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• Business owners grill Cardin over health care bill

  —Delusional Duck

  Dozens of small-business owners gathered Monday looking for answers from Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin about the tax credits, exemptions and other intricacies of the health insurance legislation being hammered out in the Senate this month. [...] The $848 billion Senate bill, which Democratic leaders hope to pass by Christmas, would offer several [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 6:06am EST
  

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• Medicare ‘buy-in’: A bargain or burden?

  —Delusional Duck

  Phil Tredway was intrigued when he heard the latest health insurance proposal making the rounds in Congress: letting people buy into Medicare starting at age 55. “I said, ‘Hey, wait a minute, I could get into Medicare. That might be good,’ ” says Tredway, 61, president of a plastics company in [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 7:51am EST
  

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• Why Stop There?

  —Aquaman, Questing for Atlantis

  I found it a bit hard to believe, but for once I’m pretty much in agreement with Ezra Klein. In an op-ed published today he highlights the fact that one of the biggest problems with our current healthcare system is the employer provision of health insurance. Mostly he focuses on the [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:14am EST
  by Kevin Waterman

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• Car insurance scofflaws raise health mandate doubt

  —Delusional Duck

  Thousands of drivers on the nation’s roads don’t carry auto insurance, despite laws in all but two states requiring it. Critics of President Barack Obama’s health overhaul plan ask: What are the chances scofflaws will treat a requirement to carry health insurance any differently? Nearly 40 years of car insurance mandates [...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 3:56pm EST
  

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• By 2019, Taxpayers Will Pay $196 Billion A Year for Obamacare, But 24 Million People Will Remain Uninsured

  —Salisbury News

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  Under the health care bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday, by 2019 taxpayers will be paying $196 billion per year to subsidize other people’s health insurance coverage, but there still will be 24 million uninsured people in America, according to the Congressional Budget Office and [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:15am EST
  by joealbero

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• Health care’s ‘public option’ would cover little of population

  —Delusional Duck

  A proposed government-run health insurance program, among the most divisive issues in the health care debate, would cover less than 1.5% of the population, new estimates show. The latest version of the “public option,” included in the 10-year, $848 billion health care bill headed toward an initial Senate vote Saturday, [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:28am EST
  

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• You have health insurance options when COBRA runs out

  —Delusional Duck

  Earlier this year, lawmakers agreed to temporarily subsidize health insurance for laid-off workers, providing a big discount for coverage until they got back to work. That worked out nicely for people who found a job before their subsidy expired. But many people who qualified for the benefit are still unemployed. [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:42am EST
  

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• AP IMPACT: Tobacco execs quickly find tax loophole

  —Delusional Duck

  With a simple marketing twist, tobacco companies are avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars a year in taxes by exploiting a loophole in President Barack Obama’s child health law. Obama and Congress increased taxes on tobacco products earlier this year to pay for expanded children’s health insurance, but tobacco for roll-your-own [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:24am EST
  

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