Sentences with phrase «big policy gap»

The six - month waiting period would fill a big policy gap in the current Better Care Act, which requires health plans to accept all patients — but doesn't require all Americans to purchase coverage, as the Affordable Care Act does.

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It's not just about having one issue fixed, like establishing better parental leave policies or solving for the wage gap, it's addressing all of these small things that add up to a bigger problem.

Bill Hammond, health policy director for the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank based in Albany, says, «Obamacare had certain gaps that people slipped through, I think this system would have bigger gaps.&policy director for the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank based in Albany, says, «Obamacare had certain gaps that people slipped through, I think this system would have bigger gaps.&Policy, a conservative think tank based in Albany, says, «Obamacare had certain gaps that people slipped through, I think this system would have bigger gaps.»

In Big Country: How Variations in High School Graduation Plans Impact Rural Students, education policy experts Jennifer Schiess and Andrew J. Rotherham examine one factor that may contribute to that gap: high school rigor.

Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce public resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.

A CALmatters analysis of the biggest districts with the greatest clusters of needy children found limited success with the policy's goal: to close the achievement gap between these students and their more privileged peers.

But they share a vision of a stark energy gap, and the need for big changes in energy policy and technology.

If a policy prescription does not account for the real complexity in the climate system, and real gaps in knowledge about aspects of global warming that matter most, is it likely that the public and lawmakers will pursue a big transformation of lifestyles and economic norms to curb CO2 emissions in a growing world still more than 85 percent dependent on burning fossil fuels to drive economies?

Fred Pearce, «World's poor need grid power, not just solar panels,» August 5, 2014 Brad Plumer, «There's a big gap between Obama's climate ambitions and his actual policies,» June 9, 2014 Jim Manzi, «Energy in the Executive,» June 4, 2014 Justin Gillis and Henry Fountain, «Trying to Reclaim Leadership on Climate Change,» June 1, 2014

Our analysis shows a big gap between the most expensive and cheapest policies in India....

You might also what to consider a gap insurance policy that covers you in the case of the biggest claims.

There is a big gap between the cost of a 5 - year benefit length versus a policy that covers you to age 70.

There were no big announcements or policy shifts, just a promised $ 20 million in additional funding over two years for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) for the collection of critical cultural knowledge — welcome in the wake of Tuesday's State of Reconciliation report — and little acknowledgement of the priorities urged by the Close the Gap Campaign's own report card, released earlier in the day (more below) by Co-Chairs Mick Gooda and Dr Jackie Huggins.