view from the driver’s seat in racing stimulators. Not until a game is played in full stereoscopic 3D can players experience the best of gaming. There are a lot of promising present and incoming 3D-enabled titles out there, don’t get left behind – get an EON15-3D with NVIDIA’s 3D Gaming technology. This gaming laptop comes with a NVIDIA GeForce 3D Vision kit and NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D Movie player package.

The HP Compaq Airlife 100 certainly looks pretty. But the more we find out about the specs, the more I’m doubting this first-wave smartbook.

The 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 512MB RAM and 512MB flash storage (along with a 16GB SSD) are all well and good. But then you hit the resistive touchscreen, the 16-bit TFT display and an unproven “Compaq touch experience” skin over the Android OS. What’s it all add up to? Hard to say without a test drive, but it’s not a great first volley across the iPad’s bow if smartbooks want to be a major tablet or netbook alternative: