Clemmitt, Marcia. "Health-Care Reform:"Is the landmark new plan a good idea? CQ Researcher. June 11, 2010. The health-care reform legislation signed into law by President Obama on March 23 marked the biggest attempt to expand access to health care since Medicare and Medicaid were launched in the 1960s. The massive legislation will help 32 million Americans get health insurance coverage and bans insurers from denying coverage to those with preexisting illnesses. It also expands Medicaid to all poor people — except illegal immigrants — and gives subsidies to low- and low-middle-income people to buy insurance. But opponents, including every Republican member of Congress, say the coverage expansion is simply too expensive, at a price tag of about $1 trillion over 10 years. They also say new fees and taxes to help pay for the coverage place too big a burden on currently insured people. Meanwhile, a group of state attorneys general is challenging the constitutionality of the law's requirement that everyone buy health insurance. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.
Clemmitt, Marcia. "Health-Care Reform:" Is Universal Coverage too Expensive? CQ Researcher August 28, 2009.
Clemmitt, Marcia. "Universal Coverage." CQ Researcher 17.12 (2007): 265-288. CQ Press. 5 April 2007.
Clemmitt, Marcia. "Rising Health Costs:" Can costs be cut without hurting care quality? CQ Researcher April 7, 2006.
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Katel, Peter. "Jobs in the Future: Is a College Education Important?" CQ Researcher, 4 June 2010.
American workers — and their jobless counterparts — are still absorbing the blows of the Great Recession. The economy has finally started to grow again, but more than 8 million jobs that disappeared after the economic crisis began in late 2007 haven't returned. People who do have jobs are working harder. Increased productivity is only one of several major changes on the job front. As technology advances, the competitive environment for U.S. workers is intensifying. American employers now can hire people halfway across the globe to perform skilled tasks — interpreting downloaded X-ray pictures, for example. Experts argue over how many jobs are at risk, but no one disputes that young people are better off with advanced schooling that builds analytical capacity, allowing them to switch careers if necessary. As for lesser-educated workers, demand is rising at the low end of the market. Jobs that fall in between the two extremes may be most at risk.
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