Sentences with phrase «federal health reform»

The report outlines the opportunities as well as the obligations that the federal health reform law will bring to lawfully present immigrants, people who have obtained green cards or visas allowing them to work, live and study in the United States.

This issue brief, which was funded by the Commonwealth Fund, notes that the federal health reform law might help as many as six million «lawfully present» immigrants either find affordable health insurance through health insurance exchanges or enroll in Medicaid.

The folks filing these lawsuits in protest of federal health reform — are they willing to go to prison for their beliefs like pacifists have done in the past - or are these lawsuits just «suit & tie» political foot - dragging?

Not exact matches

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 federal health transfers now established for the next decade, the federal government has basically opted out of health care reform.

Looking years out at the election calendar, Trudeau's strategists pushed early for federal - provincial initiatives like Canada Pension Plan reform, a health accord and the framework for fighting climate change.

Should the federal government continue to abdicate leadership in key policy issues of health care, pension reform, Aboriginal issues, education and research, and modernizing Canada's infrastructure?

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.

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CNN: Pizza magnate wins temporary ruling on contraception coverage dispute The billionaire founder of Domino's Pizza has won a temporary court victory, with a federal judge blocking enforcement of part of the health care reform bill requiring most employers to provide a range of contraception and reproductive health services.

Nestle is a professor in the nutrition, food studies and public health department at New York University, and here she provides a concise but comprehensive overview of where federal school food reform now stands, almost one year after President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 into law.

DES MOINES — Former New York governor George Pataki brought his effort to repeal the newly passed federal health care reforms to Iowa Tuesday, saying politicians did not listen to Americans who did not want those reforms.

In his most recent State of the State address, he listed several priorities, including reforming the criminal justice system, holding pharmaceutical distributors responsible for their role in the opioid crisis and fighting the federal government on its tax plan and policies on immigration, abortion, the environment and health care.

Though they have criticized the federal health care reform effort, de Blasio and Cuomo have teamed up to deliver a big taxpayer gift to Aetna, a major health insurer hat has given big money to Democratic political groups.

Malpass hit Gillibrand for supporting health care reform and for voting last September in favor of continuing federal funding to one of the conservatives» favorite targets, ACORN, which was something even her mentor, Sen. Chuck Schumer, declined to do.

Under an optional provision of President Obama's health reform law — which only New York and Minnesota have chosen to exercise — the federal government pays most of the cost.

Both hospitals fall under the umbrella of the Greater Hudson Valley Health System, which announced the cuts on Monday due to substantial reductions in reimbursement from the federal and state governments and decreases in revenue caused by healthcare reform.

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.»

[The new charge, they said, would actually be listed on county property tax bills as the «Faso - Collins federal tax» — named after New York GOP Reps. John Faso, of Columbia County, and Chris Collins, of Erie County, whose plan for the cost shifts were included in both the Senate and House versions of federal health care reform bills.]

This week, Carvin represented the NFIB, which has joined with 26 states to challenge the federal health care reform act.

Now our eyes are on Washington, as the federal government wrestles with reform of health care.

He advocates a smaller government, health insurance reform, the re-importation of pharmaceuticals from overseas, the end of the federal government's role in education and gun rights.

One outstanding issue is the health exchanges that New York must set up under the federal health care reform act.

Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's analysis puts spending at $ 154.6 billion in the coming year, including federal money for Superstorm Sandy recovery and health care reform, plus capital spending from windfall bank settlements.

His legacy will be inexorably linked to the state's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program, or DSRIP, an $ 8 billion Medicaid waiver from the federal government that seeks to both reduce avoidable hospitalizations by 25 percent and provide health systems across the state with the resources they need to transition to value - based care.

Lib Dem strategists are already considering inviting Mr Obama to chair one of the party's federal policy committees, possibly on health issues, where his advice about pushing through unpopular reforms will no doubt be of invaluable use to the Lib Dems.

He added that because Medicaid costs have «just grown so fast, until we have some federal health care reform that really addresses cost, if the federal government is willing to help us for a short period of time, that would be fine.»

The three remaining candidates have attacked Kagen for supporting the federal health care reform law and a cap - and - trade bill, which they say would hurt the economy.

Beginning in 2014 — and that's not as far off as it may seem — New York expects a big increase in the number of people who qualify for government health care under the federal health care reform law.

Washington, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R - NY - 21) helped the House pass the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act — bipartisan legislation she cosponsored to reform the federal mental health system and help reduce instances of gun vioHealth Crisis Act — bipartisan legislation she cosponsored to reform the federal mental health system and help reduce instances of gun viohealth system and help reduce instances of gun violence.

The Indigent Care Pool (ICP) was created under the 1996 Health Care Reform Act as a means of reimbursing hospitals for care provided to patients without health insurance, using funds raised by the state's taxes on health insurance policies along with federaHealth Care Reform Act as a means of reimbursing hospitals for care provided to patients without health insurance, using funds raised by the state's taxes on health insurance policies along with federahealth insurance, using funds raised by the state's taxes on health insurance policies along with federahealth insurance policies along with federal aid.

At an all - day meeting in Ottawa with roughly 50 practicing scientists, convened at the behest of federal Health Minister Jane Philpott to quell an uprising over CIHR grantsmaking reforms, Beaudet agreed to the introduction of a «hybrid» peer - review system.

«CIHR embarked on the reform of its open funding programs and peer review process to improve the sustainability of our health research system, the transparency and fairness of our granting processes, and the quality and impact of the research supported by federal investments,» he wrote.

In an early benefit assessment pursuant to the Act on the Reform of the Market for Medicinal Products (AMNOG), the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) has examined whether this new drug for MS offers an added benefit over the appropriate comparator therapy specified by the Federal Joint Committee (G - BA).

However, the ACA, the health care reform that's been passed at the federal level, does have some measures that incent hospitals and private practices and health care systems to reduce their costs.

Outside of NIH, the budget proposes a Federal Emergency Response Fund for outbreak response without specifying funding size or mechanisms; and would «reform» the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by establishing a $ 500 million block grant program for state public health challenges.

This finding suggests that government programs designed to promote marriage, such as the federal Healthy Marriage Initiative and others like it that emerged from the 1996 welfare - reform legislation, aren't likely to improve public health, the researchers say.

About Blog Bob Laszewski's review of the latest developments in federal health policy, health care reform, and marketplace activities in the health care financing business.

As the Senate continues to attempt a fix of Obamacare, debate continues on the contours of a sweeping federal tax reform to be acted upon once health care is put to bed.

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Instead of continuing to throw millions of precious tax dollars into the proverbial, but very real, pit of failed education reforms; instead of continuing to enrich test corporations and educational entrepreneurs who game the system; instead of maintaining the false and demoralizing narrative that our students and teachers are failures, our state legislators need to take this opportunity to tell the CSDE and CSBE that it will no longer support expensive mandates that unnecessarily impact our budget health when a re-design of state assessment practices has been encouraged by recent federal legislation.

Federal education policy may not be in the headlines as much as health care reform or the Trump administration's ties to Russia, but some important issues are being debated in Congress.

It has turned a relatively modest federal program (the $ 4.3 billion budget represents less than 1 percent of all federal, state and local education spending) into high - yield leverage that could end up overshadowing health care reform in its impact and that is already upending traditional Democratic Party politics.

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Closing the Health Care Workforce Gap: Reforming Federal Health Care Workforce Policies to Meet the Needs of the 21st Century

You may have noticed, however, that the Senate Finance Committee just voted for a federal excise tax on alcohol and «sugar - sweetened beverages» to help pay for President Obama's health care reforms.

But, given the host of competing problems — a deep economic recession, the urgent need for health care reform, geopolitical instabilities in the Middle East and elsewhere, soaring federal debt, and so on — selling the electorate on a set of fundamental changes in the way we consume and produce energy in the short run — and congressional appropriators on making the large investments needed to bring these changes about in the long run — will be a tough task, even for Barack Obama and his newly appointed team of highly competent advisers, and a Congress that has given every indication that it will take up and give priority to climate legislation.

The «debate», if you want to call it that — though I suppose it was more civil than, say, the «debate» over health care reform — focused around two things: How much was to be cut from the federal budget, and which «riders» would the GOP be allowed to attach to it?

Co-hosts J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Dr. David Orentlicher, professor and co-director of the Center for Law and Health at Indiana University Schools of Law and Medicine and Attorney Joel L. Michaels, the partner - in - charge of the Health Law Department in McDermott Will & Emery LLP's Washington, D.C. office, to discuss legal issues surrounding healthcare reform, its impact on businesses, hospitals, and individuals and the role of federal government in the marketplace of health care insuHealth at Indiana University Schools of Law and Medicine and Attorney Joel L. Michaels, the partner - in - charge of the Health Law Department in McDermott Will & Emery LLP's Washington, D.C. office, to discuss legal issues surrounding healthcare reform, its impact on businesses, hospitals, and individuals and the role of federal government in the marketplace of health care insuHealth Law Department in McDermott Will & Emery LLP's Washington, D.C. office, to discuss legal issues surrounding healthcare reform, its impact on businesses, hospitals, and individuals and the role of federal government in the marketplace of health care insuhealth care insurance.