Sentences with phrase «reform health insurance markets»

Provide federal incentives to states to deregulate and reform their health insurance markets.

Q: Which bills approved by Congress and signed by the President reform health insurance markets and other health care matters?

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The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

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.

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.

«When we interviewed the insurers for our report, it was in late 2017, so we were not able to fully capture how insurers currently would feel about these market stabilization proposals that are in the news this week,» said Sabrina Corlette, research professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute and one of the authors of the study.

Free market reforms could establish a system of tax credits for high deductible health insurance, and reinsurance pools for those with preexisting conditions who are currently lack health insurance.

It could include free market - oriented health insurance reform that makes catastrophic coverage both cheaper and more secure.

«Well, I need more answers... but I like the general direction in which they're trying to move to a more patient - centered health care system, employing some important insurance market reforms,» Faso said.

In 2006, Massachusetts was on the same brink that the entire nation is on today: the brink of expanding health insurance to cover far more people than before, through government - driven, market - based reform.

Following a number of reforms in 2006 on the Slovak health care insurance market, Achmea decided to bring a claim before an ISDS tribunal on the basis of the Dutch — Slovak Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT).

With the new reform, it will now be 65 years for all the health insurance plans being offered in the market.

Although national health care reform is making preexisting conditions a thing of the past, Tennessee does not guarantee insurance on the individual market nor does the state have market rate restrictions.

Long before federal health care reform was enacted, Idaho was one of only a handful of states to guarantee access to health insurance on the individual market for all eligible individuals on a continuous basis.

Meanwhile, federal health care reform has expanded access to Medicaid, while also creating subsidies that may make the cost of health insurance on the individual market more affordable.

Washington, DC About Blog Blogging about health insurance coverage, insurance markets, and how people are affected by insurance reform.

Reform the private health insurance market, including deregulating price setting arrangements and allowing health funds to move into primary care and vary premiums to account for some «lifestyle factors», including smoking.

The majority of private health insurance plans currently offer abortion coverage, and the Stupak / Pitts amendment would result in the elimination of private abortion coverage in the «exchange,» the new insurance market created under health care reform, as well as in the public option, if one is created.

To thrive under health reform and best serve their clients, publicly supported health centers will need to become very good at working with and securing contracts from the health plans that dominate the public and private insurance markets.

A: The Acts» health insurance provisions reform the nation's currently dysfunctional individual and small group health insurance markets.

For well over a decade, NAR has advocated for reforms to the health insurance markets to provide better coverage to the self - employed and small employers that support the real estate industry, including backing AHPs.

The U.S. Congress is expected to be making key decisions next year on banks in real estate, affordable housing, energy reform, terrorism insurance, taxes, and bankruptcy reform — all issues of central importance to real estate markets and the health of communities.

The new health reform law creates individual and small - business insurance exchanges, which will be the new marketplaces for buying coverage for you or your employees if you're in the individual market or run a small business.

As part of efforts to address the health insurance needs of members, NAR has advocated for reform of the health insurance markets that provide coverage to the self - employed and small employers for more than nine years.