Chile has a voucher system, in which the government pays money to the school of the parents' choice.
Retailers themselves, both online only and high street players, are trying harder to pick up traffic from voucher searches directly, rather than pay for a link from a voucher website.
Among those who handled a hot therapeutic pad, 54% chose the voucher for a friend, but only 25% of those who held the cold pad did.
By the time they drive home, I’m backdowntown in my housing voucher studio apartment that used to be just a tinyhotel room until somebody crowded in a stove and a fridge to raise the rent.
Online voucher website Groupon won Breakout of the Year at the Webbys.
BRITISH supermodel Naomi Campbell has sent pal Oprah Winfrey an odd gift - a voucher for a Brazilian wax.
Ms Peters also bought a voucher for several pairs of men’s underpants. When she logged onto the supplier’s website, there were only huge pairs or bright pink ones available.
This fall Florida started the first statewide voucher program.
At the end of the test, as a "reward" for their participation, they could choose either a reward for themselves or a voucher to give to a friend.
In fact the Congressional Budget Office estimates that by 2030 the value of a voucher would cover only a third of the cost of a private insurance policy equivalent to Medicare as we know it.
The voucher, which covered only a third of the actual cost of their room, was of little help.
Then its voucher programme started.
Earlier this year Representative Paul Ryan famously introduced a plan to convert Medicare into a voucher system; Mr. Romney's Medicare proposal follows similar lines.
Rather than offering a voucher when something goes awry, she suggests, businesses should hand over the real deal to assuage upset customers.
Voucher schemes are running in several different countries without ill-effects for social cohesion; those that use a lottery to hand out vouchers offer proof that recipients get a better education than those that do not.
Florida has used a federal waiver to set up a voucher-like scheme to let the poor buy private insurance.
If you couldn't afford a policy adequate for your needs, even with the voucher, that would be your problem.
