Stockton Mayor Ann Johnston said in the 1990s the city council approved labor contracts and retiree health insurance plans believing the hyper-growth the city was experiencing would continue forever.

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Ted Kennedy's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee gets enacted, health insurance pricing will enter a time warp.

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Three House panels as well as the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions have cleared a government-sponsored health insurance option.

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All of this health insurance cost chaos will just further feed the labor market chaos that is already starting as the darkening cloud of Obamacare approaches.

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That October, McDonough and other Senate staffers convened about twenty of the most influential leaders and lobbyists from hospital associations, the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry, the labor movement, and universal-health-care advocacy groups.

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Lower prices, higher wages, better health insurance and a clean environment can attract enterprise, capital and skilled labor from places that lack them.

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Health Care for America Now is a coalition of prominent labor unions and liberal advocacy groups pushing for affordable health care and stricter regulation of the health insurance industry.

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If Democrats are as successful in raising the minimum wage as they were in imposing the costly health insurance mandate, many employers will either find a way to use less labor or a cost-effective substitute.

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