Word: reformer
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...10th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, Donovan presented a sampling of the Obama administration’s plans for new housing initiatives to a crowd packed with hundreds of students, professors, and other attendees. One such proposal, the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, aims to link neighborhood transformation with school reform and calls for increased federal housing spending during the 2010 fiscal year...
Shortly thereafter, then-University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 named him GSE Dean in 1964. Sizer left Harvard in 1972 to become the headmaster at Philips Academy Andover, and in 1994 was named Department Head for Education and Director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University...
...absence of significant reform, we will continue to see an erosion of the employer-based system. Smaller employers are dropping coverage altogether. The ones who are able to offer coverage are under greater and greater pressure. [In] the large-employer market, I see continued cost-shifting," says Tom Billett, a senior consultant for Watson Wyatt, a firm that advises companies (including TIME's parent company, Time Warner) on health-plan design...
...Congressional-reform proposals would do little to change the current system. While some form of "employer mandate" would require employers to provide coverage or pay penalties, most large employers already offer benefits and many small businesses that can't afford them would be exempted from the requirement. Of the reform proposals that could have some long-term effect on the employer-based system, the most significant may be one that would levy a 40% excise tax on policies that cost more than $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for family coverage in 2013. (The average total cost of individual...
...easy to understand why Obama is promising to preserve the employer-based system even in the face of higher costs and fewer benefits. It could be political suicide to tell the millions of Americans who get insurance through their jobs the painful truth: under the reform proposals, even if you don't like what you have, you might still have to keep...