Sentences with phrase «catastrophic costs»

It is no wonder that over 45 % of families with one cancer patient face catastrophic costs, and around 25 % are pushed into poverty.

If we are to ever find a solution to the current crisis, there is one fact that must be soberly and humbly recognized: There is no preventive military solution to the North Korean nuclear program that would not impose unacceptable, catastrophic cost on the U.S. and our allies South Korea and Japan.

* Creating a federal reinsurance pool to spread catastrophic costs across the general population.

«Even more concerning is the economic burden that snakebite places on victims and their households... It is highly likely in Sri Lanka that snakebite drives the same catastrophic costs for the poor as many other diseases.»

The way it plays out is that the small probability of extremely bad things happening incurs huge potential costs, and you want to hedge against those potential catastrophic costs.

Mikko, It is illuminating to see who it is that is predicting the alledgedly catastrophic costs of emissions reductions.

Ministers are set to introduce a cap to what the Tory leader called the «catastrophic costs» elderly people face when forced into care.