What impact, if any, will there be on Social Security when the minimum wage is increased? The increase should bring in more payroll taxes. Will there be any...
Any minimum wage increase will not be to a living wage of $12/hr – just to a few dollars per hour above the current $5.15 level and even then spread over ...
http://tinyurl.com/y9xreh ... After numerous refusals over three and a half years, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has released the first known public...
But it is, perhaps?, more unfair than other agreements as we subsidize the vary low wage earner, and these are mostly low wage, so it is a drain on the system....
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010507H.shtml ... Officially, of course, it was the Medicare Modernization Act. But as we learned during the debate over...
... subsidize the ... drain on the ... than 2 ... into the ... the facts ... Thanks for the reply, William. If there is nothing to get "worked up" about, then...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/medicare_drugs ... Despite President Bush's veto threat, the House approved legislation Friday that would require the government to...
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1169892362197260.xml&coll=2 ... A little-noticed part of President Bush's new health-insurance ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901848.html ... Bush said his plan would let a couple earning $60,000 a year save ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070203/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush ... President Bush, poised to submit his new budget to Congress next week, warned Saturday that unless...
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070301-1536-healthinsurance.html ... Democrats looking for money to pay for health care priorities renewed their...
"60 Minutes" video featuring David Walker, U.S. Comptroller General: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2534935n ... "I would argue...
Video http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2635796n ... Drug companies had a deep hand in steering the Medicare prescription drug bill...
William, 1) Typically, how much does a company save by self-insuring? 2) Typically, how large (# of employees) does a company have to be before it starts...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/washington/19drug.html ... A pillar of the Democrats' program tumbled on Wednesday when the Senate blocked a proposal to let...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/opinion/21sat1.html ... If private health plans are supposedly so great at delivering high-quality care while holding down...
http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/23/pf/ssmc_trustees_report/?postversion=2007042318 ... Meanwhile, Medicare continues to be in much worse shape than Social ...
Thanks for the reply. Follow-up question: Now if large companies benefit from "self-insuring", why shouldn't we as a country "self-insure" our health care...
You have hit on the reason for single payer universal health - the idea that self-insuring works for massively large groups. But relatively small health ...
Medicare is a victim of a system that must recover the cost of over 500 insurance company forms for the same procedure, and an information system for health...
... idea that ... I have not seen single-payer advocates use this as an argument, but it makes sense to me. If companies self-insure, why shouldn't we as a...
I'm not sure of the logic here. Government agencies are grossly inefficient and can find more ways to waste and redirect money that you can imagine. I think...
... *SOME* government agencies are grossly inefficient, but so are *SOME* private companies. Don't just focus on the profit line of those private companies,...
I should have expanded on my thought process. I see this as a competitive bidding process which should get us the most bang for the buck. An awful lot of the...
The competitive side of health insurance is the company competing with the consumer - rather weird, but that is how money is made in this business. You fight...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/washington/07medicare.html ... Insurance companies have used improper hard-sell tactics to persuade Medicare recipients to...
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