There is a trend well in place to transfer all risk and cost to the employee It happens with your pension being ”converted” or replaced into a 401 (k) then at retirement to a self directed IRA No guarantees all based on the market or an annuity that you pay for (Hopefully combinations of both) They are portable because all of us will have many jobs Good enough Your health Insurance has a Cal-Cobra clause in CA but you pay 2% more than your employer did for the same coverage and you are unemployed Unemployment is not 100% of what you made while working or even50%- anyone ...
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Senate May Borrow Health Finance Ideas From States BY ARTHUR D. POSTAL Washington Bureau -- NU Online News Service, Jan. 10, 2007, 8:14 p.m. EST Sen. Edward Kennedy says he wants to use state health coverage expansion programs as a model for federal health insurance reform efforts. Kennedy, D-Mass., now has succeeded Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyo., as chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The federal government should follow the lead of Kennedy’s state, Massachusetts, and require everyone to have health insurance, Kennedy said today at a commit ...
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Senate May Borrow Health Finance Ideas From States BY ARTHUR D. POSTAL Washington Bureau -- NU Online News Service, Jan. 10, 2007, 8:14 p.m. EST Sen. Edward Kennedy says he wants to use state health coverage expansion programs as a model for federal health insurance reform efforts. Kennedy, D-Mass., now has succeeded Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyo., as chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The federal government should follow the lead of Kennedy’s state, Massachusetts, and require everyone to have health insurance, Kennedy said today at a commit ...
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