Generally, Medicare does not pay for long-term care. Medicare pays only for medically necessary skilled nursing facility or home health care. However, certain conditions must be met for Medicare to pay for even those types of care. The services must be ordered by a doctor and tend to be rehabilatative in nature.
Vehicle lights provide the only illumination during the 2009 Ecuador electricity crisis. A power outage (also called a power cut, a power blackout, power failure or a blackout) is a short-term or a long-term loss of the electric power to a particular area. There are many causes of power failures in an electricity network.
What causes power outages? Equipment failure, storms, wildlife, tree limbs and public damage cause power outages. Westar tracks outage causes and works to identify areas we can improve service reliability. Many components make up the electrical system. Electrical equipment, like any piece of equipment, can fail due to age, performance and other factors.