Sentences with phrase «percent state of health»

If the battery drops lower than a 70 percent state of health at any point within that window, it'll be covered.

Not exact matches

In some states, the cost of coverage is expected to rise by as much as 25 percent, according to a report from the health care researcher Kaiser Family Foundation.

The state has the highest percentage of people without health insurance — 17.1 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau — a fact that state policymakers ascribe to personal freedom, but one that affects Texas residents or would - be residents nonetheless.

«But if there's a 100 microgram per meter smoke day, we'd expect that to go to a 100 percent increase of inhaler refills for the population,» Katelyn O'Dell, who studies the health hazards of wildfire smoke at Colorado state university said.

The most popular products are multivitamin and mineral supplements, which are consumed by some 40 percent of men and women in the United States, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

States that win waivers to allow alternative health plans could cut their consumers» premiums by 20 percent in 2020 and 2021, the CBO said in its preliminary evaluation of Mr. Alexander's bill.

Though the chances of bringing a drug to market is relatively low — about a 30 percent success rate if a drug is in State 2 trials, according to Morningstar health - care strategist Karen Andersen — a drug that does make it to market stands a very good chance of making big money.

Unfortunately for that argument, the physician who is the best - known practitioner of these abortions stated in 1993 that 80 percent of them are «purely elective,» not necessary to save the mother's life or health.

They parallel the provisions of many state constitutions in this country and popular initiatives such as the Cardinal Bernardin Amendment, recently approved in a referendum by over 80 percent of Cook County, Illinois, voters, to make health care a right.

Federal funds are also granted to state public health programs ($ 66,000,000 in the fiscal year 1969) Community mental health receives a minimum of 15 percent of each state's allotment, and 70 percent of the grant is available to support services in communities for which both public and private nonprofit groups may apply.

Dr. Nicholas Cummings, a former president of the American Psychological Association, stated, «In my twenty years at Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance Organization, 67 percent of the homosexuals who sought help from therapists for issues such as «the transient nature of relationships, disgust or guilt feelings about promiscuity, fear of disease, (and) a wish to have a traditional family» experienced various levels of success obtaining their goals.

Guttmacher used state health department information for 20 percent of facilities and made estimates on another 17 percent.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that food allergies are a growing food safety and public health concern that affect an estimated 4 — 6 percent of children in the United States.

About 20 percent of babies in the United States are now fed soy formula, but the estrogens in soy can cause long term harm your baby's sexual development and reproductive health that is irreversible.

Still, only 39.7 percent of newborn infants in New York are exclusively breastfed — well below the federal government goal of 70 percent, the state health department said.

Each provider surveyed offers coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace, yet twenty percent do not contract with certified nurse - midwives (CNMs), even though nurse - midwives are licensed to practice in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The United States is far from the goal established in 1990 by the Department of Health and Human Services that by 2000, 75 percent of mothers nurse their babies in early infancy and 50 percent until the babies are 5 or 6 months old.

In Illinois, 15.8 percent of children between 10 and 17 are considered obese, placing the state 14th in the nationwide roster of risk, according to a report released in August by the nonprofit research group, Trust for America's Health.

A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health study published in the November 2007 issue of Obesity Research found that per capita total daily intake of liquid calories in the United States increased 94 percent from 1965 to 2002.

And it probably won't be the experience of many kids in years ahead — the number of families with «only» children has nearly doubled since the 1960s, according to the National Center for Health Statistics; about 20 percent of families in the United States have just one child.

Given our love affair with technology and the mind / body split that is part of health in the United States and birth in particular, it's little wonder that our C - section rate is now a whopping 33 percent.

A study released this year by http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/125/5/e1048"target = «external» > Harvard Medical School concluded that if 90 percent of mothers followed the standard medical advice of feeding infants only breast milk for their first six months, the United States could save $ 13 billion a year in health - care costs.

Health exchange officials said the state's uninsured rate is now at a low — 4.7 percent, compared to 10 percent in 2013 when the state's marketplace, NY State Of Health, first opstate's uninsured rate is now at a low — 4.7 percent, compared to 10 percent in 2013 when the state's marketplace, NY State Of Health, first opstate's marketplace, NY State Of Health, first opState Of Health, first opened.

Cuomo told reporters last night that a combination of Washington's inability to act, the state's worsening finances and his desire to keep a promise to increase health care and education spending by 4 percent in the 2012 - 13 budget forced his hand here.

At 11 a.m., groups committed to improving the health of New Yorkers call on the state Legislature to reject the proposed consolidation of public health funding, and the 20 percent cut in funding, state Capitol, third floor, outside state Senate lobby, Albany.

According to the New York State Department of Health, about 54 New Yorkers are killed each year in bicycle crashes and 2,000 residents are hospitalized due to bike - related injuries, 38 percent of which involve a brain injury.

Over the past four years, school aid has grown at an average annual rate of 4.4 percent, while the Department of Health's Medicaid program has increased 3.3 percent annually on average.5 To maintain overall growth of about 2 percent per year in total state spending, all other spending growth has been held to only 1.0 percent per year on average.

Our state can be an inspiring example of full employment at living wages, health care for all, affordable housing, quality public education, and 100 percent clean, climate - stabilizing energy.

In 2014, the first year the ACA was fully in effect, private coverage represented 39 percent of overall enrollment through New York's exchange, while state - operated Medicaid and Child Health Plus accounted for 61 percent.

Friday's report from New York State of Health confirms that those enrolling in the Essential Plan skew younger: 42 percent of its enrollees are older than 45, compared to 51 percent for those buying private coverage through the exchange.

The rolls of the state's Medicaid health plan for the poor and disabled stand at 6.1 million, or 31 percent of the population.

In other states, it's projected that the end of CSR would trigger premium hikes averaging 19 percent for non-group health plans offered on Obamacare exchanges — likely causing more Americans to drop coverage and more insurance companies to withdraw from the market.

The New York State of Health exchange is reaching just 22 percent of the target population for private ACA plans, the second - lowest rate in the country, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Smoking dropped to the lowest levels in state history in 2016, with just 14.2 percent of residents lighting up, according to state Health Department statistics released Tuesday.

In 2015, almost 11 percent of 4,205 incoming inmates at state prisons had hepatitis C, with more than half of them identifying as injection drug users, according to Joanne Morne, director of the state Health Department's AIDS Institute.

But three weeks later, after the state Department of Financial Services found Health Republic's finances were «substantially worse than reported,» it was announced the insurer would shut down on Nov. 30, meaning its 200,000 customers — 20 percent of the individual exchange — would have to pick a new health plan for DecHealth Republic's finances were «substantially worse than reported,» it was announced the insurer would shut down on Nov. 30, meaning its 200,000 customers — 20 percent of the individual exchange — would have to pick a new health plan for Dechealth plan for December.

Although a 50 percent cut in funding from New York State prompted Ulster County to shift administration of mental health clinics to a privately operated agency, the county still has mental health resources available for families and adolescents, said county Health Commissioner Dr. Carol health clinics to a privately operated agency, the county still has mental health resources available for families and adolescents, said county Health Commissioner Dr. Carol health resources available for families and adolescents, said county Health Commissioner Dr. Carol Health Commissioner Dr. Carol Smith.

New York State insurers selling plans on the individual market are asking the Cuomo administration to raise average premiums by more than 17 percent, a consequence of rising medical costs, decreasing federal funding and misplaced assumptions about the health of consumers.

The health care appropriations decided Monday comprise about 40 percent of the state's budget.

Acting Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker says the tour is grounded in these statistics from the New York State Department of Health: Just over a quarter of New Yorkers are obese and another 36 percent are overweight.

The grants are largely designed to slash avoidable hospital admissions and emergency room visits 25 percent by the year 2020, and also ensure the financial sustainability of safety net healthcare providers, explained New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker.

Republican Senate candidates across the country have seen an opening against Democrats who support the Affordable Health Care Act in light of news that premiums are going up an average of 25 percent in the 39 states served by the federally run online market.

According to Centers for Disease Control data, 10.6 percent of New York state's population did not have health insurance in 2012, the year before the state health exchange was established.

Statistics released recently by the State Department of Health show Suffolk holds 49 percent of the state's babesiosis cases and 44 percent of Ehrlichiosis cState Department of Health show Suffolk holds 49 percent of the state's babesiosis cases and 44 percent of Ehrlichiosis cstate's babesiosis cases and 44 percent of Ehrlichiosis cases.

Last year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that enacting medical malpractice reform would, on average, reduce malpractice insurance costs by 10 percent nationwide, and probably more in New York, resulting in a more than $ 300 million of overall reduction in health care spending in our state budget.

Glaser says health - care benefits are «out of alignment» with private sector, as well as other states and federal benefits, and noted that there had been 14 percent increase in pay for public employees over the years.

State health data for 2006 through 2011 shows almost a 40 percent drop in the number of children testing positive for lead poisoning in Erie County.

«If affordable health coverage is the goal here in New York, the new «exchange tax» should be dropped and the existing state taxes on health insurance, which today total more than five billion dollars and amount to five percent of premium, be reduced.»

Current law says that when a not - for - profit health insurer converts to a for - profit entity, 90 percent of those proceeds are retained by the state.