Russia's economy would fall off a cliff if energy prices slumped and its population, racked by ill-health and inequality, is shrinking by up to 800, 000 a year.
What is more, had Ariel Sharon not been struck down by ill-health at this juncture, his ultimate legacy would likely have been even more damning.
People deemed "likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to self or others" by mental-health professionals would be added to a state database for checks.
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In yet another blow to Big Tobacco , Mr Clinton announced in his message that the Justice Department was planning to sue the tobacco companies for smoking-related costs borne by federal health-care programmes.
So far in 2013, delays caused by ill-health have averaged at five hours and 48 minutes a month, compared with three hours and six minutes per month in the first three months of 2012.
Last year, research published by Sheffield University - and commissioned by the Department of Health - concluded that increasing the price of alcohol would be one of the most effective measures to tackle alcohol abuse.
The report projected that the number of people covered by employer-based health care plans would fall by about 15 million by 2017.
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While they are a step toward a pay-for-performance system, they have not entirely shed the yoke of the fee-for-service model that is currently employed by government-funded health programs.
That is, there would be a positive feedback effect from health reforms and efficiencies - above all at the demand level by addressing ill health - and a negative one from failing to do so. (If anybody can calculate what 12.5% would be in today's money, then we know the difference between the Wanless "worst case" and what Mr Lansley warns about today).
Encourage health coverage to be purchased like other insurance--independent of the workplace, and directly by individuals themselves--by making the tax treatment of health insurance equal for employees and the self-employed.
The group Coverage for All also offers a state-by-state guide of health-care choices and has a help line open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Arpaio walked back to the press-release meeting, interrupting a recitation of facts by the public-health specialist.
Incentivize employers and employees to select more cost-effective health plans by capping the tax exclusion of employer-provided health benefits in 2018, and then phase it out over ten years.
Professor RUTH STRIEGEL-MOORE (Wesleyan University): Women of color are experiencing eating disorders and very often go unrecognized by the health-care system.
Thousands of would-be entrepreneurs are itching to start their own businesses, but many are shackled to their current employer by health-care benefits they don't think they could otherwise afford.
HMOs have captured most of the corporate-benefits market by promising to keep in check the health-insurance premiums paid by America's large firms, which were once escalating rapidly.
The net effect is that in 2012 approximately half of physicians already were employed by large health-care entities.
Mr. Santorum didn't get this response by discussing health-insurance exchanges and guaranteed issue.
Ms. Brewer was nonetheless besieged by health-industry lobbying, especially from hospitals that want more government money and the insurers that administer Medicaid.
Currently eleven million families are covered by health-care savings accounts, whereby pre-tax dollars are accumulated in accounts to pay for medical expenditures.
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It took more than a year of legislative wrangling and lobbying by health-related businesses to produce the bill the president signed in March.
At the Witwer Senior Center in Cedar Rapids last Monday, surrounded by health-care professionals, Bradley looked as if his mind were a million miles away.
The museum, dedicated to the art of the Himalayas and nearby regions, was opened by health-care executive Donald Rubin and his wife, Shelley, in 2004.
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The scary fiscal projections beloved by worrywarts tend to show rising ratios of debt to GDP, driven by growing health-care costs and rising interest rates.
The report noted that it was not possible to say whether these figures involved deliberate manipulation by hard-pressed health boards in order to meet tighter targets.
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This supplement in particular requires some oversight by a health-care professional because it contains the same active compound as one of the popular cholesterol-lowering statin medications.
All the more so because the changes were voted through in the midst of a political crisis accelerated by the ill-health of the prime minister, Bulent Ecevit.
The direct impact isn't clear, but last week, the Congressional Budget Office projected that by 2022, 7 million fewer people will be covered by employer-sponsored health benefits.
All such diseases are covered 100% by state-run health insurance.
It could start today, of course, by simplifying the paperwork (the state's administration body for the health sector has to follow 15, 000 statutory texts), and by rejigging health-care prices.
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