Sebelius acknowledged that her department has no power to block an increase itself.
FORBES: Sebelius To HMOs: If You Raise Rates 10% You Will Answer To Me
If not, federal regulators will advise the state to block the increase.
FORBES: Sebelius To HMOs: If You Raise Rates 10% You Will Answer To Me
It would be nice if the proponents of reducing the deficits and the debt could achieve those essential goals by threatening to block an increase in the debt ceiling.
Some members of Congress believe deeply in the moral-commitment argument, but others are no doubt impressed by the sight of literally dozens of military organizations lobbying Capitol Hill to block the increase.
Also, the state will be the one to determine whether to block the increase, not the Feds (though I think I made that part clear.) By 2014 these reviews could aid states in determining which health insurers are allowed to sell over the exchanges and which are banned.
FORBES: Sebelius To HMOs: If You Raise Rates 10% You Will Answer To Me
The fatal tower block fire triggered a dramatic increase in completion of fire risk assessments, but questions have been raised about how credible those assessments were, the coroner heard.
BBC: Lakanal House Fire: 'No fire risk assessment' done of tower
Villaraigosa urged his successor to try to block a 5.5 percent pay increase for civilian employees.
While Romney promises to cut wasteful spending ( remember Big Bird is on the chopping block), he also intends to increase other kinds of spending, like defense.
During our steep cliffside descent from Montespluga, Italy, a block of wood was slipped underneath the shoe to increase friction even further.
Congress would vote on each increase, but a two-thirds majority would be required to block them.
Naturally, Goldman is in the process of trying to centralize all equity orders from every part of the firm, including its block trading desk and the division that services high net wealth clients, to increase its market share of all equities traded.
But for the insistence of the Marine Corps that this aircraft was essential if it were to retain -- indeed, to increase dramatically -- its combat lift and power projection capabilities despite the approaching block obsolescence of it existing inventory of medium lift helicopters, and the indefatigable support of visionary congressional leaders, there would be no production aircraft on display at the Pentagon tomorrow.
Writers said they withdrew a proposal to increase their share of revenue from the sale of DVDs that had been a stumbling block for producers.
In contrast, she points out, block-grant programmes grow much more slowly when times are tough, since funding for them does not increase in line with demand.
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