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Parnell should study Vermont's single payer plan

...eye of the act has been the "individual mandate" that requires all Americans to have "minimum essential" health insurance coverage. And employers with more than 50 people on the payroll will be required to offer to them a plan that meets...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-07-19/parnell-should-study-vermonts-single-
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IRS deadlines for small employers announced

...Affordable Care Act enacted last year. Small employers that pay at least half of the premiums for employee health insurance coverage under a qualifying arrangement may be eligible for the small business health care tax credit. The credit is...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-09-11/irs-deadlines-small-employers-announced
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...access to health care for more Americans.On the legal front, challenges to the law's individual mandate of health insurance coverage have produced contradictory court rulings, and it is now nearly certain that the Supreme Court will need to...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-10-07
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Pro vs. Con: Should Congress block spending to implement the health care act?

...access to health care for more Americans.On the legal front, challenges to the law's individual mandate of health insurance coverage have produced contradictory court rulings, and it is now nearly certain that the Supreme Court will need to...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-10-07/should-congress-block-spending-implem
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Pro: Health care law is a hopeful step forward

WASHINGTON - The United States has a terribly dysfunctional health-care system, unique among the rich countries in the word in its waste and abuse of its citizens.

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-12-30/pro-health-care-law-hopeful-step-forw
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My Turn: HHS mandate means equal access to health services

...right for a handful of Catholic schools and hospitals to exclude contraceptives from their female employees' health insurance coverage will do nothing to change the fact that nearly all women of child bearing age in this country use birth control...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-02-09/my-turn-hhs-mandate-means-equal-acces
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Pro: More and more Democrats now worry sweeping law may hurt them at the polls

...deficits, these costs are simply unacceptable.Further, major companies are seriously considering dropping health insurance coverage altogether to avoid the huge costs of complying with the employer mandate.The price tag will rise even further...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-05-04/pro-more-and-more-democrats-now-worry
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Discredited survey pushed myth of employers dropping health plans

...the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA - will cause huge numbers of employers to drop health insurance coverage that they currently provide for employees. The McKinsey study was soon shown to be worthless, and McKinsey...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-07-21/discredited-survey-pushed-myth-employ
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Lost insurance jobs

...done by state employees. The state of Alaska provides thousands of current and former state employees with health insurance coverage. Workers in other states process the health insurance claims of these employees. There are many jobs lost...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060404/let_letter4.shtml
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Requiring health insurance supports the private market

...health researcher, respectively, we believe that striking down the mandate would threaten the future of private health insurance coverage. Many Republicans - Mitt Romney, Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Heritage Foundation and many others...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011211/opi_768842319.shtml
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