But more than any individual policy issue, this election illustrated one very big idea.
It is appalling to me that the individual policy holders with take a big hit with Obamacare.
In reality, the individual policy business has not been a particularly good one for insurers for quite some time.
He says it would cost less to help a laid-off worker buy an individual policy that is unconnected to his ex-employer's.
These increases could total up to 13% more than what individual policy holders might have had to pay for an insurance policy had there never been an Affordable Care Act.
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As a result of the Affordable Care Act, health insurers will soon be barred from charging their older, individual policy customers as much as 5 to 10 times more than what they charge their youngest members.
In 2009 by almost a two to one margin consumers who could have purchased an individual health insurance policy decided that it was a better deal to go without it.
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Mr Singh wants to tackle this with a national policy that forces individual states to introduce effective policing, plus social-policy initiatives specially aimed at tribal areas.
Another alternative, says Erinn Springer, media specialist with GoHealthInsurance.com an online portal for finding health insurance coverage, is try to add a child to an individual or group health policy as a dependent.
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Yet, even setting aside the difficult issue of how much of a free ride China can expect, the EU's policy applies to individual companies, not countries, for which there is no such dispensation.
Mr King will now chair the interest rate setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), the new Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) to monitor individual banks, and the new Financial Policy Committee (FPC).
Officials want to focus on entire river basins when making policy, rather than individual towns or cities.
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The BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga says the government has always stressed that the bill was introduced by an individual MP and was not official policy.
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Every week he checks the sites and rates them based on frequency of updates, policy accountability, and the individual Diet member's activities and achievements.
Individual institutions that want companies to change policy have to spend time and money in negotiations that may not be justified by the potential gains.
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Mike Ponton, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, which represents all the NHS organisations in Wales, said it was up to individual trusts to decide on car parking policy.
Just as important, no one seems to have asked whether any intelligence system imaginable could bring success to the current policy of trying to discover individual terrorists before they strike.
Kerri Toloczko is a Senior Fellow at Frontiers of Freedom, a public policy institute dedicated to promoting individual freedom, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and traditional American values.
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Kerri (Houston) Toloczko is a Senior Fellow for Public Policy at Frontiers of Freedom, a public policy institute dedicated to promoting individual freedom, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and traditional American values.
According to the on-line magazine Salon.com, a seemingly unqualified individual nonetheless secured a position as the policy director for the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence division, thanks to his ties to a well-connected political activist named Grover Norquist.
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Portman embodies the formula for GOP modernization: a conservatism that unapologetically applies the principle of individual freedom consistently to both fiscal and social policy.
And she thinks that the Conservative policy of devolving budgetary responsibility to individual schools could prove a model for building strong institutions at the estate level.
In fact, the Administration worked closely with NARUC leadership and individual state regulators during the development of the Policy Framework, and showcased this collaboration last month.
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He said it was "perfectly natural" to have discussions with special advisers but policy development had been led by individual departments - including in controversial areas such as nuclear power.
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Because most American companies are set up as pass through organizations in which business income is taxed on the individual tax returns of the business owners, policy makers can reduce the tax burden on small businesses by cutting taxes on individuals.
The new government argues that it is better to make policy on the merits of the individual case than to be overly constrained by ideology, whether the ideology is a Thatcherite prejudice in favour of the market or an Old Labourish aversion to it.
The fundamental that should inform and guide our policy on immigration is the principle of individual rights.
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Mr Cameron said Mr Hunt was "entitled to hold an individual view" but insisted it was not government policy.
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Ironically, this policy had prompted grumbles from some big individual donors, who asked why firms as rich as Wal-Mart and KKR should be the ultimate recipients of their charity.
Even if there is a tight range around individual federal funds forecasts, they will put monetary policy on a pre-announced trajectory that may turn out to be flawed, but will be more difficult to adjust once announced.
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