This likely renewed speculation that the long-term care and nursing home industry will see further consolidation due to its challenging operating environment.
If the home industry makes too much, it will depress the price of its exports on world markets, damaging the country's terms of trade, and hurting workers.
Reductions in hospital spending could be behind some of the slowdown in specialized nursing-facility costs, said Greg Crist, a spokesman for the American Health Care Association, a nursing-home industry group.
Far from solving the problem of nursing home employees without benefits, ending or severely cutting back Medicare and Medicaid would mean far less money going into the nursing home industry.
As a result, a wide range of advocacy groups, from the nursing home industry to consumer groups such as the Center for Medicare Advocacy (CMA) are urging Medicare to revisit the observation rules.
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There are other arguments to be made about allocation of resources, whether or not the nursing home industry should exist in its current form, and so forth, but arguing that Medicare is crowding out benefits to nursing home employees is flimsy at best.
And if there is an oddity about this potential debacle, it is that the Department of Health and local authorities did not look more closely at the shaky structure of the private care-home industry before facilitating its explosive and dangerous growth by channelling hundreds of millions of pounds in its direction.
The computer industry is dramatically bigger than the home entertainment industry and will have a bigger impact on the format war.
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"In the past few years, we've been getting calls from people interested in opening their own stores, " says Carrie Dieterich, vice president of marketing and industry relations at the Electronic Merchants Association, the trade association for the home entertainment industry.
The HBF is the representative body of the home building industry in England and Wales.
Ferguson of investment research outfit Value Line in a report on the home building industry.
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Scottish home building industry body Homes for Scotland said production had declined despite indications for the need to increase supply.
Designed with input from some of the custom home installation industry's leading professionals, RedEye Pro offers extensive customization tools for installers.
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The goal is to improve standards across the home building industry.
Growth in the home remodeling industry is expected to clock double-digit gains in the first half of 2013, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity.
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Mr. DAVID OLSON (Home Equity Industry Analyst, Wholesale Access): A lot of these loans started to have early defaults and they didn't have the cash to buy them out.
Weaver has only been following the home building industry for two years, but selections like NVR , which is up 62% for the year, have made him one of StarMine's five-star analysts.
Further, aggressive competition in the auto and home insurance industry has caused insurance writers to appeal to consumers on policy pricing, as there is little product differentiation among auto and home insurance policies.
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The "always on" nature of home bothered industry watcher Om Malik from tech news website GigaOm who said it could be a route to gathering data about users that would otherwise be hard to find.
Martin's best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire, the first season of the epic series became the home entertainment industry's best-selling television title for 2012 as well as the fastest selling TV on Blu-ray title of all time.
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M-GO supports multiple digital lockers including UltraViolet, a digital rights authentication and home entertainment industry standard that lets consumers safely and securely download and stream their purchased movies and TV shows via a cloud-based entertainment collection for viewing on TV screens, personal computers, tablets and mobile phones.
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Basel is also home to a booming chemical and pharmaceutical industry, home to the headquarters of Novartis, Roche, Ciba and Syngenta, among others.
At the same time, the PC segment of the industry continues to take on characteristics of the home and consumer electronics industry, which favors enormous economies of scale and a focus on individual users and buyers.
The depressed home-building industry has also shifted gears to adapt to the new reality.
The universities are also integral to another big challenge for Ireland, which is to foster home-grown industry.
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The nation's entire home-appliance industry seems bitten these days by the same desire to make the customer king.
He cites as an example the lack of regulations against deceptive and fraudulent practices in the home-mortgage industry in the past.
Home Star legislation making its way through the U.S. Senate may give the home-performance industry a big shot in the arm.
But that absence of policy undermines hopes for the UK will develop a home-grown industry manufacturing low-carbon systems like offshore wind farms.
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