But since his family doctor here, Brandt S. Loev, took up disease management, a system for controlling chronic conditions like asthma, the big emergencies have stopped -- and so have the big bills to his mother's health insurance company.
These high prices spurred several Democrats to call for the White House to tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, meant for big emergencies.
Regional Surge Capacity: Lessons learnt from the two big emergencies in 2008 in the CEE/CIS region (i.e., Georgia and Tajikistan) have underscored the need to strengthen surge capacity at the regional level, which will enable timely support to the countries responding to emergencies.
He's not alone in saying that continual daily maintenance, not big emergency repair projects, is needed to preserve Pompeii.
Cabinet ministers are suggesting there will be no big emergency budget for extra public works this autumn, despite earlier hints to the contrary.
The Lehman Brothers collapse that precipitated the 2008 Wall Street crash resulted in two big emergency enactments — George W. Bush's October 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP bailout, and Obama's February 2009 ARRA.
In fact, as cabinet heavyweights like Takeo Hiranuma, the economy, trade and industry minister, have defied the prime minister and called for a big emergency budget, Mr Koizumi has been upping the stakes.
Fortunately, these emergencies have generated a few important case studies, and one can read about the all-too-human world of several big emergency aid operations in appalling detail.
It started with understandable public outrage last fall when the insurer American International Group ran up a hotel bill of $443,343.71 for an incentive junket for its salespeople at a fancy Southern California resort five days after accepting a big emergency federal bailout loan.
How is that fair?" To ram the point home, he added, "Why is it that deficit reduction is a big emergency, justifying making cuts in Social Security benefits, but not closing some loopholes?
In early winter, waiting times in the big emergency departments rose sharply, with nearly one in five patients waiting longer than the four hours that is supposed to be the maximum.
