John McDonough
John McDonough
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One of the lessons we learned from other states, such as Maine, is that voluntary doesn't get you where you want to go. If you really want to achieve a dramatic breakthrough in expansion of coverage, you have to be willing to take the political heat and political risk.
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Whether it will work out or not, we don't know. No state has ever gone down this road.
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We've said pretty consistently we would be willing to accept a responsible form of an individual mandate if it was also paired with a clear employer responsibility. It seems from what we are hearing that both elements are there.
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Our fans provide unconditional support. But it's time to win.
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We're not going for musical excellence. It's OK to be bad. But be fun bad. The level of expectation is zero. If they're bad, we like it.
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We are absolutely insistent that the mandate should only fall on those individuals for whom insurance is affordable.
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This will have a ripple effect across the country.
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It's between 35,000 and 45,000 women, all low-income, many of them desperately poor and many of them attempting to get back into the workforce and finding a significant obstacle: the state of their teeth.
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Given the amount of money we spend on our health care system, it would be pretty scandalous if we weren't high up there. We get an 'A' in access (to emergency care), only because the rest of the darn nation is so bad.
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It absolutely affirms the need for public policies to protect taxpayers from companies who deliberately shift responsibility for the health needs of their workers onto the backs of taxpayers. Every company on this list needs to take a second look at what's going on with health care benefits.
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Based on the information we had last night, we thought it was prudent to go ahead and implement our pre-hurricane plan,
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There is an enormous amount of implementation work on this that will take three to five years before you look back and see where it all ended up. If there are one hundred things you want to know, probably more than half we don't know the answers to at this point in time, because it will be determined through regulation and through the process.
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The roads have reopened, but traffic is backed up to Virginia on the Inner Loop and on the Outer Loop I don't know how far back. That goes into PG County.
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You played with a guy who had a great career in the NBA, and the thing I like about Rik most of all is he is just a nice guy. Never did he ever display a touch of arrogance to his teammates. He was always there for everybody. I still talk to him. We're still friends. NBA meant nothing to our friendship, it never changed.