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devolve v. when property is automatically transferred from one party to another by operation of law, without any act required of either past or present owner. The most common example is passing of title to the natural heir of a person upon his death. 2) passing of authority to a vice president on death of a president. 3) to give a territory sovereign rights to run itself. |
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Neither together nor alone could any of these "answers" be optimally effective in redefining health care in the United States because not one of them fundamentally undercuts the devolvement of health care into its present jumble of individual and collective government, business and society interests. As the devolvement has proceeded, flexibility and innovation have taken a strange turn. Limited government resources are reinforcing this trend, as central Governments in developed and developing countries experiment with partnership arrangements and increased devolvement of government responsibilities to non-governmental actors. |
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