Sentences with phrase «of high health care costs»

«Close to criminal»: Oncologist speaks out on the human toll of high health care costs Hutch News Dr. Gary Lyman Feb. 11, 2016

This should include costs imposed on the public in the form of higher health care costs for asthma and heart disease as a result of power plant pollution — costs known as «externalities.»

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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.»

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

With the rising costs of health care, even those with health insurance can find themselves facing high medical bills.

Journalist Steven Brill and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean discuss the high costs of Health - Care, American Style.

The purchasing power of the fixed income stream deteriorates, the investor has less ability to recoup purchasing power because of the shorter investment horizon and more conservative allocation, and the investor's potentially higher effective inflation rate (due to greater exposure to health care costs) tends to make any shortfall more painful.

Health plans are faced with many challenges and are still expected to deliver the highest quality of care while keeping costs under control.

Major employers, from Walmart to Caterpillar, have tried for years to tackle the high costs and complexity of health care, and have grown increasingly frustrated as Congress has deadlocked over the issue, leaving many of the thorniest issues to private industry.

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.

With rising out - of - pocket costs, higher deductibles in their health plans and fewer doctors in provider networks, many consumers want to take more control of their health care.

«Although many assume their savings will cover all of their expenses in retirement, health care costs are often higher than anticipated.

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.

Mintz concludes that the psychological cost to children has steadily grown more apparent, and he makes the familiar array of policy recommendations: more widely available health care, education reform, subsidized high - quality child care, family - friendly employment policies, a living wage, a limited work week and economic support to the impoverished.

Big, ambitious politics means doing «something about the high cost of health care,» ending our «addiction to oil,» bringing «our brave men and women» home from Iraq.

What do you think of the high cost of health care in a corrupt state as the USA?

High health care costs, a lack of interest in repetitive manual labour and rising worker wages has led to an explosion of automated machinery, according to Intelligrated.

A new study by USC and University of Oxford researchers indicates that large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) found in national food supplies across the world may be one explanation for the rising global epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and resulting higher health care costs.

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.

Dr. Fisher believes that dispassionate, rigorous study of birth across all settings is more important than ever given disparities in women's access to trained and licensed care providers, current and future physician workforce issues, rising costs of health care, and unacceptably high rates of adverse outcomes for mothers and infants in the U.S. compared to other industrialized countries.

Even the cost of health care for the delivery of twins is higher than with a single birth.

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.

The district is asking union members, who do not have co-payments on services and prescriptions, to be responsible for a higher percentage of their health - care costs.

Prenatal care can be expensive and the cost of having your baby is incredibly high, even when you have health insurance.

HOWEVER, IF infant mortality is high due to infectious diseases such as diarrhea and pneumonia, or IF hygiene, sanitation, and access to clean water are poor, or IF the cost of breastmilk substitutes is prohibitively high, or IF access to adequate health care is limited, THEN breastfeeding may be the safest feeding option even when the mother is HIV - positive.

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

When we consider the well - known health consequences of a cesarean — not to mention the exponentially higher costs — this study brings a fresh reminder of the benefits of midwife - led care outside of our overburdened hospital system.

Lack of breast feeding is significantly associated with higher use and cost of health care.28 Improved short and long term health of breastfed children, improved wellbeing of mothers who have breast fed, and the cost of goods consumed are major factors leading to economic benefits from the promotion of breast feeding.6 29 30 31 Future research should compare the specific cost effectiveness of such strategies for improvement of breastfeeding practice.

The World Health Organization, Unicef, The March of Dimes, and the National Institute of Health all recommend the use of Kangaroo Mother Care and deem it a scientifically sound, low cost, and a high impact developmental intervention for both baby and mother.

Senate Republicans are touting on Thursday a package of measures designed to ease burdnes on business, ranging from reforms to the state's regulatory process to providing relief for small businesses facing high health - care costs.

That means that (at the current poverty level), the highest cost of a plan is $ 4,244 (cheaper than what you would currently pay for health care).

For example, if we did away with the individual mandate to buy health insurance, but continued to ensure that insurance companies did not discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, then young, healthy people may forego health insurance, leaving the industry with a disproportionately high number of sick people, driving up the cost of health care.

«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.»

We have the highest taxes and the largest health care, energy and education costs of any state in the nation.

«Crystal Run Health Plans continues to be committed to providing access to high quality healthcare and the triple aim — improving patient care, improving health and reducing cost for to the people and business of the Hudson Valley,» Steve Zeng, executive director of Crystal Run, said in an Health Plans continues to be committed to providing access to high quality healthcare and the triple aim — improving patient care, improving health and reducing cost for to the people and business of the Hudson Valley,» Steve Zeng, executive director of Crystal Run, said in an health and reducing cost for to the people and business of the Hudson Valley,» Steve Zeng, executive director of Crystal Run, said in an email.

The report measures eight different kinds of hospital - acquired infections that can lead to prolonged hospital stays, unnecessary deaths and high health care costs.

The New York State Conference of Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans is sounding the alarm on three big health care issues to watch in Albany this year — higher taxes on health insurance, hospital funding and rising drug costs.

I'm asking — there are some mandates — the reason why property taxes are so high, Sue, is that for example there are retiree pensions, health care costs and that's a lot of, that's a big portion of how much your property taxes go to that.