Sentences with phrase «more affordable care»

Many residents apply for health insurance through their employers, but you may be surprised to find out that you could be overpaying for New Jersey health insurance, and that there are ways to find more affordable care.

Amino is a healthcare transparency company that connects everyone to better, more affordable care.

«When this merger is complete, the combined company will be well - positioned to reshape the consumer health care experience, putting people at the center of health care delivery to ensure they have access to high - quality, more affordable care where they are, when they need it,» said Larry Merlo, chief executive officer of CVS.

Not exact matches

We list out a few of the more salient small - business themed proposals suggested by each of the candidates — from taxes to the Affordable Care Act.

It's unclear how that would play out for businesses with more than 50 employees, required to offer health care under the new affordable care law.

It may only be one tool to help low - wage earners — others include reforms introduced this week by the Province of Ontario, more affordable housing and child care, and more ways to pursue collective action — but it's a big one.

These services aim to provide affordable care in place of more expensive healthcare services like emergency room visits.

Many of the policies that Barack Obama has advocated - the Affordable Care Act (ACA), banking reform, and changes to tax rates, the minimum wage, and regulations - make life more difficult for small - business owners.

Affordable long - term care coverage could fairly be characterized as a solidly middle - class concern: Poorer seniors can generally qualify for Medicaid, and the more affluent can generally afford to pay for nursing - care expenses out of their savings.

Another shift is that employers are looking at performance - based networks to try to gain more affordable, efficient care.»

As I have explained elsewhere, many of the policies put in place by the Federal government since the election of President Obama in 2008 — banking reform, business regulation, tax policies, and the Affordable Care Act to name a few — have made entrepreneurship more difficult to undertake.

This is a possible result of the combination of the aging population in America and a variety of policy changes, such as the Affordable Care Act, giving more people access to healthcare.

Through its more than 9,800 retail locations, more than 1,100 walk - in medical clinics, a leading pharmacy benefits manager with more than 94 million plan members, a dedicated senior pharmacy care business serving more than one million patients per year, expanding specialty pharmacy services, and a leading stand - alone Medicare Part D prescription drug plan, the company enables people, businesses and communities to manage health in more affordable and effective ways.

And many companies I know, both big and small, are choosing a more business approach to deal with the Affordable Care Act.

Because these bare - bones plans do not limit insurance payouts to workers, they meet the letter of the law's requirements that employers provide «affordable» health care coverage to their workers at a far lower cost than more comprehensive plans.

What's more, health - care reform aims to make generic drugs more affordable, giving a boost to the manufacturers, says Setar.

As U.S. health care costs rise, more affordable health insurance is available in these countries, International Living reports.

And with the advent of the Affordable Care Act, even if you'd been working in the U.S. market for 20 years, you didn't know any more than someone that had been in the U.S. market for one or two years because so much had changed so quickly.

Republican lawmakers in the Senate are days away from perhaps a final deadline on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, a seminal promise from the party for more than seven years.

More controversially, Obama expanded the health care safety net through the Affordable Care care safety net through the Affordable Care Care Act.

Now that you're 30 - plus or approaching the dreaded 3 - 0, you need a health plan more than ever — and with the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, it's now required, or you'll start being docked on your taxes.

«Those models are actually letting consumers access care more quickly and at a lower cost,» says Joel White, president of the Council for Affordable Health Coverage.

Wasteful use of medical care has «become so normalized that I don't think people in the system see it,» said Dr. Vikas Saini, president of The Lown Institute, a Boston think tank focused on making health care more effective, affordable and just.

It took President Barack Obama more than a year from his inauguration to get the Affordable Care Act passed by the skin of its teeth — despite enjoying massive Congressional majorities.

Especially now with the employer mandate of the Affordable Care Act, full - time employees can be significantly more expensive.

The FDA's new rules, which are part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, set a national standard for restaurant chains with 20 or more outlets and will pre-empt the patchwork of state laws.

People would generally only have to pay that much if they either didn't have health insurance (making them out of compliance with the Affordable Care Act, which requires Americans to have coverage) or if they had not yet reached their health plan's deductible (more common for people with high - deductible, so - called catastrophic health plans).

'' [Trump's] first objective is not to mollify protesters who will never be happy even after they benefit from his rollback of regulations, his tax relief package, his infrastructure [spending], and his making health care more affordable,» she said.

The Graham - Cassidy bill would not erase the protections under the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare law also known as Obamacare, preventing insurance companies from outright denying coverage to those with preexisting conditions, but it could allow for more expensive premiums.

In recent years, the Affordable Care Act and the bipartisan tax negotiations in late 2012 have led to large increases in tax rates on high salaries and capital income, making the tax code significantly more progressive.

Because the law includes much more than tax cuts — it removes Affordable Care Act's so - called individual mandate and opens up Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling — potential avenues for future agenda items are now viewed as increasingly possible for Republicans.

More than a million self - employed people have purchased insurance through the Affordable Care Act.

Canadian tech darling CGI Group was motoring along just fine until people found out that it was the lead contractor behind the infamous Affordable Care website in the U.S. (It's down more than 10 % since November.)

Noting that an important goal of the Affordable Care Act is enrolling the uninsured in insurance plans — which will theoretically put more money in doctors» pockets — Jackson said, «As major stakeholders and advocates in this effort, physicians should be educated about how these changes will impact them, their patients and their prospective patients.»

The key for all of these deals is whether they can provide consumers with a more affordable and effective new health care model.

Also under threat may be another measure to usher in more detailed labeling requirements for menus at restaurants and grocery stores, which passed as part of the 2010 health overhaul known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

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Not everyone will benefit: now that Republicans have swept the US government for the first time since 1928, it means Obamacare is over - just a matter of time - and Affordable Care Act - vulnerable stocks such as Universal Health Services, AmSurg and Mednax will likely plunge; on the other hand pure pharma stocks like MCK and ABC will benefit as rhetoric on drug pricing will diminish significantly, leading to more stable earnings if / when changes in drug pricing become more stable.

Obama got more legislation through at the beginning of his presidency, but nothing that holds a candle to the Affordable Care Act.

Following a national survey of 600 HR decision makers and 959 freelancers, we found that the Affordable Care Act is triggering companies to hire more freelance workers, especially since 2016 is when the tax penalty for uninsured workers is the highest at $ 695 per employee.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has already or will drastically impact employers with 50 or more full - time employees; however, the IRS announced it will be expanding incentives — in the form of a tax credit — to small employers who offer insurance through the exchange to its employees.

Couple that rising pressure with hard - fought efforts to maintain compliance with the federal government's Affordable Care Act, and some employers have chosen to waive benefits, placing more responsibility onto their employees, who pay more both in premiums and out - of - pocket costs.

Kaiser Permanente Chief Executive Bernard Tyson also said in a statement that «we always welcome fresh thinking and new approaches to make care more affordable and easier to access.»

The Department of Treasury announced on July 2, that the enforcement of the Affordable Care Act's Employer mandate, which requires employers with 50 or more full - time equivalent employees to provide affordable health insurance or pay penalties, will be delayed until JanAffordable Care Act's Employer mandate, which requires employers with 50 or more full - time equivalent employees to provide affordable health insurance or pay penalties, will be delayed until Janaffordable health insurance or pay penalties, will be delayed until Jan. 1, 2015.

Due to complex reporting requirements, the Obama administration delayed implementation of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) shared responsibility requirements, which requires employers with 50 or more full - time equivalent employees to provide adequate and affordable health insurance or pay Affordable Care Act's (ACA) shared responsibility requirements, which requires employers with 50 or more full - time equivalent employees to provide adequate and affordable health insurance or pay affordable health insurance or pay penalties.

Ultimately, the success of the Affordable Care Act depends on far more than a functioning website.

A payroll management giant is jumping into the health insurance exchange world with a double - barreled option for companies looking to control costs, give their workers more choice — and possibly help those employers avoid paying the Affordable Care Act's coming «Cadillac Tax.»

The caucus, led by Representatives Josh Gottheimer (D - NJ) and Tom Reed (R - NY), proposes to make five key changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA or «Obamacare») that would give more latitude to states to reform their individual markets, loosen the mandate that medium - sized employers offer insurance to their employees, and repeal the ACA's medical device tax, among other changes.

Every day, tech startups promise to make health care more affordable and more customized for each patient.