Under current law, particularly the Defense of Marriage Act, the Pentagon is prohibited from giving federally financed benefits to same-sex married couples.
But under current law, particularly the Defense of Marriage Act, the Pentagon is prohibited from giving federally financed benefits to those couples.
Under current law, particularly the Defense of Marriage Act, the Pentagon is prohibited from giving federally financed benefits, like health insurance, certain death benefits and legal counseling, to same-sex married couples.
To support Mr. Zimet, his kitchen staff kept the restaurant open, and some of his customers and colleagues hosted and financed benefits with names like Beers Not Bullets and Beasts & Brass.
Humana, which has staked its future on federally financed benefits, has about 3.5 million people in its Medicare drug benefit plans and a further million in a program called Medicare Advantage, which also manages doctor visits and hospital stays.
One of them, a soft-spoken Head Start teacher named Sylvia Davis, has battled the federal government and the Seminole tribe in court for nearly a decade, trying to secure for black Seminoles the federally financed benefits enjoyed by nonblack Seminoles.
Reducing the prevalence of catastrophic health expenditure is a policy objective of the government, which can be achieved by focusing on increased financial protection offered to poor and expanding government financed benefits for poor and chronically ill by including and expanding inpatient coverage and adding drug benefits.
But these bonds could be sold on the open market at any time to finance benefit payments.
They, too, are poorer and may have to reduce their spending on other things as they come up with more cash to finance benefit plans.
Social Security operates similarly in the sense that the payroll taxes it collects are currently insufficient to finance benefit payments.
