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My Turn: Accepting Medicaid dollars would benefit Alaska

...political perspective). In short, these expanded Medicaid-eligible Alaskans are deemed too poor to reasonably purchase health insurance through the law.I noted that there should be little serious dispute as to the question of Medicaid expansion...
Alaska Editorial: Medicaid decision not best course

...expanding Medicaid is just a matter of fairness. The Affordable Care Act offers sliding-scale subsidies to purchase health insurance for those people whose incomes range from 100 percent to 400 percent of the federal poverty level. Under the...
White House, Congress must find the center

...can move onto more crucial health issues, such as offering tax credits that help small businesses and workers purchase health insurance. Move forward on trade. The president correctly wants Congress to give him renewed "fast track" authority...
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...poverty level. The idea was to help women who earned too much for Medicaid coverage and far less than enough to purchase health insurance on their own. The state would be required to pay about one-third of the cost and the federal government would...
Recent votes send a negative message to decide for them - then a law must come to effect to increase their rate of pay and enable them to purchase health insurance elsewhere. Whatever happened to equal pay and benefits for equal work? Tana Bell Juneau
Give all Alaskans medical insurance

...generally expand medical insurance coverage. Federal House Bill 525 allows small businesses to group together to purchase health insurance (small-business health plans). Alaska House Bill 140 and state Senate Bill 87 increases Denali KidCare...
He still favors an Obama approach

...them, if you can pay, don't count on the government, take personal responsibility."But the mandate to purchase health insurance applies to everyone, not just the uninsured.As proof, Gingrich cited a report about a couple in Massachusetts...
Outside Editorial: Politics and the court

...the commerce clause and the necessary-and-proper clause - give Congress the power to require Americans to purchase health insurance.Opponents say this so-called individual mandate exceeds that authority. A related question is whether the...
NFIB right to challenge health care law

...constitutionality of the new health care law, specifically the individual mandate provision which forces all Americans to purchase health insurance whether they want to or not. The editorial mentioned how smart the government was to now refer to the individual...
Free-market health care reform is just what the doctor ordered

...Current regulations establish monopolies and cartels in both industries. Today, for example, people can't purchase health insurance across state lines. And because different states have very different regulations and mandates, costs can vary...


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