Sentences with phrase «driven health reforms»

«He was a strong advocate for consumer - driven health reforms and had particular expertise in Citizens» Juries, a process for enabling consumers to determine priorities for health funding.

Given the complexity of the health reform environment, the need for sustained and ongoing efforts at health reform, and the inadvisability of relying on «the market» to drive health reform, this Commission — if sufficiently empowered in the public interest (rather than professional, bureaucratic or private interests)-- could be very useful, not least in helping to demonstrate your genuine commitment to a healthy future for Medicare.

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As China looks to reform its health care sector, technology will play a key role in driving development and the goal of universal health care for all citizens.

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.

Patients» groups have warned the major reforms of the NHS now being pushed through, combined with the # 20 billion efficiency savings drive sought by 2015, are putting intense pressure on the health service.

The research suggested politicians should be looking at the following: continued welfare reform, with a particular emphasis on developing a contributory system; keeping taxes as low as people believe are possible to deliver high quality services; avoiding punishing people for things they can not possibly do without like driving or buying and selling houses; more proportionate sentencing; and restricting so - called health tourism.

However, as an outgrowth of health reform and the recession, both New York State and the federal government will continue to expand Medicaid enrollment and therefore drive spending.»

This week, McCray launched Cities Thrive, a nationwide coalition that seeks to drive mental health reform on a local and national level across America.

Vito Fossella's drunk / driving - out - of - wedlock child scandal, was once viewed as more vulnerable — particularly after he was abandoned by the WFP and 1199 for his «no» vote on health care reform.

At 9:05 a.m., First Lady McCray will kick off the second convening of Cities Thrive, a network of nearly 200 cities committed to driving mental health reform on local and national levels, New York Law School, Auditorium, 185 West Broadway, Manhattan.

After taking a pass on challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand despite the fact that multiple polls showed him to be the Republican most likely to defeat her, Pataki launched a national PAC — Revere America — to spearhead a national petition drive calling for repeal of the health care reform bill.

And to continue our drive to improve public health we will reform our tobacco regime to introduce an effective floor on the price of cigarettes and consult on increased sanctions for fraud.

Lord Darzi's promises come ahead of his final report on the next stage of NHS reform and follow calls from health groups for people working in the NHS to drive forward changes.

Let me point to 10 things that I sketched out this morning: too much money spent on administration and bureaucracy and not enough on front - line patient care; too little patient - centric information to inform decision making; too little innovation; too little clinical input into decision making; too much inertia and hostility to reform, as we have seen today; too much process - driven target culture distorting clinical decision making; falling productivity; poor outcomes across a range of clinical indicators; too often, weak commissioning of servicing; and widening health inequalities in the past 10 years, in addition to the scandals that occurred in Staffordshire and Kent.

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.

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.

Investing at least 3 % of Australian and state and territory government health expenditure (an additional A$ 2bn to A$ 3bn per year by mid 2023) to drive research activity within the health system as an embedded component of the Australian government's health reforms

Costs of liability insurance could be reduced further if reforms aimed at driving down health care costs are successful, for example.

The incoming president of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has already led Ethiopia through innovative health reforms and driven down disease rates in the coHealth Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has already led Ethiopia through innovative health reforms and driven down disease rates in the cohealth reforms and driven down disease rates in the country.

Whereas business - driven educational reform has largely focused on the K - 12 years, recent studies, including one by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), have now shown that the quality of care infants and toddlers receive can significantly impact their cognitive and social development through elementary school — and even beyond.

The drive — which collected the signatures in just three days — was organized to inform Connecticut's representatives in Washington that while CEA and its members strongly support health care reform, they adamantly oppose the excise tax on health care benefits.

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The high cost, along with the burden of the cost for the uninsured, were a driving force for the health - care reform law.

Also contributing first - day posts were Mark Burkhalter, former speaker of the Georgia General Assembly and a senior strategic advisor to the firm, writing on what drives agendas in state legislatures, and Cindy Gillespie, managing director of the practice group, offering a lay person's guide to the Supreme Court's review of health care reform.

Possible topics about pedagogy include: • Structuring statutory drafting courses • Simulation courses designed using mock legislatures or committees • Course linkages with real - world legislators and special interest organizations • Service learning or clinical opportunities for law students • Courses focused on law reform efforts • How to employ Plain - English principles in statutory and rule drafting • Theoretical perspectives on statutory drafting • Involving political realities in law school drafting courses • Teaching practical aspects of drafting that addresses theories and principles of statutory interpretation and construction Possible topics about practice include: • Unique challenges of drafting laws and / or regulations in specific areas such as criminal law, environmental, health law, etc. • Lawyering for non-profits, federal and state agencies, local governments, and other clients in frequent need of rule - drafting • Practicing in employment law, health law, environmental law, and other heavily regulated fields where private clients require rule and policy drafting • Non-legal drafting opportunities, such as sports league rules, industry trade group policies, and university rules Possible topics about politics include: • Political influences affecting legislative drafting • Direct democracy and the unique challenges of drafting initiatives and referenda • The implications of special interests driving drafting decisions • Polictics and its influence on legislative history • Lobbyists as legislative drafters.

He drove a number of change initiatives, such as Justice on Target (that reduced, for the first time in 18 years, the time to trial and the number of court appearances per criminal case), a health and safety initiative that reduced workplace injuries by 20 % in 3 years, the 4 Pillars of Family Reform, Civil Justice Reform, the largest funding increase in Legal Aid's history, and was part of a new approach to indigenous relations recognized by the United Nations.

Doctors Reform Society president Dr Tim Woodruff suggested the Federal Government's policy of subsidising private health premiums was driven by an ideological commitment to private health insurance, rather than a concern for equity and efficiency, while public health specialist Associate Professor Peter Sainsbury said the Productivity Commission report ignored the fact that the private health insurance industry was in desperate need of rReform Society president Dr Tim Woodruff suggested the Federal Government's policy of subsidising private health premiums was driven by an ideological commitment to private health insurance, rather than a concern for equity and efficiency, while public health specialist Associate Professor Peter Sainsbury said the Productivity Commission report ignored the fact that the private health insurance industry was in desperate need of reformreform.

Establishing a permanent, independent body to drive and inform health reform focused on prevention and population health and an equitable, efficient and quality health system could help us to re-imagine your Government as builders, rather than destroyers.

COAG committed an additional $ 4 billion to improve housing, health, employment and to drive fundamental reforms to Indigenous service delivery over the next ten years:

By the 1990s, articles on Indigenous health accounted for more than 4 % of all pages of the MJA (Box 2).7 At the same time, Indigenous scholars such as Lester - Irabinna Rigney began challenging dominant knowledge systems in their writing on Indigenous epistemologies and articulated their own research agendas and methods.25 A global Indigenous reform agenda developed, which aimed to decolonise and dismantle Western research practices by asserting an Indigenous perspective on research and ensuring that benefits flowed from research to Indigenous people, were in partnership with Indigenous people, and were driven by Indigenous people's agendas.25 - 27

As the health care reform debate continues, NAR will strongly advocate for the aforementioned principles that promote universal access to high - quality, affordable insurance options and remove burdensome regulations that drive up costs.