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...House bill, as expected, is a requirement that employers provide health benefits to their workers, although the precise shape of that mandate is unclear. The smallest, low-wage firms would be exempted from that requirement, and the three House chairmen anticipate providing a new small-business tax credit to help others. It also includes a "pay or play" provision: those businesses that do not provide benefits would be forced to pay some percentage of their payroll - 5% or 6% is being talked about - into a fund for the uninsured. And it would prohibit insurers from discriminating against people who have...
...House of Representatives would be bolder and more liberal than those from the more moderate Senate. But as the first details of the actual bills begin to surface, that's no longer so clear. On Tuesday, the same day that the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee released some of its bill's language, the first outlines of the bill being drafted by the three key committee chairmen in the House - Energy and Commerce's Henry Waxman, Ways and Means' Charles Rangel and Education and Labor's George Miller - showed that while the two chambers are going along...
...would be crucial to holding down costs and to provide competition that would, in President Barack Obama's words, "keep insurance companies honest," but which Republicans say would be a deal-breaker. Still, the House model appears to be far weaker than one described in early drafts of the HELP Committee's legislation. If those early drafts are any indication, the HELP version would look a lot like Medicare, with the rates that it reimburses hospitals, doctors and other health-care providers linked to those paid by the government medical plan for senior citizens, which generally run about 30% lower...
...Government subsidies to help people buy insurance. Both the House and Senate approaches would require people who don't get coverage from their employers to go out and buy it on their own. And both anticipate that the government would give lower-income people subsidies to help them afford that coverage. The House plan proposes providing those subsidies on a sliding scale to people who earn up to 400% of the poverty level - in other words, $43,320 for an individual and $88,200 for a family. That is about the level that the Senate Finance Committee is expected...
...There is hope that Bongo's death may help set a new pattern for Africa, opening the way for a new era of reform and shared prosperity. Across the continent, the old "Big Men" dinosaurs are dying off. Gone are Idi Amin of Uganda, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaïre, Hastings Banda of Malawi and Charles Taylor of Liberia. Those that remain are precariously long in the tooth: Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has been in power for 39 years, while Dos Santos of Angola and Obiang of Equatorial Guinea have ruled for 29 and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe...