Sentences with phrase «include health insurance reforms»

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The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

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.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It could include free market - oriented health insurance reform that makes catastrophic coverage both cheaper and more secure.

Retiree Health Insurance — The Executive Budget includes a number of reforms that will provide needed long - term savings, including tiered premium shares based on years of service and limited reimbursement of Medicare premiums.

The settlement included a wage increase on par with the rising cost of living, but in exchange, there was reform to the employees» active health insurance, retiree health insurance, paid time - off benefit package and employee work hours.

Former New Jersey Gov. James Florio accomplished a great deal during his one term in office from 1990 to 1994, including auto insurance reform, welfare reform, greater state aid to education and health care, a cleaner environment and a ban on assault weapons.

Health reforms in the US must include fundamental changes to the way medical insurance schemes operate, a leading geneticist said last week.

Besides increasing the proportion of people in the USA covered by medical insurance once the ACA is fully implemented, the authors show that structural and financing reforms introduced by the Act will help healthcare in the USA to transition from a «sick care system,» largely focused on treatment of illness, to a system that includes disease prevention, health promotion, early detection, and public health as integral components.

Any health - insurance - reform bill adopted by the Congress must include provisions that specifically target the health - care needs of children and adolescents, child - health advocates said last week.

This is especially important in the context of evaluating more comprehensive tax reform proposals that contemplate taxing income sources that are not included in narrower measures (e.g., proposals to tax some or all employer contributions to health insurance or to reduce the amount of tax - free income earned within qualified retirement plans by placing tighter limits on contributions).

Major studies in process include Social Security reform, individual investment education and results, health insurance coverage, health policy reform, and pension design and investment trends.

Menlo Park, CA Washington DC About Blog The Kaiser Family Foundation website provides in - depth information on key health policy issues including Medicaid, Medicare, health reform, global health, HIV / AIDS, health insurance, the uninsured and much more.

They include: (1) regulatory law and enforcement work, because industries from banking to private equity funds to large oil companies will likely be targets of the new administration, while health insurance companies will be subject to heightened regulation; (2) litigation, because a Democratic administration will probably push back tort reform measures, giving rise to more lawsuits; (3) «green» law, i.e., representing companies that deal in green technology, whose growth will be stimulated by likely tax incentives as well as a cap and trade system; and (4) real estate, because the bailout legislation will most likely require banks availing themselves of the benefits to begin issuing mortgages again.

The Affordable Care Act put in place several reforms and consumer protections around health insurance, including the creation of health insurance marketplaces, the Open Enrollment Period, and premium tax credits.

Some of the reforms implemented by the Affordable Care Act include establishing Health Insurance Exchanges, or marketplaces, where individuals, families, and small businesses may purchase guaranteed issue qualified health insurance plans with affordable preHealth Insurance Exchanges, or marketplaces, where individuals, families, and small businesses may purchase guaranteed issue qualified health insurance plans with affordable Insurance Exchanges, or marketplaces, where individuals, families, and small businesses may purchase guaranteed issue qualified health insurance plans with affordable prehealth insurance plans with affordable insurance plans with affordable premiums.

Updated to reflect the latest accreditation and certification standards, this robust resource also features new or updated content in every chapter, including the latest requirements for skill competency, technology, insurance regulations and health care reform, and legal compliance essential for medical assistants to succeed as 21st - century allied health professionals.

Reform the private health insurance market, including deregulating price setting arrangements and allowing health funds to move into primary care and vary premiums to account for some «lifestyle factors», including smoking.

Welfare reform has disrupted Medicaid benefits for millions of children who need treatment.97, 98 Medicaid enables many youth to receive psychiatric treatment.99 Many parents who left welfare to go to work found their new jobs did not provide insurance or, when available, they could not afford copayments.100, 101 The State Children's Health Insurance Program, designed to offset the loss of Medicaid, did not fulfill its intended purpose.98, 102 Moreover, welfare reform has not substantially decreased poverty103; many poor children have become even poorer.104 Poor children are vulnerable to poor outcomes, 105 including involvement with the juvenile justicinsurance or, when available, they could not afford copayments.100, 101 The State Children's Health Insurance Program, designed to offset the loss of Medicaid, did not fulfill its intended purpose.98, 102 Moreover, welfare reform has not substantially decreased poverty103; many poor children have become even poorer.104 Poor children are vulnerable to poor outcomes, 105 including involvement with the juvenile justicInsurance Program, designed to offset the loss of Medicaid, did not fulfill its intended purpose.98, 102 Moreover, welfare reform has not substantially decreased poverty103; many poor children have become even poorer.104 Poor children are vulnerable to poor outcomes, 105 including involvement with the juvenile justice system.

· prevents the implementation of the groundbreaking health care reform law, including new benefits that include insurance coverage of women's preventive services like mammograms, cancer screenings, and birth control, with no additional co-pays;

With concern escalating across the country over proposed restrictions on private health insurance coverage of abortion included in the health care reform bill passed by the House last week, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards joined Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY) and other women leaders in denouncing this anti-women's health amendment passed by the House.

Former AMA President Dr Brian Owler talks about the issues that emerged during the» roundtable» on hospitals that he chaired at the Labor national health summit, including whole of hospital reform, access to subacute services and the role and challenges for private health insurance.

Menlo Park, CA Washington DC About Blog The Kaiser Family Foundation website provides in - depth information on key health policy issues including Medicaid, Medicare, health reform, global health, HIV / AIDS, health insurance, the uninsured and much more.

It's great to see such progress, but it won't take our focus on these and other important issues, including federal disaster insurance, health care reform, and new appraisal rules.

Items of interest to the real estate industry included in this legislation were restoration of a capital gains differential, expansion of Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) to allow for penalty - free use of IRA funds as a downpayment on a home, an increase in the deduction for self - employed health insurance costs, a change in the tax treatment of tenant improvements, reform of gift and estate tax law, and simplification of Subchapter S rules.

For well over a decade, NAR has advocated for reforms to the health insurance markets to provide better coverage to the self - employed and small employers that support the real estate industry, including backing AHPs.