Massachusetts lawmakers enact plan for universal health coverage

Friday, April 7, 2006Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court, their name for the state legislature, approved legislation on Tuesday, April 4, that would make it the first state in the United States to require all residents to have health insurance and impose penalties for non-compliance. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican who is expected to run for U.S. President in 2008, is expected to sign the bill. The bill passed the lower house, the Massachusetts House of Representatives by a vote of 155-2, and unanimously by the state senate. The…

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Irs Announces Fees On Health Insurers

Click Here For More Specific Information On: Sarms For Cutting Submitted by: Tim Jarvis On March 1, 2013 the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued its proposal to levy fees on health insurance carriers. The new fees or excise tax are expected to raise over $100 billion over 10 years beginning in 2014. An excise tax is a tax charged on a specific product that is applied by an intermediary and then paid to the government. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) in section 9010 authorized the IRS to collect a Health…

Conservationists capture most massive Burmese python in Florida history

Saturday, June 25, 2022 Media reported Wednesday that biologists from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida reported having captured a Burmese python (Python bivittatus) measuring nearly 18 feet (5 m) in length and 215 pounds (97 kg) in weight in the state’s Everglades wetlands. It may be the largest member of its species ever found outside its natural range in Southeast Asia. Another Burmese python measuring 18 feet and 9 inches (5.7 m) was found in 2020, but it only weighed 104 pounds (47.2 kilograms). In a search documented by National Geographic, the…

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Wikinews interviews candidate for Cleveland mayor Arthur Kostendt

Monday, June 14, 2021 Arthur Oliver Kostendt, a candidate running in the mayoral election of the US city of Cleveland, Ohio set to take place November 2, discussed his campaign and policies with Wikinews this spring. According to Cleveland Scene, 29-year-old Kostendt is a member of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio Republican Party but has referred to his campaign as “casual”. According to his web site’s personal biography, he was a cadet for the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), scout platoon leader for the 2nd Squadron of the 107th Cavalry…

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Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO apologies for financial planning scandal

Thursday, July 3, 2014 Ian Narev, the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, this morning “unreservedly” apologised to clients who lost money in a scandal involving the bank’s financial planning services arm. Last week, a Senate enquiry found financial advisers from the Commonwealth Bank had made high-risk investments of clients’ money without the clients’ permission, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars lost. The Senate enquiry called for a Royal Commission into the bank, and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Mr Narev stated the bank’s performance in…

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Automatic Forex Trading Systems Do Metatrader 4 Expert Advisors Really Work?

Click Here For More Specific Information On: Metatrader 5 Automated Trading Automatic Forex Trading Systems – Do Metatrader 4 Expert Advisors Really Work? by Thad B. Chances are, if you’re interested in making an additional income stream through trading, you’ve come across automatic Forex trading systems. Most of the best Forex trading systems are programmed as Metatrader 4 expert advisors, and there are many free and paid Metatrader expert advisors on the market. So do any of these automatic Forex trading systems actually work? By the end of this article,…

Author Amy Scobee recounts abuse as Scientology executive

Monday, October 11, 2010 Wikinews interviewed author Amy Scobee about her book Scientology – Abuse at the Top, and asked her about her experiences working as an executive within the organization. Scobee joined the organization at age 14, and worked at Scientology’s international management headquarters for several years before leaving in 2005. She served as a Scientology executive in multiple high-ranking positions, working out of the international headquarters of Scientology known as “Gold Base”, located in Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet, California. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Author_Amy_Scobee_recounts_abuse_as_Scientology_executive&oldid=4579695”

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Buying Used Cars For Sale For Practical Reasons

Click Here For More Specific Information On: Geelong Used Cars Buying Used Cars for Sale for Practical Reasons by Stelle Courney Many people prefer to buy cars for sale for practical reasons and this is because they know that buying new cars at this time of day is usually not a good practice. If we need some vehicles for transportation, buying brand new would have been a perfect option but because our finances are quite limited as well we are forced to find other alternative thus we choose used cars.…

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This is the category for Health. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 11 July 2022: Virginia reports suspected monkeypox case 17 May 2022: Bans off Our Bodies protests occur across United States after leaked Supreme Court draft 17 May 2022: UK defers junk food deals, advertisement restrictions 22 April 2022: Indian capital New Delhi reports surge in COVID-19 cases 24 March 2022: India grants Novavax Covid-19 vaccine emergency use authorisation for teens 19 March 2022: Scientists announce decoy-proof Ebola antibodies 2 February 2022: Tonga enters lockdown after detecting…

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Controversial Berlin opera features interactive drug usage

Friday, August 26, 2005 Berlin’s Neukoellner Opera House is causing a stir with its new production, The Yellow Princess. The story presented in the French opera, by Camille Saint-Saens, is of an artist “whose life is dictated by a love for drugs and Japan.” As a result, the performers smoke cannabis joints on stage, and the theatre itself is encouraging the audience to join in. Artistic director Bernhard Glocksin says that the theatre is claiming the metaphorical “artistic licence”, to excuse the actions of the actors and audience, which are…

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