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Obama Reform Sidesteps Health Costs

the tax exclusion for employer-paid health insurance might be curbed. Obama downplays the obstacles. His "reform" isn't likely to compel needed changes, partly because it's not clear what will work. E... read more

State and Local Leaders are Setting an Agenda for the Country’s Biggest Challenges

And still others like NewDEAL Leader and South Bend ... of workers in the gig economy by proposing portable benefits that recognize the growing number of temporary and contract employment opportunitie... read more

Jason Conger searches for footing in GOP Oregon Senate race as abortion, health care issues loom

John Kitzhaber's attempts to restructure the health-care system and to set up the state's own exchange offering an array of health insurance policies that ... care legislation into financial gain thro... read more

ObamaCare: The sum of all fears

One of those concerns is health care reform ... cause this long-term bend “may be unrealistic.” Promise #3: Reform will lower Americans’ health care premiums. Obama himself conceded people might be pa... read more

The Hillary Papers

Bob Packwood, an influential Republican on health ... to a Chinese restaurant, to a Shakespeare play, greeted everywhere with wild applause and cheers—this, she said is what drives their adversaries t... read more

FICA Tax Deductions

Understanding what the FICA tax deductions from your paycheck are and how they ... First, you won’t have to pay FICA taxes on employer-paid health insurance benefits. This only applies to health insur... read more

Tax Reform Sorely Needed, But It Won't Happen

Here are some tax preferences (aka, "loopholes" or subsidies) I'd repeal along with government estimates of how much tax revenues would rise in 2016: • The exclusion from taxable income of employer-pa... read more

Study backs expanding Medicaid in Ohio

In 2014, Ohio’s net gain would be $104 million, the report found. By 2022, the state would have saved an estimated $1.4 billion. In addition, expanding Medicaid ... health-insurance costs. Responsible ... read more

Bernie Sanders' Medicare-for-All Plan Will Cost $32 Trillion Over 10 Years

Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), otherwise known as the "Medicare-for-all" plan. Sanders' plan would see the federal government replace private health insurance that Americans currently receive as a benefit of ... read more

Madison County Transit shows strong ridership gains

All-day service is now provided to Gateway Commerce Center, where thousands work in warehouses and distribution centers. Beginning in January, MCT has provided evening service to the busy stores and r... read more

Ironworkers bend on wages

The ironworkers' union—desperate to regain market share from surging nonunion construction, and afraid of missing out on lucrative work at Hudson Yards and the ... That would create jobs for Local 46 ... read more

Hurricane Michael Powers Across Gulf; Could Bring Rains To MD

The storm has already caused thousands of people to evacuate throughout Florida as it gains strength in the warm Gulf waters ... of emergency for counties in the Florida Panhandle and Big Bend. This m... read more