Promise Posts – Page 65

Barack Obama

Require large employers to contribute to a national health plan

Health care law targets large employers with penalties if they don’t offer insurance | April 8, 2010

Barack Obama

Create a small business tax credit to help with health premiums

A qualified tax credit for small businesses to buy health insurance is enacted | March 26, 2010

Barack Obama

Give tax credits to those who need help to pay health premiums

Health reform bill includes tax credits to help middle and lower income people buy insurance | March 26, 2010

Barack Obama

Create a National Health Insurance Exchange

Marketplace today is similar to original vision, but not identical | January 3, 2017

Barack Obama

Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions

Ban on denying insurance because of a pre-existing condition is achieved | March 26, 2010

Barack Obama

Expand the Senior Corps volunteer program

Serve America Act includes expansion of senior program | December 8, 2009

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Provide easy-to-understand comparisons of the Medicare prescription drug plans

Drug plans are easier to compare | December 5, 2012

Barack Obama

Close the “doughnut hole” in Medicare prescription drug plan

Health care bill will gobble up doughnut hole — eventually | March 26, 2010

Barack Obama

Require full disclosure of company pension investments to employees

No new pension investments disclosures required for participants, but transparency improves on other fronts | December 7, 2012

Barack Obama

Allow workers to claim more in unpaid wages and benefits in bankruptcy court

No progress on promise regarding unpaid wages | January 25, 2011

Barack Obama

Forbid companies in bankruptcy from giving executives bonuses

No sign of action on promise about executive bonuses | January 25, 2011

Barack Obama

Lift the payroll tax cap on earnings above $250,000

Payroll tax cap unchanged | April 30, 2012

Barack Obama

Sign the Employee Free Choice Act, making it easier for workers to unionize

Change in control of the House probably dooms any chance of passage | April 20, 2011

Barack Obama

Tax carried interest as ordinary income

Effort to increase taxes on ‘carried interest’ falls short again | January 2, 2013

Barack Obama

Freeze the 2009 estate tax law

Obama, Republicans split the difference on estate tax rates | January 2, 2013

Barack Obama

Extend and index the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch

Congress permanently indexes the AMT for inflation | January 2, 2013

Barack Obama

Phase out exemptions and deductions for higher earners

‘Fiscal cliff’ bill limits tax breaks for higher-income taxpayers | January 2, 2013

Barack Obama

Repeal the Bush tax cuts for higher incomes

Tax rates rise for incomes over $450,000 | January 2, 2013

Barack Obama

Extend the Bush tax cuts for lower incomes

Lower rates are permanent, thanks to fiscal cliff | January 2, 2013

Barack Obama

Expand loan programs for small businesses

Obama announces incentives for small business loans | March 18, 2009

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Create more public-private business incubators for poor communities

Administration funds business incubators, but with less money than promised | January 4, 2010

Barack Obama

Enforce pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) budget rules

President signed a PAYGO bill, but GOP House changed key Democratic rule | December 20, 2012

Barack Obama

Establish a credit card bill of rights

Obama signs credit card bill of rights | May 22, 2009

Barack Obama

Create a tax credit of $500 for workers

On-and-off enactment of worker tax credit earns Obama a Compromise | January 11, 2016

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