While the adults are gathered around the table for Thanksgiving, the children can be heard giggling at a table of their own. As curiosity gets the best of different adults at the table, they turn around and smile to see the kids telling their own stories and making one another laugh.
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Mar 29, 2009
In recent years, dire reports about the human and financial costs of chronic illness have spilled over from medical journals to the pages of newspapers and consumer magazines. The headlines are grim, the stories full of astonishing numbers about the prevalence and expense of these diseases. But what are chronic illnesses?
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Mar 28, 2009
The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) strongly supports proposals such as health care tax credits, a self-employment tax deduction on health insurance premiums, expansion of both Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), and pooling arrangements for small business as important steps to creating an equitable environment for micro-businesses and the self-employed to purchase affordable, quality health coverage.
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Mar 28, 2009
To achieve tax equity between all forms of business entities, the self-employed must be able to exclude health insurance premiums from self-employment tax regardless of the entity form under which they choose to operate.
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Mar 28, 2009
The NASE supports efforts to improve our health care system to make it easier for individuals to attain and understand health coverage.
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Mar 28, 2009
The NASE believes that the home office deduction must be simplified and expanded to allow home-based businesses to easily utilize the deduction.
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Mar 28, 2009
The NASE is a fervent supporter of federal small-business programs that have a proven track record of efficiently aiding very small businesses and the self-employed, such as the SBA Office of Advocacy, Small Business Development Centers and the SBA Microloan Program.
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Mar 28, 2009
Sooner or later, everyone who has health insurance encounters questions about their coverage or has a claim denied. Fortunately, most questions are easily answered by calling your insurer’s member services number. But what if you, a family member, or one of your employees runs into a problem that is not so easily solved? Where can you go for help?
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Mar 28, 2009
It’s a jungle out there – the tangled thicket of government rules and regulations companies must navigate to protect employees’ health and privacy rights. Naturally, you want to do what’s best for your workers. But good intentions won’t keep you from a brush with the health police – the numerous federal and state agencies that enforce key health provisions.
Keep reading to find out more about the rules and regulations that may apply to your micro-business.
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Mar 27, 2009
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Mar 26, 2009