Sentences with phrase «health costs of»

One US study calculated the health costs of coal - powered electricity to be 0.8 - 5.6 times greater than the value added to the US economy.

The emissions of pollutants elsewhere were deemed to cost up to $ 187.5 billion a year, again due to the health costs of cancer, lung disease, and respiratory sickness.

The energy game is rigged in favor of fossil fuels because we omit the environmental and health costs of burning coal, oil, and natural gas from their prices.

She has researched heat - and ozone - related mortality and illnesses; connections between climate change, pollen, allergies and asthma, as well as infectious diseases like dengue fever; the health costs of climate change; and domestic and international climate - health preparedness strategies.

The Clean Air Task Force estimates that pollution from Navajo Generating Station contributes to 16 premature deaths, 25 heart attacks, 300 asthma attacks, and 15 asthma emergency room visits each year, with total annual health costs of more than $ 127 million.

Interestingly the Jacobson Plan for weaning the US from fossil fuels relies on wind, water, and solar and leaves biomass completely out of the mix because the climate and health costs of particulates were found to be a net negative.

The public health costs of pollution from coal operations in Appalachia amount to a staggering $ 75 billion a year

Ottmar Edenhofer said the low cost of carbon ignores the social, environmental and human health costs of burning coal, oil and gas

Based on this, we estimate that five thermal power plants — Ugljevik, Gacko and Stanari, along with others in Tuzla and Banovići — will lead to over 39 000 deaths and health costs of more than $ 800 million by 2030».

A 2009 study on the negative effects of power generation by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), «The hidden costs of electricity: externalities of power generation in Australia» calculated the greenhouse impacts and health damage costs of different power generation technologies including coal, gas, wind, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, geothermal, carbon capture and storage, and nuclear energy, and determined that health costs of burning coal are equivalent to a national health burden of around $ A2.6 billion per annum.

In the first study of its kind in the U.S., scientists from the Natural Resources Defense Council and economists studied the health costs of six climate - related disasters that occurred in recent years, and which are likely to worsen as atmospheric CO2 levels climb.

The reasons include both the health costs of killer smog and the growing availability of cheap low - carbon alternatives, from nuclear to solar.

There are many benefits to global warming: The health benefits of warmer winters would probably outweigh the health costs of hotter summers.

(Residents of Appalachia, where the health costs of coal mining have been found to «far outpace» the revenue it brings in, might have something to say about that.)

The major industrialized countries should commission a study to calculate the government subsidies and direct environmental and health costs of fossil fuel use.

Carbon taxes have been proposed in developed countries as a mechanism to internalize the environmental and public health costs of burning fossil fuels, which are currently externalized and foisted off on the public.

As you can see, since this couple is anticipating the major health costs of pregnancy and delivery, they are best off with the platinum plan in this scenario.

Society suffers by bearing the physical and mental health costs of educators who take stress leave or are frequently absent from work.

I think the resource that the US will first run out of is money because if we continue the current trend the country will not be able to pay the health costs of people consuming the current diet.

Source: «The Health Costs of Inaction with Respect to Air Pollution,» by Pascale Scapecchi, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Environmental Working Papers, No. 2.

The public - health costs of such a development would be enormous — and they would not impact everyone equally.

Only this direct action will prevent direct health costs of obesity rising sevenfold by 2050, Mr Johnson warned.

The report claimed a 2010 study done by the city Independent Budget Office severely under - counted the full value and liability of pension and retiree health costs of the district public schools.

When healthy people get health insurance, they have to pay premiums based on the average health costs of everyone, including sick people.

As I understand the conservative position, health care is not a God given right and the true sin is those without, or unable to afford, health insurance depending on emergency care services to provide health care to themselves and their children adding to the insurance and health costs of those that can afford it.

It is telling, for example, that the Centers for Disease Control, in a recent calculation of the health costs of smoking, tallied up the total bill for the sicknesses of smokers and not just the increment that might be attributed to the habit itself.

In hopes of offsetting the external environmental and health costs of meat, federal agencies and councils in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden ---- as well as a member of parliament in England ---- are calling for a meat tax.

Policy - makers are in the process of evaluating the economic value of antibiotics to the livestock industry versus the potential health cost of increasing antimicrobial resistance.

CHRIS BUSCH: Well, consider the environmental and public - health cost of burning fossil fuels.

It's clear to me that much can be gained, environmentally and economically (in part through reducing the huge health cost of urban pollution), through collaboration between the United States and China, as well as other countries in Asia with similar issues and opportunities.

These costs will be compared to the estimated health cost of air pollution.

Not exact matches

And you will likely have additional health - care expenses as you age: the cost of home care, physiotherapy, elective medical procedures and some prescription drugs may have to come out of your own pocket.

His market, the New York tri-state area, already has in place many of the provisions included in the health - care overhaul, including a provision that dependent under the age of 30 need be eligible for family coverage, and he's seen rates continue to rise over recent years, making him skeptical of the plan's ability to hold costs down for small businesses.

That allows them to sidestep the massive cost of administering the complex health - care plans that weigh down most large U.S. corporations.

Plus, you need to plan for long - term care expenses, as well as health care costs, both of which Ponnapalli says are big expenses that are often «not given as much importance as they deserve.»

Rules and regulations Altering products to comply with the rules of regulatory bodies such as the Canadian Standards Association or Health Canada can add to product costs.

Being energy and resource efficient and conscious of the health and well - being of those in the office will reduce the costs of running your business.

When you remove the retail markup, which ranges from 25 to 50 percent to cover the costs of running a brick - and - mortar store, you put a product that you find at a health food store at or below what you'd pay for the equivalent product at a conventional retail store.

Employers who adopt HSAs to reduce the cost of their health insurance plan can use the savings to fund some or all of their employees» accounts.

The cost of health insurance premiums has skyrocketed by more than 130 percent over the past decade, and it is possible they will be impervious to reform efforts.

The Trump administration's moves on Obamacare last week — including the decision to stop paying subsidies meant to lower low - income enrollees» out - of - pocket medical costs to insurance companies — have dominated health care headlines.

HSA's allow individuals to divert a portion of their income into a savings account, providing a cushion of pre-tax dollars for when health costs do come up.

Collins, a moderate who voted against the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare earlier this year, says the bills will offset the impact of the loss of the individual mandate, but experts largely disagree, arguing that the elimination of the mandate will spike health costs and reduce choice in plans.

Those looking for a deep dive into what Laszewski thinks will actually work can check out the complete post, but for non-wonks, his bottom line seems to be this: To fix health care we need to control costs overall, and to do that, the industry as a whole must be forced to stay within a set budget rather than gobbling up more and more of the nation's money.

I think HSAs are a great innovation, and not simply because they provide employers with a way of buying cheaper coverage for their workers at a time when health care costs continue to rise.

Actual out - of - pocket costs would be lower and dependent on the coinsurance or copay included in the individual's health insurance plan.

Reductions on this level would lower the total cost of national annual human health damages by US$ 20 billion to $ 50 billion annually.

Furthermore, the CBO expects the Senate's health bill to substantially raise Americans» out - of - pocket medical costs by slashing Obamacare's mandated benefits and rolling back assistance to poorer and sicker people, as well as discouraging some low - income Americans from buying insurance in the first place (the BCRA would nix Obamacare's requirement that people carry coverage or pay a fine).

As higher costs are passed on to consumers, supporters aim to put a dent in sales, as was the case in Berkeley, where according to public health officials retail purchases of sugar - sweetened beverages dropped nearly 10 % during the first year of that city's soda tax.

Staying fit and healthy is also inexpensive with membership of a quality gym costing $ 25 a month, doctor visits costing just $ 25 at well - respected health clinics, and $ 20 will pay for a professional dental cleaning and polish with filling costing around the same amount.