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Baucus Panel Making Headway on Health Care Reform Package
… billion gap in financing the legislative package, which likely will cost about $1 trillion over the next decade. Sen . Kent Conrad , D-North Dakota, said that several tax options are being considered, two of which would focus on the subsidies …
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Senators Consider Dropping Required Employer Coverage From Health Care Reform Bill
… 12.5 percent of a workerâ s income. That proposal alone would save the government $300 million, according to Sen . Kent Conrad , D-North Dakota and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. A proposal to tax health care benefits could generate …
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Immigration Slips Down Fall Scorecard Dominated by Health Care Reform
… Senate headed home for August. "We're making steady progress and doing this in a very professional way," said Sen . Kent Conrad , D-North Dakota. Finally, in negotiations on another bill important to Workforce Management readers, the principals …
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Wal-Mart, Union Jointly Endorse Employer Health Insurance Mandate
… tax on benefits and the free-rider provision would save the government as much as $718 billion, according to Sen . Kent Conrad , D-North Dakota and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. â Jeremy Smerd Workforce Management's online news …
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Senate Negotiators Push Forward With Focus on Cost of Health Care Reform
… announced. Baucus, along with ranking member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and members Jeff Bingaman, D-New Mexico, Kent Conrad , D-North Dakota, Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, participated in a teleconference to hammer out …
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Employers Shift Health Care Reform Fight to Senate
… Democrats; Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats; and Senate Finance Committee members Kent Conrad , D-North Dakota, and Blanche Lincoln, D-Arkansas, whose re-election bid next year is far from certain. The only …
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Health Care Reform Legislation Priced at Under $1 Trillion, Officials Say
… the bill would be paid for or which options were tweaked in order to lower the overall cost. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad , R-North Dakota, however, said the committee had been able to reduce costs by lowering the amount …
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After One Career, Boomers Look to Return for an Encore
… The Incentives for Older Workers Act, introduced by Sens. Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin, Gordon Smith, R-Oregon, and Kent Conrad , D-North Dakota, would remove barriers to phased retirement and help people return to work after their midlife careers have …
