The researchers randomly assigned patients and their primary care doctors to either a collaborative-care group or a standard-care group.
Schwartz is lucky most drinkers don't know--or care--that all beer has some nutritional value.
Why, she asked, should we have a separate system of long-term care (or long-term care financing) at all?
Exemptions are typically limited to hardship cases tied to work or child-care situations, for example, or those for cause.
The beneficiaries range from the elderly poor with insufficient funds to pay for their nursing home or in-residence care, to those under 65 who suffer various mental or physical long-term disabilities which require extensive care.
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With the exception of Mexico and Brazil, the majority of companies in most countries also say they are offering longer-term leave or career breaks for parents or care-givers.
But it's naive to think that every shopper will always remember--or care enough--to bring his or her own.
Two income families are becoming the norm, and parental responsibilities are increasingly shuffled over to schools or day-care centres.
Most are legal residents or U.S. citizens, according to Mr. Medina, who said many are janitors, security guards or health-care aides.
Previously, all Iowan sex offenders who had abused children were barred from living within 2, 000 feet of a school or child-care centre.
It's obvious who now pulls the Democratic levers of power, and anyone in the energy or health-care business had better erect the barricades.
Ackman also points out similarities to the health-care REIT space, as both businesses have little cyclicality, but stresses that privatized prisons don't have the regulatory worries of hospitals or managed-care facilities.
Medicare did not pay for long-stay nursing home care, home health aides, or other long-term care services before this lawsuit, and it will not do so now.
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Under current law, individuals without government- or employer-provided health care coverage must buy it--if they can afford it--with aftertax dollars.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 70 percent of people will need this type of care, which can be quite expensive when nursing home or in-home care costs are calculated.
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It is a highly stressful environment, but Bailey says that following a routine - or set "care pathway" - helps in the heat of the moment.
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Many of its current holdings come from industries or sectors--health care, financial, telecom--that have either been lagging or have substantial fears lingering over them.
In all, around 65m Americans live in federally-designated primary-care health-professional shortage areas (HPSAs), which are regions with 2, 000 or more residents per primary-care doctor.
You said you'd go line by line through the health care debate -- or through the health care bill.
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Most of the stories told in Lessons Learned are relevant to any kind of manager: male or female, specializing in the health-care sector or working in an entirely different field.
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Young adults often fall into a medical void after they leave their pediatrician and don't have a primary-care doctor until their 30s or 40s, which worries many health-care experts.
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None of them have been a result of any interaction with a medical or long-term care facility.
Retire with a bottle of wine or sleep care-free with valet parking and a late 1 pm checkout.
Likewise, nearly all agree that the legislation would do little or nothing to improve quality or change health-care's dysfunctional delivery system.
It allows users to avoid criminal penalties if they seek help from police or the health-care system on their own initiative.
Those laws provide free or low-cost care to just about anyone who needs it, and ban practices like charging higher rates for people with preexisting conditions in employer-based plans.
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He was the winner among respondents who said the economy, the Iraq war or health care -- a trademark issue for Clinton -- was the most important issue to them.
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Many workers, like Ms. Stoll, believe that as independent business owners they might not be able to afford insurance that covers all their medical needs, such as maternity or mental-health care.
It, too, wanted a timepiece that its clients could wear while sky-diving, swimming, playing golf or tennis, hang-gliding or anything else they might care to pursue, without having to take it off for dinner.
It means only 1.2 million are getting formal care either at home or in a care home - although some of these are being forced to pay for the services themselves anyway, as they exceed the income cap.
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