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(Governing.com/July 17, 2009) The Value-Added Tax has reportedly resurfaced in Washington as a possible future revenue source to help balance the budget, pay for Medicare and Social Security or possibly fund part of the national health care system. For those unfamiliar with the VAT, it operates like... Read More → |
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(Detroit Free Press/July 22, 2009) The Legislature’s top Republican strongly endorsed his Democratic counterpart’s plan to insure an estimated 400,000 employees of the state, municipalities, counties and schools with a single health care plan to save government hundreds of millions of dollars,... Read More → |
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(Wall Street Journal/July 22, 2009) Connecticut became the latest state to pass legislation to revamp its health-care system, plowing ahead with a plan to cover uninsured residents despite budget pressures and congressional efforts to impose a comprehensive solution at the national level. On Monday,... Read More → |
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced July 13th that HUD’s Federal Housing Administration (FHA) will now provide mortgage loan insurance for hospital refinancing. Prior to this, hospitals could only get FHA insurance on loans that included a substantial... Read More → |
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(Congressional Quarterly/July 6, 2009) Congress enacted the economic stimulus package in mid-February. But it seems that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has never stopped selling it. As custodian of the huge pot of infrastructure spending in the $787 billion initiative (PL 111-5), LaHood, more than... Read More → |
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(Washington Post/July 7, 2009) The nation’s hospitals agreed last night to contribute $155 billion over 10 years toward the cost of insuring the 47 million Americans without health coverage, according to two industry sources. The agreement that three hospital associations reached with White House... Read More → |
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(USA TODAY/ July 3, 2009) WASHINGTON - The government will allow more distressed borrowers who owe more than their homes are worth to be eligible for refinancing assistance under an Obama administration housing rescue program. Currently, homeowners who owe 5% more than their homes are worth can refinance... Read More → |
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(Stateline.org/July 6, 2009) FREDERICK, Md. - Everyone agrees the way out of this recession is jobs. But even as the recession begins to lift and stimulus projects generate jobs, many unemployed workers will have few prospects because their skills won’t match new openings. That’s where state... Read More → |
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(Stateline.org/June 30, 2009) With states facing a $121 billion shortfall in the next fiscal year, a growing number of them have turned to squeezing their workforce for savings, and effects are being felt, both great and small. In Hawaii, some criminal trials will likely have to be rescheduled because... Read More → |
