health-care

For the people who still think healthcare reform bill is a good thing

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Top-Line Facts: * Spending:  The cost of the bill is .5 trillion over 10 years of full implementation (2014-2023). * Taxes Increases: Taxes will go up 3.6 billion—nearly half a trillion dollars. * Medicare Cuts:  Medicare will be cut 4.6 billion—another half a trillion dollars. * Total Number of Pages:  2074 * Government Plan:  The … Read more

Cigarettes Tax Plan May Push Limit for Voters

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California’s growing majority of nonsmokers has been easily persuaded in the past to raise taxes on cigarettes products – first by 25 cents a pack in 1988 and then by another 50 cents in 1998. Proposition 86 would boost the cigarettes tax again, but it may test the bounds of what voters are willing to … Read more