Sentences with phrase «government health spending»

The Productivity Commission's 2012 Indigenous Expenditure Report found that government health spending was $ 2.02 per Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander person for every dollar spent per non-Indigenous person in 2010 - 11.

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Sousa, however, is confident investment will pick up, owing to the government's spending on health care, education and other social programs.

High rates of unemployment have a budgetary cost to governments, from direct spending on employment insurance to a rise in health care costs as chronic unemployment diminishes mental and physical health.

The expenditures in health care as a proportion of governmental budget is going up and up and up — it's close to 50 % in each province — but total government spending has come down.

Put simply, the house plan, entitled American Health Care ACT (AHCA), essentially caps what the government will pay to aid families and poor people, and what it will spend in total, regardless of how fast medical costs increase.

To determine the economic health of the 30 OECD countries, Canadian Business ranked them by 12 categories: demographics, GDP, trade, prices, energy, life quality, government finance, labour, technology, education, environment and military spending.

The Obama administration is seeking to shake up how the government pays for heart attack - related medical care in a bid to reduce health spending, officials announced Monday.

In part, this stems from a lack of funding — on average, only 3 % of a government's health budget is spent on mental health programs.

Turns out, getting rid of one set of subsidies meant to lower poorer Americans» out - of - pocket health costs can actually raise premiums significantly — and consequently cost the government way more money to help subsidize the premium increases, to the tune of 23 % more spending relative to the cost savings.

The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), international organizations and we have argued that the federal government is facing a small structural deficit now but that it will increase rapidly after 2015 due to demographic pressures on potential economic growth and health related spending.

In other words, why not have the government raise the GST to cover its contribution to health and social spending, and let the provinces deal with the serious budget problems they already have.

Protecting major transfers to persons, spending on health and education and other spending such as that for Aboriginal programs, research and development, and assuming you won't revisit defense and international assistance, then to find an additional $ 8 to $ 11 billion by 2015 - 16 would require major cuts in labor market programs, spending on the homeless, infrastructure programs, and last, but certainly not least, government personnel costs.

Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

The report just released by the PBO shows that because of the cuts to direct program spending introduced in the 2010 and 2012 budgets and the changes to the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) and the Old Age Security (OAS) system, the government now has a fiscal structure that is sustainable in the long term.

What is emerging is a widening «fiscal divide» between a federal government with its diminished size and sound finances, and provincial governments with growing fiscal imbalances resulting from growing spending pressures (e.g., for health, education, infrastructure) and slowing economic growth and revenue growth.

Such analysis is especially important, given the impact of an ageing population on economic growth, and government revenues and spending, especially for public pensions and health care.

The federal government plans to spend millions of dollars less this year on advertising and outreach efforts to support the health law's open enrollment period, which starts Nov. 1.

Advisory Board Company: Health care spending is the largest driver of U.S. government debt levels.

These forces include the government's need to rein in health spending, the rising lapse rates among insurance policyholders and the rising intensity of competition.

Now that the health care bill has been defeated, Senate leaders hope to move on to tax reform and to passing a spending bill in order to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September.

They affect government spending through increased outlays for public pensions, health, and care for the aged.

Municipal operating spending has also increased because of further downloading of responsibilities by federal and provincial governments onto municipalities. The biggest increases in spending by municipalities over the past two decades have been for housing, health, social services and environmentâ $» all areas where federal and provincial governments also have responsibility, as the FCM's recent State of Canadaâ $ ™ s Cities and Communities report demonstrated.

A Progressive Conservative government would spend $ 1.9 billion over the next decade on mental health and addiction supports and housing, Leader Doug Ford says.

The plan provides tax relief to struggling homeowners through a comprehensive property tax reform package, and enacts major reforms to spending on health care and government worker compensation.

Latvia's GDP has plunged by over 22 % during 2008 - 09, unemployment is rising, and the government has cut back spending on hospitals and health care, schools and other basic social integument.

In about a decade of seemingly unrelated social and political events, thousands stopped attending church and the government took control of the education and health system from the Roman Catholic Church and its «spent Catholicism,» as Martel puts it.

Actually since so much government spending is on Medicare and Medicaid, cutting spending and reforming health care policy are closely linked.

The party warned that half of local health bodies are tightening their purse strings when it comes to mental health and called on the Government to ring - fence spending for mental health.

And all this while the government spent, on average, only twenty cents of every disposable dollar on human resources — education, employment, job training, social services, health, and fiscal assistance — but spent fifty - five to sixty - four cents of every tax dollar that congress has the authority to distribute, meaning minus entitlements, on the military.

The peak industry group, which represents more than 60,000 businesses across manufacturing, engineering, telecommunications, mining, airlines and related sectors, will caution the Turnbull government against large cuts but call for careful spending reductions across aged care, health, the pension system and the public service to fund a company tax cut as a key priority.

Mr Willox said while avoiding large cuts, «it is clear the government will need to reduce spending where it is prudent to do so» across government services like aged care, health and the pension system.

Money spent last year on junk food advertising in the UK far outweighs the amount Government is able to spend on healthy eating campaigns, leading to an unbalanced environment pushing us towards unhealthy choices, according to new analysis by the Obesity Health Alliance (OHA).

Yes, the government is biased for the good of public health because they don't want to spend unnecessary money.

The previous Labour Government launched the Infant Feeding Initiative in 1999, as part of the government's commitment to improving health inequalities and between 1999 and 2002 nearly # 3m was spent on funding 79 differentGovernment launched the Infant Feeding Initiative in 1999, as part of the government's commitment to improving health inequalities and between 1999 and 2002 nearly # 3m was spent on funding 79 differentgovernment's commitment to improving health inequalities and between 1999 and 2002 nearly # 3m was spent on funding 79 different projects.

In the years I've spent researching and writing about birth and newborns, I've interviewed doctors, midwives, health care professionals, nonprofit administrators, government officials, corporate employees, new parents, and dozens of others.

Health spending may be ringfenced, but the huge costs of the government's reorganisation and a shortfall in funding could lead to cuts in frontline services.

The charity Rethink Mental Illness has welcomed the Government's promise of an extra # 2bn funding for the NHS, and says mental health must be a top priority in how that money is spent.

If somehow all these big words are about the future of Northern England's society and economy, about its transport and education and health system, about power and control vis - à - vis Whitehall bureaucracy and the whims of national government, about jobs and infrastructure and other areas where we are spending and raise tax money, then we should be talking about something else.

President Donald Trump unleashed a tweetstorm of criticism of Democrats involved in tense negotiations on a spending bill to keep the government open, accusing them of trying to close national parks and jeopardize the safety of U.S. troops over demands to provide Americans with health care.

If somehow all these big words are about the future of Northern England's society and economy, about its transport and education and health system, about power and control vis - à - vis Whitehall bureaucracy and the whims of national government, about jobs and infrastructure and other areas where we are spending and raise...

They argue that «debt - service payments force governments to reduce public health expenditures -LSB-... and show that] each additional $ 40,000 of health spending is associated with one less infant death» in Africa (p. 82).

With time running out, Congress today easily approved a short - term spending bill that would prevent a partial federal government shutdown over the weekend, but departed in advance of the president's first 100 day milestone (tomorrow) with addressing two of his top policy priorities: health care and a year - long budget deal.

I can give you plenty of examples where the last Labour government did not spend money well and, as someone who believes that spending on health and education can change lives, it is incumbent on me to make sure that every pound is well spent.

The Government's health reforms are an «identity» issue, while spending cuts are the most important «unity» issue.

Cuomo has already promised a 4 % increase in health and education spending, so the cuts may have to come from shrinking state government, through consolidation or other means.

«Last night, I was disappointed to watch Senate Democrats oppose a clean spending bill that would have kept our government open and reauthorized the Children's Health Insurance Plan for six years.

In addition, the Sanders campaign said TPC assumed state and local governments would stop spending on health care and just hand over their obligations to the federal government.

Faso believes the existing health care law should be repealed and replaced with a plan that allows for flexible spending or HSA accounts for all people — not just those who work for big companies or government; that there should be more insurance options with fewer mandates that drive up premiums but also cover catastrophic care without crippling deductible payments; and that there should be more incentives for doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

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