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Checks headed to families eligible for the child tax credit are on track to go out starting in July. The Internal Revenue Service commissioner confirmed the agency expects to launch its portal for the credit on July 1, despite concerns about the challenges the IRS would face implementing a program... ...As part of the COVID relief package signed into law by President Joe Biden in March, the child tax credit was increased for one year with children ages 6 to 17 eligible for a $3,000 credit and children under 6 getting $3,600. The legislation also makes the benefit fully refundable...

Beck to the Future II: Three Scary ObamaCare "Czars" LifeSiteNews ^ | 8/28/09 | Peter J. Smith Posted on Saturday, August 29, 2009 4:07:25 PM by wagglebee See Part I By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Germany's experience with National Socialism is one of the darker moments of human history. FOX News host Glenn Beck has taken on the challenge of applying the lessons of Nazi Germany (government-controlled health care, combined with the principle of valuing human beings based on "quality of life" and a severe economic crisis) to "question with boldness" the direction American...

AUGUST 7, 2009 France Fights Universal Care's High Cost By DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS When Laure Cuccarolo went into early labor on a recent Sunday night in a village in southern France, her only choice was to ask the local fire brigade to whisk her to a hospital 30 miles away. A closer one had been shuttered by cost cuts in France's universal health system. Doctors, trade unions and others have called national protests against French health-care cutbacks this year. One petition signed by prominent physicians said they feared the intent of the reform was to turn health care into a 'lucrative...

The big lie: Democrats do not want a government takeover of your health care. This claim is so blatantly false that it is positively unreal. But count on Obama and his propagandists to keep repeating the big lie over and over and over again. As health care plan continued to sink in public approval, Obama recently said: “First of all,” Mr. Obama said, “nobody is talking about some government takeover of health care. I’m tired of hearing that. I have been as clear as I can be. Under the reform I’ve proposed, if you like your doctor, you keep your...

Barack Obama on Thursday used Pittsburgh as his stage to ask Americans for a mandate to implement a national health care plan if he's elected president. "If we can't control skyrocketing health care costs, we'll confront a mounting moral crisis and a major anchor on the ability of American business to compete," Obama said the health care system's shortfalls hold back the nation and concern Americans more than any issue except soaring fuel prices. "The key is that the American people have to provide a mandate for change in this area," Obama said. "We have to insist ... we're going...

A NSW man has pulled out his own rotten tooth after waiting years for public dental treatment. Jeff Miners said he extracted his own molar tooth about four weeks ago, after he had languished on a series of public dental waiting lists since 2001. Despite having a mouthful of rotten teeth, the 58-year-old from Bega in southern NSW has gone without treatment except for a single filling in 2005. "Through inaction, I had to start taking action myself,'' Mr Miners said. "I kept working on it to loosen it, the cavity was so big I could fit my forefinger into...

Washington, DC Unvailing his vision for America, liberal democratic presidential candidate Dick "Strawberry" Gephardt says the new Universal Healthcare will reguire new medical terminology. "I want every American to know what their government will be providing", candidate Dick said. "Americans can't get adequate coverage because they don't understand the HMO system of terms" he continued.The following is a list of some of the "terms" Americans will expect to see should this become a reality:Artery.............................The study of paintings. Benign............................What you be after you be eight. Bacteria..........................Back door to cafeteria. Barium...........................What doctors do when patients die. Cesarean Section...........A neighborhood in Rome. Cat...