Sentences with phrase «national health reform»

This would also help to distinguish your government from the Abbott Government, who are remembered for their destruction of a national health reform process that had taken years of work and represented a significant investment of resources.

National Health Reform Agreement.

Beyond the individual pain, the Budget has taken a wrecking ball to the health system — not to mention years of hard work on the national health reform negotiations — and taken us back to the bad old days of blame game and cost shifting, with Premiers calling for voters to lobby the Coalition party room and Senate to defeat the cuts.

The COAG Reform Council is about to release its final report evaluating the impacts of national health reform.

The COAG Reform Council has delivered its final report evaluating the impact of the national health reform agreement, Healthcare in Australia 2012 — 13: Five years of performance.

«Our findings may tempt some to call for a rollback of Massachusetts or even national health reform,» said Nancy Kressin, PhD, head of the Health / care Disparities Research Program in the Department of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, member of the section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center, and senior author of the study.

Not exact matches

We've been watching the latter play out on the national stage with the release of HealthCare.gov, the website at the center of President Obama's health care reform.

The National Federation of Independent Business, known as NFIB, was one of the lead plaintiffs in the original legal challenge to the health care reform legislation.

The poll, the work of the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Harvard School of Public Health, and National Public Radio, asked 1,704 adults for their reactions to the reform proposals put out by Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (still in the game!)

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.

The letter urged Klein to replace the Canada Pension Plan with an Alberta pension scheme; set up a provincial income tax system, rather than allow Ottawa to collect the tax on Alberta's behalf; replace the RCMP with an Alberta provincial police force; create a provincial health care plan; and «force Senate reform back onto the national agenda.»

As Rock Health points out, investors don't seem fazed by the uncertainty around national healthcare reform and political volatility.

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«All the same, historians in the twenty - first century may give President Clinton and his wife considerable credit for having sparked the first truly national debate on a thorough reform of health care.»

Every midterm since 1994 has been highly nationalized by historic standards, a result not only of huge events — the first health care reform proposal (1994), the looming impeachment (1998), the 9 - 11 attack and the prospect of the Iraq War (2002), the Iraq War (2006), and now Obama's «change» agenda (2010)-- but also of sharpening party conflicts that draw clearer divisions on national issues.

As a friend pointed out to me in an email yesterday, the possibility of defeat for national health - care reform is the fault of its biggest champion.

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Currently she is leading the national reform of child and family health care and social services as one of the key projects of the government of Finland.

Rivera left the New York - based 1199 SEIU three years ago, becoming a national figure as the president of SEIU Healthcare — a union that was active in lobbying for President Obama's health care reform plan.

On January 10, 2012, an important national figure, Mr. Arafat, resigned, as a result of his discontent over proposed reforms to the emergency medical system under a new health law and of criticisms from Romanian President Traian Basescu.

In its analysis of administration cost savings caused by the Public Bodies Reform programme, the National Audit Office (NAO) decided to exclude bodies associated with the Department of Health (the department subject to the largest administration cost changes), saying «the major reorganisation and transfer of functions between NHS bodies since 2010 made the analysis too problematic» (NAO 2014, p. 40).

Three years after NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray launched her signature $ 850 million ThriveNYC mental health initiative, she is tapping Alexis Confer, who has worked on de Blasio's successful universal pre-K initiative, on national gun reform and on former President Obama's campaign, to serve as the initiative's first - ever executive director.

Pataki raised concerns the health care reforms that were passed would increase the national deficit.

The former governor recently took a pass on running against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to start a national effort to repeal the new health care reform law — a move widely interpreted to mean that he is eyeing another White House run.

The one Republican who has been leading Gillibrand in the polls, former Gov. George Pataki, announced today in the Wall Street Journal that he will not run against her, opting instead to create a national committee focused on repealing the health care reform law.

Slaughter got some national attention — and was in the GOP crosshairs — for the role she played in the health care reform debate.

Three years after First Lady Chirlane McCray launched her signature $ 850 million ThriveNYC mental health initiative, she is tapping Alexis Confer — who has worked on Mayor Bill de Blasio's successful universal pre-kindergarten initiative, on national gun reform and on former President Barack Obama's campaign — to serve as the initiative's first - ever executive director.

Also worth noting: Even Democrats who voted against unpopular national Democratic agenda items such as health care reform, including Reps. Michael McMahon and Michael Arcuri, ended up losing.

This week, McCray launched Cities Thrive, a nationwide coalition that seeks to drive mental health reform on a local and national level across America.

Just know that none of these Conservative candidates nor Ms. Gillibrand have significantly taken a line drawn in the sand on 1) writing their own jobs bill for national consequence 2) Fracking position definitively 3) Major student loan reform 4) Raising minimum wage 5) Single Payer Health Care, or bringing back Glass - Steagall.

He also shares his thoughts on Former Governor Pataki's new endeavor to launch a national organization in hopes of repealing the recently - passed Obama health care reform law.

Pataki noted that his national PAC, Revere America, spent well over six figures targeting Democrats who had voted «yes» on health care reform, including outgoing Rep. John Hall, who lost to Republican Congresswoman - elect Nan Hayworth.

Trump, who is reportedly struggling with the fact that his image as a consummate dealmaker (back when he was just a real estate mogul and reality TV star, and not the president) might be tarnished by a health care reform failure, will hold a National Economic Council meeting this morning.

At 9:05 a.m., First Lady McCray will kick off the second convening of Cities Thrive, a network of nearly 200 cities committed to driving mental health reform on local and national levels, New York Law School, Auditorium, 185 West Broadway, Manhattan.

After taking a pass on challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand despite the fact that multiple polls showed him to be the Republican most likely to defeat her, Pataki launched a national PAC — Revere America — to spearhead a national petition drive calling for repeal of the health care reform bill.

George Pataki won't challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, but will create a new national organization aimed at building support for repealing the new health care reform law.

Gordon Brown should hold a national referendum on electoral reform, Health Secretary Alan Johnson has said.

The report said that with McMahon potentially facing a primary from the left over his opposition to health care reform, national Republicans were taking a closer look at the race and wanted to recruit Lanza.

There is only one source left: a new, reformed national insurance system, financed by contributions earmarked specifically and exclusively for health and social care.

Those attending the People's State of the State Rally included advocates and officials from The Fiscal Policy Institute, the Hunger Action Network of New York State, Interfaith Impact of New York State, the New York State Labor - Religion Coalition, Physicians for a National Health Program and Reform Jewish Voice of New York State, according to the Times Union of Albany.

In 2006, the Empire Center studied the impact of that reform by comparing national average small - group health insurance premiums to small - group insurance rates in New York.27

The proposals for the National Health Service Reform Bill are based on recommendations from Lord Darzi's «NHS Next Stage Review».

The Queen's Speech today confirmed an NHS reform bill, «to strengthen the National Health Service,» as part of the government's legislative program for the coming year.

The wider task of comprehensive social security reform would inevitably require a high - level body to review and advise on the harmonization of various initiatives and deductions from workers» payrolls in the name of welfare, such as pension contributions, national housing fund, national health insurance etc

WASHINGTON — Rep. Brian Higgins may be more well - known for fighting for Buffalo's waterfront and Central Terminal than he is for fighting over major national issues such as health care reform, but that seems to be changing.

MoveOn.org is spending «six figures» on television commercials to run on national cable and called on its membership to back primary challengers to Democrats who vote against health care reform legislation.

He voted against the war in Iraq in 2003 and opposed the introduction of tuition fees in 2004, but on other matters - such as Tony Blair's reforms of the National Health Service, he remained loyal.

The Blue Dogs insist that health care reform should preserve patient choice and maintain competition in the marketplace without adding to the national deficit.

Amy has worked on local and national election campaigns and organized for health care reform, climate justice, and other progressive issues.

(CNN)- American Crossroads, which has previously advertised in battleground states and Senate races, on Friday announced a week - long national cable buy focused on the Supreme Court's ruling that President Barack Obama's health reform law includes a new tax.