Sentences with phrase «health care dollars for»

The speaker was pressed at the town hall on the GOP's push to block Planned Parenthood from receiving federal health care dollars for services provided to women because the organization provides abortions — even though abortions are not covered by taxpayer dollars.

(CNN) House Speaker Paul Ryan was pressed Thursday at a CNN town hall on the Republican push to block Planned Parenthood from receiving federal health care dollars for services provided to women because the organization provides abortions.

Now I take over $ 600,000 of your health care dollars for NO VALUE ADDED to your health care.

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Cut the cost of health - care premiums by buying insurance online at HealthCare.gov to qualify for a tax credit worth thousands of dollars.

The administrative costs of updating and tracking down that information are estimated to be more than $ 2 billion dollars a year for the health - care industry.

Fidelity Investments estimates that a couple, both age 65 and retiring in 2015 with Medicare as their primary insurance, will need $ 245,000 in today's dollars for health - care costs during retirement.

In researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivity.

Also according to Macnamara, diabetes is responsible for 11 %, or half a billion dollars annually, of the cost of business health care plans.

No matter how the federal health care debate turns out, developing more reliable health care guides for consumers has the potential improve care quality, saving lives and eliminating billions of dollars in needless costs.

Both flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts are smart ways to save pre-tax dollars for qualified health care costs, including copays, prescriptions and other out - of - pocket expenses.

These dollars can pay for deductibles, unreimbursed portions of medical bills, or items not otherwise covered by the health plan, such as vision or well - baby care.

«Right now, you have a steel worker, maybe from the south side of Chicago here... He lost his job, he lost his health care, he got 30 cents on the dollar for his pension.

Save money to pay for qualified health or dependent care expenses with pre-tax dollars.

Use pre-tax dollars for your health and dependent care expenses by enrolling in one or both of our flexible spending accounts.

Health insurers have a multibillion - dollar opportunity to lead a digital transformation of healthcare that will mean lower costs and better care for patients.

The implications for digital and intellectual property issues are particularly important, with chapters on e-commerce and telecommunications services, an extension of patent protections for pharmaceutical drugs could raise health care costs by millions of dollars, and protections for hundreds of geographical indications may restrict Canadian producers of common cheeses, wines, and meats.

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During his tenure as Prime Minister, Mr. Martin set in place a ten year, forty - one billion dollar plan to improve health care and reduce wait times; signed agreements with the provinces and territories to establish the first national early learning and child care program and created a new financial deal for Canada's municipalities.

As a Catholic I do not stand by President Obama and push to have contraceptives and morning after pills distributed through private and religious based health care providers like their simple sweet jelly beans, especially when they must be paid for with tax dollars.

(A case in point is that of a publicly supported, church - related hospital which is the only hospital in town and which refuses to permit certain medically accepted surgical procedures — such as abortion or tubal ligation — which are objectionable to the church but not to the patients of other faiths or no faith who depend upon that hospital for health care, and whose tax dollars support it.)

A study from the World Health Organization suggests that breastfeeding babies for the first six months of their lives can significantly decrease infant death and would save millions of dollars in hospital costs for infant care...

Incidentally, we are also discovering that pastoral counseling is a better value for the health - care dollar than psychotherapy provided by comparably trained practitioners of other disciplines.

The picture of that disgusting, pathetic, utterly gross fat woman (see the picture on the headline) reminded me of two things: one, she (and those like her) are the reason health care is in crisis, and two, why should I, or my tax dollars, pay for her utterly bad judgement and complete lack of self respect?

It is cruel to allocate health - care resources in such a way that the young and those in mid-life, who still have so much to live for and so much to contribute, must through their tax dollars be forced to pay for sophisticated equipment to prolong lives which long for nothing so much as to return to their Giver.

My biggest concern about war is that billions of dollars are going to bombs while budgets are being cut for education, health care, social services and Medicaid.

We live in a litigious society and health care providers and their institutions are under a great deal of pressure to do all that they can to prevent litigation that entails millions of dollars, risk of licensure penalties or loss, and long years of extreme duress for them; perfection is expected when it can never be guaranteed.

If you knew that there was one thing you could do to save billions of taxpayer dollars that could go to feed the hungry, house the homeless, research cures for other devastating diseases, provide health care to the poor, would you do it?

Resident Mike O'Donnell, who owns the Riviera Country Club in Orland Park, has been tracking the case and is opposed to having health - care dollars used for such services.

«People are already mobilizing in New York — there's a major rally today with some of the state's leading unions and health care advocates,» Cuomo wrote in an email accompanying the video's release that also sought small - dollar donations for the state committee's effort.

The Senate's version of the American Health Care Act would cost New York's Medicaid program billions of dollars over the next decade, putting Albany in the position of having to choose between raising taxes or cutting services and programs for hundreds of thousands.

The possible repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act could reduce the state's funding for health care by several billion dollars, and the tax reform proposals could eliminate state and local tax deductiCare Act could reduce the state's funding for health care by several billion dollars, and the tax reform proposals could eliminate state and local tax deducticare by several billion dollars, and the tax reform proposals could eliminate state and local tax deductions.

Ron Deutsch, with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, says the state could begin to close its $ 2 billion dollar budget deficit and have more money for schools and health care if it began collecting more taxes on corporations and other businesses who the groups believe are underpaying right now.

The ads are part of a multi-million dollar push for health care spending in the budget, typically one of the costliest areas in the spending plan aside from education aid.

Bloomberg plans to give $ 250,000 to Planned Parenthood and match another $ 250,000 raised by others dollar for dollar, saying «politics have no place in health care.»

Cuomo has been adept at raising millions of dollars from interests whose businesses are impacted by Albany actions — labor unions, real estate developers, business executives, the health care industry, charter school backers, government contractors, and the film and TV companies that get tax breaks for filming in New York.

Many proposals in Washington right now including the changes to the Affordable Health Care Act, could mean multi billion dollar budget gaps for New York State.

Poloncarz concluded, «With more than $ 1 billion on the line every single year it is our responsibility to ensure every dollar is accounted for and spent properly on the provision of health care services to those in need.

After working in New York politics in a variety of City Council and state legislative campaigns and on the staff of US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Rivera came on strong four years ago, defeating Democratic Senator Pedro Espada, long a target of criminal investigation and now serving a federal prison term for theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a health care non-profit he controlled.

And beyond the Faso - Collins amendment, the Senate health care bill «cuts billions of dollars for New York's Medicaid program, leading to devastating cuts to New York's hospitals, nursing homes, and home care providers,» Cuomo wrote.

New York will lose a billion dollars, but the governor's Medicaid director said the program will continue to provide health care for about 330,000 children even though the federal component has now ended.

What started out as a small, off - budget, temporary surcharge on insurance to help pay for charity care, hospital debt and graduate medical education as New York hospitals deregulated in the late 1990s, has ballooned over 19 years into a multibillion - dollar all - purpose revenue fund that supports dozens of public health programs, and plugs billion - dollar holes in the state's general budget.

«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.

It will lower the cost of health care for a middle - class family by thousands of dollars a year.

A recent contract agreement with the City of Buffalo's white - collar union — which eliminates retiree health care for new employees — will mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in long - term savings to the city, Mayor Byron W. Brown said.

He returned to state government the following year after he was rehired by the Health Department to oversee the disbursal of more than $ 6 billion in federal aid from a recently approved Medicaid waiver, millions of dollars of which went to the health care organizations that were rumored to be clients of the politically well - connected firm he'd recently workeHealth Department to oversee the disbursal of more than $ 6 billion in federal aid from a recently approved Medicaid waiver, millions of dollars of which went to the health care organizations that were rumored to be clients of the politically well - connected firm he'd recently workehealth care organizations that were rumored to be clients of the politically well - connected firm he'd recently worked for.

But that's not enough for Flanagan, Hannon and Phillips, who have a constantly growing wish list that now includes hospital and health care funding, economic development dollars for a public works garage, and even stopping New York City from utilizing now - idle Queens wells.

Former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. was convicted of theft for stealing hundreds of dollars from a health care network he ran.

Several proposals in Washington right now including the changes to the Affordable Health Care Act, could mean multibillion dollar budget gaps for New York State.

Salaries, health care and pension benefits for state workers represent one of the largest and fastest - growing areas of spending, accounting for about one - fifth of all state dollars.

More than a third of the state's money is spent on Medicaid, making it a necessary and obvious target for cuts, and yet each year the same ritual plays out: The governor proposes cuts to health care; the state's hospital lobby and the union representing health - care workers spend millions of dollars in maudlin TV ads decrying the cuts — on top of the millions they contribute to elected officials; the governor's poll numbers decline, and he agrees to an expensive truce that barely makes a dent in rising Medicaid costs.