Sentences with phrase «increasing costs of health care»

Already increasing costs of health care in India is taking a financial toll on individuals and their families.

Plan for increasing costs of health care, long - term care, assisted living and other similar expenses.

«We can debate whether the increasing costs of health care in the United States are reasonable, but our study suggests it is associated with longer life overall,» he said.

This amendment can only exacerbate the already devastating impact that increasing the costs of health care and decreasing the number of people covered will have - all while boosting profits for the health industry executives and lobbyists.»

Could the wildly increasing costs of health care be one reason smaller businesses are less willing to bring on new employees?

Medical devices and equipment are contributing to the increased cost of health care in Ontario and around the world.

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Here's the critical fact: The AHCA increases those credits on a tight formula of inflation plus one percentage point, no matter how fast the actual cost of health care insurance rises.

Put simply, the house plan, entitled American Health Care ACT (AHCA), essentially caps what the government will pay to aid families and poor people, and what it will spend in total, regardless of how fast medical costs increase.

This increases public and private costs of absenteeism, pharmaceuticals and acute health - care needs.

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.

Retirees are being transferred to new health care plans, with no increase in premiums for this year, at least; a document sent to retirees by the company says the pensioners will bear the cost of any increases in premiums going forward, and that the company has the right to change the plan at any time.

Even if this break hasn't been available to you in the past, a temporary expansion of the medical - expense deduction — coupled with ever - increasing health care costs — could translate into a writeoff.

A study by JPMorgan calculated median annual health - care costs for today's 65 - year - olds at $ 4,660, but they project annual increases of 6.2 percent to 7 percent as that group ages, so that by 2036, when those people are 85, their median annual health - care spending will reach roughly $ 18,000.

Even as the pace of increases in the cost of health care has eased, prices continue to rise.

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.

Globalization has tightened the cost screws on U.S. employers, health care costs have taken a bite out of paychecks, a kind of new norm of the 1 % to 3 % wage increase has taken hold in the country, unions have been in decline.

Meanwhile, the patent term restoration provisions are likely to increase health care costs in Canada by delaying the availability of generic pharmaceuticals due to the extension in the term of protection for patented pharmaceuticals.

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

The rising cost of living may be partly to blame, particularly in the spending categories, like health care, that have increased the most over the past decade.

The ever - rising cost of corporate health care is expected to increase by 4.4 percent this year.

The larger benefits for millennials are mainly because of cost of living increases, more years of benefits due to longer lifespans, and better and more expensive health care, said C. Eugene Steuerle, an economist with the Urban Institute who co-authored the analysis.

But new technologies like artificial intelligence and online education, increased domestic energy production and slowing growth in the cost of health care have prompted Mr. Cowen to reappraise the country's prospects.

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

And this situation is becoming worse as pensions are rapidly becoming a thing of the past, life expectancies along with accompanying health care costs are increasing, and even social security is facing a crisis point.

EXCITE will lower health care costs and increase patient benefits by improving the quality and relevance of these technologies, streamlining their health system adoption and expediting their market penetration.

Department of Corrections officials justify the soy - based meals as a cost - cutting measure, but increased health care costs and pending liability for not supplying life - sustaining meals have the potential to make the soy - based meals very expensive for the state of Illinois.»

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.

Michael Geist, writing in the Toronto Star, declared that «a TPP based on the US proposals would signal a near - complete surrender of a made - in - Canada approach to intellectual property, leading to risks of lost Internet access, expansive border seizures, increased health care costs, and criminal liability for non-commercial infringement.»

The retirement of the baby boomers over the next several decades will mean astronomic increases in costs, notably for health care, with relatively fewer people of working age to pay them.

For instance, Quebec is tax uncompetitive compared to many other provinces, and has, for instance, made a choice to fund childcare and certain other social services at the cost of privatized health - care and, now, increased tuition fees.

What may be missing is the dramatic and increasing portion of income that will be needed for health - care costs for each year spent in retirement, which are currently projected to increase at over 5 % annually.

Evidence from other countries is compelling that better organization and management can increase the productivity of public health - care delivery in Canada, yielding better outcomes at lower cost.

Better health care for the nonaged actually increases total health care costs because more people reach the expensive years of old age — not that there's anything wrong with that.

At the same time, with rising life expectancy the number of years spent in retirement has increased dramatically, health care costs are high and rapidly rising, and interest rates are at historic lows.

«If we're interested in lowering health care costs in America, we need to increase the prevalence of religion.»

Can someone please explain to me how an increased prevalence of religion will help lower health care cost?

Adding to the complexity, health care costs are expected to eat an ever increasing piece of the retirement budget.

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.

«The pending 55 % cut will limit access, increase long - term costs for medical care, and almost certainly cement Alabama at the very bottom of many vital national health statistics.

As the US Federal government pays for a greater and greater fraction of health care, I see it as inevitable that an increasing amount of care is provided by mid-level staff as a means of cost control.

Since the 1990s, our nation's children have become less healthy and are at higher risk for serious chronic health issues; ultimately leading to increased health care costs for all of us.

In 2010, teen pregnancy and childbirth accounted for at least $ 9.4 billion in costs to U.S. taxpayers for increased health care and foster care, increased incarceration rates among children of teen parents, and lost tax revenue because of lower educational attainment and income among teen mothers.

Speaking at a public meeting in which the Park District's $ 385 million budget was unveiled, Laurence Msall, president of the Civic Federation, said the tax watchdog group supported the district's restraint in not raising property taxes and increasing employee contributions to health care costs, but was troubled by the «pension holiday.»

Not surprisingly, research shows that household food insecurity is a strong predictor of higher health care utilization and increased health care costs.

Company employees (often dressed like health - care workers) went to hospitals and health clinics to counsel women on formula use — ignoring the proven advantages of breast milk, formula's astronomical cost for Third World families and the fact that many women had only contaminated water for preparing formula, thus starkly increasing a baby's risk of contracting life - threatening diarrhea.

«The son of a union carpenter, Coffey commiserated with the striking workers, who have been on strike since May in response to a proposed contract of cut wages and increased health care cost, and pledged his full support.»

The deal, which would affect approximately 54,000 Public Employees Federation members statewide, calls for three years of annual 2 percent wage hikes, compounded, and no increase in health care costs, according to news releases from the governor and the union.

Governor Cuomo released a state budget plan that closes a $ 2 billion dollar gap, recommends a phased in state takeover of county health care costs, and offers an ultimatum to schools to accept a teacher evaluation program or lose access to increased school funding.

Governor Cuomo released a state budget plan that closes a $ 2 billion dollar gap, recommends a phased in state takeover of county health care costs, and offers an ultimatum to schools to accept a teacher evaluation program or lose increased school funding.

«In fact, she's already called for higher taxes on individuals and small businesses; she supports an energy plan that would increase our electricity costs; she promises a single - payer health care system that would further destroy our health care and economy; and she wants to force federal gun restrictions that would take away the Second Amendment rights of law - abiding citizens.»