Before the summer break, a new energy policy and a change in health-care finance are on the agenda.
Republicans will be loth to allow much movement on any of the big non-budgetary issues, such as campaign finance, managed health care or gun-control.
By 2025, the amount of taxes we currently pay will only be enough to finance our health care programs -- Medicare and Medicaid -- Social Security, and the interest we owe on our debt.
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Those issues that remain contentious Social Security reform, the state of health care and the schools, campaign-finance reform are hardly partisan, since neither party has worked out how to tackle them or even seems to care much.
Credit card issuers are stepping up their marketing efforts on health-care cards and lines of credit that help borrowers finance costly elective medical procedures.
In one study, they did online surveys of 208 incoming business graduate students who had been working as junior to mid-level managers at a range of companies, including health care, finance, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals.
The company says it will focus on industries such as finance and health care, where RIM can provide value-added services beyond hardware.
Another senator, Max Baucus, who chairs the Senate finance committee, says that he expects to see health-care reform legislation proposed in the Senate this week.
In the past two years, such specialty cards have swelled in popularity among health-care providers driven, in part, by baby boomers to finance devices like hearing aids and expensive procedures not covered by insurance, says Gina Calabrese, a professor at St.
By a vote of 14-9 Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee passed its version of health care reform.
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of six negotiators on the Senate Finance Committee -- the last committee that needs to clear health care legislation before it can be taken up on the Senate floor -- is aiming for bipartisanship and another viable option.
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But a bipartisan group of six negotiators on the Senate Finance Committee -- the last panel that needs to clear health care legislation before it can be taken up on the Senate floor -- is considering dropping a government-funded public option in favor of nonprofit cooperatives that would negotiate collective policies for members.
That same year, Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, included an individual mandate in the first draft of his health-care bill.
Mr Fox has wrested both money and power away from the federal government to finance innovations in areas such as education, health care, agriculture and micro-credit.
Grassley is one of six members of the Senate Finance Committee -- three Democrats and three Republicans -- negotiating the only bipartisan health care legislation so far.
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