Word: childlessness
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...group a human face. That many unemployed workers lack health insurance is not a surprise, but many of us may not realize that so many working people do as well - a troubling fact that lends credence to the reform efforts under way on Capitol Hill. Highlighting the plight of childless uninsured adults is also a welcome counterbalance to media coverage of the issue, which often focuses on uninsured children and families. Amid the grim statistics, the foundation mentions a bright spot: the fact that recent expansion of children's health-care programs has helped lower the number of uninsured children...
...Medicaid Baucus would expand Medicaid coverage, which currently tops out for people who make 100% of the poverty level, to 133% of that level ($29,327 for a family of four), a shift that is expected to cover an additional 10 million Americans, including childless adults who have previously not been eligible for the program. Medicaid, however, has always been a partnership between the states and the Federal Government, and Baucus wasn't willing to absorb all of the costs of expanding the program. Under his proposal, the Federal Government would pay most of the new Medicaid costs: at least...
...would the Medicaid program be affected? Beginning in 2014, eligibility for Medicaid would be raised to individuals earning up to 133% of the federal poverty line - $14,400 for an individual; $30,000 a year for a family of four. Childless adults, currently excluded from Medicaid, would be eligible...
...Though childless, Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley have always exuded a parental quality. This has been more or less intuitive to me, as they met around the same time my parents did. For over a quarter of a century, their influence has tenderly guided listeners through the rough thickets of musical history, introducing them to near-forgotten artists like the Flamin’ Groovies and the Only Ones. They tell jokes, they like holidays, they’ve even got a funny, pudgy friend who won’t stop coming over (James McNew, faithful bassist of 17 years). Entering...
...they are reminders of our mortality - in fact, I know I'm going gray a lot faster than I would have had I been childless, especially now that I have a teenager. But it's a cosmic gift that, in letting us grow up with them, they keep us young, so that sometime maybe we pass each other, the student becoming the teacher, the parent the child, and we will sit back and marvel at who they've become, knowing they are now smarter and stronger than we are. We'll savor their company and feel safe in their hands...