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"rationing" Definitions
  1. the policy of limiting the amount of food, fuel, etc. that people are allowed to have when there is not enough for everyone to have as much as they want

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The board is explicitly forbidden from any recommendation that includes healthcare rationing, but it can force actions that result in rationing.
After the program ended, some consumer behaviors that developed during the rationing period stuck, with casual shoes that had become popular under rationing continuing to drive demand.
This rationing by price is a particularly brutal form of rationing, and it's one reason there's such persistent political pressure to have the US government ensure access to medical care.
Many Americans would bridle at that kind of explicit rationing.
With the federal government controlling and rationing your health care.
In Vietnam, such rationing was abandoned as reforms were embraced.
We can't let them fall prey to stasis and rationing.
Millions of Brazilians have endured rationing because of prolonged droughts.
Nobody loses their home because of cancer, no rationing insulin.
But rationing is already at work in the United States.
"What we are doing is insurance, because if there is another rationing event, we can respond ... If there is another rationing, without the desalination, we would have to stop some of the production," said Filho.
The Trump administration criticises the rationing of treatment in other countries.
For now, they're rationing doses for patients who need them most.
What drives the distribution in a rationing environment is individual contracts.
The distributor's Canadian steel supplier is already rationing shipments for customers.
The airline isn't rationing a scarce resource or incurring additional cost.
What's more, rationing foreign currency creates the wrong type of competition.
This could mean requiring unpopular methods like taxes, rationing, and mandates.
Stores are rationing product as panicked customers try to stock up.
Americans will accept rationing if they think the system is fair.
Surgeons are even rationing procedures because of a shortage of sutures.
It's a about extreme carbon rationing under an increasingly totalitarian government.
The end of rationing was announced on this day in 1945.
Self-rationing has become common as patients struggle to keep up.
I've heard of fellow Type 1s rationing their insulin and even dying.
But after that: If not quite a blackout, then a careful rationing.
Ghana also faced years of power rationing, which has now largely ended.
Yet New York did not have to put anyone through water rationing.
Additionally, a national board decided acceptable medical care, rationing treatments and medications.
As a native-born Canadian, I've witnessed this sort of rationing firsthand.
After he started rationing insulin, his levels jumped as high as 2160.
The end of shoe rationing was announced on this day in 1945.
"People are talking about World War II and rationing," one prepper said.
In order to pay his other bills, Alec began rationing his insulin.
They had no water and seemed to have been rationing their food.
Second, the government has only one method to control costs: medical rationing.
It has been rationing dollars as its foreign exchange reserves have dwindled.
The other argument you hear is that setting prices means rationing care.
The lack of oxygen you experience from rationing your breaths makes you sick.
Rationing of electricity forced offices to cut back on lighting and air conditioning.
A metered model kind of goes against that because you're by definition rationing.
Sometimes those prices lead to real rationing — as in the case of Morton.
If it ever fell to 1,075 feet, water rationing would go into effect.
He couldn't afford insulin and had been rationing what little he had left.
In any case, filling up is impossible because rationing was imposed in April.
I can chalk it up to clarifying treatments and rationing my styling products.
For now, however, life in places like Addition Hills revolves around water rationing.
Rationing of food, gas and clothing made deprivation a fact of daily life.
One foreign banker said there was "rationing" of dollars by the central bank.
His funds dwindled, his sleep turned fitful, and he started rationing his food.
Shiver in a crater while rationing out your last slices of space tofu?
This is part of what makes transparent rationing of care difficult to sustain.
Residents and businesses have had to contend with mandatory water rationing since 953.
The rationing of World War I gave us the eggless, butterless, milkless cake.
A metered model kind of goes against that because you're, by definition, rationing.
Capital city Caracas and other major cities have not been hit by rationing yet.
The five-year-old drought in California led to water rationing in the state.
The vehicles that run on CNG are exempt from the Delhi government's rationing drive.
Businessmen and importers welcomed the end of strict rationing of dollar supplies at banks.
The vagaries in distribution and inconsistencies in rationing have led to calls for change.
But the rationing that results has been largely hidden from patients and the public.
"I am rationing my cigars and diet Cokes," Martin wrote at 7:14 a.m.
Nigeria is rationing dollars in a desperate (probably doomed) effort to boost its currency.
Gas stations and supermarkets are rationing supplies, while banks are running low on cash.
These are only limited examples of the effects of rationing in these nationalized systems.
What the left should really be saying is that it wants Rationing for All.
But now even police are rationing food in order to feed their sniffer dogs.
Terming government rationing boards "death panels" is worse than calling Ryan a spree killer?
I heard from young families who are rationing their insulin between parents and kids.
North Korea's centrally planned rationing system never recovered from a famine in the 1990s.
Yet the market remains the best social construct for pricing goods and rationing demand.
"I think we can overcome this situation without increasing fares or rationing," added Maduro.
Rationing off water is bad because you can put yourself in a dehydrated state.
They get a quarter of a chicken once a month for their protein rationing.
He said they restocked as much as they could before their distributor started rationing.
Rationing was more common at academic hospitals and their affiliates than at community hospitals.
Housing was short; food rationing grew even tighter than during the conflict; crime spiked.
"It's like the war never ended," a housewife says of the persistent food rationing.
An earlier version of this article misstated when food rationing became widespread in Poland.
An earlier version of this article misstated when food rationing became widespread in Poland.
All this during a period of imposed rationing that imparts a pall over everything.
"Next week the triage might be different: We might be rationing care," he said.
NBC reported on a federal worker rationing her insulin because she's not being paid.
People are still rationing insulin and launching crowdfunding campaigns to pay for emergency care.
Even then, fuel rationing meant they were often unable to completely fill the generator.
She lost her son Alec, 26, to diabetic ketoacidosis shortly after he began rationing insulin.
Despite the onset of the rainy season in December, many districts are still rationing water.
In those circumstances, some form of rationing would be almost inevitable, reckons one big supermarket.
After that, we may see outright rationing or banning of those products especially in Europe.
Earlier this month, the country mandated a three-day weekend as part of energy rationing.
In those circumstances some kind of rationing would be almost inevitable, reckons one big supermarket.
Some 2,300 petrol stations have either run dry, or are rationing sales at the pump.
But, if chocolate companies get their way, we won't all be rationing chocolate anytime soon.
Insulin rationing is a life-or-death decision that has not come without its consequences.
Do we really want months of long waiting lines, rationing of care and exploding budgets?
And concerns are emerging about discrimination and rationing as hospitals become overwhelmed with the sick.
It requires dressing for the weather, arriving early and, perhaps, rationing liquids (no portable toilets).
"Do we want stasis and rationing or do we want dynamism and growth?" he asked.
And the health care provider suppliers now are rationing them out and very tightly so.
MARGMA is considering rationing due to the "extremely high demand," its president Denis Low said.
"People are talking about World War II and rationing," said Ms. Mann, a former midwife.
Formal rationing is when governments allocate goods by specifying exactly how much each family gets.
The US used rationing during World War II to allocate gasoline, sugar, and even meat.
Op-Ed Contributors It looks as if Republicans want to bring back health care rationing.
Rome turned off its public fountains and only narrowly avoided rationing water supplies to homes.
Water rationing is nothing new in Harare – but it more commonly begins months later, residents say.
After years of wartime rationing, this deliberate abundance was provocative to supporters, and blasphemous to detractors.
To take one current example, Bolivia last month imposed water rationing in La Paz, the capital.
Tammy Bruce: California&aposs new water rationing law is a tax in disguise, complete with fines .
There were gas shortages with rationing based upon the odd and even numbers of license plates.
Munger and his impressive colleagues don't need to surrender to the depressing "solution" of medical rationing.
Fuel industry spokesman Andrew McNaught said airline fuel rationing would stay in place until Sept. 28.
It appears they had been rationing food and had no water, according to the sheriff's department.
Cuba is looking for new suppliers to help mitigate electricity and fuel rationing to state companies.
We need to get clearer, institutionally, about what our criteria are for rationing long-odds surgery.
As the capital entered its third month of water rationing, soldiers were still guarding the forest.
Nicole Smith-Holt lost her 27-year-old son, Alec, to insulin rationing two years ago.
Government rationing of medications has made even basics, such as pain relievers, hard to come by.
Front-line reports from doctors reveal that patients are rationing their shots because they're too expensive.
He said stores could also consider rationing the number of each item that customers can buy.
In Italy, doctors are already rationing access to care on the basis of age and disability.
In Italy, doctors are already rationing access to care on the basis of age and disability.
"Do we want stasis and rationing or do we want dynamism and growth?" he asked rhetorically.
I want to take care of people, but we are already rationing PPE (personal protective equipment).
"There are just not enough testing supplies, so we're basically rationing testing supplies," the doctor said.
It simply would transfer costs to taxpayers while introducing rationing in an attempt to control them.
The resulting cuts and rationing would hit hardest the communities most needing the support Medicaid provides.
ESCOM has been rationing power supplies, which raises demand for alternative sources of energy, including charcoal.
But traditional Medicare for All leaves government bureaucrats running and rationing a fifth of the economy.
Sadly, the shuttering of clinics and rationing of care is happening at alarming rates in Canada.
People in Lagos openly talk of hospitals rationing supplies for those who have to go there.
We need to decide how we will deal with these choices now, before rationing becomes necessary.
A common refrain around debates about reforming the health care system is the idea of rationing.
Why it matters: Lawmakers have told stories of constituents rationing insulin because they can't afford it.
It was us scraping money for a bus to Albany and rationing the pizza for meetings.
Electricity rationing has ironically cut energy producers' access to power, compounding the oil problem with output declines.
That means that people are waiting hours in scorching heat for gasoline, and supermarkets are rationing food.
After two years of rationing, residents complain that water from the reservoir is dirty, smelly and undrinkable.
With self-imposed rationing, the residents had water — but only for an hour, three times each day.
Organizers who planned after-parties tightened their belts, in line with Americans rationing sugar, coffee and meat.
His controls on the prices of foreign exchange and basic goods have created shortages, rationing and inflation.
And Sanders isn't coming clean on that — he's promising Medicaid-like costs while also promising no rationing.
A car-rationing plan Air quality in New Delhi is ranked among the worst in the world.
I don't think in terms of population management and rationing as a disease control officer must do.
Opposition critics insists such a measure constitutes power rationing, though the government has avoided using that term.
Most of the supermarkets have reopened but are rationing food, according to Toa Baja Mayor Betito Marquez.
Rationing in interior Sao Paulo forced the world's largest beef producer, JBS SA, to furlough 215 workers.
Gone was the hard, boxy and masculine look (including liberating trousers) that came with wartime fabric rationing.
Its prominence allowed it to skirt the sugar rationing, making it the sweetest drink on the market.
Protests erupted across Iran on Friday after the government announced fuel rationing and prices rocketed up 50%.
The first news story I remember living through is post-war soap rationing in the early 1950s.
"I can tell you my other colleagues across our multiple hospitals are really rationing," said Dr. Ray.
Hospitals are already doing what they can — rationing surgical masks, preparing to stand up temporary facilities, etc.
Caplan added that rationing within the healthcare system is nothing new, pointing to insurance and organ transplants.
Mr. Jones, an economist, also believes that the value of diamonds is inflated through marketing and rationing.
Supermarkets in the UK are rationing hand sanitizer, antibacterial wipes, and pasta to prevent coronavirus panic buying
Just days ago, Woolworths began rationing toilet paper and rice because shoppers were cleaning out their shelves.
How do you drive 20 miles to town when you're rationing gas because you're out of work?
What are some of the pressures that came to bear in a place like Italy with rationing?
It was the hysterical version of the common conservative critique that universal health care means government rationing.
Rationing of care is not only common; it's necessary to balance the books in single-payer systems.
Postwar London of the '23s had been a dreary place of rationing, bomb sites and "peasouper" fogs.
By rationing access and suppressing evidence, the Royal Archives have accomplished the very reverse of their intention.
Rationing of U.S. dollars to prioritise repayment of government debt may become a more politically charged issue.
China has already introduced rationing that limits citizens to buying certain quantities of pork in some cities.
Stuck rationing toilet paper because you didn't stockpile during the coronavirus panic over the last few days?
Rationing meant he didn't eat in order to keep from having to give insulin that metabolizes food.
But make no mistake: Rationing is happening here in the United States; it just happens more quietly.
Already Mr Maduro has instituted a Cuban-style rationing system with food parcels delivered by the armed forces.
Oldham survived an impressive 41 days alone at sea, carefully rationing the food she found in her boat.
The state grain board is responsible for imports of wheat and rice for the country's food rationing program.
Billed as the world's most advanced water-rationing system, this has kept the flow to the sea uninterrupted.
Helium rationing has no system for prioritization; medical facilities do not get special access to the remaining reserves.
The intended benefit to customers of lower interest rates on loans is offset by signs of credit rationing.
A man questioned whether doctors would even have the time in an emergency to engage in formal rationing.
Some with lower incomes said that health care rationing was already occurring based on the ability to pay.
While electricity has largely been restored in Caracas, Maduro's administration is rationing power to the rest of Venezuela.
Many doctors are already rationing the protective gowns, gloves and masks that are necessary to keep them safe.
The price of food in Falluja's markets has rocketed and bakeries have begun rationing bread, residents told Reuters.
And before you denounce this as "rationing," remember that before 2003, Medicare didn't pay for drugs at all.
In free market, capitalist America, the vast majority of individuals don't have a shortage or rationing of either.
State electricity company Corpoelec, which originally ordered rationing in March following a drought, lifted the measure last week.
On Tuesday the government announced that it would introduce national power rationing in peak hours until further notice.
Not only did it succeed in rationing the stone, but they it enshrined the diamond's reputation as prized.
Mining industry sources said electricity rationing had not affected the sector but was likely to if the situation worsened.
I flew from New York each time, rationing vacation days and working from the homeland as best I could.
"For me, rationing is literally just because I don't have the $221 to pick it up today," she said.
Dr. Price wants to free Americans from Medicare and its costly regulatory structure, controls on physicians and rationing protocols.
It simply replaces the heavy spending with rationing, something a billionaire like Munger will never have to worry about.
Is this what we have come to — rationing reproductive health services based the number of consonants in state names?
The result is long lines almost everywhere in San Juan, with gas stations and supermarkets rationing food and gas.
Due to newsprint rationing, no British paper could print it, so the BBC read it aloud on the radio.
Rationing had led to black marketeering and caused lines of motorists outside petrol stations to stretch for several kilometres.
While El Salvadorans live with strict water rationing, the US-based multinational Coca Cola remains immune to such rules.
Everyone in the United States seems to loathe rationing, so no one wants to admit that's what's going on.
Alcohol rationing came to an end in 1955, but the Swedish government's tight control of alcohol sales did not.
Twenty-somethings fresh off their parents' health insurance are rationing insulin; seniors are choosing between heart medications and groceries.
If not, a limited supply will force public health officials to make tough decisions about rationing out a vaccine.
Rationing has also started in the United Kingdom where sales of pasta, milk, and anti-bacterial gels are limited.
"We are not going to run out of food — this isn't about the return of rationing," Mr. Wright said.
Looking to the past, menders cite the rationing campaign in England during World War II, Make Do and Mend.
Maeleigh Soper, a registered travel nurse in Seattle, has been rationing masks and hand sanitizers for the past week.
We are already rationing our PPE, like most ERs around the country, awaiting the influx of more critical patients.
This week, Italy's health minister spoke anxiously about the havoc water rationing would wreak on hospitals and the sick.
Margarine got a boost during the Great Depression and World War II, when scarcity and rationing prevented butter-buying.
Iraq needs between 4.5 million and 5 million tonnes of wheat a year to supply its food rationing programme.
Two years ago, rationing there lasted five months when a drought hit the Guri dam, the country's largest hydroelectric dam.
That changed during World War I, when government food rationing made reducing portions, and your waistline, an act of patriotism.
The upheaval makes it hard to make meaningful economic comparisons, but Crimeans complain of galloping inflation and daily electricity rationing.
Around 50 percent of Etihad's sugar sales inside Iraq went to the trade ministry for the country's food rationing program.
"That's a huge part of rationing that people don't talk about, and a lot of people do it," Marotta said.
In Cali, Colombia's third city, rationing of tap water due to drought has prompted residents to store more in containers.
Venezuela has been enduring periodic blackouts and rationing ever since 22014 — and there's no sign things will improve anytime soon.
And the government has mainly focused on short-term rationing and gimmicky holidays, just as it has during previous crises.
Venezuela has been enduring periodic blackouts and rationing ever since 2009 — and there's no sign things will improve anytime soon.
Not only did American troops eat the food themselves, but according to Noguchi, Hawaiians faced strict rationing during the war.
There are many reports of fuel rationing, and opposition activists say the price of gas in Raqqa has risen 21%.
He said the government was rationing electricity, which explained why some parts of Caracas had power and others did not.
Currently the country has electricity less than half the time, using an 8-hour on, 8-hour off rationing system.
And could businesses and consumers cut their energy consumption by 30 percent without some form of tax or carbon rationing?
But that guarantee wasn't always worth the paper it was printed on, as rationing and long lines became the norm.
Before that, he worked for the United Kingdom's health care rationing board, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
ACA architects claim that the law prevents the Board from rationing health care—the granddaddy of all cost-cutting measures.
With rain brought on by El Niño in recent months, some water agencies have clamored for an end to rationing.
In 2007, angry Iranians torched pump stations and hurled abuse at then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government for imposing fuel rationing.
Earlier this week, a major UK wholesaler announced it was rationing cases of beer to customers as the shortage continues.
Instead, I spent 40-something hours rationing the three liters of bottled water I'd brought, worried that I'd run out.
But the southern African nation now faces an acute shortage of US dollars that has led to banks rationing withdrawals.
People have died rationing their doses, and some are turning to other countries to buy it at a cheaper price.
My joke is that I would have been taller if it hadn't been for rationing, but that's just my joke.
The country needs between 4.5 million and 5 million tonnes of wheat a year to supply its food rationing programme.
The diet of my grandparents' generation was defined by postwar rationing and vegetables and meat that required a can opener.
Healthcare workers are rationing their protective equipment, especially in hospitals where treating novel coronavirus patients has become a daily reality.
"The revelation that rationing occurs in the healthcare system is shocking only because most people never faced it," Caplan said.
But the exhausted medical personnel is agonizing about "life and death" decisions when rationing the care and respirators to patients.
The government has dismissed talk of rationing, but it has also published contingency plans for an exit without an agreement.
On Sunday, customers offered the store's workers hugs and empathy — rationing the town's fuel had been an emotional roller coaster.
And it lowers the "failsafe" or overall cap on Marketplace financial assistance, potentially rationing Marketplace subsidies like it rations Medicaid.
Under rationing, the diets of pets and owners blended; cuts of the same horse or whale were rationed for all.
This shortfall in federal funding will force more states to make the kinds of rationing choices Arizona and Indiana made.
The shortage of N203 masks had led to loosened safety standards and dangerous levels of rationing among health care progressional.
Hospitals, doctors and the American public must prepare, strategically and emotionally, for the real possibility that rationing will be necessary.
Brazil has been rationing tests for only the sickest patients thought to have coronavirus due to a lack of supplies.
Most of the crowd seemed older; graying at the temples, rationing their overpriced beers, and nodding enthusiastically instead of headbanging.
As shortages worsened last month, soldiers began overseeing rationing of gasoline at service stations in several parts of the country.
Political commissars peer over the hackers' shoulders; programmers interrupt their cyber-pillaging to search for information on North Korean food rationing.
Zambia Association of Manufacturers (ZAM) President Roseta Chabala said her organisation would ask Zesco to reduce the power rationing for manufacturers.
Zambia Association of Manufacturers (ZAM) President Roseta Chabala said her organization would ask Zesco to reduce the power rationing for manufacturers.
"We have some concrete proposals on how the load shedding time can be reduced," Chabala said, referring to the electricity rationing.
Protests at the border have prevented trucks from entering from neighboring India since September, causing fuel shortages and rationing in Nepal.
End-of-life care has become a brand based on, at best, concern over patient autonomy and, at worst, bedside rationing.
He started a food-rationing system as a response to United Nations economic sanctions following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
Despite gas rationing and blackouts, there was more spending money in circulation in the US than for more than a decade.
The alternative is rationing out the insulin that he can pay for while still setting aside enough for food and rent.
Some drivers complained that fuel rationing meant they would again be forced to wait for hours within just a few days.
And as the sun sets, the lights of this once proud city go out, the result of government-imposed energy rationing.
Merck, the manufacturer, said it filled requests from a waiting list in the order received, and left rationing decisions to doctors.
Americans want access to the latest and greatest treatments and will rebel against rationing or long waiting times as in Canada.
Fuel rationing kept it off the streets during World War II, but various Wienermobiles have been on the road ever since.
It would bring health care rationing in the form of longer wait times and reduced drug and treatment choices for patients.
Doctors and nurses at the hospital have described rationing intensive care beds and turning away transfers because there was no room.
Egypt's central bank has been rationing dollars and keeping the pound artificially strong at 7.7301 per dollar through weekly dollar auctions.
He and others decried the judge's decision as evidence of the rationing of care by Britain's state-funded National Health Service.
Water or energy rationing is considered a long-term risk in a country that relies mostly on hydro-power for electricity.
Mr. Li has had a long struggle with the city government over its attempts to limit congestion by rationing license plates.
So it was good in that sense, but I actually hated the end of soap rationing because I liked being dirty.
Other British chains have also implemented the same rationing rule, after shelf upon shelf of toilet paper was cleared this week.
"Rationing" — a form of decision-making to allocate scarce resources — is something health care providers hope they never have to do.
Insulin has become so unaffordable that Type 1 diabetics are pushed to take risks, like rationing and buying from strangers online.
"What worries me is that so many people are losing their jobs and rationing their spending and disposable income," she says.
Medicare for All eliminates deductibles and coinsurance, treating rich and poor equally instead of rationing care based on ability to pay.
Cars lined up outside gas stations and many stations were already rationing the amount of gas they were selling per customer.
He points to guidance from New York State and Australia on rationing critical resources so that decisions are made more fairly.
In Italy, doctors have begun rationing care, making heart-wrenching decisions about who gets treatment and who is left to die.
Several systems, including Montefiore Medical Center, are rationing surgical masks and N95 respirators because protective gear is so limited, workers said.
Doctors are warning that shortages of a drug used to treat childhood cancer may force them to start rationing the medicine.
Voters "are finally growing weary of austerity, of the rationing, outsourcing and penny-pinching," wrote James Ely in The Financial Times.
If Sanders had had his heart attack under "Medicare for All," he'd likely be dead today, especially with predictable age-rationing.
Federal policymakers have become accustomed to rationing what they release while citizens are assured that official secrecy makes them more secure.
Santos called on the nation to limit its use of electricity in a bid to make sure rationing is not necessary.
There is nothing inherently wrong with an eight-figure payoff—unless there are people at the same company rationing their insulin.
Further, it is absurd to make an individual bedside rationing argument when annual US health care costs exceed $3.35 trillion per year.
North Korean officials have adopted "failing economic and agricultural policies", including central rationing systems plagued by shortcomings and discriminatory allocation, he said.
Last year, Peru suspended exports of natural gas and imposed fuel rationing due to technical issues at Las Malvinas that impacted production.
A Times reporter, Sheri Fink, has written a disturbing investigative story about drug shortages and the resultant decisions doctors make about rationing.
Rationing your electric pieces and making sure you're knocking out big quad shapes with them is a skill you develop over time.
People could even get relief for the first 15p of "luncheon vouchers", an idea dating from a time of rationing in 1946.
Rationing insulin, or "running yourself high," is an all-too-common way to save money or delay picking up the next prescription.
But a close look at the recommendation reveals some rationing of care that I think government agencies should be making more explicit.
Rationing, both overt and indirect, is one consistent outcome of a Medicare for All system as presently used in Canada and Britain.
And when it comes, the crisis will see the government switching off all the taps and rationing the resource through collection points.
In layman's terms—this is health rationing at its worst and takes treatment options off the table for doctors and their patients.
Small shops ran out of sugar weeks ago, and upscale markets are rationing it to one kilogram, or 2.2 pounds, per person.
New figures show diabetics are rationing their medication and the House Energy and Commerce Committee is launching an investigation into e-cigarettes.
We didn't have scrap drives; we didn't have victory gardens; we didn't have rationing; we didn't have blackouts; there was no draft.
In 1917, the Swedish government adopted the Bratt System, a type of alcohol rationing intended to control drinking-related abuse and violence.
Cassie Sauer, chief executive of the Washington State Hospital Association, said hospitals should not bear the sole burden of rationing protective equipment.
Petty told POLITICO that his public sector hospital in the Bronx implemented what he described as "extreme rationing" of masks this week.
"They're preparing as if what they have is what they'll have," he said, including rationing and reusing masks in potentially unsafe ways.
Iraq's grain board, which falls under the Trade Ministry, holds regular international tenders to import wheat and rice for the rationing programme.
The Office of Price Administration, which was in charge of gas rationing, embarked on an advertising campaign to make conservation seem patriotic.
Medical leaders in Washington State are quietly preparing for what only recently might have looked like a doomsday scenario: rationing medical care.
In Washington State, medical leaders are quietly preparing for what once might have looked like a doomsday scenario: rationing medical care. 3.
This is essential to avoid overtaxing the health care system and rationing resources and attention to patients in need of intensive care.
"Health workers are urging efforts to suppress the outbreak and expand medical capacity so that rationing will be unnecessary," reported The Times.
You get the whole package — which also includes puppies and kittens, charity balls, wartime curfews and meat rationing — in Daniel Blau's EXTRA!
But increasing the demand for health care without increasing supply — and spending —  doesn't lead to greater access; it leads to explicit rationing.
Mr. Wiener compared the political atmosphere now to how Californians embraced mandatory water-rationing in response to the five-year drought here.
Rome's embattled mayor, Virginia Raggi, has vowed to prevent the rationing, even as smaller towns have already resorted to closing some taps.
Americans were encouraged to spy on and report one another for violations of voluntary rationing programs or failure to buy war bonds.
But in Finland, there is no evidence that there is any sort of rationing in the space of prenatal care and childbirth.
Americans may be concerned that lower spending reflects rationing of care, but research has consistently found that not to be the case.
North Korean officials have adopted "failing economic and agricultural policies," including central rationing systems plagued by shortcomings and discriminatory allocation, he said.
"Until we get more water or rains, we must rely on Lake Chivero but that is not enough – hence the rationing," he said.
The POW camps in England fed the (largely German) prisoners adequately, especially given the extraordinary rationing that happened in Germany during the war.
A security agent in Cincinnati, she fell off an assistance program when she turned 21 in late 2015 and began rationing her insulin.
If no deal were to lead to shortages, might the government take control of the food chain, effectively introducing a form of rationing?
But while such shortages have periodically drawn attention, the rationing that results from them has been largely hidden from patients and the public.
Many state-run shops are already rationing sales, creating a new headache for private eateries that do not have access to wholesale markets.
The government said on April 4 that the power rationing plan meant Valencia would spend at most three hours a day without electricity.
Back then, occupation had only just ended and memories of parsnip coffee, carrot tea, and rationing packs were still heavy on locals' minds.
The rationing board, known by the Orwellian acronym NICE, is a health care oligarchy that decides which drugs the UK government will cover.
I think having grown up in a time of war and then rationing, there was a lot of suppressed want in that generation.
The float ended strict rationing of dollar supplies at banks and dealt a blow to a booming dollar black market under the peg.
During a televised address on Sunday, Maduro said that the rationing — where power will be shut off deliberately — would last for 30 days.
With a history spanning invaders and settlers, colonisation, mass immigration, and wartime rationing, Britain has ended up with a uniquely patchworked food culture.
That approach could result in preventable deaths in places like New York and Michigan, where hospitals have already developed protocols for rationing ventilators.
During World War II, his mother was in charge of rationing in her region as head of the local Office of Price Administration.
Running low on staff and suppliesAs cases mount, supplies of protective equipment have gone into short supply, and hospitals are rationing the gear.
They wrote letters to boys in the army and dealt with food rationing, curfews and other such realities of a world at war.
He recalled Godzilla's creator, Eiji Tsuburaya, struggling amid Japan's postwar shortages and rationing to find enough rubber and latex to construct the costume.
Mallacoota, where people huddled on the shore for safety on New Year's Eve, is rationing fuel and relying on the military for help.
Gasoline rationing had ended and the small industrial town in eastern Pennsylvania where I lived no longer felt cut off from everywhere else.
It raised the specter of rationing senior citizens' access to expensive procedures, arguing that's what happens in many European universal health care programs.
Fearful of burdening her family with exorbitant bills, Patel said, she's begun rationing her meds -- taking two pills a day, instead of four.
If the government will cover everything, with no copays or deductibles or hidden forms of rationing, then there's no need for private coverage.
Republicans have responded with the familiar and previously successful playbook of attacking the Democrats for embracing "socialized medicine" and warning of healthcare rationing.
Meanwhile, the teens' grandparents ready themselves for the riots they remember, with Ruby (Lewis) going into full-on survivor mode, rationing and all.
Some U.K. supermarkets are rationing the amount vegetables that customers can buy and say a poor harvest in southern Europe is behind the shortage.
December 22019, 2012 - Booker begins a week of food rationing to raise awareness of poverty and hunger in America, for the campaign SNAP Challenge.
British Vogue had to justify its paper rationing to the government and to do so was charged with trying to make war efforts fashionable.
Instead, it has sought to preserve forex reserves for food, fuel, medicines and manufacturing components, by rationing dollars to non-essential goods and services.
Migration policy should focus on managing admission, and the distributional consequences and assimilation, but should not be based on rationing based on financial hurdles.
The fuel rationing for the public restricts drivers to a maximum of 15 litres of petrol or diesel per filling at specially designated stations.
The pods will work out to around €1 a day, with the machine rationing out food to pets one to five times a day.
But unbeknownst to his friends or family, Smith couldn't afford even a month of his insulin, and decided to start rationing out his injections.
Most of these patients will force themselves to ignore their nagging toothache if they're rationing funds to ensure that they can afford other medications.
She had been expected to testify about a water rationing program that has been in place in hundreds of La Paz neighborhoods since November.
The fuel rationing for the public restricts drivers to a maximum of 15 liters of petrol or diesel per filling at specially designated stations.
Rationing took place because the costly and resource-intensive therapy, which doctors were not sure would help, was available in only about 120 hospitals.
Iran's government announced Friday that it was rationing fuel and increasing its price, citing economic pressure US sanctions as its reason for doing so.
Believers in socialized medicine who saw ObamaCare as a stepping stone to their dream of a "single-payer" system claim that rationing is prohibited.
Despite the fact that stocks of hand gel are incredibly low, according to CNN, many governments haven't adopted any rationing measures for the product.
We are rationing equipment to a dangerous level, and reusing equipment beyond its intended shelf life, placing health care workers and patients at risk.
The soldier's condition was particularly noteworthy because North Korean soldiers, especially those deployed near the border with South Korea, receive priority in food rationing.
"We may be in a situation where we just have to give someone who's salvageable a chance," Hill said, explaining that rationing might happen.
In the United Kingdom, a National Health Service (NHS) official recently acknowledged that Britain is rationing hip and knee replacements by level of pain.
One of Kelley's first assignments was to develop rationing requirements, and in that competitive wartime market she served as a representative for civilian interests.
With food scarce and the government unable to provide through its rationing program, North Koreans began turning away from the official, centrally planned economy.
The move on Friday represents a setback to one of the proposed reforms, to end the universal rationing system, introduced just after the 1959 revolution.
Electricity Minister Luis Motta said Thursday that the rationing will start next week, and he called on Venezuelans to buckle down and show their patriotism.
Some drivers complained that rationing of fuel meant they would be forced to wait in line for hours once again within just a few days.
The party's success in implementing the odd-even car rationing formula to curb pollution in the capital briefly put the brakes on its declining popularity.
Doctors in war zones have had to radically alter their approach, rationing resources, operating in primitive conditions and changing the way they treat trauma injuries.
"We will continue with the water rationing exercise for a certain period into the foreseeable future because of the drought and chemicals," Moyo told reporters.
And so now we know that for real health-care cost relief that doesn't include rationing, we're going to have to look beyond government completely.
He had been rationing his insulin, and died of diabetic ketoacidosis, a complication that occurs when diabetics do not have enough insulin in their bodies.
ROME, July 13 (Reuters) - The mayor of Rome urged the government on Friday to intervene to prevent water rationing in the drought-hit Italian capital.
Opponents of the socialist leader say electricity rationing could have been prevented had the government invested in maintenance and in the construction of thermoelectric plants.
The situation there is dire, with stories of grandmothers rationing crackers to small children and fuel shortages risking the lives of kids on hospital ventilators.
Egypt's gas shortfall has led to rationing among energy-intensive industries such as steel mills and fertiliser plants and caused some output disruption last year.
The level of the dam has dropped considerably and, despite recent heavy rains, the government said water rationing in the capital would continue until 2026.
Suggestions that rationing insulin is the only option available to those struggling to manage out-of-pocket prescription drug costs is irresponsible and potentially harmful.
Parente was chief of staff of former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, during whose administration he successfully managed a severe energy crisis that required electricity rationing.
They have developed an analysis of how Big Medicine has led to unnecessary tests to generate profits, and led to the rationing of personalized care.
With the arrival of World War I and the onset of voluntary gas rationing, tourism declined, and in 1920 Nutting sold his five Colonial houses.
When we keep one group, a relatively poorer one, out of the system in order to improve everyone else's access, we're rationing — just by cost.
They also needed to communicate, to share critical information about diabetics nearing the end of their insulin reserves, babies threatened by dehydration, families rationing crackers.
That will mean massive new demand, rationing, exploding costs in the trillions of dollars, and then, the complete collapse of the U.S. health care system.
Test kit shortages led to rationing of diagnostics, as well as persistence of uncertainties about the demographics, characteristics, impact, risk and threat of the disease.
Unable to afford the $1,300 a month cost for his insulin, he turned to rationing the insulin and died within one month of becoming uninsured.
The IPAB, which has been unfairly labeled a rationing board or "death panel," was designed to help tame runaway Medicare costs, should they ever arise.
Pandemic experts warn that healthcare providers and consumers aren't ready — practically or emotionally — for the rationing of care in a worse-case COVID-19 scenario.
Any sensible health-care economist would likely support rationing—up to the moment that his or her own child requires a heroic, high-cost operation.
Zambia, which has been rationing power after a severe drought hit its hydropower sector, has historically priced electricity below the cost of production via subsidies.
"We won't survive long as we are," said Dave Buchan, 37, protesting on Lambeth Bridge, London, on Monday, adding that food rationing would be needed.
Even FDR's notoriously awful cook couldn't scare off the British as they devoured fresh eggs and oranges denied them by years of rationing back home.
He appeared to relish rationing out bits of real news to reporters, whom he was quick to cut out if he found their coverage unfavorable.
In the economic turmoil that followed Mongolia's independence (after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991), the authorities were forced to introduce food rationing.
LUSAKA, June 3 (Reuters) - Zambia has started rationing electricity to non-mining businesses, a move expected to hurt industrial production and commercial services, business groups said.
The country began rationing power on Saturday to address a daily electricity deficit of 273 Megawatts (MW), said Henry Kapata, spokesman for state power utility Zesco.
Since August power rationing hours, where certain areas are turned off while other have power, have increased from 10 hours to 15 and now 24 hours.
"For example, we assumed severe rationing, which is the best way to keep most people alive when there is this level of food shortage," he said.
And they've heard from some members struggling between buying food and paying for prescription medicine, and that some are contemplating rationing or sharing medications, like insulin.
If you look at the countries that have imposed socialized medicine, that have put the government in charge of providing medicine, what inevitably happens is rationing.
Reserves diminished by more than half to $17 billion in April and the central bank has been rationing its dollars, focusing on imports of essential goods.
But it's really been in the last twenty years that matters have deteriorated into a major drought, edging the region toward a potential water-rationing crisis.
It tells us nothing of the hardships that Ader surely faced — the need to stay awake for long hours, rationing supplies, and dealing with inclement weather.
There have been scattered protests and roadblocks around the South American OPEC nation in recent days over food shortages, power-cuts, high prices and fuel rationing.
The hunger from food rationing remains fresh as does the fear of machete-armed gangs roaming nearby while he and others huddled and waited for help.
Many believe that that virtually free healthcare would result in unlimited demand that could only be curtailed by limiting services and care, also known as rationing.
But many other parts of Venezuela now have power for only several hours per day under a rationing plan put in effect by President Nicolas Maduro.
"There has been a been a lot of rationing of human organs for transplant but that just determines who lives or who dies," Dr. Tector says.
A smart home system that encourages closeness by rationing out internet access and drinking water depending on how much intimate time you've spent with your partner.
In the capital Lagos, supermarkets are struggling to keep their shelves stocked; inflation has driven food prices through the roof and fuel is under strict rationing.
I despised that, but there was also an exciting element to the end of rationing – I started to realise things existed that I'd never seen before.
HAVANA — The Cuban government has begun widespread rationing of chicken, eggs, rice, beans, soap and other basic products in the face of a grave economic crisis.
Using generators, rationing and even bonfires, Puerto Ricans have had to get creative to survive weeks without power or regular water and food after Hurricane Maria.
"Unfortunately many consumers have not yet heeded to the call to refrain from stockpiling, therefore rationing the sale of certain products has become necessary," Shoprite said.
He also doesn't mention the prospect of health care rationing, a concept that Canadians are very familiar with and bypass by crossing into the United States.
Public hospitals have closed floors and are rationing medicine at a time when health experts fear a surge in Zika infections that can cause birth defects.
We know that the stress associated with rationing compounds over the course of a life, and that rich lives outlast poor ones by over a decade.
To really understand the effects of these restrictions on our family, we would have to be part of the water rationing for a more extended period.
For more on health care, see Paul Krugman's blog post, Ross Douthat's column, the Editorial Board's take and an Op-Ed on the return of rationing.
According to a SolarCity blog post — smoothly titled, "Island in the Sun" — the remote island has had quite the struggle in regards to power rationing and outages.
Another good option: traveling with a stash of cash, or a prepaid credit card, and committing to rationing just that amount over the course of your vacation.
A drop in oil prices, a government decision to print money, severe inflation, and rationing are all contributing to an economic crisis in what South American nation?
In early October, the seven states (including California) that share its waters issued drafts of new agreements to stop water levels falling further and to forestall rationing.
One Cleveland Clinic urologist, Dr. Andrew Stephenson, said he came up with BCG rationing guidelines that were used with dozens of patients after being shared with colleagues.
Reserves have tumbled from $0003 billion in 2011 to $16.5 billion at the end of February and the central bank has been rationing dollars through weekly auctions.
How about the people of Cuba who are still subjected to rationing booklets, that can script (ph) how much food each of them can buy every month.
Food and basic necessities are scarce, people are rationing toothpaste and toilet paper, and there are even reports of hungry Venezuelans killing flamingos and anteaters for food.
Data on Thursday showed Indian factory activity decelerated sharply last month as demonetisation led to a rationing of cash and cooled domestic consumption, new orders and production.
There's also Alec Raeshawn Smith, who aged out of his parents' health insurance coverage and lost his life rationing insulin because he could not afford his prescription.
The lake supplies roughly 8 percent of Rome's water needs and ACEA says that if it is taken off the grid, it will have to impose rationing.
To be sure, critics would be quick to point out the side effects of a single payer: rationing, "death panels," and even the loss of freedom itself.
Some of that was achieved through rationing, some of it was achieved through exhortations to buy war bonds, but some of it was achieved through progressive taxation.
In a bid to keep down domestic prices for staples—Egypt imports much of its food—the central bank is, in effect, rationing the supply of dollars.
Importantly, this blueprint rejects the misguided approach of moving toward a socialized system of health care, which would inevitably lead to the rationing of medicines and services.
Instead of the careful rationing of the Depression and wartime, goods could now be cheaply produced, as if by magic, from materials whipped up in the lab.
After months of unscheduled outages, the government began programmed electricity rationing this week across most of Venezuela, except the capital Caracas, prompting sporadic protests in some cities.
The electricity minister, Luis Motta, said on Thursday that the rationing will start next week, and he called on Venezuelans to buckle down and show their patriotism.
Sabesp said 34 measures it enacted during the crisis, ranging from improved pumping capacity to adding new rivers to the water supply, helped Sao Paulo avoid rationing.
The pipeline will not be rationing space on its gasoline line during the period as it typically does when nominations exceed capacity, a Colonial spokeswoman told Reuters.
The pork protests add to the scattered demonstrations and roadblocks around Venezuela during the Christmas holiday period over the shortages, power-cuts, high prices and fuel rationing.
Enbridge on Thursday said it was rationing space as much as 51 percent on some Mainline pipelines for March, more than the previous month, reflecting tight capacity.
Several supermarkets in the United Kingdom have started rationing pasta, milk, and certain tinned products, while Germany and the Netherlands have limited the sale of disinfectant gels.
A US study from June 2011 explored questions of rationing ventilators, which is what Italian hospitals are grappling with as the coronavirus claims thousands of lives there.
ZURICH, March 18 (Reuters) - Switzerland's government has launched the rationing of some common painkiller and anti-fever drugs to prevent panic buying caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
It mentions victory gardens and rationing and such, but we don't spend a lot of time learning about what ordinary New Yorkers planted or how they recycled.
There is talk of rationing water in the capital, Tehran, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, because the usual autumn rains had not come.
I read an article about rationing ventilators in Italy, and I can't imagine being in that position, but I know it's a possibility in my near future.
It's Still Cut Off: Mallacoota, where people huddled on the shore for safety on New Year's Eve, is rationing fuel and relying on the military for help.
Is that the same governor, the unsinkable Jerry Brown, who ordered water rationing two years ago, now requesting a federal emergency to deal with too much water?
That has bitten into public education: some rural districts in Oklahoma have a four-day week, and some schools are rationing paper and cutting foreign language classes.
The improper rationing of parental affection is a given in Mr. Zeller's plays, which also seem to favor old men named André and annoying characters named Anne.
The central bank has been rationing dollars and imposing strict capital controls whilst maintaining the pound at an artificially strong official rate of 1.83 to the dollar.
Single payer would only take us in the opposite direction, eliminating market competition and choice, and driving up costs until the inevitable result — restricted access through rationing.
Antroinette Worsham, a mother of two insulin-dependent daughters, one of whom died after rationing her insulin because it became unaffordable, testified before the House Oversight Committee.
Conservatives don't like it because it represents the big-government approach to cutting healthcare dollars, which will inevitably result in the backdoor rationing of services and treatments.
When the government of Czar Nicholas II announced the rationing of bread, tens of thousands of protesters, many of them women, filled the streets of St. Petersburg.
When I point out that insurance companies also are in the business of rationing health care, he begrudgingly agrees, and doesn't have an easy answer at hand.
Here was a Republican who said what he was going to do, who admitted his health care plan included "rationing," who offered something specific to argue with.
The Zambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ZACCI), an industry body, said the electrity rationing would push up production costs as firms switch to other forms of energy.
According to a report published yesterday in The Times of India, airports across the country have started "rationing" alcohol in pre-flight lounges after concerns over rowdy behaviour.
The government hopes the plant will help end power rationing in winter months while also allowing Tajikistan to boost energy exports its neighbors, such as Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.
Together with dollar rationing and capital controls that have made it difficult for merchants to obtain enough foreign exchange to pay for cargoes, the measures have curbed imports.
Additionally, the full effects of the interest rate cap that was instituted in September 2016 have yet to become clear, but initial indications show evidence of credit rationing.
Careful water rationing ensures there is enough for all, with water supplied through taps in all households once every two days, then stored in big, bright-blue cans.
Campina Grande's 400,000 inhabitants have had water rationing for two years and face the prospect of their taps running dry if the transfer water does not arrive soon.
It denounced rumors "seeking to destabilize normal fuel distribution and drive panic buying", without mentioning the long lines at services stations and rationing of fuel in some areas.
A mix of both is best: canned food is heavier but dehydrated food needs water to be eaten, and if you're rationing water already, that might a problem.
The company said it decided to expand the program after hearing stories of people rationing their insulin because they couldn't afford it; some even died as a result.
We were used to rationing; everything was provided by the state, so I'd go to a bakery, take as much bread as I needed, and forget to pay.
This is not the first time the government has implemented the car-rationing scheme, and critics say it has done little in the past to make things better.
Not only that, but single payer (Canada for example), has a habit of rationing care to save on costs which leads to long waiting times for elective procedures.
To cope with wartime gasoline rationing, the college organized car pools for commuters, and she and Nabokov shared a car that took them to their homes in Cambridge.
Meanwhile, Carbia says she only had food for four days and was left rationing it, never thinking she would have to evacuate on a flight with other families.
Bringing up "rationing" healthcare is also a common tactic from the right, though in the US care is currently effectively rationed based on who can afford what treatment.
This rationing helps an investor balance the risk-taking they need to reap the stock market's higher returns with the safety net that is necessary when there's volatility.
And in a world where supply rationing is perceived to be the differentiator between relative price performance, tin is better positioned than just about any other industrial metal.
But even though her health coverage is more secure, she still worries that she could wind up rationing her insulin again if the health care law were repealed.
They lived in a Pyongyang home that went unheated through most of the winter, raising their own vegetables and chickens to compensate for a collapsing food rationing system.
Commerce Minister Betsy Díaz Velázquez told the state-run Cuban News Agency on Friday that the rationing would begin in order to deal with shortages of staple foods.
"It still leaves huge numbers of people with diabetes who rely on insulin in the same place they were before — rationing and suffering," she said in a statement.
Activists are already pushing to solve the problem through a single-payer system — a sure fire way to ensure skyrocketing costs, decreasing quality, and the rationing of care.
A severe drought and sweltering temperatures have led city officials to consider rationing drinking water for eight hours a day for a million and a half Rome residents.
Until then, patients like Hay have to deal with rationing, alternatives that haven't been proven to work as well, and the side effects that can come with them.
Start with World War II as an example, when the government smoothed the way for sugar rationing by arguing that sugar was not part of a healthy diet.
He looks back on his two and a half months of insulin rationing, and knows he made the wrong choice -- but it was a choice borne from love.
If rationing is never needed, then these discussions, as anxious as they make both the public and professionals, will have served as a critical exercise in disaster preparation.
Some of the biggest chains have taken steps to deal with this surge in demand, rationing food items and reserving certain opening hours for elderly or disabled shoppers.
One person is dead after a train carrying GOP lawmakers collided with a garbage truck in Virginia; Cape Town is dramatically rationing its water amid a severe drought.
And the prices of many drugs — that treat cancers, high blood pressure, allergies and more — have risen so much that average consumers are rationing them, at grave peril.
It arguably taps into fears of rationing, the idea that some people won't get the medical care they need because the government doesn't want to spend the money.
The victim said Clark started rationing her food because she believed the victim was overweight and that her difficulty getting pregnant stemmed from her weight, according to the documents.
If an agreement is reached, U.S. shipments could bring some relief to South Koreans who have faced soaring egg prices and rationing since the outbreak there began last month.
While it might seem odd that links don't have graphical previews, Shahidi tells me this keeps links from clogging the feed and saves data for teens rationing their megabytes.
It could be motorcycling, snowboarding, getting a tattoo, or swimming fewer than 45 minutes after eating a tuna sandwich that come under a stricter taxation or rationing/banning regime.
Just when you think 2017 can't get any stranger, a baseball team starts rationing out the number of edible grasshoppers it sells because people are buying too many. [ESPN]
The show focuses on his jewelry, some of it made during wartime metal rationing in the 1940s, and helps demonstrate the diversity of his work as a skilled metalsmith.
Last month, the country's two major cities, Harare and Bulawayo, announced they had started a water rationing program which would see residents accessing tap water only once a week.
But shipments have fallen by as much as 40 percent since 2014 and Cuba is looking for new suppliers to help mitigate electricity and fuel rationing to state companies.
Suffocating summer heat has followed two years of lower-than-average rainfall in Rome, forcing the Italian capital to close drinking fountains and consider the prospect of water rationing.
These new compounds let the world's beetles and elephants off the hook, and with the rationing of natural rubber during World War II, the new synthetics really took hold.
The president and the Republican Congress should be pointing out vociferously that 'Medicare For All' means Rationing For All, and the undermining of the forces that drive medical breakthroughs.
The crowd may be right as far getting an initial sticker price reduction, but price controls come with hazardous side effects like rationing, black market sales, and stifling innovation.
She expressed concern about the rationing of aid, saying that people who want to help should get supplies to families directly because the centers for aid are not helping.
An upper class rebel, she spent the Second World War in France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt, before returning to her forlorn, conflict-ravaged homeland at the height of rationing.
The 525 gallons that he delivered to them every week or so still required rationing, but the tank's presence brought the Paups their first semblance of normalcy in years.
There have been four publicly confirmed deaths thus far in 2019 attributed to diabetic ketoacidosis in patients rationing their insulin due to cost, according to the Right Care Alliance.
In the 1970s, women's magazines in the US sometimes introduced completely new concepts — and at other times, reintroduced things that had been around since World War II rationing days.
Castro called what followed the "Special Period," an ironic euphemism for massive food and fuel shortages and a rationing so drastic that it physically altered the Cuban people forever.
In the US, there are widespread concerns about the likelihood that hospitals will run out of beds and ventilators as the virus spreads, forcing doctors into difficult rationing decisions.
Sainsbury's — the UK's third-largest supermarket — is rationing food and creating opening hours for the elderly and most vulnerable to stop food running out as the coronavirus crisis spreads.
"Unfortunately many consumers have not yet heeded to the call to refrain from stockpiling, therefore rationing the sale of certain products has become necessary," Shoprite said in a statement.
Sloan Kettering specializes in cancer treatment, not general medicine or urgent care, but the possibility of rationing services shows how the pandemic is rippling through the health care system.
And, in 2012-2014, colleagues and I convened over 300 Maryland residents into small groups to deliberate what community values ought to guide ventilator rationing during a health disaster.
At an event on Capitol Hill in 2018, I heard a Minnesota woman relate how her 85033-year-old son died of diabetic ketoacidosis because he was rationing insulin.
While most of the rest of the rationing decisions were made by committees, only 5 percent of committees included medical ethicists to help guide the use of scarce medicines.
The government announced last July it was rationing energy, raising fears of a return to the crippling blackouts of the "Special Period" after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Office of Price Administration, or O.P.A., created during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, was responsible for limiting the consumption of goods during World War II, usually by rationing.
In the mansion's public spaces, full of gilded mirrors and crystal chandeliers, food-rationing tokens made of rubberized red fiber have gone on display in a new yearlong exhibition.
It was a crucial time; during World War II, as harvests were being shipped overseas for the military, the government began rationing essentials like bread, cheese, meat and sugar.
World Briefing Nepal ended five months of fuel rationing on Tuesday after persuading protesters to end a border blockade that cut supplies of oil and other goods to the country.
The panic-buying amid fuel rationing in parts of France will compound the troubles of Hollande and his government as they strive to convince voters that "things are getting better".
The alarm was first raised in June, when an exceptional heat wave forced several mayors and governors to declare a state of emergency and take restrictive measures, including water rationing.
Egypt's reserves have tumbled from $36 billion in 2011 to $16.4 billion, and the country has been rationing dollars through weekly dollar auctions to banks, keeping the pound artificially strong.
I was impressed by how, despite all the built-in tech tools and formal programs out there, a lot of people took more D.I.Y. approaches to rationing their media use.
When water rationing was introduced in Brazil's Federal District more than a year ago, de Almeida continued to water his crops and animals from a river source on his property.
But an expanded system to supply water from the Bananal River and Paranoa Lake has plugged the gap, Governor Rodrigo Rollemberg said in May, announcing this week's end to rationing.
Major Chinese cities such as Wuhan in Hubei and Hefei in Henan province last month reported heavy loads on their power grid and indicated that they might started rationing electricity.
Cuba has a history of energy rationing, especially in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the Communist government struggled to survive under a severe U.S. embargo.
In the mainstream imagination, at least, the socialist alternative—with its authoritarian implications, material-good rationing, and drab aesthetic, all represented by the USSR—wasn't just less exciting or fun.
For example, Grassley and Wyden pointed to a story in the Des Moines Register that highlighted an Iowa man who died after he lost his job and started rationing insulin.
In a bid to improve air quality, in January and April 2015, the Delhi government temporarily pulled millions of cars off the roads as part of a car rationing scheme.
He managed a severe energy crisis that required electricity rationing and the quick building of supplementary power stations and also helped manage a reduction of the government's stake in Petrobras.
Without a paycheck, Hicks began rationing her children's asthma medication, considered cashing in a life insurance policy and prayed every day she could keep her family from becoming homeless again.
London (CNN Business)Supermarkets in countries around the world are rationing food and household staples in an attempt to prevent shortages as the coronavirus pandemic sparks waves of panic buying.
Republicans and even some Democrats balked at the plan, and an oil industry campaign warned that the law would vastly expand CARB's authority and could even lead to gas rationing.
And now, reports from overwhelmed and under-resourced hospitals across New York City's five boroughs indicate that doctors and nurses there expect to begin rationing soon — if they haven't already.
Delhi officials also implemented an odd-even traffic rationing scheme that takes about half of the cars off the road on a given day based on their license plate numbers.
But when you are forced to shut off your tap, we feel like 25 liters per day is doable and we could adapt to fit the rationing into our lifestyle.
"We already have other serious issues like the depreciation of the kwacha and planned introduction of sales tax next month, so the power rationing will just make it worse," Nyirenda said.
Canadian National and rival Canadian Pacific Railway were rationing space on trains travelling in the Vancouver area and prioritized some commodities over others to deal with congestion, causing complaints from shippers.
CARACAS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday punitive electricity rationing would be imposed on 15 shopping malls and drought-hit Venezuela's time zone would also be modified to save power.
Iraq's grid has struggled to meet soaring power demand this summer causing widespread power rationing and blackouts ("Iraqis boil as power-grid failings exacerbate heat wave", Wall Street Journal, Aug. 11).
For people who typically hoard Halloween candy past Thanksgiving, here's some surprising advice: Some dentists actually condone eating your Halloween candy at one time, rather than rationing it out over weeks.
A year earlier, London had hosted the Festival of Britain on the South Bank of the River Thames to celebrate social and cultural recovery after years of air raids and rationing.
Why it matters: Stories about U.S. patients dying from rationing insulin have put the drug at the center of the debate on how the country will lower prices for essential medicines.
But the country's opposition is slamming the plan as a discriminatory rationing system that will worsen hunger and could give Socialist Party sympathizers the power to withhold food from government critics.
This is a new tax, plain and simple; the arrangement of a rationing law so absurd that it cannot be adhered to by most, guarantees the new cash flow into Sacramento.
But some refugee farmers have complained about water rationing introduced by the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) after it discovered they were irrigating their gardens with fresh water from their daily quota.
Canadian National and rival Canadian Pacific Railway were rationing space on trains traveling in the Vancouver area and prioritized some commodities over others to deal with congestion, causing complaints from shippers.
The truth is that the UK, Canada and other European countries for decades have used wait lists for surgery, diagnostic procedures and doctor appointments specifically as a means of rationing care.
"At some stage, the price will do its job of rationing supply whether that is at $9,000 (per tonne), $8,500 or $8,000, I'm not sure, somewhere in that range," said Lilley.
Two months ago, with the water supply increasingly squeezed by the drought and rebellion in the forest, Mr. Chikuni started rationing in the capital, leaving customers bereft for half the week.
However, rationing has slowly been overtaken by an increase in foreign products, mainly from China, and privately produced food sold in North Korean markets, a factor experts say U.N. reports overlook.
Licking wounds and rationing cash, I ventured down into the grit and graffiti, boarded the A train and, within minutes, was forced to wrestle with the problem of chronic homelessness. Literally.
One in four Americans are unable to afford their medications, and many of them are rationing — or altogether giving up — the very treatments they need to live, sometimes with fatal consequences.
The first model was built in 1948, just three years after the end of World War Two, with rationing still in place and British industry trying to recover from heavy bombardment.
After a 2009-10 drought that also led to electricity rationing and hurt late president Hugo Chavez's presidency, the government poured investment into thermoelectric projects to try to prevent a repeat.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has called it a "rationing board," and that line of attack is still in mainstream use, even though law specifically says the board can't ration health care.
"The biggest, most dreadful thing we might face is rationing or triaging who gets ventilators," said Gabe Kelen, the director of the Office of Critical Event Preparedness at Johns Hopkins University.
And the cost has risen even higher since 2016, putting people without insurance and those with high-deductibles at risk of rationing their doses and, in some cases, going without treatment.
To make sense of the chaos, here are some points on how those shortages usually happen and what to look out for in this crisis from price gouging to possible rationing.
Among the other advice circulating is a leaflet, "Getting Ready Together," that describes risks including reduced gas and oil supplies, shortages of food and drugs, and panic-buying leading to rationing.
Coles said it was working with its suppliers and transport partners to improve availability of popular products, although it did not confirm whether it was also rationing sales of certain items.
The unprecedented heat that has stoked them, and caused droughts like the one that led to water rationing in Rome, is a harbinger of what climate change will bring, scientists say.
Fuel rationing is expected to last for another week and the opposition Labour Party has pounced on the disruption to criticize the National Party over infrastructure shortfalls ahead of Saturday's election.
Tambudzai Murwa who lives in Mufakose, one of Harare townships, told CNN she has dug a well to meet her needs since authorities started rationing water to her home this year.
Singapore, for example, has closed its borders to all new visitors from China, and, like Macau and Taiwan, implemented measures to help ensure the supply of masks, such as rationing systems.
The coronavirus pandemic could soon force American physicians to face a tragic challenge — rationing medical care as the number of ill patients overwhelms the supplies, space and staff available in hospitals.
In many cases, federal agencies have taken temporary steps to minimize the effects of the shutdown — not so different from the approach of that Wisconsin worker who is rationing her insulin.
In North Korea, salaried wages have always been so low as to be almost meaningless; all essential goods, including food, were meant to be provided by the state's public rationing system.
NPR's newscasters gravely warned listeners last Friday about the extremely offensive language they were about to hear, and the network was at least briefly rationing its "shitholes" to one an hour.
The Cuban government announced on Friday it will begin rationing some food and other basic products as the nation copes with challenging economic circumstances, reports AP. Why this matters: Commerce Minister Betsy Díaz Velázquez attributes the shortage of rice, beans, chicken, affordable soap and other basic products to the the U.S. trade embargo executed by the Trump administration, but economists also blame the loss of aid from Venezuela, per AP. More expensive goods are not included in the rationing.
The central bank has been rationing dollars and keeping the pound artificially strong through weekly dollar sales, while businesses have taken to the black market to source their needs at a premium.
To build public support for needed changes, it is critical to distinguish the evidence-based medicine project — which is fundamentally about better science in medicine — from rationing and denial of beneficial services.
Meanwhile, overall U.S. production has also fallen as the bureau has been rationing supply since February 2018 after a group of countries lead by Saudi Arabia announced an economic embargo of Qatar.
What is left is largely outside of the capital Caracas, the only big city that Maduro's government has excluded from a power rationing plan intended to restrict the load on the system.
This sort of rationing can have serious long-term effects for people with Type 1 diabetes, Simeon Taylor, a University of Maryland School of Medicine diabetes researcher and professor, told BuzzFeed News.
One of our best-read articles today reveals how drug shortages around the U.S. have forced doctors and medical institutions into ad hoc rationing that has been largely hidden from the public.
The 1.2 million metric tonne annual capacity plant in the northeast Tanzanian port of Tanga was hit by electricity rationing, inadequate coal supply and increased competition from firms like Nigeria's Dangote Cement.
Even for those still connected to the city council water network like Robert Akim, a clerk at the Kibera Constituency Office, unexpected rationing leaves them at the mercy of the private suppliers.
Following up on a unique premise in a show that thrives on asking question and rationing out answers like they're the last of the world's precious water reserves is a difficult ask.
Dominican Republic refining firm Refidomsa, which declared force majeure last week on deliveries, has been rationing fuel from its 34,000-barrel-per-day Haina refinery, giving it enough inventory for 20 days.
What is left is largely outside of the capital Caracas, the only major city that Maduro's government has excluded from a power-rationing plan intended to restrict the load on the system.
ROME (Reuters) - Rome narrowly avoided water rationing on Friday after a deal between the regional government and the city's water company defused a row over drawing water from a drought-affected lake.
NICE's own analysis shows that around one in five new medicines will be affected by the decision, which brought to a head a long-running argument about drug rationing within the NHS.
According to Arizona Public Media, the lake that provides water to Arizona, Nevada, and California is still shrinking, hovering close to levels that would trigger an "official shortage," and thereby water rationing.
If São Paulo goes ahead with the sale, it would mark the revival of a plan that stalled 15 years ago in the face of a drought and a power-rationing crisis.
China's largest natural gas producer, PetroChina, started rationing supplies to industrial consumers in northern and western regions last month to prevent gas shortages, not long after the country's major winter supply crunch.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal ended months-long fuel rationing after supply from India improved, following the end of a border blockade by ethnic protesters against a new constitution, an official said on Tuesday.
In recent months, anecdotal stories have cropped up from family members and patients describing the rationing of the life-saving medication because they could not afford out-of-pocket expenses for insulin.
"Gasoline is beginning to flow to gas stations, which, despite rationing, are unable to remain open for more than a few hours at a time," according to the Pentagon's latest situation update.
While drive-through testing sites and laboratories continue to work overtime, increasing demand for tests means providers are still rationing them, which could ultimately put a crimp in Trump's social distancing timeline.
Sara Theeler, a 41-year-old mother of three in Akron, Iowa, with Type 1 diabetes said she started rationing insulin after her divorce in 2010, when she lost her health insurance.
Yet wartime restrictions on textile yardage, buttons and embroidery, along with clothing rationing — the last of which only ceased in the United Kingdom in the spring of 1949 — often stymied creative efforts.
A British supermarket chain, Tesco, began rationing antibacterial soap, wipes, and pasta after shoppers emptied the shelves — an uncharacteristic display of nerves in a society that prides itself on its sang-froid.
In a speech on Sunday, Ayatollah Khamenei said he would support rationing and increasing gas prices because heads of three branches of government — the presidency, judiciary and parliament — had made the decision.
We hear of doctors in countries like the U.S. and Italy having to choose between patients and rationing hepatitis C medicines to only the sickest because they can't afford to treat everyone.
The researchers pointed out that America is well positioned to survive such a catastrophe thanks to its large amount of arable land, but would still face increased food insecurity and possible rationing.
His approach would also, as in Europe, reduce the rate of medical progress, increase the rationing of care, increase the wait times for patients, induce many doctors to retire and centralize decision-making.
The OPEC country, which produces more than 2 million barrels of oil per day, is resorting to rationing crude: In order to fill their tanks, citizens must endure long lines overseen by authorities.
Dollar rationing at banks has driven businesses toward the black market where the dollar is now selling for more than 15.5 pounds - a huge mark-up from the official rate of about 8.8.
Clues pointed to the role of sweets: Orphans in childrens' homes too poor to provide sweets had fewer cavities than the general population; dental decay among conscripts declined during sugar rationing in WWI.
The former Soviet republic's imports were forecast to reach $5.4 billion last year, according to the International Monetary Fund, whose mission also noted last November that foreign currency rationing continued in the country.
And while I personally think Charlie's parents should be allowed to decide whether his life support continues, Pence is suggesting the British judges are making their decisions because they are rationing health care.
Colonial indicated it did not expect demand to exceed capacity for the next five-day cycle through the line, and informed shippers it would therefore not follow the typical process for rationing space.
Or they could just ask people like Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who not only advocates rationing, but has spoken out in favor of more Americans simply choosing to end their lives at age 75.
The theoretical roots of the patient-centered care talking points lie in conservative opposition to government rationing in single-payer systems, where bureaucrats might decide not to reimburse physicians for certain treatment options.
This is a winning message compared to the endless cries of how Obamacare deprives people of their right to be uninsured, will lead to rationing, and is a government takeover of health care.
After the embargo, the oil supply in the U.S. was so scarce and the demand was so high, it drove the price of crude to the point that gas stations began rationing gasoline.
With many blaming the government's blunders and ideological blinders for impoverishing the country, widespread scarcities have forced the mentally ill to go without anti-psychotic medication; water shortages have prompted rationing and blackouts.
"That is what they were experiencing in Northern Italy, where there were apparently not enough resources and people with respiratory failure are not getting on ventilators and they are rationing care," Toner said.
See's hasn't closed its doors or stopped working since the 1940s, when it interrupted production back then because ... well, the global war that was going on, and rationing provisions placed on the country.
Jacobi nurses said managers at the Bronx hospital have been rationing protective equipment, making them unable to change out the high-end particle-filtering masks known as N95s as often as they should.
Rationing supply Facing the surge in demand, grocery stores and retailers are limiting sales of certain items to try to prevent panic shopping and hoarding, and give them a chance to restock shelves.
Kantar said supermarkets, which have had to introduce rationing to help cope with demand, took 51% of all retail sales, an increase of 7 percentage points on the same week in mid-February.
The cost of insulin for treating type 1 diabetes in the United States nearly doubled from 2012 to 2016, and anecdotal stories have cropped up from patients describing the rationing of the medicine.
The warning appeared to hint at a looming crackdown on protests that flared nationwide in response to an official announcement on Friday of gasoline rationing and price hikes of at least 50 percent.
Nicole estimates that more than 1,10 people have reached out to her on social media since she first went public about Alec, including the parents of other children who died rationing their insulin.
"Stay ordinary and sane until the end," a friend tells Suzu, and the film darkens as it chronicles her efforts to do so in the face of food rationing, surveillance and constant bombing.
They became a fashionable accessory for everyday wear in the US in the 22019s, when designer Claire McCardell incorporated them into her collections as a savvy response to World War II footwear rationing.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei defended in a televised address Sunday gasoline price increases and rationing that have triggered deadly protests in the country, which he blamed on "foreign enemies," Reuters reports.
The grain board, which falls under the Trade Ministry, holds regular international tenders to import wheat and rice for the rationing programme that covers flour, cooking oil, rice, sugar and baby milk formula.
Fuel rationing, which will restrict car drivers to a maximum of 15 liters of petrol or diesel at specially designated stations, will start at midnight Saturday and is scheduled to last until Aug. 21.
Some hospital workers believe medicines are being swiped from their facilities to be sold on the black market, as government rationing of medications has made even basics, like pain relievers, hard to come by.
In a bid to fight the smog, government officials in New Delhi are planning a road rationing measure that would require odd- and even-numbered vehicles to only operate on odd or even dates.
CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - Hotels in India's southern city of Chennai are rationing water for guests amid searing heat while companies limit showers as the city of 4.6 million faces its worst shortage in years.
PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's dams could take up to five years to recover even if the country experiences normal rainfall following a severe drought, authorities said on Tuesday, increasing the prospects of water rationing.
The grid replaces the more than 109,500 gallons of diesel the remote island imported every year to power generators and would be more reliable, likely eliminating the need for power rationing, the blog said.
Fuel rationing, which will restrict car drivers to a maximum of 15 litres of petrol or diesel at specially designated stations, will start at midnight Saturday and is scheduled to last until Aug. 21.
On Friday, the city, which is suffering a prolonged drought, narrowly managed to avoid water rationing but the Atac strife and internal 5-Star battles meant Mayor Virginia Raggi had no time to celebrate.
North Korea suffered a crippling famine in the 1990s when a combination of bad weather, economic mismanagement and the demise of fuel subsidies from the Soviet Union all but destroyed its state rationing system.
His recollection of wartime rationing in England is poignant and tough for him to recount, and a scene describing the plot of "Animal Farm" is revealing no matter how well you know that novel.
Sanders asked about bad ObamaCare plan; Sanders and Cruz clash on rationing Florida nurse practitioner Melissa Borkowski wants to know why her plan—$1,000 monthly insurance with a hefty $13,000 deductible—is so bad.
Iranian state television has been reporting shortages and rationing of red meat in recent days, showing consumers complaining about prices that have risen by 75 percent in the last year, according to government statistics.
Under the pressure of meat rationing during World War II, hamburger makers discovered that years of food experimentation by companies serving the vegetarian Seventh-day Adventist population had resulted in several viable veggie burgers.
Three pairs of shoes per person annually — that was the initial allotment allowed under a World War II-era shoe rationing program in the U.S. introduced because of strains on leather and rubber supplies.
In an extreme situation, some hospitals' plans include provisions for rationing, even removing some patients from ventilators without requiring their consent to make way for others presumed to have a better chance of survival.
In Minnesota, which has a comparatively low uninsured rate of 4 percent, a 26-year-old man named Alec Raeshawn Smith died after rationing his insulin, which he couldn't afford because he was uninsured.
The regulator is likely to make it easier for foreign-owned joint ventures to expand into new provinces, moving away from its current practice of rationing of new branch opening applications, the people said.
The records reveal the labor included looking after Clark's dog and cleaning her condominium, while Clark started rationing the victim's food as she believed the victim was having trouble getting pregnant because of her weight.
For residents such as Letwin Bhamusi, 43, that means water is now arriving through the pipes only once a week, under a new water rationing schedule put in place in early March by Harare's authorities.
Under the rationing programme, which runs until July, domestic consumers will face blackouts for several hours each day, while cement and steel firms will have to operate fewer shifts due to the cuts, Seleshi said.
The government of Jammu and Kashmir said fuel rationing had been introduced in the Kashmir Valley where there was only enough gasoline for one day, diesel for four days and no liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
CARACAS, April 1 (Reuters) - Venezuelans on Monday prepared to hold protests over continued shortages of power and water following angry demonstrations as the government of President Nicolas Maduro appeared prepared to begin a rationing program.
The central bank has been rationing dollars and keeping the pound artificially strong through weekly dollar sales, while businesses and individuals have taken to the black market to source their dollar needs at increasing rates.
"The more OPEC+ tries to support prices by withholding oil from the market, the more they give the U.S. shale sector an out from rationing supply growth themselves," Citi's December energy and macro outlook said.
A digital economy where large technology platforms and start-ups turn our public sphere into a series of fiefs rationing out goods and services is not a natural development—it's not even a progressive one.
The government expects its electricity rationing system of "load-shedding" to end by 2018 after it signed more than $30 billion in energy generation projects as part of the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Project.
If water levels at the dam fall below 240 meters above sea level, the government may have to shut down the plant to avoid damaging turbines — a move that would inevitably lead to increased rationing.
Why it matters: Per Axios' Bob Herman, stories about U.S. patients dying from rationing insulin have put the drug at the center of the debate on how the country will lower prices for essential medicines.
In response, advocates across the country are mobilizing and fighting back: we're telling patients' stories, we're amplifying each other's voices and we're demanding affordable insulin now... We cannot afford one more death from insulin rationing.
If we all truly want better health care, the only way to provide it is through measures that incentivize a higher supply of health care, not a rationing of the available care through redistributionist schemes.
ROME (Reuters) - Authorities have ordered a halt to pumping water out of a lake near Rome following a prolonged drought, a decision that could force city officials to impose water rationing in the Italian capital.
The extra apportionment on Lines 2/3 and 2.000/67 comes on top of rationing announced last month, meaning that shippers will not be able to transport all their nominated crude volumes on those pipelines.
Some 90 percent of El Salvador's rivers are polluted by industry, municipal wastewater and agricultural chemicals, while many areas suffer water rationing and shortages, and farmers in places like Cabañas cannot grow enough food crops.
Vice President Mike Pence, who was appointed the nation's coronavirus czar despite his abominable management of an H.I.V. outbreak as governor of Indiana, announced that the C.D.C. would lift the rationing of coronavirus testing materials.
North Korea experienced a crippling famine in the 1990s when a combination of bad weather, economic mismanagement and the removal of fuel subsidies paralyzed its state-run rationing system, killing up to three million people.
Epidemic experts predict an explosion in the number of critically ill patients, and federal grant programs are revisiting what are essentially rationing plans for hospitals, states and the Veterans Health Administration in a severe pandemic.
Facing a surge of desperately sick patients, many hospitals have been dusting off triage plans for rationing ventilators that require doctors to make excruciating decisions about which patients would get them if there aren't enough.
As a global health doctor who has worked in many low-income countries where the rationing of limited resources — essentially deciding who gets to live — is unfortunately common practice, I know what bad looks like.
"There was a huge desire to get away from the gray, from the austerity and rationing of postwar Britain," said Roger Bray, a writer for Silver Travel Advisor, billed as a website for mature travelers.
Once the bustling oil capital of the OPEC nation, the city now regularly goes more than eight hours a day without power under a rationing plan that affects everything from running water to internet connectivity.
SAN CRISTOBAL/MARACAIBO, Venezuela, Reuters - Multiple daily power outages are on the increase in several cities in western Venezuela, despite the supposed end of state-sanctioned electricity rationing, people who live in the area say.
You can do post-apocalypse things, survivalist stuff, rationing, killing, new tribalism, but you can also go the dystopia route, struggle against the decadent lords and masters, smash the seductive machine that's controlling your head.
He was lauded for bringing about the return of opulence in fashion after a time when rationing and war had forcibly simplified style for most people (and in marked contrast to Chanel's wartime designs in activewear).
Pop quiz: Which oil rich economy hammered by the global slump in crude is in the throes of a full-fledged economic crisis — complete with rationing, civil strife and runaway inflation stoked by a weak currency?
He cautioned that odd-even rationing for vehicles -- in which cars would only be allowed to operate on alternating days depending on their license plate numbers -- could be implemented if the situation does not improve soon.
Dominican Republic refining firm Refidomsa, which declared force majeure last week on fuel deliveries, said on Wednesday it was rationing fuel from its 34,000-barrel-per-day Haina refinery, giving it enough inventory for 20 days.
To cherish every visit with his wife, who has visited him each weekend, even though touching is restricted and they have had to sit side by side, knees facing forward, rationing their two kisses and hugs.
And yet, we're pretending that it doesn't warrant anywhere near the type of sacrifices taxpayers made during World War II, when rationing affected every American household and was widely considered to be for the common good.
LISBON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Portugal's fuel-tanker drivers will suspend a five-day-old strike that led to fuel rationing at filling stations and negotiate with employers in government-brokered talks, their union said on Friday.
The rationing effort adds to the woes of President Nicolas Maduro, whose socialist administration is facing chronic problems in supplies of staple goods as low oil prices have stretched the OPEC nation's state-led economic model.
At the same time, much of the country is also suffering from severe water rationing, while long-standing shortages of food and basic goods in supermarkets are getting worse, within the context of three-digit inflation.
The monthly rationing of mobile data, which usually means turning off Google Maps and guessing your way to your next coffee for a week, is about as Canadian as hockey and being in denial about racism.
In the summer of 1945, after nearly five years of wartime rationing, the civilian population of the United States was starved for new cars and appliances, new clothing and shoes, and new homes and their furnishings.
Just a few missed doses are capable of sparking tragedy, in a way that isn't true for other drugs, and yet patients forgo medications every day for cost reasons, at rates roughly equivalent to insulin rationing.
Except for a few temporary restrictions like gas rationing, most countries didn't try to force a slowdown in consumption of natural resources or mandate that companies produce fewer material goods for the sake of the planet.
Sharp dips in mining, manufacturing and agriculture were the largest contributors to the negative growth in the third quarter, with agriculture affected by a severe drought which has forced government to begin rationing water supplies nationwide.
"While there are risks to using medications and supplies that are not prescribed to them, there are also risks to rationing or not taking medications or using supplies at all," Litchman told Reuters Health by email.
Former Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe warned last month that the force would have to introduce NHS style "rationing" and cut thousands of police officers unless the threat of government spending cuts was not lifted.
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand will partially ease fuel rationing on Thursday night, a spokesman for the country's oil industry said, a sign that the five-day long fuel shortage that has caused air travel disruptions is subsiding.
That has led to rationing of water, and Kipalian says he worries women and girls will once again have to travel long distances in search of clean drinking water, or spend money they don't have buying water.
This year the city is in a desperate bind to avoid what it calls "Day Zero", the point when the water level at dams north of the city falls to 13.5%, forcing the adoption of emergency rationing.
An international group of pediatric cancer specialists was so troubled about the profession's unsystematic approach to distributing scarce medicine that it developed rationing guidelines that are being released Friday in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Meanwhile, rival pipeline company Enbridge Inc said on Monday there will be extra rationing of space on its Mainline system in December because of unplanned outages in the western part of its heavy and light pipeline network.
BEIJING, June 5 (Reuters) - Some industrial plants in China are facing limited power access or rationing due to a supply crunch as more than 13 cities in central and northern parts of the country issue heat alerts.
Just as the ACA had the infamous "death panels" and "rationing" falsehoods enter the mainstream conscious, there will almost certainly be made-up atrocities told of what the GOP is trying to do to destroy health care.
"Rationing treatment on the basis of unhealthy behaviors betrays an extraordinary naivety about what drives those behaviors," Robert West, professor of health psychology at the UCL Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, wrote in an email.
Bolivia declared a state of emergency in November amid protests and conflicts over the use of aquifers as the country's worst drought in 25 years prompted water rationing and slashed harvests, requiring a sharp rise in imports.
As stores rush out rationing measures to cope with a demand spike from panic buying that has cleared many supermarket shelves, analysts said profits would leap in the short term and stay high as consumer behaviour changed.
After being taken off his parents' insurance plan, Alec's insulin cost more than $1,000 a month, so he began rationing his medication; he was neither a candidate for Medicaid nor able to afford it without government assistance.
Dr. Howard Bauchner, the editor in chief of The Journal of the American Medical Association, warned Friday of "a potential tsunami coming" on a video call with hundreds of other physicians about rationing ventilators and critical care.
DOLLAR RATIONING Meanwhile, senior bankers in Asia said major clients with supply chains and operations outside the region were worried about their cash flow being disrupted as countries close borders and economic activity grinds to a halt.
"Different people have very different access to care based on a whole serious of parameters, mostly how much money you have and your insurance status, and so our country has been massively rationing healthcare forever," he said.
Iran abruptly raised gasoline prices as much as 200 percent early Friday and imposed a strict rationing system, and within hours protests erupted across the country with angry crowds calling for the ouster of President Hassan Rouhani.
In a panel titled "Prescription for Failure: The Ills of Socialized Medicine," there were familiar lines about the rationing of care and long wait times in Canada that have long served as brickbats against Medicare for All.
This policy sought to explain the country's shortages and rationing as necessary to maintain its immense military, to justify oppression as necessary to root out internal enemies and to rally the nationalism that often comes during wartime.
The only apparent solution was to curb those appetites; either voluntarily, by embracing a philosophy of "de-growth" (which is the same as signing up for a permanent, ever-deepening recession), or via central planning and rationing.
The professor, who requested anonymity because she was wary of repercussions from her colleagues and the authorities, said her view of Castroism was lowered by the ordeals of scarcity and hardship, citing food rationing and low salaries.
Its subject matter encompasses many of the most controversial and weighty matters facing contemporary society, including aid in dying or assisted suicide, human cloning, abortion, artificial reproduction, genetic engineering, organ transplantation, medical marijuana and health care rationing.
North Korea's national rationing system, which has been in trouble recently, is set up on a meritocratic scale of social worth, with the average military troop (apparently 4.5 million people) not exactly at the top of the charts.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela on Friday began a census of car owners, a move the socialist government says will help determine a "rational" use of fuel but critics warn could lead to rationing in the crisis-stricken OPEC nation.
The result is that these young adults are rationing, stockpiling, and turning to the black market for the medication they need to stay alive — incredibly risky and desperate measures that could result in long-term harm or death.
By imposing strict foreign exchange controls, tightening monetary policy, limiting the ability of private firms to operate internationally and favoring state-owned firms in the rationing of credit, he triggered a troubling slowdown of private investment and growth.
In Illinois, regional cable and phone companies once funded push polls (polls intentionally designed to shape, not measure public opinion) informing locals that community broadband would help subsidize porn production, or result in government rationing of TV viewing.
After a famine caused the state rationing system to collapse in the 1990s, Kim Jong Il, Mr Kim's father and predecessor, turned a blind eye to small markets called jangmadang, where ordinary North Koreans bought and sold goods.
The government said on April 4 that the power rationing plan meant Valencia would spend at most 3 hours a day without electricity, but a dozen executives and workers there said outages were still lasting over 10 hours.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran introduced gasoline rationing and price hikes of at least 35.73 percent on Friday, drawing sporadic protests and widespread worries over rising inflation despite official promises that the revenue would be used to help needy families.
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's fuel-tanker drivers will suspend a five-day-old strike that led to fuel rationing at the height of the tourist season and negotiate with employers in government-brokered talks, their union said on Friday.
These arguments might amount to fear-mongering but they're vague enough to not be outright lies—though it should be pointed out that the healthcare cuts favored by Trump also amounted to further rationing care for vulnerable populations.
Sufficient rains since late last year have eliminated fears of imminent water rationing but companies and activists say Brazil's most populous region missed an opportunity to shield the population from future droughts by curbing consumption and improving efficiency.
Its foreign currency reserves have tumbled from $36 billion in 2011 to $16.48 billion at the end of January, and the country has been rationing dollars through the weekly dollar auctions to banks, keeping the pound artificially strong.
This year's drought threatened that record - but strong wind production, the country's second biggest source of clean electricity, combined with water rationing from dams means about 98% of power is still expected to be produced cleanly in 2019.
Rationing in US, Australia Measures to keep panic buying under control are also being implemented in Australia, where leading supermarket chain Woolworths (WLWHY) has banned shoppers from buying more than two of any single type of packaged goods.
"People are skipping doses, people are rationing, people are going into bankruptcy because of this drug," he said in an interview, arguing that Humira is both more expensive per dose and has a far higher volume than Daraprim.
A critical drug that serves as the backbone of treatment for most childhood cancers, including leukemias, lymphomas and brain tumors, has become increasingly scarce, and doctors are warning that they may soon be forced to consider rationing doses.
In 1947, the Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) married the Duke of Edinburgh, a moment of national joy at a time when the immediate euphoria after the war had faded to the gloom of persistent rationing and financial hardship.
The brewery&aposs overhaul comes as South Africa&aposs Cape region emerges from an extreme drought that saw the city of Cape Town, population 4 million, rationing water and warning of a "Day Zero" when taps would run dry.
This week, Syrian state media reported that a fuel shortage which has resulted in rationing and long queues at petrol stations came in the context of difficulty in importing fuel and the halting of a credit line from Iran.
Even with this "incredibly lucky" arrangement with her pharmacist, Sumner said she has rationed in the past for financial reasons and is currently rationing so that she can go to her job without feeling sick from her new insulin.
MARACAIBO/PUNTO FIJO (Reuters) - Soldiers oversaw rationing of gasoline at service stations in several parts of Venezuela on Sunday as worsening fuel shortages forced angry drivers to wait for hours to fill their tanks, prompting protests in some areas.
North Korea experienced a crippling famine in the 1990s when a combination of bad weather, economic mismanagement and the demise of fuel subsidies from the Soviet Union all but destroyed its state-run Public Distribution System (PDS) of rationing.
"We estimate that the resumption of rains in April due both to seasonal patterns and the waning of El Nino should lead to the recovery of dam levels, allowing both Colombia and Venezuela to avoid further rationing," he said.
The fuel rationing for the public restricts drivers to a maximum of 15 litres of petrol or diesel per filling at specially designated stations covered by the government-decreed minimum services scheme, and 25 litres at all other stations.
Doctors and hospitals often do not tell patients about shortages and the resulting rationing because they do not want them to worry, especially when alternative drugs are available, or because they feel it would stir up too much anger.
Analysts say if Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government manages to eradicate "load-shedding", the electricity rationing system which leads to several hours of scheduled outages every day, it would significantly boost his chances of securing another term in office.
In June, T1International published a survey that found that more than a quarter of people with type 20183 diabetes in the US rationed their insulin last year, the highest percentage of insulin rationing of any high-income country surveyed.
People had put up with all sorts of things—rationing and so on—in the late '40s and early '50s because of the deprivations of war, but by the end of the 153s, they were expecting a bit more.
Brazil, which was on the brink of power rationing just two years ago, turned to oversupply as market conditions changed dramatically after a sharp increase in power tariffs reduced household consumption and the economic slump cut industries' electricity demand.
My home was that house you have on every street where everyone likes to play at after school, and when I found out about the end of soap rationing I was outside doing just that with all my friends.
When Dillon started rationing his insulin, the mill had just switched to an insurance plan with a high deductible, which meant his parents would have to pay $5,000 out of their own pocket before the insurance would kick in.
The story of how it became as vital as rice and pineapples to us is a colorful one involving World War II, rationing, and resilient Hawaiians who knew how to make that damn can of ground pork last forever.
To ensure more people have access to everyday essentials, Shoprite said it is now rationing the sale of toilet paper, tissues, wipes, liquid soap, hand sanitizer as well as some tinned foods, cereals, antiseptic disinfectant liquids, medicines and vitamins.
Less conventional options than rationing were also considered, such as forcing "manufacturers to produce shoes that would be so unattractive that people would not buy them unless absolutely needed," according to the government's statement introducing the program in 1943.
To ensure more people have access to everyday essentials, Shoprite said it is now rationing the sale of toilet paper, tissues, wipes, liquid soap and hand sanitizer as well as some tinned foods, cereals, antiseptic disinfectants, medicines and vitamins.
Even those that are connected often find their pipes empty: Demand has far outpaced supply, forcing the rationing of municipal water delivery and compelling residents to buy water at inflated prices from tanker trucks that ply the unpaved roads.
Canada's largest pipeline company said last week apportionment - or rationing of space - on its heavy crude pipelines out of Alberta would be zero in August, meaning producers could ship all the barrels they have said they want to move.
The show, "Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure, American Seduction," will focus on objects from the pre-1959 tourist trade, including travel brochures, posters and films that promoted Cuba as an escape for wealthy Americans from Prohibition, the Depression, and wartime rationing.
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela imposed electricity rationing this week in six western states, as the crisis-hit country's creaky power grid suffered from a drought that has reduced water levels in key reservoirs needed to run hydroelectric power generators.
To me, it borders on criminal that drug companies and our government continue to turn a blind eye to people dying, suffering from rationing, or having to cross the border because they cannot afford the ridiculous prices of their insulin.
The current adult generation had lived through wartime rationing, and the one before that had weathered the hungry Dust Bowl years, so it's no wonder that the pendulum swung so far, making food as easy and readily available as possible.
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 28 (Reuters) - South Africa has imposed emergency measures, including rationing, to save dwindling water supplies after an abnormally hot, dry summer coupled with below average rainfall and a spike in usage pushes the country towards a crippling shortage.
MARACAIBO/PUNTO FIJO, May 19 (Reuters) - Soldiers oversaw rationing of gasoline at service stations in several parts of Venezuela on Sunday as worsening fuel shortages forced angry drivers to wait for hours to fill their tanks, prompting protests in some areas.
LISBON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The Portuguese government imposed fuel rationing at petrol stations on Monday as fuel-tanker drivers started a strike and it promised to prevent the labour action from paralysing the country at the height of the tourist season.
This permit-rationing process generated extraordinary financial returns to the owners of the permits — who, in most cases, were not the actual drivers of the cabs — but also ensured that cabs were harder to find than they should have been.
What it means: The Independent Payment Advisory Board, proposed by the ACA and known as the "rationing board" by ACA opponents, won't be activated after all, since it was set up to run cuts if there was overspending in Medicare costs.
"It would be unwise to interpret the data as implying some form of rationing of surgery by surgeons in the UK." Societal attitudes, investment in healthcare and resource limitations must all play some part in decisions to intervene, he said.
From 2013 until last week, it kept the pound pegged in a tight range against the dollar, rationing dollar supply through central bank auctions that created a severe shortage and pushed companies to obtain foreign currency on the black market.
The warnings, including talk of whether rationing would be needed, are part of a chorus of concern from businesses who say they are weighed down by uncertainty in what was once considered a bastion of Western economic and political stability.
After World War II, her place in French couture was usurped by Christian Dior; featuring a girdled waist, a coat with soft, sloping, feminine shoulders, and a giant skirt, Dior's "New Look" was scandalous for its flagrant disregard of fabric rationing.
The tribunal also broached and then, after severe criticism, dropped a car rationing scheme that would let cars with odd-numbered registrations drive only on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and even-numbered registrations to drive on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
ISLAMABAD, June 20 (Reuters) - Pakistan could end energy rationing within two years, the Asia Development Bank (ADB) country director for Pakistan said on Monday, adding weight to government claims that they will end frequent outages in time for the 2018 elections.
Would you rather pay more for certain items and have some workers lose jobs in some industries, or would you rather pay the high cost of rationing and war production, and have some of your children lose their lives in combat?
The price of fuel remains a sensitive topic in Britain where lorry drivers, angry at the price of fuel, blockaded refineries in 2000, bringing the country to a halt and forcing many forecourts to shut and others to introduce rationing.
Fact check: Republicans and some Democrats have targeted it for elimination for years, but it specifically says the board can't recommend any health care rationing, and it doesn't exist yet because Medicare spending hasn't grown fast enough to need it.
ENERGY-SAVING PACKAGE The time change accompanies a flurry of other measures, including rationing at malls and exhortations for women to use hair-dryers and other appliances less, meant to save power in the OPEC nation of 29 million people.
Less conventional options than rationing were also considered, such as forcing "manufacturers to produce shoes that would be so unattractive that people would not buy them unless absolutely needed," according to the government's statement that introduced the program in 1943.
Less conventional options than rationing had also been considered, such as forcing "manufacturers to produce shoes that would be so unattractive that people would not buy them unless absolutely needed," according to a government statement introducing the program in 1943.
Elevators, dialysis machines and a host of life-saving medical devices no longer offer the same guarantees because rationing of resources has forced hundreds and thousands of people to adjust to days whose effective span falls well short of 24 hours.
You have to remember that Hawaii was a war zone during World War II. We had government-mandated blackouts, we had food rationing, and food restrictions, which we felt the pressure of even more because we were away from the mainland.
Other U.S. developments: As doctors prepare to make wrenching decisions about rationing care, leaders across the country are pleading with the federal government to use its powers to ramp up production of masks and other critical supplies that are dwindling.
Washington (CNN)As coronavirus sends the country's largest cities into lockdown and its hospitals into resource rationing, President Donald Trump has found himself relying on individual states and the private sector to make essential decisions on controlling and combating the pandemic.
When, for example, Christian Dior flew in the face of wartime rationing and created the New Look with its indulgent extremes of fabric; when Yves Saint Laurent put women in tuxedos and Rei Kawakubo challenged the very basis of beauty.
In a world that has descended into chaos, with gasoline prohibitively expensive and water rationing enforced by ruthless police, a group of colorful outcasts participates in a high-stakes cross-country road race, using cars that run on human blood.
Cancer treatments: A critical drug that serves as the backbone of treatment for most childhood cancers, including leukemias, lymphomas and brain tumors, has become increasingly scarce, and doctors are warning that they may soon be forced to consider rationing doses.
In that environment, at the city's 83,300-foot elevation, the United States recognized the importance of rationing energy — of overworking in warm-ups to acclimate the lungs, and then staying calm to absorb the Mexican push that it knew would come.
In Britain, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the cost-effectiveness watchdog, recommended the new drugs for the majority of hepatitis C patients, but the British Medical Journal said NHS England had defied NICE's authority by rationing access.
Building on our own past research on rationing medical resources, as well as American, British and Australian guidelines for a less daunting influenza pandemic, and just-released recommendations by the Italian intensive care unit physicians' group, we offer these suggestions.
In 1993, Oregon adopted an ambitious and novel rationing plan: It increased the number of poor and working-class individuals eligible for free health care through Medicaid, but did so by limiting the kinds of care that Medicaid recipients might receive.

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