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.
To be included, the power outage must conform to all of the following criteria: 1  The outage must not be planned by the service provider. 2  The outage must affect at least 1,000 people and last at least one hour. 3  There must be at least 1,000,000 person-hours of disruption.