Sentences with phrase «few health care systems»

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How Canada ensures it provides a universal, affordable, and high quality health care system that accommodates technological innovation and changes in delivery over the next few decades is a particularly important challenge.

From the first, he took the unusual position that since a sick person is in a peculiarly vulnerable situation, the health - care delivery system should place as few extraneous demands upon the patient and his family as possible.

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

We have worse problems, including a health care / insurance system that is the most expensive on this planet and covering the fewest people.

It is also possible that the unique health care system found in the United States — and particularly the lack of integration across birth settings, combined with elevated rates of obstetric intervention — contributes to intrapartum mortality due to delays in timely transfer related to fear of reprisal and / or because some women with higher - risk pregnancies still choose home birth because there are fewer options that support normal physiologic birth available in their local hospitals.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

«Apparently, the same few clients use the courts, welfare benefits, disability services, children's services, and the health - care system.

Researchers at Tulane University and Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System have developed a painkiller that is as strong as morphine but isn't likely to be addictive and with fewer side effects, according to a new study in the journal Neuropharmacology.

Several performance reporting systems now report publicly on aspects of quality such as surgical outcomes, 8 adherence to evidence - based quality measures, 9,10 and patients» assessments of care, 11 but few public reports about the quality of health care organizations have also assessed the equity of care provided by those organizations.

If you haven't heard of Kalydeco — and you probably haven't — that's because this drug, which costs the U.S. health care system nearly half a billion dollars per year, currently helps fewer than 2,000 American patients.

«Given that aspirin is a cheap, off - patent drug with relatively few side effects, this will have a great impact on health care systems as well as patients,» study lead author Dr. Martine Frouws, of Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, said in a news release from the European Cancer Congress (ECC).

I used to love in BC and at one time in the Yukon, and never had an issue with the health care system... fast forward a few years and I now live in the U.S. where it would cost me $ 1500 / month to insure my family with insurance that actually covered anything.

Sure, schooling, decent health care coverage and fruit roll - ups helped a little, but it wasn't until a few years later when the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) swept the country and became the new obsession of our impressionable lives.

These policies undermine public education and facilitate its replacement by a market - based system that would do for schooling what the market has done for health care, housing, and employment: produce fabulous profits and opportunities for a few and unequal outcomes and access for the many....

Pet owners also save the health care system billions by having fewer doctor appointments and dog walking is linked to lower obesity.

A few years ago, together with two Aboriginal colleagues, I wrote about institutional racism in the Australian health care system.

Over the past few years, government, payor, and operator initiatives across the country have been working to create a new health care delivery and payment system, and these initiatives are expected to continue for the foreseeable future.