Sentences with phrase «health care cost if»

Patients in small towns can save thousands of dollars in health care costs if their local rural hospital is part of a tele - emergency room network, according to a new study from the University of Iowa.

A drug to prevent stroke after a serious subarachnoid hemorrhage that follows the rupture of an aneurysm would improve quality of life for patients, Garzon - Muvdi says, and could potentially save millions of dollars in health care costs if patients don't have to endure extensive hospital stays to monitor for a delayed stroke.

Not exact matches

The AHCA's approach would work if it included sweeping deregulation that lowered health care costs.

The only way it's going to bring down the cost is if it lets providers make better decisions about the care and either improves patient health or keeps them out of the system.

If US health - care costs are pricing you right out of the country, here are several places, from South America to Asia, where it's cheaper, according to International Living.

Slashing unnecessary costs would also be Wichmann's first course of action if he were given the keys to the entire U.S. health - care system, he told Cramer.

Even if this break hasn't been available to you in the past, a temporary expansion of the medical - expense deduction — coupled with ever - increasing health care costs — could translate into a writeoff.

But if politicians and voters are worried about health care costs in general, Mylan's rebates don't really solve much.

If you've been swallowing the rising costs of doing business, watching as soaring energy prices and exorbitant health - care expenses choke your already - gasping profit margins, you're not alone.

A recent Commonwealth Fund study co-authored by Collins looked at how much low - income people, who would otherwise be eligible for Medicaid if their state had expanded the program, would pay in premiums and out - of - pocket health costs if they enrolled in «silver» Obamacare plans and if they were «medium» users of health care.

Mr. Fein said the acquisition of Aetna, if it went through, would mark an industry shift toward a more seamless approach to managing health care costs.

Rising health care costs across the board mean you could be setting yourself up for financial struggles come retirement — especially if you haven't set aside enough money for one of your biggest expenses: long - term care.

If you aren't making a sincere effort to build up your retirement savings now, you may not have enough in the bank to cover basic health care costs — even with Medicare.

The Affordable Care Act says that health insurance is affordable if premiums cost no more than 9.5 % of a household's modified adjusted gross income.

If you are like most Americans, health care is expected to be one of your largest expenses in retirement, after housing and transportation costs.

But if you can postpone retirement or save enough to cover health care costs until 65, then you may be able to defer your Social Security benefits.

Yes, I admit there are things we could do to lower health care costs now if we had the political will.

Of course, if Israel were the only country in the world where we send either 1) direct aid and / or 2) provide a military presence and which had free universal health care and / or free or low cost secondary education, you might actually be making a point about there being something unique in the US / Israeli relationship, as opposed to, the $ 100s of billions we're sending around the world to hundreds of other countries which provide the same benefits.

If you contract a STD and want universal health care to cover the cost of the anti-biotic, show your sales slips for the purchase of the condoms along with verication from your partner that you used one.

If they truly want to be a witness, they should be taking care of their employees by [1] paying them a living wage and [2] supporting them with health care, not trying to run their lives by denying it because they personally don't believe in birth control *** AHEM HOBBY LOBBY, all you had to do was voice your objection and step aside, and the provider would absorb the cost, but NOOOOOOOOOO, you thought you knew better & said I FORBID YOU TO HAVE IT so your employees lost out on ALL health care, nice work in the name of the Great Physician *** or firing them because they get pregnant BECAUSE you didn't let them have birth control...

«If we're interested in lowering health care costs in America, we need to increase the prevalence of religion.»

Yeah right RD Christians are sympathetic, that's why they take every opportunity to put people down and act all holier than everyone else and support an ignorant and non caring bunch of elitists like the Republican party who think anyone who isn't rich should be a slave and if they get sick, don't provide health care, just tell them to die quickly so they don't run up health costs for the rich bigots.

c) if i were sick with something i wouldn't know the origin thereof (ergo, e.g. i couldn't sue anyone for reimbursement of health care costs and eventually also for pay for sick days) and i wouldn't have health insurance (where health facilities and workers are available) and barely any or no money, what else would there left for me to do than relying on «online advice», a «witch doctor», and / or praying?

My last point and Im out... Throughout our great nations history... we always found a way to fight through national issues and come up with solutions... Giving the problems we have now to people in the 50's and 60's... and they may actually come up with a solution... if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto.if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto.If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto.If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto...

If your loved one has both Alzheimer's disease and a financial need, Medicaid might pick up part of the cost of respite care and a senior with Social Security disability benefits may qualify for some home health care.

For those lower - class families — battered by unemployment, rising health care costs, and other financial insecurity — the ability to obtain a nutritious (if admittedly not perfect) school lunch for free or a reduced price is crucial.

If we don't change school lunches, we will see a continued rise of obesity and the accompanied skyrocketing cost of health care in this country.

The breastfeeding research knowledge available clearly shows that if all women in the United States breastfed for just six months exclusively, the nation would save $ 3.6 billion a year, mostly in health care costs and time spent paying parents for sick time to stay home to care for their children.

By expanding the pools of midwives who are qualified and family physicians who are supportive of providing opportunity for women to have their babies with limited medical intervention (if any), the costs for childbirth health care will drop significantly.

HOWEVER, IF infant mortality is high due to infectious diseases such as diarrhea and pneumonia, or IF hygiene, sanitation, and access to clean water are poor, or IF the cost of breastmilk substitutes is prohibitively high, or IF access to adequate health care is limited, THEN breastfeeding may be the safest feeding option even when the mother is HIV - positive.

If more pregnant women delivered their babies at midwife - led birth centers, the nation's C - section rate would go down and cost savings would go up, reversing the current twin trend of rising health care expenditures and numbers of cesarean deliveries.

A study released this year by http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/125/5/e1048"target = «external» > Harvard Medical School concluded that if 90 percent of mothers followed the standard medical advice of feeding infants only breast milk for their first six months, the United States could save $ 13 billion a year in health - care costs.

That means even if your baby is born with a health condition, you can rest easy knowing that his care will be covered and you won't bear the cost alone.

For what it's worth, Spitzer and Bloomberg are again disagreeing — this time over the mayor's warning that NYC could very well go the way of Detroit if his successor fails to control the city's rapidly rising health care and pension costs.

For example, if we did away with the individual mandate to buy health insurance, but continued to ensure that insurance companies did not discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, then young, healthy people may forego health insurance, leaving the industry with a disproportionately high number of sick people, driving up the cost of health care.

If approved, the health taxes in the Deficit Reduction Plan and Executive Budget will drive up the cost of health insurance for all Business Council member employers that purchase health coverage — from sole proprietors and small businesses to the largest self - insured companies — yet will provide no additional covered benefits or have any effect on addressing the rising cost of health care.

The 2011 agreement was difficult for the union to accept, and was reached only after Cuomo threatened extensive layoffs if concessions — including the pay freeze and higher health care costs — weren't accepted.

If the health care cost curve can be bent, Puerto Rican officials might have more leverage when negotiating with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services for waivers or rehealth care cost curve can be bent, Puerto Rican officials might have more leverage when negotiating with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services for waivers or reHealth and Human Services for waivers or reforms.

«It's been shown that if 90 percent of newborns were breastfed for the first six months of life this country would save 14 billion (that's B for billion) dollars in health care costs a year, and another 10 billion in health care costs for women,» says Doctor Ruth Lawrence, a leading world authority on breastfeeding and a distinguished professor at URMC.

City residents might not yet have felt the impact of the fiscal problems, she said, but they soon will if a solution is not found for unmanageable costs such as health care and pensions.

In contrast, dedicating $ 125 million for health care capital grants may prove worthwhile if such funds are utilized to effectuate systematic reforms that lead to improved care with decreased State costs.

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.

CVS Health's massive $ 69 billion bid to buy Aetna Inc. could trigger a transformation in the health care space, but whether it becomes a watershed moment depends on if the company can deliver on the promise of improved care at a lower cost, accordingHealth's massive $ 69 billion bid to buy Aetna Inc. could trigger a transformation in the health care space, but whether it becomes a watershed moment depends on if the company can deliver on the promise of improved care at a lower cost, accordinghealth care space, but whether it becomes a watershed moment depends on if the company can deliver on the promise of improved care at a lower cost, according to...

The state's own study showed that we would reduce overall health care costs by nearly $ 30 billion annually by 2019 if we had a single payer health care program rather than the insurance mandates of Obamacare,» noted Hawkins.

The health care cost crisis in New York will just get worse if our answer is to wait for action from our do - nothing Congress.

If approved, the health taxes in the Executive Budget will further drive up the cost of health insurance for all Business Council member employers that purchase health coverage yet will provide no additional covered benefits or have any effect on addressing the rising cost of health care.

«Anytime we discuss anything involving health care, we would be ignoring our responsibilities if we didn't look at costs,» said Flanagan, who said Senate Republicans do want people to access treatment as quickly as possible, without delays or denials from insurance companies.

If the initial cap is set high enough, and allows for a rate of inflation based on actual medical costs, which is higher than the average rate of inflation, then the state could be able to meet its costs to cover health care for people on Medicaid who obtained coverage under Obamacare.

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.»

If OTB closes, the state could be on the hook for more than $ 500 million in retiree health care and pension costs.