Sentences with phrase «as failing health»

Being able to convert to a permanent policy is a great option to have in the event that circumstances in your life change such as failing health or maybe just the realization that coverage is needed for a longer period of time than you originally anticipated.

Being able to convert to a permanent policy is a great option to have in the event that circumstances in your life change such as failing health or maybe just the realization that coverage is needed for a longer period of time than you originally anticipated.

Not exact matches

The proposed $ 54 billion mega-merger between health insurers Anthem and Cigna wasn't long for this world (and the fallout from the failed deal will likely persist as the companies battle over breakup fees).

Republicans pulled their health care bill Friday after failing to garner enough votes to pass Donald Trump's plan intended to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, leaving the law better known as Obamacare in place for now.

«Our sense is that the political embarrassment of health care failing will serve as a driver for the GOP to redouble its efforts to enact tax relief in this Congress.»

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency was sued by a coalition of beekeepers, as well as representatives from the Sierra Club, the Center for Environmental Health, and the Center for Food Safety, for failing to protect bees by approving neonicotinoids without proper review.

The damage includes factors like a rise in mortality rates as health and safety systems fail, a decline in trade as ports shut down and transportation chaos as infrastructure collapses.

Equally egregious, where estate planning is concerned, is failing to create an advance health - care directive, also known as a living will.

As tax revenues have shrunk, the city's financial obligations have grown — mainly to an ever - expanding pool of 30,000 retirees, promised life - time pensions and health benefits by short - sighted government officials over decades who consistently failed to fund those future obligations.

If we aren't in the room advocating for global health as a top priority, if we aren't there standing up for our belief in diversity and inclusion, or if we fail to speak out when the situation demands it, then we have abdicated our Credo responsibility.

This past summer, when Congress considered ditching the individual mandate as part of a «skinny repeal» — an effort that ultimately failed — the CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans cautioned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that, should the mandate go, «premiums will rise rapidly, few or no affordable coverage options will be available and more people will be uninsured.»

But Congress has failed to provide the IRS with any funds to implement health reform, forcing the agency to divert funds from other areas, such as IT.

The company's shares failed to get a boost in the U.S. as some investors stayed focused on the health of the Chinese economy and the strength of the country's consumers, who remain Alibaba's lifeblood.

Obviously, so the argument goes, if we want to cut teenage pregnancies and abortions we must have access to sexual health services — in other words, teenagers are less likely to get pregnant if they are using contraception; failing contraception, then we should give them access to the morning - after pill, which may be seen as preferable to a twelve - year - old getting pregnant.

Analysts observed that the party's fear - mongering failed to take the spotlight off more - dire needs such as sanitation, drinking water, and basic health care.

«[Wheaton College] has failed to show that delaying a judgment in its favor to the conclusion of proceedings in the district court would do the college any harm... The college has also failed to match the relief it seeks to the illegalities it alleges... the government isn't using the college's health plans, as we have explained at perhaps excessive length.»

The allegations are that he failed to identify Mr Rigg as a person with mental health problems and failed to ensure he was safe while under arrest and received proper medical attention.

As The Washington Post notes, The lawsuit says, «Inexplicably, the Officers failed to contact any properly trained mental health counselors or make any attempt to use less than lethal force and ignored the established police protocols to make attempts to de-escalate the situation.»

Fenton, his work wrecked and his health failing, quietly resigned his professorship at the Catholic University of America in 1963 and went to work as a parish priest.

«Flours made from pulses and legumes have a great deal to offer consumers from a health standpoint â $ «and yet they have failed to become mainstream, primarily because of organoleptic issues â $ «chief of which is taste, Today, taste â $ «or sensory experience — continues its reign as the number one driver of consumer food choice.

The soil health slowly improved and the following summer I increased my crop to include more tomato plants, zucchini, kale, lettuce and spring onion, as well as another failed attempt at eggplant.

Media Statement 9 October, 2015 New campaign against soft drinks fails to tackle real health challenges Responding to the «Rethink Sugary Drink» campaign, which targets sugar - sweetened drink consumption and its purported impact on health, Geoff Parker, Australian Beverages Council CEO, states: «Continuing to vilify soft drinks as a leading cause of obesity is distorting the -LSB-...]

Global examples have shown that soft drink taxes fail to have a meaningful impact on obesity rates and ultimately serve as a Band - Aid solution to a complex public health issue, which first and foremost requires access to adequate nutrition education and health care.

It also sets off a bureaucratic chain of events which backs up the message that fathers can treat parenting as optional, as health visitors talk to mothers rather than fathers, children centres build their services around what they perceive to be mothers» (rather than families») needs, schools fail to record contact details of fathers and, when a young person ends up in court for misbehaviour, magistrates hand down parenting orders to mothers rather than fathers, even when the father is resident in the household and present in the courtroom.

As their health began to fail in recent years, I had been flying back and forth across the country for their surgeries, rehabilitation, and for visits, and spent a lot of time coordinating their care by phone and email from 2,500 miles away.

She makes the common sense argument that failing to pay for more healthful meals up front will only result in higher health care costs on the back end, and she considers a variety of ways to pay for universal lunch, such as a tax on soda or soda advertising, an increase in the capital gains tax, or by reducing income guarantees and price supports to producers of corn and soy.

Yet this approach can often backfire as the business owner's health fails, requiring her or him to take sick days.

As my dietitian sternly reminded me when I failed to stick to my diet: this is not about you, this is about the health of your baby.

I had no idea why he was sleepy — just as you Jillian had no idea that your little baby was dehydrated — I also thought I should have known — yet you had a huge number of health professionals who failed, despite the multiple risk factors you had, to pick up on what was happening.

Mothers suffering from this may present inconsistent childcare such as failed feeding routines, health maintenance, and sleep routines.

She admits she wanted to be as candid as possible because she feels health professionals can fail many mothers.

A 1990's evaluation of the Parents as Teachers (PAT) program also failed to find differences between groups on measures of parenting knowledge and behaviour or child health and development.17 Small positive differences were found for teen mothers and Latina mothers on some of these measures.

But even as her health failed, those who knew Betsy Foxwell said the longtime educator and Park Ridge resident never stopped promoting and preserving her city's artistic heritage.

«It's a shame that Congress seems more interested in protecting industry than protecting children's health... this legislation may go down in nutritional history as a bigger blunder than when the Reagan Administration tried (and failed) to credit ketchup as a vegetable in the school lunch program,» — Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest in a press release

The group pointed to the revelations that NYCHA submitted false certifications for lead paint inspections in recent years and that 80 percent of NYCHA tenants, or more than 323,000 residents, went without heat or hot water at some point this winter as examples of how NYCHA has allegedly failed to protect the health and safety of its tenants.

Paul Jenkins, CEO of Rethink Mental Illness, has called on the NHS to do more to help people with mental illness stop smoking, as a new report reveals that health professionals are failing to support smokers with mental illness to quit.

Morrissey criticised the roles of the deputy prime minister as well as the chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, equalities minister Jo Swinson, and the health minister Paul Burstow for failing to launch a formal investigation after alleged victims came forward.

The argument that hunting is supposedly insignificant in managing the fox population, as claimed by the anti-hunting groups, once again fails to understand that as a wildlife management process, it is not about the numbers killed, but the health and reduced level of the population left alive that is important.

He said the committee wants to understand why EPA «failed to remediate the health crisis in Hoosick Falls as soon as possible» and is requesting all documents, emails and communications since May 1, 2014, on the situation to be turned over to the committee by July 20.

These failings are symptomatic of Labour's failure to protect our Health Service as a whole.

He cited homelessness, the criminal justice system and mental health care as issues that The Bronx continues to struggle with, and although he criticized the city for its handling of the homelessness issue, his overall tone was milder than in his 2016 speech, when he hinted at a run for mayor and said the city had «failed» the borough during its outbreak of Legionnaires» disease.

Mr Clegg will say that the war on drugs has failed and call for drug offences to be reclassified as health not criminal matters.

«Everybody, as far as I know, in the reproductive health and women's organizational movement recognizes we're not going back to that failed model,» Krueger said.

Trump's selection of a secretary of health and human services to replace Tom Price could be a turning point in a health care debate that has polarized Washington, as he faces a choice of working with Democrats to fix the current system or continuing his so - far failed efforts to dismantle his predecessor's program.

So far they include some of the usual suspects such as failed coup leader Grant Shapps, sacked minister Ed Vaizey and outspoken health select committee chair Sarah Wollaston.

«Large, underlying deficits in some local areas need to be tackled as a matter of urgency, while the reforms will continue to flounder if the government fails to get doctors, nurses and other health professionals fully on board.»

The US Senate has failed to pass a key test vote that would open debate on the 9/11 Health Care and Compensation Act, also known as the Zadroga bill.

The former deputy prime minister also said senior Conservatives, such as David Cameron and George Osborne, have failed to act on drug reform because they saw the issue as a «naughty recreational secret» at Notting Hill dinner parties instead of a public health crisis.

This comes after FBI Director James Comey testified last week that he had no evidence to back up Trump's claim that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower and after the House of Representatives failed to gain enough support through the week to pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA) to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

Gallagher says if what was previously known as the reproductive health act were introduced as a stand alone bill, it would fail in the legislature.