In the same year, veterans with catastrophic disability and Medicaid assistance, or low income, were 100%and61%61 % more costly than veterans with no service-connected disability.
An abrupt end to the economic assistance would be catastrophic.
The main feature of a Republican plan could be federal assistance for the purchase of catastrophic health insurance with high deductibles, Mr. Barrasso said.
Six months ago, refugees were "living practically without any assistance in absolutely deplorable and catastrophic conditions," said Samuel Hanryon, press manager for Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières.
Hughes stressed that any oil spill in New Zealand waters would be catastrophic, and it could take 100 days for assistance to arrive.
In spite of heavy investment and several years of technical assistance, the technical and economic results were catastrophic.
But if you suffer a catastrophic injury at, say 40, you may need costly personal assistance for decades—and you will only have had five years to save.
However, 45,000 people in former Unity and Jonglei states are still experiencing catastrophic conditions and face the prospect of starvation if humanitarian assistance is not sustained.
ARC analysis suggests that a widespread catastrophic drought in sub-Saharan Africa today could cost upwards of $3bn in emergency assistance; this would put an unprecedented financial strain on African countries' and donor countries' aid budgets.
Such a policy would continue energy assistance, food shipments and other aid to a population that has suffered catastrophic famines, while insisting that Pyongyang abide by arms control agreements and allow inspections.
By late this afternoon, televised reports said that Mr. Obuchi, 62, was breathing only with the assistance of a respirator, and that he had been given drugs to reverse a catastrophic drop in blood pressure.
