Sentences with phrase «ability to pay»

Emergency rooms must care for anyone who shows up, regardless of insurance or ability to pay.

Recently, the Erie County Water Authority has been under fire for their ability to pay out large sums of money at the end of an appointed member's employment if he or she is fired without cause prior to the end of their contract.

Whilst the UK Government preoccupied themselves with ending maintenance grants, Kirsty Williams has been busy ensuring that for every student in Wales it is your academic ability and not your ability to pay that determines whether you can study at University.

They thought you could borrow without regard to ability to pay, spend without regard for value for money, all on the premise that boom would never end in bust.

Too many children are already finding their access to educational opportunities is limited by parents» ability to pay.»

Rather, it is a limit on the ability to pay obligations already incurred.

«It is unacceptable that educational experiences that promote opportunity and achievement are limited by an ability to pay.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has called on the Labour Party to help poverty proof the school day and ensure that no child is denied access to education opportunities on the basis of their parents» ability to pay.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has called on the Conservative Party to help poverty proof the school day and ensure that no child is denied access to educational opportunities on the basis of their parents» ability to pay.

«Access to public education and important educational opportunities is now, for an increasing number of children and young people, on the basis of their parent's ability to pay.

«We are absolutely committed to a comprehensive national health service, free at the point of use and based on need rather than ability to pay - nothing in our plans changes that.»

Access to further and higher education is now based on the ability to pay.

«Educational experiences that promote opportunity and achievement should not be determined by an ability to pay.»

In too many countries around the world new technological breakthroughs become available only to a select few with the ability to pay.

More nobly, the government could be concerned about the private funds» ability to pay out in the future.

I urge you to meet with Business Secretary Cable and present my concerns to him, and to contact me once you have done so; this will help ensure that government institutes a fair graduate contribution, with repayments that reflect graduates» ability to pay, as it is the best policy to help the UK's HE sector remain world - class without placing a burden of debt on young graduates.

This design aim has generally been achieved, but there are inevitably some tensions between the more dynamic GLA and the small and slower - moving London Boroughs — e.g. over plans to build more affordable housing to combat the capital's crisis of housing costs that are well above ordinary Londoners» ability to pay.

The abolition of fees remains central to Liberal Democrat education policy and the Social Liberal Forum believes that unless HE is paid for through general taxation, a fairly instituted graduate contribution, with repayments that reflect graduates» ability to pay, is the best policy to help the UK's HE sector remain world - class without placing a burden of debt on young graduates.»

Furthermore, by bringing the deficit down too quickly it has reduced our ability to pay back the debt by lowering GDP.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced he is advancing a 30 - day budget amendment to encourage pharmacies to enroll in the New York State Vaccines for Children Program, which provides vaccines to children and individuals regardless of their ability to pay.

As a result, this legislation will encourage pharmacies to enroll in the New York State Vaccines for Children Program, which provides vaccines to children and individuals regardless of their ability to pay.

Of the $ 1.5 billion in taxpayer - funded grants announced last March, the vast majority went to nonprofits — most of them hospitals — that unlike the private firms must accept patients regardless of their ability to pay for care.

By Matt Pommer «The miracles of modern medicine are simply outrunning the public's ability to pay for them.»

A number of new, highly effective therapies to treat both Hepatitis C and HIV / AIDS have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration in recent years, but their extraordinary costs have raised questions about states» ability to pay the sticker price.

With selection on ability (but not ability to pay) and vouchers ruled out, how will we improve our schools?

Without the ability to pay workers or even guarantee their salaries in the future, officials said, they could be forced to close down state agencies immediately after the last emergency bill expires on Monday.

«For too many children access to basic educational experiences is now increasingly on the basis of parents» ability to pay.

«There must always be a link between what an institution charges and its performance in widening access and supporting those without the ability to pay,» he will say.

Businesses that close, or miss opportunities to invest and grow market share, aren't just a cost to our economy now — they're a permanent setback to Britain's growth and our ability to pay our way in the world, and a massive cost that future taxpayers will always be paying for.

«I can not understand why they would want to reduce their revenues at this point when they have two labor negotiations going on with no ability to pay and enormous capital needs,» Ravitch told me during a brief telephone interview this afternoon.

«Now, thanks to the Coalition Government, for too many children, access to many critical educational opportunities is increasingly based on their parents» ability to pay.

But what is equally unfair is to place the burden of ending that deficit on the backs of the poorest and lowest paid — we must all play our part, based on our ability to pay.

Self - monitoring of blood glucose People with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes should have access to self - monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) based on individual clinical need, type of diabetes, personal circumstances and informed consent - not on ability to pay..

Access to medication and treatments Diabetes UK believes that people with diabetes should have equal access to the best diabetes care and health outcomes available on the basis of clinical need and appropriateness, not on their or the NHS's ability to pay.

Children's access to critical educational opportunities is becoming even more dependent on their parents» ability to pay, a survey by the NASUWT has revealed.

«The Senate Republicans advanced a strong overall plan that would give back STAR rebate checks, while also providing a new avenue to address high property taxes related to homeowners» ability to pay and a cap on tax rates for all Enhanced STAR recipients at their current level,» said Senator LaValle.

«The marketisation and privatisation of our great public education service compounds this disadvantage with access to important educational opportunities, for too many children and young people, now on the basis of parents» ability to pay.

Important rights and entitlements have been removed such as the entitlement to be taught by a qualified teacher, the entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum and the entitlement to access educational experiences which promote opportunity and achievement and are not based on their parents» ability to pay.

Temporary, modest, tax increases on those with the greatest ability to pay would give the State and the City the ability to minimize budget cuts to vital programs.

Any such arrangement would have to comply with the principle that access to university must be based on ability to learn, not on ability to pay.

Access to a university must be based on ability to learn, not on ability to pay.

All STD testing and treatment is confidential; No one is denied testing or treatment based on their ability to pay

«We had been, certainly, talking a lot about expanding the circuit breaker on the personal income tax which is a way to provide property tax relief to a household based on its ability to pay,» said Parrott.

And a Circuit breaker which is a property tax credit to help low and middle income New Yorkers based on their ability to pay.

«Unless we enact sensible reforms now, our pension costs will only keep growing — and keep diminishing our ability to pay for schools, libraries, parks and other essential services.»

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

«The health service will face a financial crisis within a matter of years that will threaten the very values we hold so dear - of a comprehensive health service, available to all, free at the point of use and based on need and not the ability to pay,» he concluded.

What taxes are imposed is a matter for governments but will generally be linked to a taxpayer's ability to pay.

The Department for International Development (DFID) must do more to ensure the money spent by the UK on international aid and development is successfully securing the goal of universal access to quality education for all children, regardless of ability to pay.

«The UK Government must demonstrate whether it is serious about its promise to ensure quality education for all children, regardless of their ability to pay.»