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Tag Archives: health benefits
Health Care Bill Bankruptcies
Posted on December 18, 2008
Q: What is the percentage of total personal bankruptcies caused by health care bills? A: A Harvard study published in 2005 found that about half of those who filed for bankruptcy said health care expenses, illness or related job-loss led them to do so. Twenty-seven percent cited uncovered medical bills …
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Tagged Barack Obama, economy, health benefits, health care, health insurance, Joe Biden
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Scaring, and Misleading, Seniors Again
Posted on October 20, 2008
In what is becoming a bit of a pattern, a group that backs Sen. Barack Obama is trying to convince senior citizens that Sen. John McCain would be their worst nightmare. The AFL-CIO is distributing a mailer that claims McCain is “turning his back on retirees,” by “privatizing Social Security, …
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Tagged afl-cio, Barack Obama, direct mail, health benefits, John McCain, medicare, Social Security, taxes, unions
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