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The last news homework
Report: Both candidates increase health coverage.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95527360
Hi this is Azumi. We just talked about health insurance in the U.S. this Thuesday, so I picked this topic. Although I heard from some people if MacCain is the next president, he will not change about healthcare system. However, the context of the news was different from that. It was an interesting news.
Questions :
1. If MacCain is the next president, will he really realize to increase health coverage?
2. If MacCain would increase healthcoverage, where will he that finances from?
3. Why would some companies discontinue coverage if workers could use the tax credit to get coverage elsewhere?
Vocabularies :
Offset : If something such as a cost or amount offsets another cost or amount, the two things have an opposite effect and so the situation remains the same.
Chronic : a chronic disease or illness is one that cannot be cured
Domestic : relating to family relationships and life at home
Premiums : of very high quality, prices that are higher than usual
Subside ; If a feeling, noise, weather condition, it gradually decreases, If water, land, or a building subsides, it gradually sinks to lower level.
Dispute : to argue or disagree with someone
