John McDonough
John McDonough
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It's a huge increase and unfortunately it's not a surprise. It's all tied to the cost of health insurance. It's either employers dropping coverage, which we haven't seen much of, or employers raising the cost of coverage to workers, so they can no longer afford it.
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It absolutely affirms the need for public policies to protect taxpayers from companies who deliberately shift responsibility for the health needs of their workers onto the backs of taxpayers. Every company on this list needs to take a second look at what's going on with health care benefits.
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Given the amount of money we spend on our health care system, it would be pretty scandalous if we weren't high up there. We get an 'A' in access (to emergency care), only because the rest of the darn nation is so bad.
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It's between 35,000 and 45,000 women, all low-income, many of them desperately poor and many of them attempting to get back into the workforce and finding a significant obstacle: the state of their teeth.
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The roads have reopened, but traffic is backed up to Virginia on the Inner Loop and on the Outer Loop I don't know how far back. That goes into PG County.
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This contract represents a further significant step in development of our business in Canada, in line with our strategy of growing support services and PPP activities alongside a selective construction capability.
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Rubbermaid and Newell are a terrific strategic fit,
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You played with a guy who had a great career in the NBA, and the thing I like about Rik most of all is he is just a nice guy. Never did he ever display a touch of arrogance to his teammates. He was always there for everybody. I still talk to him. We're still friends. NBA meant nothing to our friendship, it never changed.
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This is an essential dose of protection for roughly 270,000 elderly and disabled people in Massachusetts who may experience a loss in drug coverage when they are switched overnight to the Medicare prescription drug program on January 1.
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People should look at what we did in Massachusetts more as a political blueprint and less as a policy blueprint.
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Based on the information we had last night, we thought it was prudent to go ahead and implement our pre-hurricane plan,
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One of the lessons we learned from other states, such as Maine, is that voluntary doesn't get you where you want to go. If you really want to achieve a dramatic breakthrough in expansion of coverage, you have to be willing to take the political heat and political risk.
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The more realistic and genuinely financed plan is the one offered by the House. It's got real coverage and real financing.
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It's become the thing to do when you're in Chicago to sing during the seventh-inning stretch, ... Every day, people regularly ask, 'Who's pitching? And who's singing?'