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Massachusetts' Health Insurers Race to Enroll Uninsured Residents into 'Affordable' Plans
United States to mandate all residents buy health insurance. The law is "the great experiment" as to whether its approach to covering the uninsured can be done on a broader scale, ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 3, 2007
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House Votes to Include $1.3 Billion in Business Tax Breaks in Wage Bill
...Senate conference committee. The House has overwhelmingly passed a package of tax cuts that is billions of dollars less generous than the one earlier approved by Senate, yet it ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 21, 2007
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Bush Health Plan Faces Steep Climb Up Capitol Hill
Medicare spending and a significant expansion of health savings accounts. Administration officials are pushing hard to earn approval of the $5.3 billion in new health-care ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 20, 2007
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Insurance Daybook for Friday, Feb. 2, 2007: Former CMS Head to Address NASI Conference
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner J. Robert Wooley, who oversaw the department after Hurricane Katrina, announced he would resign from his $85,000 per year post. Wooley was named ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 1, 2007
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Group Life To the Rescue
Even as baby boomers age, they are likely to be valued by employers. They have acquired valuable experience and skills, and there probably will be a shortage of qualified workers ...
Source: Best's Review   Date: February 1, 2007
Bush's New Health Insurance Plan Faces Stiff Resistance
Americans get their health insurance. According to America's Health Insurance Plans, about 17 million Americans buy their own health insurance, while 175 million get health ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 24, 2007
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Small-Business Tax Bill Could Entice Agents, Insurers
... Means Committee, Congress' primary tax-writing panel. (By R.J. Lehmann, Washington bureau manager: raymond.lehmann@ambest.com)
Source: BestWire   Date: January 10, 2007
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Long-Awaited Medicaid Report Pushes Tax Breaks for Long-Term-Care Products
The cost of taxpayer-funded long-term-care services "threatens the future sustainability of the Medicaid program" and Congress should "develop a fiscally sustainable plan" to meet ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 5, 2007
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Insurers Count More on Outside Actuaries
Source: BestWeek   Date: January 1, 2007
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Bush Signs Tax, Trade and Health Care Bill
Tax Relief and Health Care Act, H.R. 6111, likely will stand as the last significant legislative victory for the Republican-controlled Congress. The bill, sponsored by outgoing ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 21, 2006
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IRS Increases Long-Term-Care Premium Deductions
National Alliance for Caregiving, a Bethesda, Md.-based nonprofit group, about 44.4 million people in the United States, or about 21% of the adult U.S. population, care for an ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 28, 2006
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Medicare, China Are Among Rangel's Priorities for Ways and Means
Republicans and Democrats," Rangel said. "What it means is that we will have hearings, we will be bringing in people, we will be listening to ideas. And where we find the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 10, 2006
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For a Broker at Baden-Baden, a Quiet Market Can Be Too Quiet
Atlantic brought shivers to Europe. "As a broker, you love a market that's moving," Clark said. "And the continental market by and large isn't moving." Benfield Ltd. is the U.K. ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 2, 2006
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U.S. Senate Finance Chairman Vows to Revisit Tax-Reform Report
Connie Mack, who was chairman of the tax-reform panel. "You'll be busier next year, if things go as I have them planned, whether the president has a plan that way or not." Mack ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 9, 2006
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Vermont Enacts Health Reforms Aimed at Extending Coverage to Uninsured
Report by the nonprofit Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. To achieve universal access, premium subsidies will be provided to low-income state residents that will allow them to buy ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 31, 2006
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Senate Could Slam Brakes on More Health Insurance Tax Breaks
Grassley said in a hearing last week. "But we also know that, over the long term, these easy solutions just don't work." Leonard E. Burman, a senior fellow with the Urban ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 13, 2006
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Study Projects Health Savings Account Expansion Could Increase Uninsured Numbers
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concludes. The study examines proposals in Bush's 2007 fiscal budget to offer tax deductions for contributions to HSAs, and for premiums paid ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 21, 2006
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Economist's Prescriptions Offer Possible Preview of President's Health Plan
Glenn Hubbard tell it, the U.S. health-care system much resembles a Clint Eastwood film: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. The good, Hubbard argues, lies in its unmatched incentives ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 30, 2006
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Regulators' Retreat Focuses on European Solvency
Set to take place Feb. 5 to 8 at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples, Fla., the event is expected to draw 43 insurance commissioners, 29 insurance department senior staff -- one ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 25, 2006
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Health Insurance Advocates Applaud Rejection of Tax Plan Plank
Panel on Tax Reform to Treasury Secretary John W. Snow, the plan would have limited the tax exclusion for employer-provided health insurance to $5,000 for an individual or $11,500 ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 17, 2006
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