Sentences with phrase «systems billions of dollars each year»

In addition to the toll in human lives, sepsis costs healthcare systems billions of dollars each year — much of the costs attributed to expenses incurred during weeks or months - long stays in intensive care units.

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Sixty years later, we have a sprawling and bloated system, where the extra employer layer adds billions of dollars of cost and empowers employers to make intrusive decisions about their employees» healthcare.

«Let's face it: There is something wrong with our system when I can leave [Harvard] and make billions of dollars in 10 years, while millions of students can't afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business,» said Zuckerberg.

TORONTO — The 2013 - 14 financial year was an unusually strong one for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which earned a 16.5 per cent annual return on the billions of dollars in assets it manages for the national retirement system, but its CEO cautions that level of growth likely won't soon be repeated.

Over the last five years, the Federal Reserve has injected more than $ 2.7 trillion in newly created dollars into the financial system and is continuing to add to that total to the tune of $ 85 billion a month.

The unions, for their part, see it as an avenue for unscrupulous employers to avoid paying worker entitlements and cheat the tax system of billions of dollars a year.

«It is shameful that as communities across the state struggle to find the funding to repair crumbling sewage systems and drinking water supplies, we learn that the Cuomo Administration was working in secret for more than a year to divert more than a half a billion dollars from clean water funds to pay for a new bridge,» said Peter Iwanowicz, the executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York.

As New York nears the midpoint of its five - year, $ 8 billion project to reform Medicaid, hundreds of millions of dollars awarded from the federal government have yet to be spent, and that could negatively impact the Cuomo administration's effort to overhaul the system.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate, has laid out how he would raise $ 34 billion: stop rebating $ 16 billion annually to Wall St. speculators from the stock transfer tax; raise $ 8 billion, and give 95 % of us a tax cut, by going back to the state tax system of 30 years ago; and raise $ 10 billion by a 50 % tax on bankers bonuses after we gave them trillions of dollars in bail out.

The system over the years has grown unwieldy, with hundreds of authorities, corporations and development agencies cropping up around the state, taking out billions of dollars in debt and for the most part operating with little sunlight or accountability.

This year's questions are likely to focus on the city's contribution to its beleaguered subway system, which needs billions of dollars» worth of repairs and upgrades.

While Mulrow was listed as a Blackstone lobbyist working to influence the $ 289 billion New York state pension system, Blackstone secured hundreds of millions of dollars in new pension investment commitments for the firm — far more than it had during the four - year period before Cuomo's first term.

ALBANY — It will take many years and billions of dollars to fix aging municipal sewer systems that spill sewage into waterways after it rains, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli warned Thursday.

«Industry giants like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are spending tens of billions of dollars a year on acquiring smaller firms for market entrance, strategic intellectual property and talented employees, but face a real challenge identifying companies with the right products or technology in the vast startup universe,» said Gene Moo Lee, UTA assistant professor of Information Systems and Operations Management.

«A universal pharmacare system would improve the quality and accessibility of health care, while saving the Canadian economy billions of dollars every year.»

Osteoporosis and associated fractures represent a major national public health problem, costing the health system billions of dollars per year (total cost estimated at $ 33.6 billion for 2012 - 2022)-- and with the demographic tsunami of aging upon us, the scale of Australia's osteoporosis problem will continue to rise.

Included among the numerous recipients of Mr. Sanford's gifts, that total more than one billion dollars, are: the Edith Sanford Foundation for Breast Cancer that was created in 2012 by a gift of $ 100 million in honor of Mr. Sanford's mother who died of breast cancer when he was four years old; the Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System, which renamed itself Sanford Health in 2007, in recognition of a $ 400 million gift; a $ 125 million gift in 2014 to establish Sanford Imagenetics, a program that will integrate genomic medicine into primary care for adults; the University of California San Diego which received a $ 100 million gift for the creation of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center in 2013 to accelerate the translation of stem cell research discoveries by advancing clinical trials and patient therapies; the Burnham Institute for Medical Research that received a $ 50 million gift in 2010, and recognized its appreciation for both this and a 2008 gift of $ 20 million to the Sanford Center for Childhood Disease research at Burnham by then changing its name to Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute; a $ 70 million gift to establish a particle physics laboratory named the Sanford Underground Research Facility; and the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine which received a gift of $ 30 million in 2008 and expressed its gratitude by renaming itself the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.

If you haven't heard of Kalydeco — and you probably haven't — that's because this drug, which costs the U.S. health care system nearly half a billion dollars per year, currently helps fewer than 2,000 American patients.

No matter how you measure it, the Renewal Program isn't helping kids, despite de Blasio's promise of a «bold» plan with «profound impact» backed by a «major investment» — almost a billion dollars by 2019 — that will «shake the foundations» of NYC's school system and «turn every Renewal school into a successful school» within three years or he would shut it down.

Authority for states and school systems to issue $ 24.8 billion dollars in bonds over the next 10 years for renovation, repairs and school construction that will be retired through a combination of local, state and federal dollars.

HP had originally purchased PALM and its webOS operating system last year for billions of dollars.

So therefore, he adds, understanding how the Credit Rating System works will give millions of Americans a substantial financial and psychological advantage over it, saving Americans billions of dollars a year.

And that's why we've proposed new programs to help Americans upgrade their homes and businesses and plants with new, energy - efficient building materials — new lighting, new windows, new heating and cooling systems --- investments that will save consumers and business owners tens of billions of dollars a year, and free up money for investment and hiring and creating new jobs and hiring more workers and putting contractors to work as well.

But most Americans likely have no idea how this screwy system works, how it continues to deliver coal to the industry for rock bottom prices — or how it's likely cost us billions of dollars over the years.

As the story goes, these parties had a falling out and as a result decided that since neither side was likely to receive a «fair» hearing and decision under the Russian justice system, and since billions of US dollars, etc. were brought to Britain, why not use the British legal system (which UK government has been promoting for years for these kinds of disputes).

The installation and use of forward collision prevention systems is believed to be able to eliminate almost all of those accidents and could save the nation billions of dollars every year as a result.

«There is something wrong with our system when I can leave here and make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions of students can't afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business,» he said.

«Any way you cut it» he told TechNewsWorld, «the costs associated with this case will be dwarfed by the billions of dollars Facebook has already invested in Rift and will pour into the system over the next five years to make it conform to Facebook's vision.»