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How much will the new health care law cost? That was a matter of particular dispute during the debate of the Patient Protection and Affordability Act. The bill's authors monkeyed around with the numbers, delaying some benefits, creating new revenue raisers, and pushing off known, needed reforms, so that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) could come up with a score below the $900 billion target.
Only the most naïve failed to recognize that those numbers were meaningless: Ultimately, they would have no relationship to how much the legislation would add to taxpayers' burdens and bloat the federal budget. CBO has...
Your Health Care Costs, Going Higher
I guess everyone is proud of the fact that some of the poor they are helping are people who previously earned comfortable incomes and were able to support their families. Add to that, the young people who will not have the economic opportunities their parents and grandparents had. A week ago Sunday, NPR did a report on young people in Spain
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The "growing" job fields for the future are primarily in low pay service sectors.