Sentences with phrase «health care changes over»

This pharmacist - led DIMM clinic may be just the beginning of many health care changes over the next decade, Hirsch said.

Not exact matches

Not everyone will benefit: now that Republicans have swept the US government for the first time since 1928, it means Obamacare is over - just a matter of time - and Affordable Care Act - vulnerable stocks such as Universal Health Services, AmSurg and Mednax will likely plunge; on the other hand pure pharma stocks like MCK and ABC will benefit as rhetoric on drug pricing will diminish significantly, leading to more stable earnings if / when changes in drug pricing become more stable.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

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.

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.

Investments in fast - growing industries like the technology and health care sectors (which have historically been volatile) could result in increased price fluctuation, especially over the short term, due to the rapid pace of product change and development and changes in government regulation of companies emphasizing scientific or technological advancement or regulatory approval for new drugs and medical instruments.

The healthcare industry has seen a lot of change over that period, with the rise and seemingly imminent fall of the Affordable Care Act having presented substantial challenges to the health insurance industry.

For over two years scores of litigants have been challenging the HHS mandate, which forces nearly all non-grandfathered employee health plans to change their terms, if they do not already cover sterilization, contraception, and abortifacient pharmaceuticals as «free preventive care» for female employees and dependents.

CNN: please change the headline to read College drops health care plan FOR STUDENTS over religious objections.

Online readers are reminded, however, that treatment guidelines and health care practices change over time.

For one thing, the actual bill makes changes that are far less scary than the «death panels» and «health care rationing» that dominated conservative discourse last year, leaving Republicans little to yell «boo» over.

In that instance, the Legislature went to court over Pataki's initial executive budget submission, saying it inappropriately contained significant changes to education and health care policy in appropriations bills.

That seems implied by your comment that the «state's tax climate also matters» and adding that the state faces a $ 4 billion deficit, plus additional lost revenue from federal changes to health care and tax policy, which is estimated to be over $ 2 billion.

But he said the uncertainty over what will happen in Washington on health care funding and on major tax changes is making it hard to plan.

At an event Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo defined the conflict over changing the health care laws in Washington as a class struggle, saying it's all about the rich versus the rest.

Governor Cuomo defined the conflict over changing the health care laws in Washington as a class struggle, saying it's all about the rich versus the rest.

Judy Wessler, former director of the Commission on the Public's Health System, said it would be much simpler to carve out a group of hospitals and increase the Medicaid reimbursement rate, rather than change the formulas or worry over which Affordable Care Act rules survive the next four years.

The health and social care bill's slow progress through parliament comes amid an ongoing battle over the transition risk register, a currently secret document detailing the government's assessment of the potential negative side - effects of its proposed changes.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Brian Higgins may be more well - known for fighting for Buffalo's waterfront and Central Terminal than he is for fighting over major national issues such as health care reform, but that seems to be changing.

At the opening of the meeting, Chairman Tony L. Earl announced that County Executive Ed Day had officially rescinded his proposal to withdraw from the health plan NYSHIP and enroll with AETNA, a move that would have changed the health care provider for over 2,000 retired government workers.

Things have started to change in Flint, but fixing its water system will take years, and its citizens will need continued support in many areas — including nutrition, health care and education — to manage the effects of lead poisoning over the coming decades.

A remarkable feature of the recent debates over climate change, energy systems, infrastructure rehabilitation and health care reform is the lack of detailed forward - looking government proposals and plans.

By studying access to care and health outcomes for five years after health reform took effect in Massachusetts, the authors also were able to distinguish how access to care and health outcomes changed over time.

The take - home message, he said, was that a significant segment of the population — just over 1 percent or 3.2 million Americans — are believed to suffer from some form of schizophrenia — are not benefiting from new scientific advances, lifestyle changes or health care improvements enjoyed by others.

Health care has changed so much over 60 years, my goal for my later years it to talk to as many people as possible about the effects of food on your medical bill.

Over the last 40 years, medical studies have led discoveries that could change the current health care system, the food system, and benefit the planet's eco-system.

The landscape of retirement has changed dramatically over the last few decades, however, and with traditional pension plans dwindling, the future of Social Security uncertain, the rising costs of health care, and now retirement right around the corner, people are rethinking their approach to retirement income.

It is common for older people to have sudden changes in their health necessitating that someone take over the care of this pet.

We have worked hard to develop a system of care that addresses all of your pet's changing health care needs that occur over the course of his or her life.

Puppies and kittens have different needs than senior pets, and the health care needs of adult companion animals may change over the years.

Much has changed since the artist's death during the epidemic in 1996, and yet here we are today, with Rose Garden overtures to the Religious Right at the White House last month and debates, fiercer than ever, over our health care system.

In a follow up to the gallery's critically acclaimed group show «UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN,» which opened during the week of the 2017 presidential inauguration, exhibition ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE features artwork across all mediums addressing the issues our society has faced since the election such as immigration rights, women's rights, transgender rights, health care, climate change, white supremacy, gender equality, gun control, sexual harassment, as well as countless other issues which have given rise to mass protest throughout the United States and abroad over the past year.

In a follow up to the gallery's critically acclaimed group show «Uprise / Angry Women,» which opened during the week of the 2017 presidential inauguration, exhibition One Year Of Resistance features artwork across all mediums addressing the issues our society has faced since the election such as immigration rights, women's rights, transgender rights, health care, climate change, white supremacy, gender equality, gun control, sexual harassment, as well as countless other issues which have given rise to mass protest throughout the United States and abroad over the past year.

By contrast, despite spending over $ 2 trillion in 5 decades, aid programs have much less to show in terms of poverty reduction — or its ancillary benefits, e.g., reductions in hunger, disease, better health care and education, and greater adaptive capacity to deal with climate change and natural disasters — than does fossil fuel - powered economic development.

So in a 2015 poll, they broke out the question a little to It then asks respondents which areas they would like science and innovation to prioritize over the next 15 years, with areas such as job creation, health and medical care, energy supply, education and skills, and the fight against climate change among the issues they are asked to consider.

Moreover, just as was the case with cap and trade legislation, other issues, including immigration, gun control, income inequality, banking regulation, and revisions to the health care bill may take top legislative priority over climate change.

The same dynamic afflicting climate change is afflicting the debate over fiscal policy, the economy, jobs, and health care.

As a family medicine professor and physician for over 30 years, Dr. Sarfaty has engaged in research and teaching focused on primary care, cancer screening, and public policy, including the health effects of climate change.

Community care and public health partner, Paula Barnes of Moore Blatch frequently represents clients in dispute with Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG's) over the care they are entitled to, she says: «This is an enormous change from the current system and whilst it has the potential for many rewards, people are unlikely to be familiar with the process of purchasing care.

While the Board and government refused to make requested changes to law and policy, a 2015 ONIWG / OFL report Prescription Over-ruled raised public awareness over long - standing concerns by Ontario psychologists and other health - care providers.

The landscape of retirement has changed dramatically over the last few decades, however, and with traditional pension plans dwindling, the future of Social Security uncertain, the rising costs of health care, and now retirement right around the corner, people are rethinking their approach to retirement income.

The cost of health insurance can be high, and with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, changes will be taking place over the course of the next several years.

There's a recent ANM Health Care survey that says over 40 % of nurses are seeking a career change.

Although we have seen a tremendous change in community attitudes over the last decade towards common mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and related alcohol or other substance misuse (Highet et al., 2006; Jorm et al., 2006; Pirkis, 2005), it is clear that we have not yet provided the wider social (or health care) services or environment to assist young people to access the help they need.

He is currently collaborating on projects examining how romantic partners» risky sexual histories and negative health outcomes are associated over time, and how delinquent girls» sexual behaviors and outcomes change following foster care placement.