The first step in reform would be to make people aware of how much more it costs them than they realize, then help them learn ways in which they might economize in buying that coverage.
Along with others, they also oppose the logical next step in welfare reform that UID enables.
These bills are a welcome first step in immigration reform, and should not be derailed by fallacious arguments.
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And although the interim house is only a step towards full reform, the government that created it will be less able to brush off defeats as illegitimate.
Ari organized perhaps the most important first step in this reform effort: Seeing the lack of baseline data, he assembled a team of researchers and created and managed a data analysis exercise involving the detailed coding of hundreds of thousands of pieces of data.
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Again, I don't want to get into a debate with Secretary Rice, but, again, I don't -- I think the announcement today of AARP thinking this is a step toward meaningful reform and supporting that is in itself different than what we had 16 years ago.
Agree to ban all soft money, as a first step to total campaign reform.
Strongly supported efforts in 2010 to pass the DREAM Act as a first step toward comprehensive immigration reform.
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Such a move would be a positive step, but more reform is needed.
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But, pundits and pessimists to the contrary, an important step forward for tax reform, I predict, will take place in 2013.
The next step is harder: reform of Italy's sclerotic two-tier labour market.
Rhetorical support from Obama in his speech to Congress is a necessary first step in a serious reform effort, but it is just a modest beginning.
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The American Association of Retired People, the nation's largest organization of senior citizens, has praised the pharmaceutical industry agreement as a step toward health care reform.
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Step 4 is to reform of our broken monetary system.
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But true reform requires another step: Eliminating the deduction businesses get for borrowing to buy this equipment.
And that's why my budget takes a first big step towards comprehensive health care reform that will reduce costs, improve care and ensure that everyone who works has coverage they can afford.
And what we could not get was a single Republican, including the 20 who had previously voted for comprehensive immigration reform, to step up and say, we will work with you to make this happen.
Last year Brady took the very important step, drawing attention to monetary reform, of introducing the Sound Dollar Act.
As we continue to emerge from this recession, this reform is one important step that will strengthen our economy.
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For environmentalists this reform will be one step in a journey: they want fisheries to recover to something approaching the level where they once were.
At the same time, given the pre-eminent role of the dollar in global financial markets, it would be seen as an important step toward achieving radical international monetary reform.
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An obvious first step would be finally to agree on reform of party funding.
Washington recently took a major step forward in negotiations on comprehensive immigration reform.
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Sometimes we focus on the twigs in the forest, not even the trees, to understand that we're, again, likely one step closer to seeing comprehensive health care reform that we've had Presidents talk about for 70 years.
Certain GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney led the Republican counterattack, accusing President Barack Obama of undermining the possibility of long-term immigration reform by taking the partial step of halting deportations of some young illegal immigrants who came to America as children.
"In light of the congressional inaction on immigration reform, this is the right step for the administration to take at this time, " said NCLR spokeswoman Laura Vazquez.
Having passed reform bills in both the House and the Senate, we now have to take up the last and most important step and reach an agreement on a final reform bill that I can sign into law.
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The welfare reform legislation of the 1990s was a small step in the right direction because it eliminated a federal entitlement and shifted responsibility back to the state level.
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