FOP Lodge 86 on Rick Scotts pension reform and private sector vs government sector
There is a clear difference between the government sector and the private sector. The difference in pension plans should be just as clear. Rick Scott is running the Florida Retirement System (FRS) to the ground. Visit www.FOP86.com and www.facebook.com and help us battle Rick Scott and support your local law enforcement officers, correction officers, fire fighters and teachers.
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Gov. Chris Christie on Social Security Reform
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Ron Pollack at Road Show Draws Parallel Between Health Reform and Social Security Act
On September 15, 2010, HCF joined with Families USA, CCO, AARP, Partnership for Children, Jobs with Justice, Missouri Health Care for All, and the Missouri Budget Project to present “Just the Facts: New Health Reforms for Seniors and Families.” The event was held at the Second Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, MO. They keynote speaker was Ron Pollack, Executive Director of Families USA, a national nonprofit focused on promoting high quality, affordable health care for all.
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French strike action as government defends pension reform
Tens of thousands of French workers held street rallies Thursday to oppose President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to raise the age of retirement, but fell short of matching last year’s mass demonstrations. The French government has defended the measure as part of efforts to tackle its gaping welfare deficit.Duration: 02:09
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Reform Aimed At Personal Finance And UK Savings
Reform Aimed At Personal Finance And UK Savings
The Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) has issued a report which supports the Pension Commission’s recent demand for reform in the structure of the basic state pension. In fact the report goes further than simply backing the report, it calls for reforms to be implemented more rapidly than the Commission has recommended.
Essentially, the reforms that are proposed are for simplifications to be made to the current variations in available state pensions for those who are eligible. Means testing, currently used in determining eligibility and the extent of the pension available, would be dropped in favour of an across the board pension rate. Additionally, tax breaks for those who try to save for a personal pension would be put in place to encourage saving.
These reforms would serve to make pension availability, and budgeting for retirement, much clearer to understand and buy into, thereby preventing nasty surprises for the individual late in life, or the government as a generation becomes dependant on a state pension. A recent survey by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) concluded that very little provision is being made for the future by those aged 18-40 and that a very large number of UK citizens could well become dependant on state pensions.
Personal finance has become a boom sector amongst that same generation, with online access to personal finance databases such as Moneynet (http://www.moneynet.co.uk ) and Motley Fool (http://www.fool.co.uk ) providing a wealth of options for UK consumers. However despite the fact that many of those options include savings and pension schemes, it appears that they are rarely taken up, with consumers opting for credit card deals, mortgages, insurance, and personal loans instead.
Pension experts have showed their backing for the proposed Pension Commission reforms with their overwhelming response in the PPI report, and it is to be hoped that the simplifying of the state pension will bring the importance of the issue to the attention of the age range identified by the FSA.
Disclaimer
All information contained in this article is for general information purpose only and should not be construed as advice under the financial Services act 1986. You are strongly advised to take appropriate professional and legal advice before entering into any binding contracts.
Michael is a keen writer, and internet marketer living in Scotland: Contact details: E-mail: samqam@googlemail.com Phone: 0131 561 2251 Michael’s Website: Taxi Belfast
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Health-Care Reform to Dump Poor Kids?
Oleta Fitzgerald, director of the Children’s Defense Fund’s Southern Regional Office, says she is concerned over the welfare of Mississippi children if either of the two health-care reform packages considered by the U.S. House and Senate ever make it into law.
The House passed H.R. 3962 earlier this month, and Senate Democrats managed to beat back the threat of a Republican filibuster a few weeks ago, allowing the Senate to move forward with debate on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, H.R. 3590. Both bills promise big reforms in the health-care and health-insurance industries. The Association for American Medical Colleges states that nearly 15 million people will be newly eligible for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program under H.R. 3590, at an estimated cost of $ 374 billion over 10 years.
Fitzgerald says both bills contain huge holes regarding CHIP coverage for Mississippi children: “Right now, the fight over health-care reform in the House and Senate is all about abortion and the public option, but the children are getting lost in this discussion,” Fitzgerald said.
The issue, she said, centers on Mississippi’s unconventional requirement for CHIP eligibility.
Many states recently expanded their Medicaid program requirements to accept people who are a little further from the federal standard for poverty. Eleven states recently extended CHIP-eligible families’ income levels up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level, or higher. ($ 20,800 for an individual or $ 35,200 for a family of three).
But instead of expanding Medicaid, Mississippi set up a new health insurance program that contracts with private insurance companies. The states that expanded Medicaid will continue to receive federal support for those programs under both the bills under discussion in the House and Senate. But in Mississippi, all children and their families over 150 percent of the federal poverty level ($ 16,245 a year for an individual and $ 27,465 a year for a family of three) would go into an insurance exchange created by the House and Senate bills. The Senate bill plans to put CHIP-eligible kids in an exchange by the year 2019, while the House bill has them transferred by 2013.
Insurance exchanges do not promise the reliability of a government health program, Fitzgerald warns.
“Going into the exchange could require co-pays and premiums, the children would get lumped in with adults, and it’s not clear what requirements the insurance companies would have for their benefit packages,” she said.
There is also the question of permanence. Exchanges like the ones proposed by the House and Senate bills have not always been long-lasting. Texas, Florida, North Carolina and California all attempted—and failed—to create enduring insurance exchanges, primarily because private insurers tampered with the market.
A July report issued by the California HealthCare Foundation tried to pinpoint some of the factors that killed the California insurance exchange, which closed its doors in 2006. According to the report, the California exchange became too expensive when the clients it served became too costly. An exchange requires a certain number of healthy individuals to complement the more sickly participants of the exchange’s customer base; otherwise the cost of participation becomes too high for all participants.
But insurance companies in California lured healthy customers with lower premiums and steered the more sickly individuals into the exchange, creating a disproportionately expensive customer base.
“People involved in operations of the California exchange agreed that when there is competition for the same customers within and outside the exchange, the exchange is in ‘extreme peril’ of becoming a victim of adverse selection,” the report states. “If an exchange attracts a disproportionate share of higher risk individuals and groups as the California exchange did at various times, it cannot succeed.”
Fitzgerald said Mississippi’s eagerness to boot CHIP-eligible children from the program to keep down state costs is another factor complicating the new bills.
“Another problem is enrollment. We need enrollment in the exchanges to be simplified, because enrolling in state health programs have a history of being anything but simple in Mississippi,” Fitzgerald said, referencing a Medicaid policy championed by Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, which requires Medicaid recipients to meet Medicaid personnel “face-to-face” to be considered for program renewal.
CDF is working with its national office in trying to insert an amendment in the Senate bill though Democratic Sens. Robert Casey and Jay Rockefeller, which would keep all children up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level in the CHIP program until the new insurance exchange is thoroughly vetted.
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