How HSAs Can Help Make You Healthy And Wealthy for a health savings account primer.
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But since their tax cuts mostly go to the wealthy and their health insurance proposals offer little more than a potentially useless tax credit, that just wasn't enough.
In this time of fiscal disarray, when health care for the poor is a humanitarian catastrophe, there is no plausible justification for giving wealthy retirees government-subsidized health care.
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Since most voters did not consider themselves wealthy, the Mental Health Services Act initiative passed.
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If you are a wealthy CEO or a health -- hedge fund manager in America right now, your taxes are lower than they have ever been.
We massively subsidize health care for wealthy seniors, through Medicare, and for wealthy workers, through a provision of the tax code called the employer tax exclusion.
Generally speaking, we are over-subsidizing the health insurance of the wealthy and under-subsidizing it for the poor.
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"Scandinavian countries are wealthy, very organized, the health care is free and the society is ordered, " Mr. Tyldum said.
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Having undercharged the wealthy for a generation, governments at all levels are cutting education, police, fire, health care, and environmental programs, while tax cuts for the wealthy mysteriously remain untouchable.
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There is absolutely no reason for an allegedly civilized country, particularly one as wealthy as America, to pass the buck on providing health care for everyone.
But as Columbia and the rest of the health-care sector are discovering, being too wealthy is not always healthy.
An economically populist program that raised taxes on the wealthy and increased government spending on infrastructure, housing, and health care would appear to have a large and receptive audience among average Russians.
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The populist note is especially important: When he starts receiving Medicare, Bill Gates should bear a greater share of his health-care costs than the less healthy or less wealthy.
The UICC and the WCRF want governments and the public to dispel four important myths and misconceptions about cancer, namely that cancer is just a health issue, that it is a disease of the wealthy, developed countries, that it is a death sentence and that getting cancer is down to fate.
And the basic idea is, is that if you give more tax breaks to the very wealthy, and you get rid of regulations on banks and polluters and health insurance companies, then somehow everybody is going to prosper.
"In a Kerry administration, we will stop being the only advanced nation in the world which fails to understand that health care is not a privilege for the elected and the connected and the wealthy, it is a right for every American, " he said.
So his plans are tailored accordingly -- big tax cuts skewed towards the wealthy, and getting rid of regulations that have had an impact on Wall Street and with our health systems.
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