Sentences with phrase «higher health care costs»

This is uncommon and only happens when you have very high health care costs.

Medical insurance protects you against high health care costs by paying for all or part of your medical expenses, based on the terms of the policy.

The medical expenses deduction allows people with especially high health care costs to deduct that spending on their tax reform.

This should include costs imposed on the public in the form of higher health care costs for asthma and heart disease as a result of power plant pollution — costs known as «externalities.»

AOL's (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong created a lot of negative attention (and rightfully so) over comments he made that the company will delay matching employee 401 (k) contributions to the end of each calendar year due to higher health care costs for «two distressed babies» born to employee families.

The union leaders have been upset with Cuomo over the present contract, which included higher health care costs and three years without raises.

The differences in the health care costs between AD patients and non-AD patients were the greatest during six months following the diagnosis, with AD patients having 5,088 euros higher health care costs per person - year.

Major snags were said to be higher health care costs as well as limits for the amount of overtime that troopers can get when appearing for court testimony.

A service for consumers from the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) and the Institute for Natural Medicine (INM) As concerns grow over high health care costs and poor health outcomes in the United States, a growing number of policymakers, health care practitioners, and other...

«Higher health care cost burden of musculoskeletal conditions compared to other diseases.»

These include poisonous methane emissions from cows that accelerate climate change and higher health care costs associated with unhealthy diets, which are ultimately paid for by society.

Wal - Mart said last month that investment in wages and higher health care costs drove a 3.5 percent increase in operating expenses in its most recent quarter.

In theory, the fee is supposed to act as both carrot and stick — smokers who want health insurance would either pay the higher premiums to help insurers cover their historically higher health care costs or quit smoking so they can save both themselves (and the broader medical system) money.

She makes the common sense argument that failing to pay for more healthful meals up front will only result in higher health care costs on the back end, and she considers a variety of ways to pay for universal lunch, such as a tax on soda or soda advertising, an increase in the capital gains tax, or by reducing income guarantees and price supports to producers of corn and soy.

«Close to criminal»: Oncologist speaks out on the human toll of high health care costs Hutch News Dr. Gary Lyman Feb. 11, 2016

With that said, here's the latest: Presidential Election to Impact Employment Issues — The National Law Journal reports: «This year's presidential election could mean some big changes for employers, warn corporate counsel, who are bracing for everything from higher health care costs to more union organizing.»

Health anxiety seems in its severe form to be a quite disturbing and persistent condition entailing high health care costs, and it should be more consistently diagnosed and aggressively treated.

«The new law will cover more women, increase access to reproductive health care, and ease the disproportionate health care burdens on women, who still earn less than men but often face higher health care costs.»

Women are more vulnerable to high health care costs because women's reproductive health requires more regular contact with health care providers, including visits for yearly annual exams, pap tests, mammograms, and obstetric care.

Given the very high health care costs in the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia, overseas travel insurance is very strongly recommended.

Brynien convinced members to accept givebacks including higher health care costs and three years without raises in exchange for layoff protections.

A person with very high health care costs will obviously pay far less than 40 percent of the total costs because the plan's out - of - pocket maximum will limit the amount the member pays.

Almost monthly we see major media and public outcry against high health care costs, wasteful spending in hospitals, exorbitant pharmaceutical costs,» said team member Tommy Angelini, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace.

In addition, many employers now offer high deductible health insurance plans and provide an HSA (Health Savings Accounts) to help ease the burden of high health care costs.

That sort of efficiency is a big deal, given the nation's sky - high health care costs — costs that are likely to increase in the short term as the new wave of Obamacare - covered insurees hits the system.

Plus the older people get the more financially unstable they get due to high health care costs.

High health care costs, a lack of interest in repetitive manual labour and rising worker wages has led to an explosion of automated machinery, according to Intelligrated.

A new study by USC and University of Oxford researchers indicates that large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) found in national food supplies across the world may be one explanation for the rising global epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and resulting higher health care costs.

Officials said the district is currently battling administrative issues, such as employee retirements, the need for professional development for newer staff and high health care costs.

Both CSEA's and PEF's deals came after earlier agreements, dating to 2011, that included givebacks such as two years without raises and higher health care costs.

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.

The report measures eight different kinds of hospital - acquired infections that can lead to prolonged hospital stays, unnecessary deaths and high health care costs.

New Yorkers pay the price for class action lawsuit frivolity — through «higher auto insurance rates, higher health care costs and higher taxes,» says a report by the Empire Center for Public Policy.

Under pressure from the beverage lobby, it's rejected a sugary drink tax that could have brought in $ 1 billion and helped fight an obesity epidemic that contributes to the state's high health care costs.

While it still has three years without raises and higher health care costs, members under this deal would get a furlough, which is paid back at a later date, rather than a $ 1,000 bonus.

Given the poor way this policy structure is playing out — America has 50 million uninsured individuals and the highest health care costs in the world — their confusion is understandable.

Insurers have long complained that Cuomo's policies were leading to higher health care costs.

Cuomo on Wednesday said the CSEA deal, which includes higher health care costs, a furlough and no broad - based raises until 2014 and 2015, is being offered to other unions — but the positions of the unions wasn't immediately clear.

Patients who have difficulty taking statins have a high risk of cardiovascular events, resulting in higher health care costs.

While the overall rate of these infections in children is still low, ESBL - producing bacteria can spread rapidly and have been linked to longer hospital stays, higher health care costs, and increased mortality, the study authors noted.

Job satisfaction is an important predictor of registered nurses» (RNs) job turnover, patient satisfaction, and nurse - sensitive patient outcomes (including pressure ulcers and falls), which can result in higher health care costs and penalties for hospitals that receive Medicare and Medicaid payments.

Over the last decade, the biggest driver of the high health care costs in the United States has been neither the aging of the population nor the large numbers of tests and treatments being prescribed.

Other factors including higher health care costs and reductions in income are cited by Commissioner Stevens as adding to the need for FHA reverse mortgage loans.

For example, a person who is older with a pre-existing condition will most likely have higher health care costs than someone without any health issues.

Studies show that the higher number of uninsured, the higher the health care costs for those who are insured in a community.

Sure, tax cuts, grants and loans are fairly easy to account for, but what about military deployments to secure foreign oil supplies, or infrastructure costs like roads and transmission lines, or the seemingly endless stream of external costs linked to carbon emissions, toxic air and water pollutants, higher health care costs and missed work days?

Although the out - of - pocket maximum is designed to limit your financial risk when you have high health care costs, it exposes your health insurance company to more financial risk.