John McDonough
John McDonough
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We are absolutely insistent that the mandate should only fall on those individuals for whom insurance is affordable.
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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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People should look at what we did in Massachusetts more as a political blueprint and less as a policy blueprint.
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Rubbermaid and Newell are a terrific strategic fit,
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That was the beginning of Wrigley Field merging with Wrigleyville. Before 1984, this wasn't a weekend destination point and a place where people would socialize after games. There were some small corner taverns that people happened upon and that was it.
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The acquisition of Gillette's Stationery Products business further strengthens our writing instrument offering and optimizes our global distribution channels,
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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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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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This will have a ripple effect across the country.
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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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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?'
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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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We've said pretty consistently we would be willing to accept a responsible form of an individual mandate if it was also paired with a clear employer responsibility. It seems from what we are hearing that both elements are there.