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News of the Weird: Mites Ate the Cheese
The Food and Drug Administration proposed recently to limit the quantity of tiny “mites” that could occupy imported cheese, even though living, crawling mites are a feature desired by aficionados. (“Cheese is absolutely alive!”...
Tags: Health Insurance, Stevie Nicks, Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice, Florida Legislature
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Kevin Hunt: 'Who Stole My Phone Number?'; Cromwell Dental Practice Part Of $21 Million Fraud Case
The Hartford CourantTake my phone number, says Richard Young of Columbia. Please. Now that he's a spoofing victim, he wants everyone to know that even though his phone number might show up on your caller ID, it's not him. Scam artists have co-opted his number to call local...Tags: Dentistry and Dental Health, Health Insurance, Consumers, Trials, Lawyers
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Doctors brace for pain as 10% cut to Medi-Cal rates looms
In a office decorated with Chinese art and diagrams of body parts, Dr. George Ma cares for more than 4,000 patients. Nearly three-quarters are covered by Medi-Cal, the state's public insurance program for low-income Californians, and Ma said he receives...
Tags: Health Insurance, U.S. Supreme Court, Pharmaceuticals, Crime, Law and Justice, Health Care Reform (2009)
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Michigan House may pass Medicaid expansion this week
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan might be closer to making 320,000 more low-income residents eligible for Medicaid next year after House Republicans dropped calls to end the health coverage for adults who have received benefits for four years. A new...
Tags: Health Insurance, Personal Income, Republican Party, Executive Branch, Government
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Michigan House Republicans yield on Medicaid
LANSING (AP) -- Michigan may be closer to making 320,000 more low-income residents eligible for Medicaid next year after House Republicans dropped calls to end the health coverage for adults who have received benefits for four years. A new draft...Tags: Health Insurance, Government, Elections, Insurance, Republican Party
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Mich. House may pass Medicaid expansion this week
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan might be closer to making 320,000 more low-income residents eligible for Medicaid next year after House Republicans dropped calls to end the health coverage for adults who have received benefits for four years. A new...Tags: Health Insurance, Personal Income, Republican Party, Executive Branch, Government
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Pennsylvania Democrats strike out in bid to expand Medicaid to working poor
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Democrats struck out Monday in their attempts to expand government-funded Medicaid health insurance to hundreds of thousands of working poor as part of the federal Affordable Care Act. First up was Sen. Vince Hughes, D-...Tags: Health Insurance, U.S. Supreme Court, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Republican Party, Regional Authority
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Shared energy, resources can help curb black infant deaths
Orange County's overall infant mortality rate, at nearly 7 percent, is the lowest it has been in 10 years and is even closer to meeting Healthy People 2020's national target of 6 percent. While there is reason to celebrate the efforts responsible for...Tags: Health Insurance, Birth Defects, Arts and Culture, Weight, Overweight
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Cigna-HealthSpring to open downtown office, hire 120
Tribune NewspapersCigna-HealthSpring plans to open a downtown office by September and hire about 120 workers, in part to support a new contract with the state to provide managed care services to patients eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, the company said Monday. The...Tags: Health Insurance, Medicare, Healthcare Contract Issues, HealthSpring Inc., Career and Workplace
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Immigrants help Medicare stay solvent
WASHINGTON — Immigrants in the United States both legally and illegally are helping sustain Medicare, contributing about $14 billion more a year to the federal health program for the elderly than they use in medical services, a new study indicates....
Tags: Personal Data Collection, Health Insurance, Social Security, Harvard Medical School, Labor Legislation
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Supreme Court rejects ban on funding Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to allow Indiana to block Medicaid funding of Planned Parenthood clinics because they perform abortions. Without comment, the high court let stand decisions by a federal judge in Indiana and the U.S....
Tags: Health Insurance, Social Issues, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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Michigan Legislature votes to extend health insurance tax 4 years, leave shortfall unresolved
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan lawmakers have voted to continue a 1 percent tax on health insurance claims that helps pay for medical insurance for 1.9 million low-income residents in the state. But legislation given final approval Wednesday by the...Tags: Health Insurance, Michigan Legislature, Rick Snyder, Government Health Care
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