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.
The system provides back-up power during times of blackout. A blackout is a power loss affecting many electricity consumers over a large geographical area for a significant period of time. 1,230 megawatts of demand response capacity helps to mitigate the risk of blackouts and reduce the cost of energy for all electricity users in the affected regions.