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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: HEALTH CARE REFORM |
| English words defined with "HEALTH CARE REFORM": join battle. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Address, within health care reform, the need for financial coverage of calcium supplements for those who cannot reach optimal calcium intake through foods alone and financial support for screening of target populations to identify individuals who are at high risk of fracture and who would be likely to benefit from increased calcium intake. (references) | |
Business | Despite a much longer debate than in the United States and the promotion of parallel imports, health care reform policy in Germany remains focused on cost-containment while trying to retain health care quality levels. (references) | |
As part of the pending health care reform policy, the Korean government and interest groups have been debating for the past two years about liberalizing the distribution of certain over-the-counter drugs, including vitamins, to general retail outlets such as supermarkets and department stores. (references) | ||
While neither the system of reference pricing nor the positive list nor the systematic encouragement of parallel imports were part of the final, much reduced Health Care Reform 2000 Act, the sectoral budgets for pharmaceuticals, and other components, were continued under the interim legislation introduced in 1999. The positive list, reference pricing, and parallel import promotion are still being considered for new legislation. (references) | ||
Economic History | Colombia | During the last decade, Colombia made important gains in health care reform. (references) |
Korea | However, several health care reform initiatives launched by the Korean government will likely have a significant impact on the market. (references) | |
Korea | This is because in order to reduce health care costs the Korean government is contemplating many health care reform initiatives, including drugs. (references) | |
Political Economy | Nicaragua | That money has funded such projects as balance of payments support for economic stabilization, primary education, health care reform, employment generation, food donations, and the strengthening of democratic institutions. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | My fellow Americans, we can cut the deficit, create jobs, promote democracy around the globe, pass welfare reform, and health care reform, and the toughest crime bill in history, and still leave too many of our people behind. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
health care reform | 77 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-e-f-h-h-l-m-o-r-r-r-t" | |
-5 letters: farthermore, haematocele. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 41 4C 54 48 43 41 52 45 52 45 46 4F 52 4D |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01000001 01001100 01010100 01001000 00100000 01000011 01000001 01010010 01000101 00100000 01010010 01000101 01000110 01001111 01010010 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E A L T H   C A R E   R E F O R M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 0041 004C 0054 0048 0043 0041 0052 0045 0052 0045 0046 004F 0052 004D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4239354654422373552392523940495247 |
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