Sentences with phrase «before health reform»

But supporters of this change and others they'd like legislators to make before health reform is fully implemented in 2015 are undeterred.

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The situation is analogous to health care policy in the years before Obamacare, when, in the absence of a federal consensus, Massachusetts pioneered its own law aimed at reforming health insurance (which later became a model for the Affordable Care Act).

«With so many new specialty drugs in the pipeline and few well - known brand - name drugs going off - patent in the near future, the drug cost problem will certainly get worse before it gets better,» Mercer's U.S. health reform leader Tracy Watts said.

Hall is a passionate advocate for social justice who has testified before Congress on health - care reform's impact on small business.

The fate of health care reform in the Senate is uncertain, with members of both parties saying major changes need to be made to the House version of the bill before the Senate can vote.

The senior civil servant in charge of the reform suffered from ill - health and was only able to work for one day a week, before leaving in the autumn - when the programme director retired, too.

That's why Obama needs to recommit himself to bringing his health care reforms to fruition before they derail entirely.

Buffalo, NY (WBEN)- The day before Senators gather in Washington to, once again, take a vote on health care, Rep. Chris Collins says this will likely be the last vote on whether to take up healthcare reform or not this year.

A rueful Nick Clegg, reflecting on the unpopularity of the coalition's health reforms, once admitted that it is best in politics to make sure the public believe there is a problem with a public service before you suggest a solution.

In a painfully methodical fashion, Gove rattled off odes to Jeremy Hunt and the Department of Health, Ian Duncan Smith and the Department of Work and Pensions - «the welfare system is being reformed not to save money, but to save lives» — Theresa May and the Home Office, before finally singing the praises of Chris Grayling and the Department of Justice.

President Obama originally called for a vote on health care reform from both the House and Senate before Congress breaks for its summer recess.

The Senate was last in session the Saturday before Thanksgiving, when all 60 members of the Democratic caucus voted to begin debating health care reform in the full chamber.

«Today we have the opportunity to complete the great unfinished business of our society and pass health insurance reform for all Americans as a right, not a privilege,» Pelosi said before the House approved the bill, which first passed the Senate on Christmas Eve.

Part of that process has seen the departure of Ms Kennedy, Liverpool Wavertree MP, who has quit the government before - as health minister in 2006 over NHS reforms.

Holding up signs blasting the health care reform bill before Congress.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reiterated on a conference call Wednesday that her goal is to get a final health care reform bill to President Obama's desk before his State of the Union address.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- The fight over health care reform took center stage on Capitol Hill on Friday, as the House Democratic leadership stepped up its push for passage of a bill before the August congressional recess.

(CNN)- The House squeaked out its version of health care reform and now President Obama is putting pressure on the Senate to do the same so he can sign a bill before the end of the year.

The timing of a scientific report last fall that questioned the value of screening women routinely for breast cancer before age 50 was bad, coming just as Democrats were trying to push health reform through Congress.

In 2006, Massachusetts was on the same brink that the entire nation is on today: the brink of expanding health insurance to cover far more people than before, through government - driven, market - based reform.

Just before joining SEHN, Joe was Executive Director of the California League for Environmental Enforcement Now, a coalition of environmental groups and law firms in Oakland, California, and was Senior Policy Analyst for the Center for Environmental Health in Oakland, California, working on chemicals policy reform.

He has testified before both the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the Senate Working Group on Health Care Reform on Functional Medicine.

Criticizing those before and after A Nation at Risk who have urged education reform in the interest of maintaining economic growth, he wrote in a recent Washington Post essay, «None of these fine gentlemen provided any data on the relationship between the economy's health and the performance of schools.

WTF is going on?Well, the short of it is, at face value, that senator Graham has been uneasy about climate legislation for a little while — after health care reform passed, he made comments about energy reform being dead in the water, and long before that he'd drawn fire from his own party for working with Democrats and pursuing a bill that would price carbon.

Following a number of reforms in 2006 on the Slovak health care insurance market, Achmea decided to bring a claim before an ISDS tribunal on the basis of the Dutch — Slovak Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT).

The Times noted that this shift will likely have wide - ranging ramifications when the courts decide cases before them regarding health care, climate change, immigration reform, gay marriage, and other divisive issues.

Before the Affordable Care Act reformed health insurance in the US, pre-existing conditions often played a significant role in the health insurance coverage that people were able to obtain.

Long before federal health care reform was enacted, Idaho was one of only a handful of states to guarantee access to health insurance on the individual market for all eligible individuals on a continuous basis.

Before the election, Bill Shorten and co promised to establish a permanent Australian Healthcare Reform Commission to work with all levels of government to ensure a continuing process of health rReform Commission to work with all levels of government to ensure a continuing process of health reformreform.

I also worked as a Campaigns Resource Officer for what is now called Mental Health Reform before going freelance.

«People in health might have heard much of what was discussed before, but not all the politicians and advisors necessarily have, and there's some energy just in getting everyone together,» said Jennifer Doggett, chair of the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance (AHCRA)(and a Croakey edhealth might have heard much of what was discussed before, but not all the politicians and advisors necessarily have, and there's some energy just in getting everyone together,» said Jennifer Doggett, chair of the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance (AHCRA)(and a Croakey edHealth Care Reform Alliance (AHCRA)(and a Croakey editor).

In 2010 - 2012 the Closing the Gap health reforms associated with the Closing the Gap Strategy were just getting started.Because of this time lag, the Campaign Steering Committee believe that significant increases in life expectancy, like those seen among the Maori, should be expected before the early 2020s if the national effort to close the gap is maintained.