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What Workers and Companies Should Know About the Republican Tax Bills

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trillion), enabling them to manage their portfolios more efficiently. Removing the penalty tax reduces the deficit because fewer individuals would receive Federal subsidies for insurance purchased on the exchanges and fewer also would sign up for Medicaid benefits. By eliminating the tax on repatriated dividends that U.S.

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How Health Care Providers Can Ensure Patients’ End-of-Life Wishes Are Known

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For example, prescription drug monitoring programs , which are electronic state-managed databases, track prescriptions for controlled substances on a real-time basis. Indeed, the Medicare Hospital Insurance (Part A) trust fund is projected to be depleted by 2029.