Sentences with phrase «health insurance reform bills»
«Today we made significant progress in bridging the remaining gaps between the two health insurance reform bills,» President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in a joint statement Wednesday evening.
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A breakthrough on the health care reform bill expected to be voted on today came after an amendment that adds $ 8 billion to the measure to help cover insurance costs for people with pre-existing conditions.
Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.
Republican lawmakers unveiled their historic tax - reform plan, a bill that slashes rates for the wealthy and businesses, gives smaller cuts to the middle class and eliminates the ObamaCare mandate that Americans buy health insurance or face a penalty.
«Today we have the opportunity to complete the great unfinished business of our society and pass health insurance reform for all Americans as a right, not a privilege,» Pelosi said before the House approved the bill, which first passed the Senate on Christmas Eve.
Any health - insurance - reform bill adopted by the Congress must include provisions that specifically target the health - care needs of children and adolescents, child - health advocates said last week.
However, the tax reform bill repeals the individual mandate, meaning that people who don't buy health insurance will no longer have to pay a tax penalty.
The Missouri Legislature's bill to reform workplace health insurance provides a common - sense approach to health care reform, rather than more government intervention and bureaucracy.
After much speculation and a summer spent debating health insurance reform, the Senate is finally ready to begin work on its climate bill.
The 2009 health care reform bill has affected long term care insurance in a variety of ways.
With concern escalating across the country over proposed restrictions on private health insurance coverage of abortion included in the health care reform bill passed by the House last week, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards joined Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY) and other women leaders in denouncing this anti-women's health amendment passed by the House.
Q: Which bills approved by Congress and signed by the President reform health insurance markets and other health care matters?
On health care reform, the president urged lawmakers to pass a final version of the Kassebaum - Kennedy health care bill, which would ultimately increase to 80 percent the tax deduction for health insurance for self - employed workers and their families.
House and Senate lawmakers replaced an $ 80 billion House tax reform bill with a pared - down bill that retains versions of two NAR - backed provisions: 100 percent deduction of health insurance premiums for self - employed persons, and an increase in the amount of tax - exempt private - activity bonds that states and localities issue annually.