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Obama: 'We don't have moment to spare'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, summoning business leaders to the White House this morning to rally support for his $825-billion economic stimulus plan, made a public appeal for rapid congressional approval of the package. "When it comes to...Tags: Timothy Geithner, Google Inc., Ohio, John Boehner, Government
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Obama: Healthcare costs must be cut
The Swampby Peter Nicholas President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don't stand to......Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Emergency Planning, Bankruptcy, Population, Christianity
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Snow shutters D.C., Senate has 60 votes
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated with president's statements. It's snowing so hard on Washington today that they are grounding all buses and surface trains. It's not going to stop anytime soon. There's already a foot of snow on the ground,......Tags: Getty Images Inc., Medicare, Conservation, U.S. Senate, Economy, Business and Finance
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Problem Solver updates: Water flowing; medical claim still ailing
For the first time in almost a month, the water is flowing in Cassandra Austin's town house. Austin, featured in Sunday's What's Your Problem? column, said service was restored late Friday, meaning she no longer had to pour jugs of water into her toilet...
Tags: Medicare, Government Health Care, Health and Medical Professionals, Jon Yates
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Kids Alive Fest to be held Saturday
Children’s Village of Washington County will host its 22nd annual Kids Alive Fest on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free. The event will be held rain or shine. Scheduled activities: helicopter landing, 11 a.m., Maryland State Police...
Tags: Ronald McDonald (fictional character), Health and Safety at School, Maryland State Police, Charles Johnson (football, defensive end), Entertainment
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Children's Village to host Kids Alive Fest
Children’s Village to host Kids Alive Fest Children’s Village of Washington County will host its 22nd annual Kids Alive Fest Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free. The event will be held rain or shine. Scheduled activities:...Tags: Christianity, Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy, Walnuts, Ronald McDonald (fictional character)
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Is $1,721.75 the bill you'd expect for treating a cut?
It was your basic, run-of-the-mill accident. Kim Haselhoff's 9-year-old son got nipped in the finger by one of the family dogs. It didn't seem too serious, but there was a bit of blood. Unfortunately, the pediatrician's office had just closed, and the...Tags: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Medicare, Bankruptcy, Prices, Walmart
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Problem Solver: Adoption plans halt health insurance coverage application
By any plausible measure, Scott Dolezal is a healthy man. The Oak Park resident stands 6-foot-3 and weighs 210 pounds. He runs regularly, doesn't smoke, and has no history of heart trouble, elevated cholesterol, hay fever, psoriasis, musculoskeletal...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Psoriasis, Insurance, Jon Yates, High Cholesterol
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Problem Solver: Ample time passes before kidney stone billing error resolved
The pain in his stomach was almost debilitating. On Nov. 1, 2010, Bill Lepek went to the emergency room at Presence Resurrection Medical Center in Norwood Park. Physicians did some scans and conducted some tests, then zeroed in on the source of his...
Tags: Medicare, Medical Procedures and Tests, Government Health Care, Insurance, Jon Yates
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CEO Pay For 2012 In State, Country Part Of Broken System
The Hartford CourantThe AFL-CIO launched its annual database of CEO pay Monday, showing the average 2012 pay of CEOs at companies on the Standard & Poor's 500 index was $12.3-million, or 354 times more than the average American worker earned. The average of those S&P 500...Tags: AFL-CIO, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Employees, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance
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Problem Solver: Updates on parking tickets, insurance refund, model dinosaur
After a sleepy winter during which motorcyclist Loreen Targos received no parking tickets, the Loop resident awoke March 13 to find a new violation envelope affixed to her motorcycle, allegedly for "parking or standing in violation of an erected sign."...
Tags: Office Depot Inc., Medicare, Government Health Care, Health and Medical Professionals, Jon Yates
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Problem Solver: Medical billing causes patient pain
Before he visited the doctor to get custom orthotics, Gil Harris contacted both Medicare and his supplemental insurance company, Aetna, to see if they would pay for the shoe inserts. Medicare said no but Aetna said yes — as long as the bill was...
Tags: Medicare, Government Health Care, Health and Medical Professionals, Insurance, Jon Yates
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