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...millions of laid-off workers and their families, the federal COBRA subsidies have been a health-coverage lifeline," says Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a non-profit organization for health care consumers.(See the 5 things that the House and Senate have to iron out on Health Care...
...Leave Act (FMLA), COBRA does not require the employer to pay the cost of providing continuing coverage. Instead, it allows employees and their dependents to maintain coverage at their own expense by paying the full price of the premium plus an administration fee. The Joint Committee on Taxation, a non-partisan group focused on government finance, estimates the existing nine-month Cobra subsidy program has helped provide health care coverage to approximately 7 million Americans in 2009 at a cost of $24.7 billion...
Doing good is going to get a whole lot easier for the Phillips Brooks House Association. The omnipresent Harvard non-profit got a mid-finals period pick-me-up when it won $25,000 in the Chase Community Giving competition for being voted into the top 100 charities in the United States...
...Congressional Budget Office said such a requirement would severely limit companies' flexibility and "make such insurance an essentially governmental program." Many states currently have MLR requirements, but most are below the federal level that would be established under Democratic health reform. The existing minimum baseline, established in non-binding guidelines from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, says that MLRs must be at least in the 50-60% range, depending on what other regulations are in place...
...great victory because, they said, it represented the West tacitly accepting Iran's right to enrichment. But for Washington and its allies, it was simply a "first step" toward a deal to end enrichment in Iran. Although Iran is entitled to peaceful enrichment as a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the U.S., Israel, France and Britain insist that Iran can't be trusted to exercise that right that would enable it to build weapons...