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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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(New York Times/July 22, 2009) ALBANY - New York State and New York City officials agreed this week to repay the federal government for more than half a billion dollars in improper Medicaid claims, averting a potential court battle but adding more red ink to the state’s and city’s finances. The... 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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(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/July 15, 2009) The nation’s drinking water and sewage treatment systems are getting older and need massive investments to protect public health and the environment, a bipartisan group of congressmen said Wednesday in proposing a $10&enspbillion-a-year federal clean... 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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(The Wall Street Journal/July 7, 2009) DAVENPORT, Iowa — The lush red strawberries caught the attention of Rachel Patrick, a mother of five shopping at a farmers market along the Mississippi River here. She selected two cartons and ignited a little-noticed chain reaction that is an important... Read More → |
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(Washington Post/July 7, 2009) Illinois has stopped paying $1,655 a funeral to bury the indigent dead. California is issuing IOUs in place of tax refunds. Ohio’s rainy-day fund has dwindled from nearly $1 billion to exactly 89 cents. Nearly a week into the new budget year, all three states are... 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 → |
