Treatment costs for suspected pneumonia, meningitis, very severe disease, and other diseases were US$ 31, US$ 57, US$ 73, and US$ 24 respectively. Costs ranged from US$ 24 to US$ 164 across different case-categories. Both type of disease and age of patient had statistically significant effects on treatment costs.hese three antibiotics accounted for 38%, 29%, and 16% of all the drug costs in the study respectively. The average treatment or direct medical costs of pneumonia, meningitis, very severe diseases, and other diseases were US$ 31, US$ 57, US$ 73, and US$ 24 respectively (Table 2).
The Hope Scholarship tax credit is no longer subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) starting in 2009. (The amount of the maximum Hope Scholarship was originally $1,500. It was increased to $1,650 in 2006, to $1,800 in 2008 and to $2,500 for 2009 and 2010. The Tax Relief Act of 2010 extended the American Opportunity Tax Credit's improvements to the Hope Scholarship through 2012.
In truth, Republicans invented the first refundable tax credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), back in the 1970s. And it was Republicans who invented the child credit in the 1990s. As a result of the EITC, the child credit and other tax cuts, the percentage of those with no income tax liability has risen to 30 percent of all tax filers, according to the Tax Foundation. 1  The combination of EITC and the child credit offsets 100 percent of the income tax liability for almost all families with incomes below $30,000. And because of refundability, 100 percent of the payroll tax is also offset for those with incomes below $20,000.