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Enough of government by gimmick
The latest shtick in Washington has members of Congress offering to give back 5 percent of their salaries as penance for being feckless boobs. I have a better idea: Stop being feckless boobs. Seriously, I am so over governing by gimmicks. Congress...
Tags: Orange County (Florida), U.S. Congress, Social Services, Amway, Social Issues
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The numbers behind the decline in workplace benefits
American employers are asking more from workers as they try to cut costs and become more productive to compete in a globalized world, as described in a Los Angeles Times Sunday story. But they’re also giving them much less. Everything from the...
Tags: Employment, Health Insurance Cost, Interior Policy, Career and Workplace, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Uninsured health-care workers push for Medicaid expansion
It's an expensive irony: Health care workers who can't afford health insurance, but in Florida that is the plight of some full-time employees of local nursing homes and other smaller or independent health-industry players. As the number of employers...
Tags: Personal Income, Health and Safety at Work, Long Term Care, Florida State University, Medical Specialization
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Latin America threatened by mounting cancer epidemic- study
Reuters* Healthcare access lagging, treatment costs rising * Both structural, short-term reforms needed By Asher Levine SAO PAULO, April 26 (Reuters) - Latin America's growing prosperity is fueling a cancer epidemic that threatens to overwhelm the region...Tags: Brazil, Oncology, Science and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Medical Research
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CareFirst proposes 25 percent rate increase under health care reform
Blaming the cost to implement health care reform, the state's largest health insurer has proposed eye-popping rate increases to state regulators for individuals and small businesses. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield wants to raise rates an average of 25...
Tags: Sales, Small Businesses, Aetna Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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State's health workers deserve protection from violence
Workplace violence is a serious occupational hazard in hospitals and other health care facilities, a fact that has escaped an unsuspecting public. Nationally, nursing assistants employed by nursing homes have the highest incidence of workplace assault...Tags: Memorial Day, Health and Safety at Work, Long Term Care, Crime, Law and Justice, Medical Specialization
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Officials: Democratic Sen. Baucus to retire
Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee who steered President Barack Obama's health care overhaul into law but recently broke with his party on gun control legislation, has decided to retire, Democratic...Tags: Laws, John D. Rockefeller IV, Environmental Issues, Elections, Personal Weapon Control
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Scott at odds with House, Senate
Gov. Rick Scott sent a message Tuesday to House Speaker Will Weatherford and Senate President Don Gaetz that his priorities need to get more attention. “I’m sure that the speaker of the house and the senate president would like to have a...Tags: Rick Scott, Executive Branch, Government, Don Gaetz, Joe Negron
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An Rx for the doctor shortage
New subsidies and insurance regulations in the 2010 healthcare law are expected to bring coverage to millions of uninsured Californians starting next year. The newly insured are likely to put a bigger strain on the healthcare system, particularly in their...
Tags: Symptoms, Health and Medical Professionals, General Practitioners, Asthma, Drugs and Medicines
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Many private interests were Brown's fellow travelers in China
SACRAMENTO — As Gov. Jerry Brown returned this week from his trade mission to China, his decision to have his travel and that of 10 staffers paid for by special interests was raising eyebrows. The dozens of delegates who joined Brown on the tour...
Tags: Science and Technology, Laws, HSBC Holdings plc, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., Beverage Industry
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Two more men died from meningitis last year, group says
Two more men died from bacterial meningitis late last year, according to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. The organization said Tuesday that a 30-year-old Los Angeles man and a 30-year-old San Diego student both died in December from the disease....
Tags: AIDS, Common Cold, Meningitis, Diseases and Illnesses
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Immigration proposal could affect California health safety net
Making immigrants ineligible for public health benefits -- at least initially -- under proposed immigration law changes would push the costs of healthcare from the federal government to states and counties, said Sonal Ambegaokar, a health policy...
Tags: National Government, Health Insurance Cost, Illegal Immigrants, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace
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