U.S. Senator Pat Roberts said health care reform proposals will raise health insurance premiums and hurt Kansas’ small businesses. Roberts made the remarks at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee where Sandy Praeger, Kansas Insurance Commissioner, provided testimony echoing these concerns. “There is no question that the spiraling cost of [...]
1. Limit Income-Tax Deductions By only allowing taxpayers in the top two income tax brackets (33% and 35%) to deduct their mortgage interest, charitable contributions, and local taxes at the 28% rate it is suggested that the Federal government could collect $267 billion over the next 10 years. This is supposedly one of the Obama [...]
A good segment of the population have hoped that the health care reform process would do something about the three major problems of health care, spiraling out of control costs, lack of availability of insurance to much of the population, and a bureaucratic indifference that seems to have permeated the health care field. There was [...]
Both of Florida’s senators say there’s plenty of room for improvement to the health care reform bill being brought to debate by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Republican Sen. George LeMieux said Thursday he’s still trying to figure out everything the 2,074-page bill does. “I’m going to be one of those sitting up all night [...]
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