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...think about what's at stake - beyond $3 billion in unemployment funds, $4 billion worth of rural-electrification loans, $6 billion in Head Start money and hundreds of billions of other federal dollars - consider the Burmese. Some 17,000 people living in the U.S. identified themselves as Burmese in the 2000 Census, but "we know that's not the right number," says Aung Naing, chairman of the Burmese Complete Count Committee, one of more than 10,000 such committees the Census helps form in order to bolster response rates. In Southern California alone, there are seven or eight Burmese Buddhist...
...think it's worth it? Of course, it was my grandmother. So anything that would relieve her pain or her suffering or extend her life in a way that she wished is something I wanted to do, and I would have paid for it out of pocket if I had to. But not every family is going to make those same decisions...
...bigger the break you get - very few of them would look kindly on reforming the system. With that in mind, some lawmakers have proposed capping the amount of employer-sponsored health insurance that could be provided tax-free - leaving only workers with pricey, so-called Cadillac health plans worth north of $25,000 a year subject to new taxation. But even this isn't exactly guaranteed to have popular support...
...they are mistaken," says Tom Billet, a senior health-benefits consultant for Watson Wyatt, a corporate consulting firm. In reality, many more of the most expensive employer-based health-insurance plans cover people like the families of New Hampshire state employees who, according to the Boston Globe, have policies worth $20,400 per year. (The employee contribution is $60 per month...
...Iowa) trying to hammer out a bipartisan agreement behind closed doors have made some progress on reaching a consensus. In addition to scrapping a requirement that employers provide workers with insurance, the senators are in favor of the excise tax and are reportedly targeting benefit packages that are worth more than $25,000 a year. As Len Nichols, director of the Health Policy Program at the nonpartisan New America Foundation, says, taxing employees "has been taken off the table in the Finance Committee, but it's still in the room because they haven't closed the [budget...