So those are all steps that we could be taking to strengthen the economy, to provide us some insurance if the situation overseas starts getting worse so we can control our own destiny, keep this recovery moving forward.
And to their credit, when we called the insurance companies to provide coverage to our most vulnerable Americans, the industry agreed.
With a Medicaid block grant to the states, states could use the block grant funds to provide financing for each poor family to choose the private health insurance of their choice.
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As President Obama prepares to address the nation in his State of the Union address that is expected to include an update on the Affordable Care Act, more Republican leaning states are opting to partner with his administration to provide health insurance benefits to their residents under the health law.
The two men agree that these are best addressed by requiring all but the smallest companies to provide health insurance for their employees, by the provision of tax breaks for people who can not afford to buy cover and by setting up a (relatively low-cost) federally-backed insurance system that anyone could opt into if they choose not to go the private route.
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Obama aims to bring down health care costs and provide medical insurance to many of the more than 45 million Americans without coverage.
My first thought was to just provide the required health insurance.
Still, research suggests most companies will continue to provide insurance once the full law takes effect, with a handful of surveys showing that fewer than 10% of employer respondents are considering dropping coverage.
In recognition of the important role they play in the economy and to encourage them to be stable, governments provide deposit insurance but then also impose regulations to limit the chances this insurance has to be called on.
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Yet the contractor had agreed to provide insurance at a fixed price as part of the deal.
There remain questions as to the impact the rate band limitations will have on businesses that provide health insurance to employees particularly those with a younger employee base.
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The state government will provide subsidies to help business buy insurance for the working poor.
With the insurance industry obligated to provide this coverage, parents would be incentivized to delay purchasing insurance for an individual child until that child gets sick.
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Medicare Advantage plans are privately-run and contract with the government health insurance program for the elderly to provide same benefits offered under traditional fee-for-service Medicare plus some extras like vision care, prescriptions or certain additional outpatient and wellness benefits.
As is stands, microfinance organizations that accept deposits, or provide insurance to the poor are underrepresented in the market.
As I wrote in January, there has been a significant uptick in small businesses taking advantage of the tax benefits offered by the ACA to provide health insurance to employees where they previously did not do so.
Organizations like the Freelancers Union provide one solution, but to qualify for the health insurance plans, members must meet strict eligibility and geographic requirements.
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With that said, Cephalon believes that starting in 2014 the nearly universal insurance coverage will begin to provide a tailwind as opposed to the headwind the early expenses will cause.
Another sixth of the jobs would be created to provide goods and services for the construction sites, including insurance and equipment rental.
MetLife, one of the largest insurance providers in the U.S., competes with AIG and Hartford Financial to provide life insurance, health insurance, retirement planning products and auto and home insurance to both consumers and corporations.
The House earlier this year passed a GOP-backed Medicare prescription drug plan that encourages private insurance companies to provide the benefit with the incentive of government-provided subsidies.
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The states could then provide federal assistance to the poor to purchase the private health insurance of their choice, freeing them from the Medicaid ghetto that so badly underpays doctors and hospitals that the poor on Medicaid suffer trouble in finding essential care.
Regal Entertainment Group, which operates more than 500 theaters in 38 states, last month rolled back shifts for non-salaried workers to 30 hours per week, putting them under the threshold at which employers are required to provide health insurance.
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At no point in time is the insurance linked to outcomes, different ways to provide healthcare or any of the difficult policy issues we have discussed before: palliative care, entitlements of all the best care available, the lack of patient responsibility in their own health, etc.
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The President has shown a commitment to continuing to provide support to unemployed Americans by proposing wide-ranging reforms to the unemployment insurance program, some of which were adopted in the Middle Class Tax Relief and Jobs Creation Act of 2012.
Taxing away some of the return to capital to provide social insurance against risks is appropriate.
To combat moral hazard, regulators try to be ambiguous about how big is too big, and to restrict the amount of insurance they provide.
The businesses have to provide health care insurance for their employees.
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How concerned are you that the lump sum the federal government would provide to Medicare recipients would fall far short of the cost of healthcare insurance for older Americans, and make their paying for coverage a hardship?
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