Sentences with phrase «health care dollars in»

Direct medical care cost for people with chronic conditions accounted for approximately 83 % of U.S. health care dollars in 2001, a per person average that is five times higher than for those without a chronic condition.

The article provides an analysis of how Americans are likely to spend their health care dollars in the coming decade, with projections for spending by different sectors, payers, and sponsors.

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Improving the way we take drugs could save those in the developed world many billions of dollars in annual health care expenses.

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.

Americans spend nearly 1 in 5 dollars on health care, the Brookings Institution estimates.

Health care followed in second place with 17 percent of venture capital dollars, up two percentage points from the first quarter of 2014.

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 productivitIn 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 productivitin terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivity.

Merger activity this year is down 14 percent from this time last year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, which cited the lower dollar value of deals in the health care and materials sectors.

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.

Resource development generates 30 billion dollars annually in revenue that supports health care, education and programs Canadians cherish.

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

In your monthly magazine, we'll tell you about the best places in the world to retire, where you can still find bargain properties, the countries with the lowest cost of living, where you can save thousands of dollars on health care, where to invest your money to secure yourself from the falling dollar, the best destinations for property investment, real - life expat stories, and morIn your monthly magazine, we'll tell you about the best places in the world to retire, where you can still find bargain properties, the countries with the lowest cost of living, where you can save thousands of dollars on health care, where to invest your money to secure yourself from the falling dollar, the best destinations for property investment, real - life expat stories, and morin the world to retire, where you can still find bargain properties, the countries with the lowest cost of living, where you can save thousands of dollars on health care, where to invest your money to secure yourself from the falling dollar, the best destinations for property investment, real - life expat stories, and more.

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.

(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.)

- wikipedia «in 2002, Catholic health care systems, overseeing 625 hospitals with a combined revenue of 30 billion dollars, comprised the nation's largest group of nonprofit systems.»

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...

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?

He and his wife settled on health care sharing — where fellow members pay a few hundred dollars a month to cover each other's major medical bills — after they struggled to find major insurance carriers in their state that offered individual plans or affordable options through the ACA marketplace.

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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.

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.

The school meal standards are a long - overdue investment in the future health and productivity of our children, and they will save billions of dollars in future health care costs.

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.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said Cuomo is right to draw attention to over a billion dollars in potential health care cuts to the state, now that Congress and President Donald Trump have postponed acting on a new federal budget.

Governor Cuomo released a state budget plan that closes a $ 2 billion dollar gap, recommends a phased in state takeover of county health care costs, and offers an ultimatum to schools to accept a teacher evaluation program or lose access to increased school funding.

Governor Cuomo released a state budget plan that closes a $ 2 billion dollar gap, recommends a phased in state takeover of county health care costs, and offers an ultimatum to schools to accept a teacher evaluation program or lose increased school funding.

The state loses about a billion dollars in federal funding now that Congress has failed to renew the Child Health Plus plan, which offers health care to about 330,000 low - income children in NewHealth Plus plan, which offers health care to about 330,000 low - income children in Newhealth care to about 330,000 low - income children in New York.

Sen. John DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, predicted cutbacks in health care spending to help close a multibillion - dollar deficit.

While no one really knows what that means, one health care analyst with a prominent Albany think tank said New York could be billions of dollars in the hole as a result.

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.

I am not arguing that the elderly, the disabled, etc., need what reasonable people can agree is a basic decent level of health care appropriate to our society and the state of our economy which keeps them alive, but you are advocating giving free health care that exceeds what someone who pays thousands of dollars in insurance premiums every year can receive!

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.

«An historic analysis produced during his first term in office demonstrated that wider access to emergency contraception could save the state almost half a billion dollars in health care costs by decreasing the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions.

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.

Former Senator and briefly Senate Majority Leader, Pedro Espada was convicted by a Federal jury of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the health care clinic network he had created and ran in the Bronx, despite having an annual salary of $ 235,000 with generous perks on top of his legislative pay.

Facing a multibillion - dollar gap in state finances, Governor Cuomo has turned to one of Albany's favorite piggy banks: the health care industry.

Here's Gov. David Paterson in Lake Placid earlier today, fielding questions on today's Post story on the multimillion - dollar no - bid contract awarded to GHI, the health - care provider whose parent company, Emblem Health, employs his wife, First Lady Michelle Paige Pathealth - care provider whose parent company, Emblem Health, employs his wife, First Lady Michelle Paige PatHealth, employs his wife, First Lady Michelle Paige Paterson.

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.

Bill Hammond: «Facing a multibillion - dollar gap in state finances, Governor Cuomo has turned to one of Albany's favorite piggy banks: the health care industry.»

The coalition also wants school districts with 51 - 100 or more employees to continue to participate in an experience - rated health care consortium or trust, a measure she said will save school districts and taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The budget increases spending to schools and health care by 4 % over last year, when there were $ 10 billion dollars in cuts.

In second place, is the health care workers union SEIU 1199, which spent nearly $ 7 million dollars on lobbying.

If state lawmakers think today's vote on slashing hundreds of millions of dollars in health - care spending from the state budget is a tough one, wait until next Monday.