Sentences with phrase «higher health costs»

Feeling anxious and stressed at work can cause negative physical and emotional health effects for employees, resulting in lost productivity and higher health costs.

Rising emissions raise the likelihood of catastrophic events like the melting of the Greenland ice sheets, and hit countries» prosperity through loss of agriculture and higher health costs.

One that I called «Lower Health Costs» and one that I called «Higher Health Costs.»

Depression, even when undiagnosed, can have many negative effects on cardiovascular patients, including poor healthcare experiences, more use of healthcare resources and higher health costs, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in quality of care and outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and policymakers.

Due to longer lives and higher health costs, boomers reserve estates for their own use rather than willing it to heirs.

Ethanol may be greener but have higher health cost.

Ethanol may be greener but have higher health cost Ethanol may be greener but have higher health cost Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com April 18, 2007 Widespread burning of ethanol as...

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May 2 - U.S. health insurer Humana Inc reported higher - than - estimated medical costs in its core direct - to - consumer Medicare Advantage business for seniors and the disabled, sending shares down 2.1 percent.

At a town hall at National Small Business Week, some entrepreneurs complain to Karen Mills about access to credit and high health insurance costs.

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.

The Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace says that one - third of workers report high levels of stress resulting in higher healthcare costs, periods of employee disability, absenteeism, higher turnover, and lower productivity on the job.

Other concerns included not having enough skilled workers, high health - care costs, labor turnover, taxes and regulation.

High rates of unemployment have a budgetary cost to governments, from direct spending on employment insurance to a rise in health care costs as chronic unemployment diminishes mental and physical health.

High - deductible health plans have lower premiums than traditional HMO - or PPO - type plans and have caught on with employers seeking to reduce their premium costs.

As it turns out, people with higher income levels are more likely than those of modest means to opt for HSA - qualified health plans, because they are less concerned by the potential out - of - pocket medical costs and more interested in the tax savings, according to Fronstin at EBRI.

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.

«Some employers have thought about bringing in more prevention and wellness initiatives, as well as dropping high cost health plans.

AH: The business world is waking up to the high cost of sleep deprivation on productivity, creativity, health care, and ultimately the bottom line.

Yes, there are huge changes coming in health care, but should you jump into services where costs may be higher than expected and demand, lower than anticipated?

This can happen for a variety of reasons, including due to high costs matched by a limited number of health providers able to meet employee demand — if they even take an employee's insurance.

«As the next wave of boomers retire, Canada is expected to see lower revenue growth and higher expenditures for Old Age Security and health costs,» says Page.

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.

«These high complex - care cost members, the very, very sick, or the ones that are using expensive drugs, tend to be the highest profit for the industry,» said Pramod John, CEO of Vivio Health, a specialty pharmacy management firm.

The proposal to expand short - term health plans would lead to higher costs for consumers with coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

According to a 2009 survey (using 2005 - 06 data) by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the estimated cost of an emergency room visit ranged between sub - $ 100 in the Maritimes to a high of $ 148 in Ontario.

The high cost of health care is having an impact on whether consumers access treatment at all.

People who primarily use an HSA to pay for their current health - care costs should avoid high - fee accounts.

The high cost of health care in the US is nothing compared to the markup on some prescription medicines.

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.

Lower insurance costs, improved employee health and higher productivity.

These statistics come courtesy of Atul Gawande, a doctor and journalist, who explored McAllen's high cost of health care in last week's New Yorker.

Mylan's (myl) EpiPen's price has ballooned about 400 % since 2008, rising from about a $ 100 list price to $ 500 today (many patients are offered a $ 100 coupon for the injecting device, but it's often not enough to cover costs for American families, especially those who have health insurance with high deductibles).

Employee health care costs rose 6.9 percent nationwide last year, the highest one - year leap in seven years, according to the consulting firm Mercer.

Instead, her costs have gone up nearly 30 percent in the past year alone, and she now pays $ 10,000 for a high - deductible plan that covers less of her health care needs than in prior years, Olsen says.

It fluctuates across the country, but according to Amino, a consumer healthcare company, in the Bay Area a broken arm could cost more than $ 1,200 if you have a high deductible health plan.

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.

Kenneth Davis, Mt. Sinai Health System, and Peter May, Trian Fund Management, talks about Obamacare risks, and the high cost of medical care.

One risk is that you might incur higher health care costs in retirement.

There are myriad factors that are likely feeding into this public health gap, including big geographic and socioeconomic disparities in access to medical care and the sky - high cost of American medicine.

That seems to be the route that the States has taken, and it has resulted in higher private health care costs and a lower life expectancy.

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.

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 - U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said on Thursday getting rid of the so - called Cadillac tax on high - cost employer - provided health insurance could be part of the spending deal now under negotiation in Congress.

The initial focus of the independent company will be on technology that will provide their U.S. employees and their families with simplified and high - quality health care at accessible costs, the companies said.

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters)- U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said on Thursday getting rid of the so - called Cadillac tax on high - cost employer - provided health insurance could be part of the spending deal now under negotiation in Congress.

Many Americans now have health plans with higher deductibles or co-payments, making them responsible for more of their medical costs.

In its new statement, Mylan again pointed to pointed to health insurance trends «driven by the implementation of the Affordable Care Act» as the reason patients «have faced higher costs for their medicine.»

Explains why the US health care system is run by insurance companies, plagued by high costs, and increasingly has problems with medical care quality

Early responses from the survey suggest that 46 percent of employers would take steps to cut costs with new strategies such as high - deductible health plans - which shift the burden of initial medical costs to patients, but have lower monthly premiums.

But it has failed to recover in recent years because of a series of policies that increase the burden on small - business owners — higher taxes, increases to health - care costs, more costly regulations, and now the minimum wage increase proposal

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