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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER: Unintended consequences: Health care reform has incentives to drop insurance coverage, business groups say
Nov 16, 2009
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Like many big employers, Parker Hannifin Corp. of Cleveland provides its workers with health insurance as part of a benefits package designed to attract and retain the best talent. So does Nationwide, a Columbus-based insurance company.It's a way to "optimize the health status of your population," s...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: POLITICO:CMS: House bill increases health care costs
Nov 14, 2009
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Democrats have promised that health reform would reduce health care costs, but legislation the House passed last week would increase costs over the next decade by $289 billion. By 2019, health costs would rise to 21.1 percent of GDP compared to 20.8 under current law, according to an actuarial repor...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: COLUMBUS DISPATCH: Ohio doctors' group criticizes House bill
Nov 5, 2009
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With House Democrats considering a floor vote Saturday on a sweeping health-care package, the Ohio State Medical Association said yesterday it will oppose the measure unless it is dramatically revised.In a letter to members of Ohio's congressional delegation, the medical association complained of "g...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: PLAIN DEALER: Health care battles in Congress obscure parties' common ground; Republican proposals for reform get little attention
Oct 17, 2009
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WASHINGTON -- In the increasingly partisan debate over health care, Democrats often portray Republicans as obstructionists with no plan of their own. Yet Republicans in Congress have crafted several health care reform proposals that aren't getting much attention because their party is not in power. ...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: WALL STREET JOURNAL OP/ED: States of Personal Privilege
Oct 9, 2009
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How good is Sen. Max Baucus's health reform bill? So good that Democrats have made sure some of the most costly provisions don't apply to their own states.The Senate Finance Committee is gearing up for a final vote next week, and Chairman Baucus now appears to have the Democratic votes to pass his b...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: COLUMBUS DISPATCH: Expansion of Medicaid could impose costs on Ohio
Oct 7, 2009
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WASHINGTON -- As Ohio officials try to close an $850 million budget hole, the key U.S. Senate health-care overhaul package could cost Ohio $922 million in additional Medicaid spending in the plan's first five years.The health-care bill, which is expected to win the Senate Finance Committee's approva...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: ASSOCIATED PRESS: FACT CHECK: Coverage requirement enforced with tax
Sep 22, 2009
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Memo to President Barack Obama: It's a tax.Obama insisted this weekend on national television that requiring people to carry health insurance - and fining them if they don't - isn't the same thing as a tax increase. But the language of Democratic bills to revamp the nation's health care system doesn...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: CBS: Obama Admin: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year
Sep 16, 2009
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The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent. A previously unreleased analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of Treasury says the total in new ta...
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TIBERI SUPPORTS MEASURE TO PREVENT FURTHER ABUSE OF TAXPAYER MONEY
Sep 15, 2009
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U.S. Congressman Pat Tiberi (R-OH) today announced his intention to cosponsor the Defund ACORN Act, a bill that would prevent the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) from receiving anymore American taxpayers’ money.“Enough is enough. ACORN members’ have been making headlin...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: GEORGE WILL COLUMN: Higher Taxes, Anyone?
Jul 13, 2009
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Economic policy, which became startling when Washington began buying automobile companies, has become surreal now that disappointment with the results of the second stimulus is stirring talk about the need for a . . . second stimulus. Elsewhere, it requires centuries to bleach mankind's memory; in W...
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