Massachusetts, California and other states are at work on their own universal insurance schemes.
Mr Edwards released his ideas for universal insurance in February, almost two years before election day.
As the title suggests, this book focuses on the idea of universal insurance.
With that said, Cephalon believes that starting in 2014 the nearly universal insurance coverage will begin to provide a tailwind as opposed to the headwind the early expenses will cause.
Campaigners will try to maintain pressure, and have already seized on a pamphlet co-authored by Mr Hunt seven years ago which mooted universal insurance as a possible mechanism for health funding.
Without market reforms, including more transparent pricing for consumers but also for doctors and hospitals themselves (medical equipment, drugs, hospital beds, etc. are all badly sheltered from competition, for instance) universal insurance could become far too expensive and lead to supply shortages.
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If done properly, this will in time move America towards the Swiss and Dutch models of universal private insurance.
Romney had accomplished a longstanding Democratic goal universal health insurance by combining three conservative policies.
The one remaining economic argument for universal health insurance in the United States is that it will help rein in medical costs.
Then he shows how campaign money destroys left wing priorities, mangling, perhaps terminally, the drive to get to sustainable universal health insurance.
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President Barack Obama, when he was running for the presidency in 2008, promised some form of universal health insurance during his tenure.
Gore has been sharply criticized by Bradley, Bradley's backers and media newspaper editorial writers for his characterization of Bradley's plan for universal health insurance.
But that meant that they had to either dismantle their social spending programs--including universal health insurance--a politically difficult task, or maintain their sky-high taxes.
But, oddly, while many Republicans support major Medicare restructuring, they are doing everything they can to destroy the very system of universal private insurance that would make vouchers feasible.
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People might also lie, for instance, about their support for better economic relations with Cuba, or for universal health insurance, for fear of being tarred as a dangerous leftist.
The possibility that a court could ultimately unravel the law underscores just how difficult it is to enact universal health insurance a goal that had eluded presidents dating back to Theodore Roosevelt.
Romney has recently floated the idea of an individual-deduction cap, the savings from which could easily fund a universal health insurance tax-credit system, depending on how the cap was structured.
Its core idea was the universal health insurance voucher.
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If the decision reassures law-abiding gun owners that their weapons are safe, it could help Barack Obama, since those gun-owners will feel safe to be swayed by other things they might like about him, such as universal health insurance.
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Barack Obama's health-care reform of 2010 had many virtues, especially its attempt to make health insurance universal.
Because bankruptcy laws attempt to overcome this market failure, they are, in effect, a state-imposed system of universal financial-distress insurance.
During environment, food and rural affairs questions on 5 July 2012, Labour MP Julie Hilling asked what ministers were doing to ensure universal availability of flood insurance.
It serves as a universal backup, providing insurance coverage to uninsured individuals, employees working in small companies without access to affordable coverage and those who may lose coverage in the future.
Paul Starr, a professor of sociology at Princeton University who worked on President Bill Clinton's failed universal-health-insurance effort, argues that the individual mandate was a mistake, because it was inflammatory, yet too weak to be effective.
If the Supreme Court rules unconstitutional the plan for universal coverage through private insurance, the U.S. will continue to evolve toward a government-led system -- albeit one much more expensive, and much less satisfactory, than the government systems of other advanced democracies.
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Many view MetLife as primarily a life insurance company selling a variety of products such as variable, universal, whole and term life insurance policies.
Insurance and health are often linked and confused, with proponents of universal coverage making the argument that health insurance itself is an important determinant of health because it guarantees access to medical care.
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Nevertheless, there are those who are convinced that making health insurance near-universal will stimulate entrepreneurial talent.
There are many paths down this road. and each raises big questions: How much insurance should a universal system provide?
In 2008 Korea introduced an earned-income tax credit, a universal basic pension and an insurance scheme providing long-term care for the elderly.
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