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...original Senate bill called for lower thresholds - 75% and 80% respectively - while the House bill calls for an 85% limit across the board; crucially, both of those bills would have ended the requirement in 2013, the year much of health reform only begins to take effect, while Reid's new provision would maintain the regulation in perpetuity. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who had advocated killing the public option-less Senate bill, said Monday on MSNBC that of the last-minute changes to the Senate bill made by Reid, the strengthening of the MLR regulations was "the most...
Rockefeller had been pushing for a 90% threshold, but the Congressional Budget Office said such a requirement would severely limit companies' flexibility and "make such insurance an essentially governmental program." Many states currently have MLR requirements, but most are below the federal level that would be established under Democratic health reform. The existing minimum baseline, established in non-binding guidelines from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, says that MLRs must be at least in the 50-60% range, depending on what other regulations are in place...
...coat-tails as high as they'd take him," says a former adviser to conservative politicians who requested anonymity. "No one else would dirty themselves with this nasty, divisive electoral ploy over national identity, which made it just the job for Besson. He's convinced the sky's his limit, so long as he does whatever Sarkozy orders." (See the top 10 political gaffes...
...small group of countries including Cuba, Sudan, Bolivia and Venezuela worked to block the accord. They complained that the deal brokered by Obama and his interlocutors lacked specific emission-reduction targets, and only included a vague pledge to attempt to keep global warming from rising above the upper safe limit of 2 degrees celsius. The dissenters also attacked the climate finance for poor countries promised in the deal - around $30 billion for the period to 2012, and $100 billion annually by 2020 - as far short of the needs of the nations hardest hit by global warming. Perhaps most...
...This week's move by CNNIC to limit registrations to licensed businesses will affect domains ending in .cn. There are now nearly 13 million .cn domain names, about 80% of the total websites registered in China. The policy came after state broadcaster China Central Television, which has targeted search engines such as Google and China's Baidu.com in several reports this year about the prevalence of online porn, turned its attention to what it described as CNNIC's lax standards for regulating Chinese domains. The .cn domain is a leading source of online fraud, according to the Internet-security firm...