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Ellison’s understanding of the legal system—another by-product of his police work—has also been of use in dealing with Ad Board cases with criminal implications, according to Faculty of the Arts and Sciences Registrar Barry S. Kane, who also sits on the Ad Board...
...President Obama has honored me with the oppotunity to serve the country by ensuring vital legal assistance for millions of Americans who cannot afford it,” Minow said in a Law School press release...
...current board members are a mix of academics and practitioners. Barr said he assumes the White House “looks at people who are interested in legal aid to the poor in drawing up the board...
...Congressional Budget office estimates that 95% of legal Americans will have health insurance after the law is fully implemented by 2016, adding approximately 32 million previously uninsured people to the health-coverage rolls. Health insurers have long argued for tougher government mandates that would require more of those who are generally healthy to get health insurance, which helps spread the risk in the pool of insured. (See the sticking points on House and Senate health reform...
...government programs. But the existing health care system was an unholy mess, inefficient and costly - especially the segments run by the government, Medicare and Medicaid. It placed an unfair burden on employers, who were assumed to be health-insurance providers of the first resort, and an unfair legal burden on doctors. Substantial numbers of Republicans had always favored reform, even archconservatives: 20 years ago, the Heritage Foundation's Stuart Butler came up with a plan to provide universal coverage, paying for it by replacing the tax-exempt status of employer-provided health benefits with a system of progressive tax credits...