That rise in servicemen and women surviving multiple injuries is the result of improved care and lessons learned from increasing experience with battlefield injuries, from the military medics who treat the wounded on the frontline, to the medical teams and pilots who risk their own lives to evacuate the wounded, and the staff who give emergency care in Afghanistan.
Now, before you leave angry comments reminding me how this data does not represent the premium increases you may have had to put up with or argue that the improvement is the result of the lower health care costs we have experienced over these past few years, you might wish to read on.
Proponents of the board have argued that IPAB will improve the quality of care as a result of the cost-cutting measures it enacts in order to save.
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Brush, who worked for nine years as a strategy executive at Cigna, the fourth-largest U.S. health insurer, started the firm in early 2011 because he saw the opportunity to help remake the healthcare system as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
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Being born early can sometimes be the result of insufficient prenatal care, or just bad luck.
The result of all this care and attention to detail is much greater customer loyalty.
Despite repeated opposition claims that small business will bear a heavy burden as a result of the Affordable Care Act, a study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine conducted by the non-partisan, non-profit Rand Corporation and based on sophisticated computer modeling, reveals something quite to the contrary.
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The plan continues a saga that began in 2010, when federal district-court judges ordered California to reduce its prison population to about 110, 000 from about 150, 000 at the time the result of lawsuits inmates filed over the quality of prison health care.
The most important result of ObamaCare will go beyond health care, though, to the dynamics of American politics.
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Today, as a result of the Affordable Care Act, a child who is born with a pre-existing medical condition that would previously have resulted in a lifetime without health insurance can no longer be denied coverage.
As a result of the Affordable Care Act, health insurers will soon be barred from charging their older, individual policy customers as much as 5 to 10 times more than what they charge their youngest members.
Despite promises that people who like their plans will be able to keep them, the administration's own regulators acknowledge that 51 percent of workers will discover changes in their health coverage as a result of the health care bill.
And the result, many advocates say, is that the quality of care can leave the patient out of the equation.
The debate about the slowing pace of health-care cost growth centers on whether the phenomenon is mainly a result of the economic downturn that started in 2008 which would suggest that it may soon be reversed or stems from changes in the way care is delivered.
He says fatty livers are common, not because the donor is overweight, but as a result of the donor having been starved in intensive care.
As he said, homes were destroyed and many were left with the need of extensive medical attention either from injury as a direct result of the fighting or because of the lack of proper medical care in general.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency overseeing the programs, has warned that between 2015 and 2021, health spending is set to grow at an average annual rate of 6.2% as a result of the aging of the population, expansion of access to care under the federal health-care law, and an improvement in economic conditions.
The patches are the result of the fact that everyone is on the take from the health care companies.
Those prices, often shrouded in secrecy, are mostly the result of negotiations between insurers and health care providers, and can vary widely even within the same city.
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These controls result in shortages in the supply of care.
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The Federal Reserve recently issued a report stating employers in several regions are laying off workers and cutting back on new hires as a direct result of the president's health care law.
Currently, health care systems focus primarily on chronic ill health, rather than the preventative measures of living a healthy lifestyle, but this may be the adjustment that both the health care system and insurance companies make as a result of digital health devices.
The net result of this silliness is that Democrats are on the verge of not getting much done in terms of health care, freezing spending and other measures because some choose to govern from an intractable position.
While it would certainly be preferable for major shifts in health care to be the result of thoughtful and well-researched strategy, there are potential unintended positive results of new ACA policies that align incentives such that it no longer makes sense for employers to purchase expensive insurance plans on behalf of employees.
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At Charity Hospital, the city's major trauma center, two intensive care patients died Wednesday morning as a result of the lack of electricity and water, doctors said.
During the 2010 health care reform debate that resulted in the utopian Affordable Care Act, opponents often claimed that this would result in the nationalization of 16 percent of the economy.
The Food and Drug Administration just went through a wave of reforms, and the health care system as as whole is getting rejiggered as a result of a new, broader reform law.
Many believe that quality of care has suffered, primarily as a result of poor access, with the complaints that elderly patients sometimes not receiving proper care that they are entitled to receive.
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The lower insurance coverage rates in this community will be the direct result of illegal immigrants being specifically excluded from the health insurance mandate provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the ineligibility of illegals to receive the government subsidies to assist in paying health insurance premiums and, of course, the continued ineligibility of illegals to participate in Medicaid programs.
Even more important, those new jobs were largely the result of growth in the private sector, in construction, manufacturing, retail, and health care, gains that were substantial enough to offset the continuing cut-backs in government payrolls.
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