When a doctor's income and livelihood (and an insurance company's profits) depend on denying procedures and care, patients are deprived of optimal treatment.
"I've been out here," he added, "with people like you all over America, people that have lost their jobs, lost their livelihood, lost their health insurance".
There has been major flooding here throughout the summer, many livelihoods are at risk in agriculture, households are facing up to considerable problems in regard to insurance and insurability and flood defences that are badly needed are not happening.
"I'm very concerned," said Amy Frankmann, executive director of the Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association, who has heard from many members and who says the disaster could threaten the livelihoods of landscapers whose insurance will not cover the cost.
Nobody has insurance to rebuild homes and livelihoods.
And why are we sitting here today without a law that holds health insurance companies accountable, when the health and livelihood of millions of Americans depend on such a law?
Healthcare is one of the top social and economic problems facing Americans today, as the rising cost of medical care and health insurance in the United States continues to significantly impact the livelihood of many of its citizens in one way or another.
Critical to this may be the increasing involvement (albeit secondary) in the tourism sector, which can be subject to severe global shocks and create new vulnerabilities [52] and the role of social insurance, which can substitute for the self-insurance of livelihood diversification [4].
Thousands of people probably lost most, if not all, of their livelihoods (the majority of Lhasa's small businesses have no insurance, let alone against rioting).
"Retirees who have lost their retirement savings, small businesses who have lost their livelihood, Australian families who have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, life insurance beneficiaries denied justice and legitimate claims.
It has been the livestock that provides livelihoods to the farmers through secondary income and also serves as insurance in the event of crop failure [2].
