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...President Obama, in an interview on 60 Minutes, indicated that cooler heads were prevailing. Although he took pains to take AIG and Wall St.'s actions to task, he also suggested that the proposed bill from Congress would use the tax code to penalize a specific subset of people and would be contrary to good public policy. "Well, I think that - as a general proposition, you don't want to be passing laws that are just targeting a handful of individuals. You want to pass laws that have some broad applicability. And as a general proposition, I think you certainly...
...Congress debates health-care reform, American families are already picking up the tab for universal health coverage. That's the finding of a new report released March 24 by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington-based liberal think tank...
...legislating an expansion of health coverage may not be a cure-all to high premiums. One way the Obama Administration and certain Democrats in Congress have suggested to pay for an overhaul of the health-care system is by taxing employer-provided health benefits, which some government officials estimate could provide up to $200 billion in additional tax revenues for national health care. Meanwhile, a second report released March 24, by the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute (EPI) think tank, shows that implementing such a tax may actually increase the ranks of the uninsured and raise premiums for people with coverage...
...Obama Administration has offered few details thus far as to how it plans to institute comprehensive health-care coverage. In a letter to Congress March 24, however, the health-insurance industry - including America's Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association - indicated it would be willing to stop charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems if all Americans were required to purchase health plans. Such a measure, as the CAP report suggests, could be the first step to saving all Americans money...
...were no longer there," he says. "And so politics came to me." In the 1970s, Manuel gravitated towards Steve Biko's black-consciousness movement. But in 1979, determined to become "a revolutionary with a big beard and a big gun," he traveled to Botswana to join the African National Congress guerrillas in exile. To his disappointment, the ANC sent him back to work in Cape Town. He quickly became a key figure in the city's opposition and by 1985 he was in jail. Regular detentions followed. During one release, Manuel, who had married, met his toddler...