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US Senate confirms Tavenner as Medicare/Medicaid chief
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Marilyn Tavenner, a former nurse and hospital company executive, as the first full-fledged administrator for the Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs since 2006. In a rare show of...Tags: Elections, Government Health Care, Politics, Health Insurance, Barack Obama
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Shuster: Time to repeal Obamacare
As we approach the summer months, we get closer and closer to 2014 and the dreaded launch of Obamacare. We still face major uncertainty in how this massive takeover of health care will actually work. Families and small businesses in the 9th District don'...Tags: Business, Elections, Health and Safety at Work, Health Insurance, Barack Obama
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County's health care costs to rise
As Brown County works to implement the federal health care act, it's discovering that the measure is coming with no shortage of regulations, as well as some extra expenses. County commissioners have occasionally discussed both since the reform act...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Duane Sutton, Health and Safety at Work, Career and Workplace
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Obamacare's tax on innovation
Government leaders are asking us to out-innovate, out-export and out-work our competitors in order for the United States to turn this economy around. But what if our own government was instituting policies that proved to be some of the biggest obstacles...
Tags: Invention and Innovation, Agriculture, Manufacturing and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Medical Research
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California governor urges faster immigration reform
ReutersBy Sharon Bernstein LOS ANGELES, May 14 (Reuters) - Wading into the national debate over immigration, California Governor Jerry Brown is pushing for a faster path to citizenship for the millions of people who are in the country illegally. Brown's is the...Tags: Jerry Brown, Executive Branch, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Social Issues, Health Insurance
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Junk-food tax idea is gaining weight
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"Sin taxes" on cigarettes have turned out to be the most effective weapon in the campaign to reduce smoking. Why not try it on Flamin' Hot Cheetos, vanilla Coke and Twinkies? With increasing vigor, public health experts and think tanks are calling for...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Social Issues, Medical Research, Yale University, Pies and Tarts
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John David Dyche: Beshear wrong to expand Medicaid
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear is expanding Medicaid eligibility by executive fiat. His action is wrong in several respects. About one of every five Kentuckians is already on Medicaid, the joint federal — and state health care program for low...Tags: Executive Branch, Economy, Business and Finance, Health Insurance, Personal Income, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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US senator says Sebelius should stop healthcare fundraising
Reuters* House Republicans seek identity of companies contacted * Senate Republican calls on Sebelius to cease fund-raising By David Morgan WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - An Obama administration effort to raise private donations to help implement President...Tags: U.S. Congress, Aetna Inc., Lamar Alexander, Insurance, U.S. Senate
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Senator says Sebelius should stop healthcare fundraising
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Obama administration effort to raise private donations to help implement President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law came under fire on Monday from congressional Republicans who claim the action could violate the law. As...Tags: U.S. Congress, Aetna Inc., Lamar Alexander, Insurance, U.S. Senate
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Which party stands to benefit from going after Hispanics? Advantage: Democrats
So, which political party in Florida gets the better of the deal in going after the Hispanic vote? Conventional wisdom favors the Democrats. They’re more attuned on the issues and the demographics favor them. Still, it’s the Republicans...Tags: Elections, U.S. Congress, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Social Issues, Republican Party
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A health plan prescribed by 'Doc' Bowen
Instead of Obamacare, still so contentious and with all the pieces not yet in place, we could have had Bowencare, with the key piece put in place on July 1, 1988, by Ronald Reagan. It would be named for Dr. Otis R. Bowen, about whom there were many...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Executive Branch, Parties and Movements, Human Interest, Health Insurance Cost
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Health care, teacher raises, 'revenge porn' in 50 words or fewer
In some ways, the Florida Legislature is like a bomb. We know it will go off. We know there will be casualties. But it sometimes takes a while to assess the damage. That's why I'm here to help. Think of me as your one-man disaster-response team...
Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Same-Sex Marriage, NASCAR, Insurance, Florida Legislature
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May 14, 2013
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Aug 23, 2009
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May 13, 2013
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May 12, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
May 11, 2013
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