Then, in May, Kriegman offered the writers a deal that paid a third of the W.G.A. minimum, without a guarantee of benefits, and they walked.
Douglas Hattaway, a spokesman for the Gore campaign, said that Mr. Bush's characterizations of Mr. Gore's proposal were misleading or erroneous and that Mr. Gore, in strengthening Medicare, would be giving older Americans a guarantee of benefits that Mr. Bush would not.
(There is no rat). Last spring, Kriegman assembled a group of writers, many of whom had worked on his earlier show "Bear in the Big Blue House". Then, in May, Kriegman offered the writers a deal that paid a third of the W.G.A. minimum, without a guarantee of benefits, and they walked.
But he proposed to treat future beneficiaries differently, providing them with a voucher for private insurance rather than a guarantee of benefits.
Additionally, justifications for public health action that rely on the potential to minimize harms rather than guarantee of benefits may be more appropriate, provided there is a context of accountability and appeal [ 33].
Some are in trouble because they make too much money to qualify for financial assistance and the comprehensive insurance sold under Affordable Care Act regulations, with its guarantees of benefits for all, is too expensive for them to afford on their own.
At the same time, in most circumstances, pensioners are better off continuing to collect their benefit as a lifetime annuity, because of the importance of the guarantee of lifetime benefits, and a further element of ERISA protection is that employers cannot force any retiree or terminated employee to take a lump sum (with a narrow exception for small benefit amounts).
In the mid-1990's, Republicans tried to revamp Medicaid, ending the automatic guarantee of health benefits for the poor.
The Affordable Care Act's guarantee of maternity benefits in the insurance marketplace appears in doubt after a group of hardline conservatives demanded that the Republican repeal plan do away with mandated essential benefits.
From Florida to the Midwest to the Southwest and the Pacific Coast, Democrats are urging voters to oust Republicans who supported the Ryan proposal, which they say would gut the guarantee of health benefits for older Americans.
