...increase.The new 2013-2014 contracts call for the county to pay $944 per month toward the county's cafeteria health insurance program that provides a $2,500 deductible plan. Employees then can chose whether they want to pay additionally toward...
...320 (which represents deputies and jailers) has indicated an interest in seeking a separate public employee health insurance program. Tuesday, the commissioners indicated they plan to continue their current policy of contributing only to a...
...life and take care of those most in need." The recommended changes are as consequential as opening up public health insurance programs to 80,000 more people to as small-bore as giving the Science Museum $11,000 to foster field trips and...
...is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we'll spend on Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland, security...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Here's where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues. They are Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, businessman Herman Cain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Utah Gov. John Huntsman, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. ABORTION:
...to these programs, or will do so in the not-too-distant future.Medicare, Medicaid and a children's health insurance program consumed 21 percent of federal dollars spent in 2010, with almost two-thirds of that ($452 billion) going...
...an editorial that was reprinted in the Brainerd Dispatch July 29 that Medicare, Medicaid and a children's health insurance program consumed 21 percent of the federal budget in 2010. Social Security expenses used up another 20 percent, in...
...growing concern about federal deficits and the national debt, few dispute the need to take on Medicare. The health insurance program for seniors and others with certain disabilities already accounts for 15 percent of the federal budget - behind...
...Medical assistance programs keep running.- Food stamps, welfare benefits, payments under the MinnesotaCare health insurance program, unemployment payments will continue.- Workers compensation claims and benefits will still be processed...
...corporations and the wealthy, and eliminate various tax loopholes.The blueprint aims to convert Medicare, the health insurance program for older people, into a subsidy or voucher program for future beneficiaries - those now under age 55. Many...
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