And Congress may pass another energy bill that gives yet more mandates and subsidies for renewables, but try as it might, Congress cannot repeal the laws of physics.
Both of their proposals include more government mandates for health care coverage.
The more coverage mandates there are, the higher premiums rise.
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Indeed, it would take many more jumbo managed account mandates to even start to give the impression that Europe has found a way to replace that run-off.
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ObamaCare makes federal and state efforts to cap rates even more complicated because the law mandates all sorts of costly benefits.
Finally, China is focused on the need for innovation and has used a mixture of government mandates to encourage more domestic innovation.
In his opinion, Justice Roberts refers to tax penalties being a financial choice vs. mandates and other more severe government penalties, like jail time.
And some of the other mandates are much more onerous.
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Ethanol mandates are prompting more and more corn to be planted on land that is poorly suited for agriculture, causing erosion and pesticide runoff to infiltrate groundwater and aquifer resources.
While mandates make health insurance more comprehensive, they also make it more expensive, just as a new car loaded with options is going to be more expensive than the basic model.
Breaching today's compliance mandates will get the CEO more than a slap on the wrist.
States will have ample incentive to grandfather in all their costly mandates, while adding even more.
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Although more than half the states have passed mandates to increase renewable energy use (which often results in new wind farms and local "clean" generation), utilities still need to get that power to consumers.
The current version of the trust document that created the Carlsberg Foundation in 1882 mandates that the foundation must hold more than 50% of the company.
Taking these super wicked problem characteristics into account, requires a new way of framing climate policy solutions: less talk of mandates and higher energy costs and more talk on building competitive clean energy solutions that all Americans (and the rest of the world) can implement.
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The city mandates that under-2 programs hire more staff members per child than other child-care businesses, said Frank Cresciullo, assistant commissioner at the city's Bureau of Child Care.
The rule that small firms with more than 50 employees are subject to new health mandates is capping employment at restaurants, hotels, factories, retailers and the like at 49 workers.
The law will make insurance more expensive for everyone else by saddling it with expensive mandates.
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Between its hundreds of billions in new taxes and mandates on employers, its full implementation puts more than 1 million jobs at risk.
And it has the advantage of being more First Amendment-friendly by eschewing a priori blanket mandates tied explicitly to the treatment of Internet content.
Rather than legal mandates, I think the difference may lie more in the personalities involved in making policy.
Only then would mandates accelerate the deployment of cheap, clean energy rather than force more expensive clean energy technologies on the market.
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From performing comprehensive risk assessments to demonstrating compliance with constantly evolving legislative mandates and regulatory requirements, the path to technology adoption is much more rigorous and complex for government.
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Fuller says government mandates in Europe and China could help move the market along, as could more innovative financing models.
Central to ObamaCare are requirements that health insurers (1) accept everyone who applies (guaranteed issue), (2) cannot charge more based on serious medical conditions (modified community rating), and (3) include numerous coverage mandates that force insurance to pay for many often uncovered medical conditions.
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"These states are getting more flexibility with federal funds and relief from No Child Left Behind's one-size-fits-all mandates in order to develop locally tailored solutions to meet their unique educational challenges, " Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a call with reporters.
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