New Deficit Reduction Plan from Bipartisan Group - NYTimes.com
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www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/us/politics/17fiscal.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a24
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group will present a deficit-reduction plan on Wednesday that goes beyond the spending cuts and tax proposals from the chairmen of President Obama’s fiscal commission. It also calls for a one-year holiday from Social Security payroll taxes to encourage hiring and for a national sales tax to reduce deficits
health insurers pay big to defeat public option but pushed mandate to require all to buy their products
www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/11/18/86-2-million-to-kill-public-option/
A story on Bloomberg reveals that the leading health insurance industry group – America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) –funneled $86.2 million to an effort by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to oppose the recent health care overhaul and the public option.
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Health Coverage Declines But Companies’ Profits Soar
blog.aflcio.org/2010/11/16/health-coverage-declines-but-companies-profits-soar/
The lousy economy hasn’t had much of an impact on six of the nation’s biggest private health insurance companies which saw their profits increase by 22 percent over last year in the quarter that ended in September, according to a new analysis by Health Care for America Now! (HCAN).
World Comparison Shows U.S. Healthcare Lacking | CommonDreams.org
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www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/11/18
The study is the latest in a series by the non-profit Commonwealth Fund showing that while Americans pay far more per capita for healthcare, they are unhappier with the results and less healthy than people in other rich countries
McCollum, Bondi solicit GOP support for federal health care lawsuit | Post on Politics
www.postonpolitics.com/2010/11/mccollum-bondi-solicit-gop-support-for-federal-he...
Attorney General Bill McCollum and his successor Pam Bondi are urging fellow Republicans throughout the country to join his lawsuit against the federal government over the new federal health care law.
John Bouman: Americans Want Health Care Reform to Go Forward
www.huffingtonpost.com/john-bouman/americans-want-health-car_b_783861.html
But out here, when the issue is reduced to kitchen table reality, people don't think ideologically or politically. They think about their own health care, their families' health care, and their own financial circumstances
Nobody's Buying The Cut-Social-Security Line | OurFuture.org
www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010114618/nobodys-buying-cut-social-security-line
In fact, according to a poll released today by Celinda Lake, not even a majority of your Tea Party loyalists, with their "Taxed Enough Already" signs, are supporting the idea that Social Security benefits need to be cut as part of a deficit-reduction plan
The Truth About Health Insurance Premiums | FactCheck.org
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factcheck.org/2010/11/the-truth-about-health-insurance-premiums/
Not true. The Kaiser report gave absolutely no indication that “health care costs will skyrocket under ObamaCare.” It found that premiums for families with employer-sponsored health care plans rose a modest 3 percent in 2010, but workers’ share of the cost jumped 14 percent as companies shifted health care costs to employees during the recession. None of those increases had anything to do with the new federal law.
New Deficit Reduction Plan from Bipartisan Group - NYTimes.com
2www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/us/politics/17fiscal.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a24
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group will present a deficit-reduction plan on Wednesday that goes beyond the spending cuts and tax proposals from the chairmen of President Obama’s fiscal commission. It also calls for a one-year holiday from Social Security payroll taxes to encourage hiring and for a national sales tax to reduce deficits
health insurers pay big to defeat public option but pushed mandate to require all to buy their products
www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2010/11/18/86-2-million-to-kill-public-option/A story on Bloomberg reveals that the leading health insurance industry group – America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) –funneled $86.2 million to an effort by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to oppose the recent health care overhaul and the public option.
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Health Coverage Declines But Companies’ Profits Soar
blog.aflcio.org/2010/11/16/health-coverage-declines-but-companies-profits-soar/The lousy economy hasn’t had much of an impact on six of the nation’s biggest private health insurance companies which saw their profits increase by 22 percent over last year in the quarter that ended in September, according to a new analysis by Health Care for America Now! (HCAN).
World Comparison Shows U.S. Healthcare Lacking | CommonDreams.org
2www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/11/18
The study is the latest in a series by the non-profit Commonwealth Fund showing that while Americans pay far more per capita for healthcare, they are unhappier with the results and less healthy than people in other rich countries
McCollum, Bondi solicit GOP support for federal health care lawsuit | Post on Politics
www.postonpolitics.com/2010/11/mccollum-bondi-solicit-gop-support-for-federal-he...Attorney General Bill McCollum and his successor Pam Bondi are urging fellow Republicans throughout the country to join his lawsuit against the federal government over the new federal health care law.
John Bouman: Americans Want Health Care Reform to Go Forward
www.huffingtonpost.com/john-bouman/americans-want-health-car_b_783861.htmlBut out here, when the issue is reduced to kitchen table reality, people don't think ideologically or politically. They think about their own health care, their families' health care, and their own financial circumstances
Nobody's Buying The Cut-Social-Security Line | OurFuture.org
www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010114618/nobodys-buying-cut-social-security-lineIn fact, according to a poll released today by Celinda Lake, not even a majority of your Tea Party loyalists, with their "Taxed Enough Already" signs, are supporting the idea that Social Security benefits need to be cut as part of a deficit-reduction plan
The Truth About Health Insurance Premiums | FactCheck.org
5factcheck.org/2010/11/the-truth-about-health-insurance-premiums/
Not true. The Kaiser report gave absolutely no indication that “health care costs will skyrocket under ObamaCare.” It found that premiums for families with employer-sponsored health care plans rose a modest 3 percent in 2010, but workers’ share of the cost jumped 14 percent as companies shifted health care costs to employees during the recession. None of those increases had anything to do with the new federal law.
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