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.
brownout (plural brownouts) 1  A period of low alternating current line voltage, causing a reduction in illumination When demand for electricity exceeds the available supply, a brownout occurs. 2  Temporary dimming of vision, usually with a brown hue and accompanied by loss of peripheral vision or tunnel vision. On rising suddenly from her chair she experienced a brownout and had to sit down again quickly. Temporary closing of a fire station, usually due to budget restrictions.