Sentences with phrase «public care for»

This is an option usually extended to mothers who may have availed of other forms of public care for their pregnancy and the birth of their baby.
You might be surprised about how little the public cares for our traditions.

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In a year that saw a terrible Ebola pandemic in Africa and the resurgence of Legionnaire's disease in New York, it's small wonder that life sciences and health - care companies are also leading the way for initial public offerings.
It's been a busy week for health care news between some high - profile setbacks for certain major cancer drug makers, high - profile victories for others, the confirmation of a new FDA chief, health care merger drama, and a slew of public health reports about the opioid epidemic, hepatitis C, and U.S. life expectancy.
Bush describes the model as a public health version of Teach for America — participants are placed with with nonprofits, government agencies, and local health care providers, with the hope that the fellows» experiences inform their careers.
Though the number of companies expanding their paid parental leave benefits is rising, Sandberg acknowledged that it's less common for employees to get paid time off to care for sick loved ones, saying that the US needs public policies «that make it easier for people to care for their children and aging parents and for families to mourn and heal after loss.»
Similarly, in 2001's economic dip, women's job losses accounted for only 14 % of total layoffs, largely because women overwhelmingly work in recession - proof industries such as health care, education and the public sector.
More significantly, however, over 50 percent of venture - backed IPO exits went to health - care companies in the second quarter, the fifth consecutive quarter that health - care companies have topped technology companies for public exits, CB Insights reports.
Abigail Bozarth, a spokeswoman for AstraZeneca, said «AstraZeneca believes it is important to engage with policymakers, key partners, and the public — across all states in the United States — about the very challenging issues we face as we all work to strengthen our nation's health care system.»
To pay for that, the bill would cut a public health fund in President Barack Obama's health care law, reduce some payments made by Medicaid and Medicare and sell oil held in the government's strategic petroleum reserve.
While some patients might feel contrite about professing a love for the Canadian public system and then paying for care, when it comes to their health, that's a guilt many patients are willing to bear.
As Amino CEO David Vivero told me back then, the firm's platform is «based on insurance claims data from both public and private players,» allowing for a more accurate depiction of how much medical care costs.
Judith Rodin, Rockefeller Foundation, and Sue Desmond - Hellman, The Gates Foundation CEO, discuss the importance of developing partnerships between private and public companies to provide vaccines and health care for the world's poor.
Hospitals across England reported the cyber attack was causing huge problems to their services and the public in areas affected were being advised to only seek medical care for emergencies.
For a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health analyzed the eating habits of more than 200,000 health care workers over the course of more than 20 years.
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).
Turning our provincial school systems into providers of universal free child care for well - to - do families is a perversion of good public policy.
And while it may seem incongruous to charge for services in a public school, this is already the case with before - and after - school care in some provinces.
The Province continues to make important decisions to control costs while supporting key public services to, for example, reduce health care wait times and improve student achievement.
«When Stephen Harper was working for the National Citizens Coalition, his goal was to end public health care in Canada,» she said.
In the next breath, however, Harper added: «It should not matter who delivers health care, whether it is private, profit, not - for - profit or public, as long as Canadians have access to those services through the public insurance system regardless of their financial needs.
Although he's been de-emphasizing it recently, Harper is a long - time proponent of allowing more for - profit delivery of health care services - although he stresses that private delivery should occur within the public system.
This area covers the impact of policies affecting Canadians» health and long - term care choices and outcomes, for example regarding access to and quality of care, funding arrangements and incentives, pharmaceuticals policies, intergenerational equity considerations, and the impact of these choices on the public purse.
Lack of access to even urgent dental care for many people with low income, seniors and others is a problem that could be solved with a «public option» for dental insurance, according to a new report...
The authors note, however, that reducing education fees, increasing funding support for people with disabilities, and increasing public support for long term care are needed to help protect the most vulnerable populations during times of economic recovery.
Citing «an immediate serious danger to the public health, safety or welfare» and to residents at the facility, the Agency for Health Care Administration stopped Floridian Gardens Assisted Living Facility from admitting any new residents.
Giuliani and Trump are betting that the public won't care, and Congress won't impeach for these potential violations, while Cohen remains in the fold.
This is true for transportation systems, public utility systems, education infrastructure, health care infrastructure, and senior care infrastructure, to mention only some of the areas where more infrastructure investments are needed.
Such analysis is especially important, given the impact of an ageing population on economic growth, and government revenues and spending, especially for public pensions and health care.
«2017 is going to be a catastrophic year for Obamacare for patients,» said Trump, saying the public health care exchanges are «going to absolutely implode.»
Broward School Board members took a stand against arming school employees Tuesday, while facing harsh public criticism about how well the district protects and cares for its students.
The commonly prescribed arthritis drug Vioxx was withdrawn after it was linked with heart attacks and strokes, a drug trial which went horribly wrong left six men fighting for their lives in intensive care, hospitals were names and shamed for MRSA and Clostridium difficile deaths, and measles made a come back after public confidence in the MMR vaccine plummeted.
Prior says that «as the aging population starts to jeopardise the sustainability of current healthcare funding it will place increased pressure on both public and private payers to find cheaper, more efficient ways of delivering care, and where possible reduce the need for care in the first place.»
They affect government spending through increased outlays for public pensions, health, and care for the aged.
Health Care: Central to the NDP's renewal strategy for health care is a commitment to maintaining and improving the public health care sysCare: Central to the NDP's renewal strategy for health care is a commitment to maintaining and improving the public health care syscare is a commitment to maintaining and improving the public health care syscare system.
The need for extra care in this situation is obvious, the more so when it has to be accommodated with an equally compelling need for the Bank to say more about monetary policy issues in the interests of raising public understanding of them.
HQCA advisory committee The appointment of former Liberal Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan and retired Judge Allan Wachowich to an advisory panel to the Health Quality Council of Alberta may weaken opposition calls for a full Public Inquiry into the intimidation of health care professionals.
We also fight for strong and accessible public services such as universal health care, education, worker training, elder / home care and child care and early learning.
Specific policies include a Canada Employment Credit and Tax Fairness Plan to reduce taxes for working families and seniors; tax credits for public transit, kid's sports, textbooks, tools, and apprentices; increased support to the provinces and territories to create new child care spaces; increasing the Senior Age Credit amount by an additional $ 1,000; and allowing income splitting for caregivers of family members with disabilities.
It shows that assertions questioning the capacity of the FEDERAL government to pay for programs, usually prefaced with the call for â $ ˜â $ ˜adult conversationsâ $ ™ â $ ™, and couched in terms such as fiscal sustainability, solvency, and unfunded liabilities, are red - herrings that will lead to needless reductions and privatizations of public programs in health care, elder care, pensions and so on.»
For some reasons that I don't really know, and I'm sure you could not care about, public pensions preserved a much more lenient regime.
Look at the returns these stocks have generated since going public: Starbucks: ~ 18,000 % Amazon: ~ 21,000 % Apple: ~ 28,000 % Microsoft: ~ 72,000 % Disney: 128,000 % What many investors don't know or don't seem to care about is that for every Apple, there...
All of a sudden, the government is being accused of being too ideological for protecting Alberta's public health care system.
One would expect the list of EB - 5 projects to continue to grow, particularly given demographic changes in the U.S. (Healthcare projects, such as hospices, long - term care facilities, medical centers and public housing for seniors could all see increased EB - 5 investment.)
Calling for a public health care inquiry in March 2011, folk - hero Independent MLA Raj Sherman stood united with NDP leader Brian Mason, Alberta Party leader Sue Huff, Wildrose leader Danielle Smith and Liberal leader David Swann.
Education workers» compensation gained 0.6 % (2.1 % y / y), health care and social assistance 0.9 % (2.5 % y / y), and that for public administration workers went up just 0.2 % (2.2 % y / y).
However, the Liberal platform also envisaged temporary deficits to finance higher spending on social programs such as child benefits, a higher Guaranteed Income Supplement for single seniors, public health care, child care and First Nations programs, and did not increase overall federal tax revenues.
In the context of public health care funding, the Party promises to eliminate health care premiums and ambulance charges; increase funding for home care and other out - of - hospital care services; restore funding for chiropractic and physiotherapy services; fully fund and implement a mental health strategy; and to hold a referendum to prioritize health care spending.
The ground is being prepared for a neoliberal «cure»: cutting back pensions and health care, defaulting on pension promises to labor, and selling off the public sector, letting the new proprietors to put up tollbooths on everything from roads to schools.
When asked his opinion of Taunton before a public debate, Hitchens said, «If everyone in the United States had the same qualities of loyalty and care and concern for others that Larry Taunton had, we'd be living in a much better society than we do.»
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