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...subsidy given to organized health care policies and allows Americans an alternative to the current standard. Yet, although the money contributed to an HSA is tax-free, it is not yet tax deductible like traditional health premiums.The assumption with HSA is that health insurance should be used to protect against catastrophic medical costs, not day-to-day predictable costs—much like any other kind of insurance available. Using high deductible health insurance will allow Americans to distribute the risk of huge unexpected medical costs while taking on personal responsibility for smaller predictable costs. In addition, it will save...
Harvard announced today that it would amend its non-discrimination policy to protect "gender identity," following growing pressure from undergraduates to safeguard the rights of transgender students and staff...
...attacks by Sunni insurgents who, they claim, are encouraged by the positions of the main Sunni political parties. Moreover, the Shi'ites claim that U.S. pressure on them to do more to accommodate the Sunnis further emboldens those insurgents. And the failure of Coalition and Iraqi security forces to protect Shi'ite communities from terror attacks leads many Shi'ites to see the militias as their only protection. If anything, the worsening trend of sectarian violence during the months that the politicians have wrangled over a new government has only hardened each constituency's conviction about the necessity...
...declassifying national security information for political purposes and briefly invoked President Richard Nixon before backing off that explosive analogy. "Obviously it was done not just for political reasons, which sounds kind of everyday Washington politics," she told Al Hunt, Bloomberg's Washington bureau chief. "It was done to protect the decision makers from being held accountable for some of the information they used in the run up to the invasion of Iraq...
...Interjecting, Hunt asked if the Senator was saying this case was analogous to what Nixon did. "We don't know," she said. "We don't know. But we do know that for political purposes that really use national security to score political points and to protect decisions and decision makers material was declassified." Hunt asked Clinton, "You're convinced that your husband never engaged in any similar leaks." She replied, with a playful fillip, "Not that I'm aware of. Look, everybody leaks...