The thing most frequently requested is an expansion of ROCs (one kind of renewable-energy subsidy) to include nukes.
To be fair, that figure rounds up the numbers, counts agribusinesses and small farmers, and defines subsidies broadly to include tariffs, export credits and other supports.
Why not end Medicaid, reconfigure the Affordable Care Act premium subsidy program to include all low-income people, and put the money we now give the states for Medicaid into funding the subsidies?
UNICEF is now working with the Government of Mozambique to expand the national food subsidy programme to include poor and vulnerable children, especially children like Filiphe who are responsible for raising other children.
Mr. Chávez did most of the talking, highlighting his plans to expand energy subsidies to Cuba to include natural gas exports.
That was before 564 proposed amendments came along.Pretty much all of the wrangling, as Ezra Klein noted the other day, is over three basic issues: making insurance affordable to everyone; paying for the necessary subsidies; and whether to include a public plan, and if so, what kind.
The Europeans countersued, saying the United States had granted indirect subsidies to Boeing, including tax breaks.
And given that many people could not afford to purchase insurance, it was also necessary to include subsidies for low-income buyers.
Reflecting this view, the advocates of a stimulus package pushed last fall to include subsidies that would permit states and cities to keep up their spending.
Any legislation is likely to include subsidies to help the poorest pay for cover.If done properly, this will in time move America towards the Swiss and Dutch models of universal private insurance.
