Sentences with phrase «bear the health costs»

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Retirees are being transferred to new health care plans, with no increase in premiums for this year, at least; a document sent to retirees by the company says the pensioners will bear the cost of any increases in premiums going forward, and that the company has the right to change the plan at any time.

While not all of the costs are necessarily borne by taxpayers — i.e., your employer might pay a share of your health insurance premiums — many out - of - pocket expenses count toward the deduction (more on that below).

So, if an employer is not paying for health benefits, and an employee is paying less for those same benefits herself, does it magically mean that no one bears that cost?

Corzine had long insisted that state employees must bear part of the cost of their health benefits after retirement.

When rent, health care, cellphone bills and other costs previously borne by mom and dad gobble up paychecks, figuring out how to handle the rest of your cash is hard.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It is a cost - sharing requirement under a health policy, which states that the organization or the person will bear a certain share (in percentage) of the total admissible cost.

I had a hard time picturing myself nursing before my baby was born, but because of the health benefits, bonding and cost my husband and I both felt strongly that breastfeeding was something we would do for the first year.

However, the costs of breastfeeding are mostly borne by the mothers and the cost of breastfeeding training by individual health care workers or hospitals.

For example, according to this report, the Congressional Budget office estimates that the FDA will need $ 1.4 billion to implement the food safety law, but a recent Pew Trusts report estimates that the annual health - related costs of food - borne illnesses is somewhere between $ 75 and $ 150 billion.

And in that context, why shouldn't the federal government make those meals as healthful as practicable, especially since the consequences of poor childhood nutrition — obesity, obesity - related diseases, health care costs, lack of military readiness — are all borne in part by taxpayers?

However, the costs of breastfeeding are mostly borne by the mothers and those for breastfeeding training mostly by the individual health care workers or hospital, while the health insurance companies and society - at - large are profiting from the financial savings from exclusive and long - term breastfeeding.

That means even if your baby is born with a health condition, you can rest easy knowing that his care will be covered and you won't bear the cost alone.

This reduces the incentive to take health - promoting actions (e.g. exercise), since more of the cost of illness is borne by others.

These involve costs that consumers pay as well — in their health insurance bills, in the Medicare and Medicaid costs that are breaking our budget, in lost productivity, and in the suffering that they and their children bear.

For those abandoned because of one health complication or the other, Naomi, with the help of beneficiaries, bears the cost of treatment, some...

Included on the menu of possible changes could be pension and health benefits reform, a retirement age increase and overtime costs — the usual union issues that often drive up costs to the point that taxpayers must bear an unreasonable burden.

But the pricing of these new drugs has raised eyebrows even in Western countries, where private health insurers and public health - care systems tend to bear the costs of drugs.

On one hand, we need to acknowledge that individuals bear some responsibility for their health, and on the other hand recognise that today's food environments exploit people's biological (eg, innate preference for sweetened foods), psychological (eg, marketing techniques), and social and economic (eg, convenience and cost) vulnerabilities, making it easier for them to eat unhealthy foods,» explains Dr Christina Roberto, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Healthhealth, and on the other hand recognise that today's food environments exploit people's biological (eg, innate preference for sweetened foods), psychological (eg, marketing techniques), and social and economic (eg, convenience and cost) vulnerabilities, making it easier for them to eat unhealthy foods,» explains Dr Christina Roberto, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthHealth, USA.

The finding of chronic joint pain in one fourth of the patients infected with chikungunya, a mosquito - borne illness, approximately two years after initial infection has important implications for prediction of the magnitude of disability and health system costs after the Latin American epidemic.

«This study shows the power of using large databases to glean meaningful clinical and economic information that can significantly impact health care costs,» Born said.

The March of Dimes estimated that, since 2006, about 176,000 fewer babies have been born too soon because of improvement in the preterm birth rate, potentially saving about $ 9 billion in health and societal costs.

While governments generally favor higher birth rates to maintain the workforce and tax base needed to fund pensions, health care and other benefits for the elderly, it is typically families that bear the brunt of the cost of having children, the study found.

«There are other costs, most of which tend to be borne by individuals and households, such as the cost of traveling to and from treatment and lost income due to lost time at work,» said study co-author Yara Halasa, a health economics researcher at Brandeis University.

Although babies born less than a month premature don't usually face significant health costs, he says that the difference is meaningful when averaged over a large population.

The added costs are borne by the health centers and by state and federal government programs; the benefits accrue to society.

Air and water pollution from fossil fuel extraction and use have high costs in human health, food production, and natural ecosystems, killing more than 1,000,000 people per year and affecting the health of billions of people [232], [234], with costs borne by the public.

That does not include the costs born by other health insurance providers, not to mention the out - of - pocket costs and high levels of anxiety imposed on women who are recalled for further tests.

Yet the United States already bears costs from our broken education system, including higher crime rates, additional expenses for health - care and public - assistance programs, and lost tax revenue as well as the untold costs of telling generations of children in chronically under - resourced, low - performing schools: «You don't matter!»

Society suffers by bearing the physical and mental health costs of educators who take stress leave or are frequently absent from work.

The ninety - nine cent price of a fast - food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost — to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food - borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.

In human health, in many cases the patient is not bearing the brunt of the cost because they have some sort of third - party payer insurance, whether that be private insurance or government - provided insurance like Medicaid and Medicare.

Cost of PEP «Post-exposure prophylaxis regimen generally costs $ 5,000 — 8,000 for each individual,» write Gerhold and Jessup, «which is mostly borne by public health agencies.»

The new bill states, «often, a consumer has not seen the conditions in which the cat or dog was born and raised, and the health and behavioral issues caused by these conditions may not present themselves until sometime after the purchase of the cat or dog; and that these health and behavioral issues can impose exorbitant financial and emotional costs on the consumer purchasing the cat or dog.»

The absence of such contributes to many social ills, whether failing to understand how health risks should be borne by a broad support to help curtail individual risk, the purpose of insurance, performance of social systems, or how reducing individual costs by allowing coastal construction in flood zones is based upon a lottery mindset.

Perhaps the best solution would be for a bare minimum of rights and resources (like full education, health - care and a steady and adequate food supply) to be guaranteed for a single child per family with any additional child recieving no government or NGO aid (all costs must be borne by the family).

The study, which was released in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, tallied the economic, health and environmental costs associated with each stage in the life cycle of coal — extraction, transportation, processing, and combustion - and estimated those costs, which are borne by the public at large, to be between $ 175 billion and $ 500 billion dollars annually.

This body of research argues for the recognition of everyday legal needs and responding investment in affordable, community - based legal outreach, pointing to the very considerable social costs of non-resolution that are borne by social and health services, income supports, disability plans, and employment insurance, other social services (more information and supporting publications can be found on the Forum website).

... costs borne by society at large include: costs associated with delays in court and administrative proceedings; increased court operation costs attributable to unrepresented litigants and accused; and, more broadly, costs associated with legal problems that are not resolved in an acceptable manner (including increased health care costs, increased social assistance costs and so on).

Health courts will also have to bear these transaction costs.»

For purposes of the regulatory analyses, we have assumed that TPAs would bear many of the same costs of the health plans to assure compliance for the covered entity.

There are approximately 12,200 health plans (including self - insured employer and government health plans that are at least partially self - administered)[45], 6480 hospitals, and 630,000 non-hospital providers that will bear implementation costs under the final rule.

The Ontario v. Rothmans Inc. decision is considered to be a significant one in Ontario's efforts to recover past and ongoing health - care costs borne by taxpayers in the province due to tobacco - related illness.

In Peters v East Midlands Strategic Health Authority [2009] EWCA Civ 145, [2009] All ER (D) 24 (Mar) the Court of Appeal (CA) considered the issue as to whether a claimant's care and accommodation costs should be borne by the tortfeasor or the local authority that was charged with the statutory duty of making arrangements for providing care and accommodation to the claimant.

Meanwhile, hospitals and other medical care providers had expressed concern that, without the requirement, they would be forced to bear the burden of millions of dollars in uncompensated care costs for crash victims who don't have health insurance.

Co-payment is a cost - sharing requirement under a health insurance policy, where the Policy Holder / insured will bear a specified percentage of the admissible costs

Since senior citizen health insurance plans come with limited coverage and many exclusions, compare insurance quotes online for the following: co-payment — where policyholder bears a portion of risk amount and balance is borne by insurer resulting in lower premium rates, maximum renewability age, lowest waiting period for pre-existing diseases and terms related to medical check - ups where least number of medical tests are required and cost reimbursed by insurer.

A comprehensive health insurance policy can protect your family and finances by bearing your medical costs.

With a health plan, you can bear these costs to some extent.

An adequate health insurance plan proves to be a financial safeguard for you and your family by bearing your medical expenses and other medical - related costs.