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Health Care Reform Debate Starts Anew
The debate about health care reform is starting… again. Here’s why. The Senate passed a bill and the House passed a bill. They have some significant differences to work out. Two of the biggest issues? Paying for the thing and abortion...
Tanned in the USA
That collective sigh of relief that you just heard? It was Hollywood, taking comfort in the fact that the cosmetic surgery tax is off the table in the race to pay for health care reform. But don’t start laughing just yet, George Hamilton. It&...
Plastic Surgery Takes A Tax Hit And Other Ramblings About the Health Care Bill
Remember this post about taxing plastic surgery? Well, it appears that the Senate, in its effort to tax everything possible to pay for health care reform (you’re right, I’m exaggerating, not everything… health insurance companies ...
Health Care Reform and Taxes
I just received a notice last week from my health insurance provider that rates at my office would be increasing an average of more than 25%. It’s not unexpected. Apparently, health insurance is one of the few industries which can regularly r...
New Health Care Reform Ad Airs
The proposed excise tax on “Cadillac” health care plans is raising a lot of controversy. Opponents, like Health Care for America Now (HCAN), believe that it might affect middle class Americans and instead, urge increasing the income tax ...
Fix the Tax Code Friday: Health Care Reform
It’s Fix the Tax Code Friday! This week, health care reform is in the news again, this time with a focus on the proposed excise tax for high-premium insurance plans. The latest proposal for health care reform includes a controversial excise ta...
Dear Nancy, Please Don’t Raise Taxes To Pay For Health Care…
This week, 157 House Democrats (which for math junkies like me, who want to know the actual percentage of House Dems who signed, it’s 62%) signed a letter which put House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on notice that an excise tax on high-cost hea...
Hey Congress, Why Don’t You…? Tax Bad Behaviors
Donna Peeples writes: I have seen a lot of articles in the paper about taxing sodas and foods that are bad for you. I say, “Why not?” I used to be a smoker. At one point, I was up to two packs a day. When New Jersey raised their cigare...
More on Health Care Reform: Congress Apparently Sweet on Soda Tax
Though the health care reform bill has officially been tabled until after the break, there is still work to do in Congress before a vote can be scheduled. At the top of the list? Find a way to pay for the bill. The Senate Finance Committee has cons...
Congress Puts Brakes on Health Care Reform
Despite President Obama’s plan to push through a massive health care reform bill before the August break, it will not happen. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said about the bill, “I think that it’s better to have a product that is one that&#...
Health Care Bill Update
One version of the health care reform bill has passed in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee with a vote of 13-10. And this one only costs $600 billion. Committee Chair Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) wrote, about the bill: We have...
The House Has a Plan to Pay for Health Care (Yes, There’s a Catch)
House Democrats think they have a plan to pay for health care reform. And yes, it’s going to cost… somebody. The 1000+ page health care plan as proposed by President Obama comes with a hefty price tag. Congress has been charged with com...
