affordable health care

The richest and most advanced country in the world, the United States, has fallen behind other nations in providing affordable health care to its citizens.

(American College of Physicians) The American College of Physicians, representing 129,000 internal medicine physician and medical student members, said today that Congress should cast the final votes needed to get comprehensive health care reform enacted into law.

Without reform, ACP said, tens of millions of Americans stand to lose access to affordable health care and out-of-control spending will trigger an unprecedented fiscal and budgetary crisis.

Washington, D.C. (PRESS RELEASE – November 8, 2009) — The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) is reporting what the small business community has been saying all along – proposed tax increases on the “wealthy” amount to big tax increases on small business owners.

In a November 3, 2009 memo, the JCT estimates that one-third of the $460.5 billion estimated to be raised from H.R. 3962, the “Affordable Health Care for America Act,” through a proposed 5.4 percent surtax is business income.