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Every morning I swallow a bitter pill. Actually, the medicine itself isn't all that bitter. It's no different from any of the other medicines I take that make it possible for me to function at home and at work by controlling things like allergies and gastro esophageal...

Kaiser Health News has summarized some new findings from the Mercer consulting group that are quite compelling. We think they're so significant they should each be absorbed separately. The first impressive finding, from a study of 3,000 firms: "The excise tax ......

The following appeared at Daily Kos and elsewhere as a roundup of today's activities and posts We need to stop the excise tax on so-called "Cadillac" health plans - a tax that will affect an increasing number of middle-class workers over the next ten years. In the...

At his Brookings speech today the president outlined his economic plan. It has all the right pieces and it points in the right direction. But something is missing. Start with the good news. The President understands how bad the situation is. The greatest crisis since...

Imagine that you're choosing between two health insurance plans. One has a $15 co-pay for doctor visits and says it covers hospital charges up to 80 percent of "reasonable and customary" charges. The second has a $20 co-pay and covers only 75 percent of "reasonable...

Ernst & Young has a report, "Renewable energy country attractiveness indices", that tries to measure how "attractive" different countries are for investment in renewable energy projects. According to the report, The Ernst & Young country attractiveness indices provide...

A quartet of union leaders was joined on a press conference call today by Rep. Gerald Connolly of Virginia, to present new data which demonstrates that Federal workers covered by FEHBP would-be hard hit by the Senate's proposed excise tax on higher-cost health benefit...

Liberal/Democratic Washington policy thinkers appear close to reaching the consensus view that the Senate's excise tax on higher-cost health plans is a good idea. Here's the problem: The consensus is wrong. The so-called (and misnamed) "Cadillac tax" is unfair and...