That's why I think the progress that we've made in offering tax credits for those to afford to be able to have a minimum set of health care -- a minimum standard of health care that allows us not to pay for their health care in that sense, and to get the health care that they need.
While the facility provides a minimum level of care, it is both overcrowded and underfunded.
Democrats mustered just three more than the minimum 216 votes to approve the Senate health care bill, and four more than the minimum for a set of changes to that bill that the Senate will consider this week.
Inflation and a rise in the minimum wage had bumped up care home owners' costs still further.
The unabashed liberal fought for civil rights, environmental causes, farmers, hikes in the minimum wage and health-care reform.
In the race, he is focused on the issues of managed care, the minimum wage, Social Security and education.
Such provisions are of little importance to unions like the Hotel Trades Council or 1199, which are more focused on better access to health care and higher minimum wages.
In the Senate early in the morning, late at night, Ted Kennedy fought and cut deals for minimum wage increases, health care, education, immigration reform, and help for the poor, the elderly and the sick.
By eliminating healthcare insurance discrimination against those who desperately need it, expanding public and private sources of affordable insurance, and guaranteeing a minimum standard benefit, HIV care will become more readily accessible than ever before.
Balky Republican moderates in the Senate have already made enough noise to restore some of the funding taken from Medicaid, Medicare and student loan programs and reinstate minimum federal standards for nursing home care.
In the third debate, Mr Kerry drew thumbnail sketches of his policies on health care, raising the minimum wage, immigration policy and everything else that makes voters think he feels their pain and has ideas for doing something about it.
They plan to improve standards of care by issuing patients with minimum standards of treatment to which the NHS will be held accountable.
On the minimum wage, the government took great care to limit its potential cost in terms of jobs, for example by setting a lower rate for those aged under 22.
We have an abundance of laws on discrimination, hiring, union rules, minimum wage laws, and now health care which penalize and put a real and potential cost on every new hire.
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On the other side, the trade unions have tried to rally the forces of the left for things like a sharp rise in the minimum wage and faster expansion of health care to the uninsured.
If we act in these areas -- minimum wage, family leave, child care, health care and the safety of our children -- we will begin to meet our generation's historic responsibility to strengthen our families for the 21st century.
The National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders said the minimum sentences were "crude and unjust".
On the other hand, the new minimum tax bill contains bad news for those who care about tax simplicity, the institution of marriage, and for some small business folks.
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At a minimum, it might appear unseemly to jump in before taking care of the home front.
On December 2nd, the government announced the creation of a new National Care Standards Commission whose job will include inspecting and enforcing minimum requirements in private hospitals and clinics.
The Democratic Party's stance of supporting child-care, equal pay for equal work and raising the minimum wage rallies women and Latinos behind the party, said Olga Vives, a Cuban-American who is vice-president of the National Organization for Women.
Both candidates promise free child care and school meals, as well as student grants and minimum pensions.
At minimum -- at minimum, I think it's very important that we've got dental care for our kids. (Applause.) Because what happens is, is that if we can keep our children's teeth healthy, then usually that means they've got healthy teeth as adults.
It recently passed laws raising the minimum wage and requiring large employers such as Wal-Mart to pay higher employee health care insurance costs.
Nursing is well on its way to setting minimum standards for a degree level nursing programme and justifiably so, given the complexities of care and the demands the public rightly make in insisting on high quality, safe and effective care.
The care is much better now than it was a year ago, and people have at least the minimum of security.
Even as home health care for the elderly became professionalized, those women continued to be categorized as companions, not eligible for minimum wage or overtime.
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