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Senate Panel Releases Trimmed-Down Health Reform ...       September 16, 2009
News: The Senate Finance Committee plan would cost an estimated $774 billion over 10 years, which is less than the $1 trillion price tag of other proposals. A US Chamber of Commerce rep says, 'It ain't perfect, but it is certainly a vast improvem
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Cost of Health Benefits Still Accelerating Faster ...       September 15, 2009
News: The survey of more than 2,000 non-federal private and public employers tracks the cost of health benefits of the previous year and was conducted earlier this year, when the recession was more pronounced.
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Challenges Slowing Health Care Reform Drive       August 24, 2009
News: Federal health care reform legislation is ailing, but experts and observers say it is far from dead.
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Panel Says Health Care Benefit Changes Needed       July 24, 2009
News: Speaking at a Chicago forum on national health care reform and its effect on Illinois, the panelists outlined major problems in the health care system and suggested ways to address those issues.
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Senate Bill Could Help Rescue Employer-Provided ...       July 9, 2009
News: A provision in a Senate health reform bill announced last week could help strengthen an aspect of the employer-based system that has unraveled almost completely in the past generation: health benefits for retirees.
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New Details of Senate Health Reform Bill Emerge; ...       July 2, 2009
News: The Senate bill also prohibits employees who can afford their employer's health insurance from purchasing a plan through the proposed government-regulated health insurance exchange.
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Report, Surveys Begin to Flesh Out Details on ...       June 17, 2009
News: Analysis is incomplete because the Kennedy proposal has not yet included details on issues that employers oppose, like a public plan option, taxing health benefits, changing ERISA or an employer mandate.
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Employers Face Plenty of COBRA-Related Compliance ...       February 18, 2009
News: With the average cost of a family plan in 2008 totaling $12,680, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's survey on health care costs, employers will pay an average ...
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Union Membership Rises Amid Economic Uncertainty, ...       January 28, 2009
News: Membership rates rose for the second straight year in 2008, indicating receptivity to organized labor among workers worried about the worst recession in generations. Mass layoffs rose last year to the highest level since the recession ...
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