In addition, they foresee premiums rising to cover the cost of treating the service-connected injuries.
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This has an appealing logic: Medicare has borne much of the cost of treating sick smokers, after all.
The cost of treating obese patients rises as their body mass index increases.
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In 1994, Florida legislators bulldozed these principles so the state Medicaid agency could sue cigarette makers for the cost of treating sick smokers.
To this has to be added the cost of treating health insurance like a utility: regulating prices and stopping insurers cherry-picking and lemon-dropping.
The industry's shrewdest move was to defuse a barrage of cases brought by individual states, aiming to reclaim the cost of treating sick smokers.
Insurers often refuse to cover the cost of treating chronic Lyme.
They added that the programme could help the NHS to save money by reducing the cost of treating patients who develop kidney disease and eye problems.
Complex procedures widely used for people, including chemotherapy and dialysis, are now available for pets, and the potential cost of treating certain illnesses has spiked as a result.
By extracting electrons and energy-laden gas, his 2006-founded company, Cambrian Innovation, has developed a product that can cut the cost of treating wastewater by 30% to 60%, depending on the application area.
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While the need for fresh, clean water creates enormous challenges, it also creates opportunities to develop and implement new technologies that can improve the efficacy and lower the cost of treating water.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), smoking cigarettes kills almost five million people worldwide every year and drains the continent's already impoverished public health services as the cost of treating tobacco-related disease soars.
Its evidence lists the practical problems to recovering the cost of treating diseases, and says a proposal to refund the money to the Welsh government instead of specific parts of the NHS "creates further complexity".
Study after study, pilot project after pilot project has found that interventions that clean up mold, roaches and other asthma-triggering contaminants can greatly reduce the suffering of people with the disease and lower the cost of treating them.
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The groups also say that the cost of treating service-connected injuries could lead to veterans quickly maxing out their benefits in third-party insurance, risking coverage for not just them but their families, who are also covered under the plans.
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And yes, there is the matter of the cost of treating the medically uninsurable being passed on to the rest of us via higher premium costs, but it is the opponents of our current health care reform law who are quick to point out that insuring everyone will not lower our premium costs.
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Within this context, Mr Geneen is scathing about modern managers treating their employees as a cost rather than a resource.
What is the cost of currently treating the disease this drug targets?
The difference between Mr Haas and his rivals remains his refusal to concede that treating his employees well is an avoidable cost.
Consider that treating one patient with one drug can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Yet those medicines often represent the most cost-effective approach to preventing and treating disease.
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Fears about the high cost of new drugs and the changing financial environment for treating cancer are major concerns among doctors gathered here at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology.
Second Sight believes that U.S. insurers will likely cover the cost of the device for patients who may not have other ways of treating their vision loss.
The deal will allow federally funded researchers access to five stem cell lines created there three years ago at no cost, as long as they use them for teaching research, not for treating disease or developing commercial products.
Anything lower reduces the expected cost of criminality, without doing anything to improve the probability of detection. (Treating whistleblowers leniently is consistent with this logic: letting them off punishment raises the odds of truth-telling, and therefore of detection.) There are plenty of arguments against ultra-high fines, however.
The authors acknowledge that the fee-for-service reimbursement system, in which providers earn more by treating patients more aggressively, impedes the kind of disruptive innovation that would lead to better care at a lower cost.
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By treating citizens of the developing world as consumers and not aid recipients, the private sector has dramatically lowered the cost of many household goods that we take for granted and promoted business practices that benefit entire societies while enriching local entrepreneurs.
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