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“This study makes plain what every working parent knows — that providing insurance coverage takes a bigger bite from the family budget every year,” said Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a public health research organization based in Princeton, N.J.
Nationwide, the amount employees pay for family coverage increased 30 percent [...]

In an extensive interview on health policy, Mrs. Clinton said she would like to cap health insurance premiums at 5 percent to 10 percent of income. The average cost of a family policy bought by an individual in 2006 and 2007 was $5,799, or 10 percent of the median family income of $58,526, according [...]

In campaign after campaign for more than 30 years now, Republicans have been denouncing Roe v. Wade. Yet even though they have held the White House for most of that time %26#151; and made 12 of the last 14 Supreme Court appointments %26#151; abortion remains legal. This straddling has served Republicans well. They have [...]