Sentences with phrase «health policies as»

Prior to detariffing or elimination of pricing rules, insurance companies favored corporate group health policies as these were lucrative for them.

Reducing obesity rates — through changing diets and increasing physical activity — is a key target for public health policy as it places individuals at greater risk for conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

It serves as a family health policy as well as a mediclaim cover.

Include the child in list of beneficiaries and in the family - floater health policy as well.

Thus, capping on room rent should not be a reason to reject a health policy as every plan and sum insured has different limitations for room rent and intensive care unit (ICU) charges.

For this particular reason, people don't invest in a health policy as they aren't sure if their allergies will be covered, or not.

You may opt for the individual or a family floater health policy as per your need and requirement.

«PHAA has been calling for the development a National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Determinants of Health Policy as a key strategy in closing the gap and overcoming Indigenous disadvantage.

The CHF also described Labor's preventive health policy as a welcome step forward for Australia, providing a plan for national action to combat the chronic disease epidemic.

Not exact matches

«Major tax increases or policy changes such as big hikes in the minimum wage will probably do more harm than good,» says Dahlby of the sort of programs necessary to satisfy vocal public - health boards.

Considering the sprawling, federated nature of U.S. medicine, experts warn that a combination of government policies and health IT upgrades — as well as prophylactic human measures like changing passwords — will be necessary to keep patients» data safe and health systems functioning.

«Until you try to fix the policy and get health - care providers to care more about quality and cost, people aren't going to move as quickly about it,» he says.

would both increase the HSA limits to $ 9,000 for individuals and $ 18,000 for families, as well as allow employees to use that money to buy policies, in addition to any out of pocket health care expenses.

She also discussed some of the women's health and family policies that she would prioritize in the White House, such as paid family leave and access to birth control and safe abortion.

Original policy documents for insurance, such as life, home or health.

While this is a blow to the idea that nationwide calorie menu requirements will dramatically alter the way America eats, it doesn't necessarily mean the policy is useless: perhaps, as the authors speculate, it may be more effective in sit - down restaurants where dining expectations are different, or for specific groups of particularly health - concious diners.

He suggested that we consider strategies like universal basic income, as well as calling for popular policies like decoupling health insurance from employment.

As we outline in our Health Trends Report, proper policies and legal agreements must be adopted as welAs we outline in our Health Trends Report, proper policies and legal agreements must be adopted as welas well.

On Monday, two powerful conservative leaders in the House declared the blueprint unacceptable because it relies on giving people refundable tax credits to purchase insurance — a policy mechanism that, in a very rough sense, resembles Obamacare's subsidies to buy mandated health coverage (and is therefore being slammed by conservatives as just another entitlement program).

Policies typically range between $ 3,000 and $ 6,000 a year, depending on a variety of factors, such as sex, age, health status, maximum daily benefit, length of benefit and waiting period.

In the olden days, voters during presidential races would get into heated arguments over such amusingly quaint topics as tax policy, health care, and the future of Social Security.

Having served under both Republican and Democratic presidents, we recognize each new Administration's right to pursue different policies within the parameters of existing law and to ask Congress to change the laws that protect public health and the environment as it sees fit.

The Republican wave in 2010 was fueled by voter backlash against Obama's policies, headlined by the health care law that quickly became known as «Obamacare.»

According to a new report from health care researcher Kaiser Family Foundation, premiums for policies purchased through the health insurance exchanges could rise by as much as 25 percent in 2017.

A tightening monetary policy is usually seen as positive for a currency as it's a sign of health in that region's economy and reduces that amount of that currency in circulation.

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

Public health and consumer groups applauded the move, which does not go as far as the company's policy for the United States, where already for a year suppliers have provided the chain with chickens raised without antibiotics deemed important to human health.

She observes that since the provinces control most of the social programs that are responsible for settling and integrating immigrants into Canadian society, such as education, health care, welfare, and share labour - market training with the feds, it only makes sense that they take a bigger role in implementing immigration policy.

Gottlieb is a physician, medical policy expert, and public health advocate who previously served as the FDA's deputy commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs and before that, as a senior advisor to the FDA Commissioner.

And paying for time off isn't the only part of the process of course — there's also the impact of the policy on other benefits like health care as children are added.

THE PATIENT AS INNOVATOR With Deborah Brooks of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research; Kathy Giusti of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation & Consortium; Sean Lane of Crosschx; Claudia Williams of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Rik Kirkland, of McKinsey & Co. — Report by Kia Kokalitcheva — Video: Patients Should Get Access to Their Health Data

As in business, entrepreneurs must take a no - excuses policy for their health.

When Price joined the administration, Trump touted him as a conservative policy expert who could write a new health care bill to replace the Obama - era Affordable Care Act.

The six - month waiting period would fill a big policy gap in the current Better Care Act, which requires health plans to accept all patients — but doesn't require all Americans to purchase coverage, as the Affordable Care Act does.

James Blumstein, a professor of law and the director of the Vanderbilt Health Policy Center, explains that if Brown had standing when she filed suit — originally — that's what matters most, since the NFIB, which is an institutional litigant, has members who are in similar circumstances as Brown.

The doctors» lobby has warned the government not to allow health funds to price insurance based on factors such as age and lifestyle, while attacking «junk» policies that don't cover common procedures.

As the financial markets opened this morning in New York, speculation that President Trump will pursue more business - friendly policies has offset the fear of the unknown with the S&P 500 Index rising as a surge in health - care shares offset losses in consumer and technology companieAs the financial markets opened this morning in New York, speculation that President Trump will pursue more business - friendly policies has offset the fear of the unknown with the S&P 500 Index rising as a surge in health - care shares offset losses in consumer and technology companieas a surge in health - care shares offset losses in consumer and technology companies.

From a standpoint of health care as well as fiscal policy, 2012 is the most important year in 80 years.

Academically, Shirlee is cross-appointed to the University of Toronto's Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation as an adjunct professor.

Enacted in 2003 as part of legislation providing drug benefits under Medicare, the tax preference is only available if the individual purchases a high - deductible health insurance policy.

Fidelis, a nonprofit health plan with more than 1.6 million members, currently offers plans on the ACA marketplaces as well as Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, Dual Advantage, Child Health Plus, Essential Plan and managed long - term care polhealth plan with more than 1.6 million members, currently offers plans on the ACA marketplaces as well as Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, Dual Advantage, Child Health Plus, Essential Plan and managed long - term care polHealth Plus, Essential Plan and managed long - term care policies.

European stocks take cues from opening drop in U.S. and end near session lows Adidas backs yearly outlook European stocks on Thursday close lower, with selling accelerating in the afternoon as U.S. stocks slumped at the start of their regular trading session, extending a downturn begun following the Federal Reserve's Wednesday policy update on inflation and economic health.

In any event, health - care affordability is an issue for social policy; the notion that governments should use IP as a tool for containing drug costs is both shortsighted and counterproductive.

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.

Effective January 1, 2013, Insurance Law § 2612 also requires a health insurer, as defined in that section, to accommodate a reasonable request made by a person covered by an insurance policy or contract to receive communications of claim - related information by alternative means or at alternative locations if the person clearly states that disclosure of the information could endanger the person.

As she sums up the economic health of the nation and the direction that monetary policy will take over the next couple of hours, there are...

Is this a Lieutenant Governor in Council Policy or total incompetence at AHS??? Or is it Staff reluctant to do the extra paper work and not having access to billing code numbers such as the staff at the dentist office or other health services who can claim the benefit directly??

We continue to favor cyclical sectors, like Consumer Discretionary, Financials, Industrials, and Health Care, as they are likely to benefit the most from policy reform and an increase in economic growth.

Yurek (Elgin - Middlesex - London) said the issue of the need for mental health supports came up «numerous times during policy advisory councils» as a priority.

«As well, ISDS puts a serious chill on the ability of governments at all levels to enact legislation and public policies that protect the health and well - being of citizens or promote sustainable development.