Sentences with phrase «accelerating cost of health care»

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The pace of change driven by startups seems to be accelerating as companies devoted to essential needs — from reducing procurement costs and improving operational efficiency, to delivering more efficient primary care or dialysis care — try to do something about the sorry state of health care.

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

Treatment of large and chronic wounds are a high cost burden to the health care system since effective tools to accelerate healing are lacking.

After exploring actual retiree spending patterns, Blanchett found spending grows at a rate lower than inflation through most of retirement, then accelerates in later years because of higher health - care costs.

As the cost of medical treatment and medical care is accelerating rapidly; buying a health insurance policy has much become a necessity.

If your family has a history of serious illnesses, purchasing a life policy with an accelerated benefit rider is something that you will want to consider, especially with the rising cost of health care.

In order to account for skewed health care costs with an excess of zeros, we have estimated sample means of health care costs with bias - corrected and accelerated (BCa) 95 % confidence intervals.

While at MDRC, she has been a member of the data team for many studies, including the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), MIHOPE - Strong Start, the Coordinated Care for High - Cost Medicaid Recipients with Disabilities evaluation, the Accelerated Benefits Demonstration, the California Works for Better Health project, and the Work Advancement and Support Center Demonstration.

The provision of responsibility beyond the child's capability or without sufficient parental support contributes to the decline in adherence generally observed during this time (Anderson, Auslander, Jung, Miller, & Santiago, 1990; Hamilton & Daneman, 2002; Johnson et al., 1992; LaGreca, Follansbee, & Skyler, 1990), which may lead to concurrent preventable health care costs and psychological suffering (Allen, Tennen, McGrade, Affleck, & Ratzan, 1983; Anderson et al., 1990; Anderson, Ho, Brackett, Finkelstein, & Laffel, 1997; Ingersoll, Orr, Herrold, & Golden, 1986; LaGreca et al., 1990; Wysocki et al., 1996), as well as accelerated onset and progression of long - term complications of the disease (Bryden et al., 2001; Kovacs, Goldston, Obrosky, & Iyengar, 1992; Wysocki, Hough, Ward, & Green, 1992).