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Employers Should Ignore the Rhetoric and Focus on the Reality of Health Care Reform, Experts Say
… nominee Mitt Romney has said that repealing it will be his first order of business if he is elected in November. The Republican Party also promises to overhaul Medicare and Medicaid and introduce broad tax code changes that could cut incentives for …
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GOP Platform Includes Repeal of Health Care Reform Law
… and Affordable Care Act, while restoring Medicare payment cuts that the 2010 law authorized. As expected, the Republican Party promises massive changes to the Medicare and Medicaid programs if former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep …
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Reform Law is Biggest Threat to Medicare: Paul Ryan
… more than 2,000 pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees and fines that have no place in a free country," the Republican Party 's vice presidential nominee told an audience that erupted in cheers and applause.As chairman of the House Budget …
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Labor Leader Predicts Employee Free Choice Act Passage by April
… Republican roadblocks. â Weâ re going to have the Employee Free Choice Act despite the determined efforts of the Republican Party and a group of businesspeople who really donâ t want any kind of labor law reform at all,â he said. The AFL …
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Obama Health Care Reform Effort Gets $150 Million Boost From Unlikely Ally
… Billy Tauzin, is a former U.S. representative from Louisiana who was elected as a Democrat but switched to the Republican Party . But drug makers are certainly in favor of reform, in part because a guarantee of health insurance coverage for the approximately …
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Franken's Vote May Not Be Good Enough for Card Check
… for first contract negotiations. Arlen Specter, a newly minted Democrat from Pennsylvania who switched from the Republican Party in April, is one Democrat who opposes EFCA. Another is Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Arkansas. Specter and Pryor are …
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GOP Health Care Reforms Rely on Tax Credits
… care tax equity, Sen. McCain, who accepted the Republican Party presidential nomination last week at the partyâ s national ..... endorses mental health care parity, as does the Republican Party platform. Observers also expect McCain to push for …
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FEMA Flap Puts Cronyism in the Spotlight
… which was posted on the agencyâ s Web site, was submitted when he was first hired by a longtime ally in the Republican Party to be FEMAâ s then-general counsel. News organizations looking into FEMAâ s behavior during Hurricane Katrina …
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Expect HSAs to Continue Taking Hits in Democratic Congress
… still in question. In the House, the 17-seat Democratic majority could increase by as many as 25 seats. The Republican Party has a branding problem worse than that of New Coke a couple decades ago. For a variety of reasons, the GOP is leaving …
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Are Employers Missing the All-for-One, One-for-All Moment?
… more mutual response to our troubles. His rival John McCain struck populist themes at times, but was tied to the Republican Party past of trying to solve problems largely through the individual pursuit of wealth in free markets. A shift toward …
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Evaluating Politicians Based on Management Ability
… presence, will help him register voters. Getting them to turn out is what will determine victory. On that score, the Republican Party has proved to be more skilled than the Democrats in the past few elections, which will benefit McCain. But McCain …
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Do Political Connections on Boards Lead to Higher Stock Prices
… disparity was noted especially among companies that had at least one board member with former affiliations with the Republican Party and no board members with affiliations with the Democratic Party. â We got some flak about this, because people were …
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Retirement in the Year 2024
… that would pass muster with their constituents. The Republican Party campaigned on the promise of privatizing Social Security ..... Security and Medicare as they were. However, when the Republican Party demonstrated the increases in Social Security and …
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Health-care Reform Warrants HRIS Updates
… however, would like to see no cap and are fighting to preserve the tax-deductibility of employee benefits. The Republican Party has sent up a trial balloon proposal similar to a medical FSA. It's called a medical IRA (for its similarity …
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Immigration Policy Debate Simmers
… certainly taking into consideration. As the attention to this issue at the Republican convention would indicate, the Republican Party ’s position is to make this provision a major national campaign issue. In this presidential election year, a …
