The tax break that employer plans get is so huge that individual or family non-group plans are dead in the water.
And Obamacare takes advantage of that new role to define insurance expansively, so that insurance plans that qualify for the mandate are costly and comprehensive, driving up non-group premiums by 19 to 30 percent.
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This means that many retirees with pensions will have to search for individual health insurance coverage (which may be difficult for many with pre-existing conditions to secure), as well as pay the greater costs involved in non-group plans.
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Tracy Britt, 28, grew up on a farm in Kansas and struck up a relationship with Warren Buffett while at Harvard, contacting him out of the blue to see if he would meet with a non-profit group she co-founded focusing on investment education for undergraduate women.
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As well as hosting regular club nights, the non-denominational group do outreach work and try to talk to non-Christians in alternative communities.
He has been working part time at Families Against Mandatory Minimums, a non-profit group that promotes legislation to reduce harsh prison sentences for non-violent offenders.
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For example, if we compare patients with colon cancer to those without across the entire genome we can find some genotypes that occur more frequently in the cancer group than in the non-cancer group.
But even for incumbents, the first re-election bid is usually the toughest, said Nick Demeter, political director for the National Women's Political Caucus, a non-partisan group that works to elect pro-choice women.
The MPs considering the UK subsidies are on the Eleventh Delegated Legislation Committee, a non-specialist group which scrutinises details of government rule-making on all topics.
Second, at least 5 percent of the volume of sales to the allegedly targeted group must be at prices that are lower than the average price of the lowest-priced non-targeted group by a margin (a gap) that is greater than the average gap between the average prices of all the non-targeted groups.
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The statue, a gift to the city from the non-profit group Capital Area Statues, Inc.
"They are a non-politicized group, " says CEC's John whose journal has documented industrial disputes in this region.
The Blue Flag programme is a worldwide initiative run by independent non-profit group the Foundation for Environmental Education.
The Donor Action Foundation is a non-profit group that helps hospitals implement programs designed to improve their donation rates.
Japan didn't legalize organ transplants from brain-dead donors until 1997, according to the Japan Organ Transplant Network, a non-governmental group.
And it's particularly ironic that the most viral YouTube video of all time was made by a non-profit group called "Invisible Children".
His latest venture announced on Saturday is a partnership between his Yao Foundation and Rare, a U.S.-based non-profit group that promotes conservation.
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Stinebrickner-Kauffman is critical of the non-profit group, the Fair Labor Association, which Apple has invited to audit most of its manufacturing facilities in China.
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Each year NACE, a Bethlehem, Pa. non-profit group that links college career placement offices with employers, surveys its employer members about their hiring plans.
Over the 66-month period, 9% of the non-treated group developed prostate cancer, while only 4% of those given the painkillers were diagnosed with the disease.
"This is a relief, frankly, " said Maria Teresa van der Ree, 81, president and founder of the Civil Resistance of Venezuelans Abroad, a non-profit group.
This is something that was looked at by a non-partisan group.
Madonna's manager Trevor Neilson said buildOn, the non-profit group that partnered with Raising Malawi to construct the schools, was "mystified" by the claims about school buildings.
Nicholas Ostler, a scholar who heads the Foundation for Endangered Languages, a non-profit group based in Britain, says multilingual children do better academically than monolingual ones.
Ahead of the World Economic Forum, the non-governmental group's chairwoman, Huguette Labelle, called on countries and businesses to change the way they work, for everybody's sake.
Last month Communities Creating Opportunity, a non-profit group in Kansas City, Missouri, invited representatives of Bank of America and Countrywide to negotiate loan modifications with local customers.
Condit, who served in Congress until 2003, currently serves on the board of directors of the Phoenix Institute of Desert Agriculture, a non-profit group that promotes sustainable farming.
Zach Schiller is with the non-partisan group Policy Matters Ohio.
According to the non-profit group SocioEnvironmental Institute (ISA), there are now 300 workers -- from indigenous families to former illegal loggers -- who make a living collecting seeds.
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