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It's A Gray Area: Government is meddling in health care
Since my last column about health care appeared in this space, the system has continued to gallop toward disaster. Today, under the federal government's "leadership," we often pay several times more in the United States for the same prescription drugs...Tags: Health Insurance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Insurance Cost, Peace Corps
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Medicare premiums could ding some in middle class
WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired city worker Sheila Pugach lives in a modest home on a quiet street in Albuquerque, N.M., and drives an 18-year-old Subaru. Pugach doesn't see herself as upper-income by any stretch, but President Barack Obama's budget...
Tags: Retirement, Crime, Law and Justice, George W. Bush, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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Feds: National pill-trafficking ring has roots in Central Florida
A sophisticated drug-trafficking ring that recruited people to obtain prescriptions for painkillers and then sold those pills on the streets has been operating in Central Florida for several years, federal authorities said Thursday. After a lengthy,...
Tags: Punishment, Criminals, Trials, Kissimmee, Government Health Care
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Letters: Medicare and Amgen
Re "Remove Medicare's straitjacket," Opinion, March 29 Art Kellerman misunderstands why Congress delayed inclusion of oral-only drugs in the Medicare payment bundle for dialysis services. It wasn't to give Amgen and other drug makers a major windfall;...Tags: Amgen Inc., Dialysis, U.S. Congress, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Health and Medical Professionals
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AP analysis: Obama's budget tries to bridge political gap
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's first budget of his new term is a political straddle, aimed at enticing Republicans into a new round of deficit negotiations while trying to keep faith with Democrats who favor higher taxes in service of...
Tags: Elections, Democratic Party, Public Finance, Social Security, Republican Party
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Critics revive past promises to knock Obama budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for seniors say President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to protect Social Security, while conservatives say he is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Obama's budget proposal includes a...
Tags: Consumers, Elections, American Cancer Society, Social Security, Health Insurance
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A lazy budget
WASHINGTON -- There is something profoundly timid about President Obama's proposed $3.778 trillion budget for 2014. Stripped of boasts about "investments" for the future and a responsible "balance" between deficit reduction and economic growth, the budget...
Tags: Social Security, Health Insurance, Barack Obama, Gun Control, Health Insurance Cost
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Report ranks Waynesboro Hospital one of safest in U.S.
Waynesboro Hospital was ranked among the top 10 percent of the nation’s hospitals for providing outstanding patient safety, according to a report released April 9 at www.healthgrades.com. Waynesboro Hospital was one of 379 hospitals in the country...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Government Health Care, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia)
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The fights Obama picks over Medicare
The budget that President Obama released Wednesday doesn't include the sort of headline-grabbing initiatives that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) included in his proposal for fiscal 2014, such as a dramatic overhaul of the tax code...Tags: Paul Ryan, Drugs and Medicines, Health Insurance, Prescription Drugs, Barack Obama
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Closer to Obama's 'grand bargain'
The budget proposal President Obama released Wednesday sticks close to the themes of increased public investment and middle-class growth that he sounded in his reelection campaign, but it includes one notable new feature. For the first time, Obama lays...Tags: Public Finance, Social Security, Barack Obama, Personal Income, Government Health Care
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Now on the table: Entitlements
At a Republican presidential debate in 2011, all eight candidates on the stage said they would reject a budget deal that raised taxes even if it had $10 of spending cuts for every dollar of tax increases. At Tuesday's protest, I put the reverse question...
Tags: Elections, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Gun Control, Parties and Movements, Government Health Care
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Can Obama sell 'chained CPI'?
President Barack Obama didn't release his proposed budget for 2014 until Wednesday, but liberals and the AARP have been howling all week about something they expected to be in it. What has our president done to provoke such outrage among his supporters?...Tags: Consumers, Market and Exchange, Social Security, Labor Legislation, Steaks
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