Wonks are waging war over the issue of a carbon tax, as think tanks and economists ramp up support for the idea as a one-stop grand bargain to solve climate change and fix the deficit. Meanwhile, the fossil-fuel industry is bringing in the big guns to fight back. But the...
The House Republican leadership team has signed a pledge that in the 113th Congress, they will “oppose any legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in current government revenue.”
Under pressure from Republican governors to push back the deadline for states to declare whether they’ll run their own exchange, the Obama administration yesterday announced they’d give states another month to submit their letters of intent. The delay came literally one day before the administration’s original deadline, and it came...
While the health care world this week is closely watching which states will sign up to run their own exchanges, governors are also slowly starting to drop small hints about their intentions for the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. A handful of governors have already said they’ll use the state...
Research! America and other advocates headed to the Hill this week for nearly 60 meetings with House and Senate offices to protect biomedical and health research as lawmakers ponder the impending fiscal cliff.
A new survey of employers from the human-services firm Mercer finds that employer-sponsored health premiums rose at the lowest rate in 15 years during 2012. The rate of growth, 4.1%, was down from about 6% in recent years, and is consistent with recent findings from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which...
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