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These three trends are eating up the American retirement dream

NEW YORK - With informed discussion, creative thinking, and timely legislative action, Social Security can continue to protect future generations. That boilerplate language has been...
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER, Mitch McConnell. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

McConnell taking a risk with talk of bipartisan health care bill

NEW YORK - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking a risk by calling for a bipartisan health care plan if the Republican-only bill...

Providing for employees

Does your company offer any health-related benefits to employees? Yes 100% No 0% Do you offer more than one health insurance plan to employees? Yes 57.1% No 42.9% We do...
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER, Mitch McConnell / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

Is the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) better than either the House...

Much of the young Trump administration has been spent trying to overturn and replace the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare). The impulse...
THE BCRA WOULD REDUCE federal funding for Medicaid in Rhode Island by $1.89 billion from the years 2020-2026 according to Avalere. /BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

Report: Senate health reform would significantly reduce Medicaid funding in R.I.

PROVIDENCE - If the Better Care Reconciliation Act was passed in its current form, Rhode Island will lose $1.9 billion of federal Medicaid funding...
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, center, walks to a private GOP meeting at the U.S. Capitol. /BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

Health insurers concerned by `dramatic’ Medicaid cuts in bill

NEW YORK - Health insurers criticized the steep cuts to Medicaid proposed in the Senate bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act...
MEDICAL DEVICES HANG on a wall at a Community Clinic Inc. health center in Greenbelt, Md. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

Senate GOP writing Obamacare repeal behind closed doors

NEW YORK - Senate Republican leaders drafting a measure to revamp U.S. health-care policy appear to be following the same path as their House...
Governor Gina M. Raimondo, right, meeting with reporters last week to discuss her budget. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ MARY MACDONALD

Raimondo considers altering free tuition proposal

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo said Tuesday she will consider changing her proposal for two years of free state tuition, to make it less...

Full effects of health care reform must be measured and known

It is difficult to imagine that the passage of the American Health Care Act could so quickly be shunted to the back burner. But...
SOURCE: The Economic Progress Institute

Rhode Island bizs could lose under ACA repeal

While the national debate about the future of health care rages on in Washington, D.C., local employers are left to grapple with how repealing...
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