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What a brag it is getting old
So did you go to the big party in DC over the weekend? They say it was wild: early bird specials, Medicare-reform panels, prescription drug workshops, you name it. Lots of people even stayed up past 10. Yep, the big AARP 50th anniversary party at the...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Private Health Care, Barnes & Noble Incorporated, Health Treatments, Sidney Poitier
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The welfare reform model
When the Republican Congress and Democratic President Bill Clinton agreed to "end welfare as we know it" in 1996, it stood to reason that states would need time to recover from decades of policies that undermined work incentives and encouraged family...Tags: Bill Clinton, Health Treatments, Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Government
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Vital signs improve, but Iraqi medicine still sick
Associated PressA kidney specialist who fled Iraq's bombings, kidnappings and sectarian killings 20 months ago has reported back to work at his Baghdad hospital - one of roughly 800 doctors who have returned over the summer. Doctors are just a tiny group among Iraq's...Tags: Corporate Crime, Health Treatments, Corruption, Hospitals and Clinics, Corrupt Practices
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State health insurance ends at age 19
Children in Illinois can get health insurance via All Kids through age 18. Low-income children get subsidized coverage. At age 19, young adults no longer qualify for All Kids. Medicaid isn't available to single adults in Illinois unless they are...Tags: Medicare, Private Health Care, Health Treatments, Health Insurance, Comprehensive Health
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Washington: Health-care vote scrapped
Congressional Democrats have scrapped plans for another vote on expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program, after concluding that President Bush would not sign their legislation and that they could not override his veto. Congress returns...Tags: Medicare, Private Health Care, Laws, Health Treatments, Pediatrics
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Health insurance plan costs rising quickly
Get ready. Employers are facing an 8 percent cost increase when they renew their health insurance plans for next year, according to early results from a survey by Mercer, the big employee benefits consultants. They're not sitting back and taking it....Tags: Private Health Care, Health Treatments, Employees, Health Insurance, Employers
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Veto threat forces Dems to drop vote
WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats have scrapped plans for another vote on expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program, thus sparing Republicans from a politically difficult vote just weeks before elections this fall. Before the summer...Tags: Medicare, Private Health Care, Health Treatments, Pediatrics, Government
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Study: Workers' health care costs will rise yet again
Of The Associated PressGet ready for another hike in co-pays and deductibles. A survey being released Thursday by the Mercer consulting firm found 59 percent of companies intend to keep down rising health care costs in 2009 by raising workers' deductibles, co-pays or out-of-...Tags: Medical Services, Private Health Care, Health Treatments, Employees, Healthcare Policies
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40 years on, nuns who ran Idaho hospital make exit
In a month, the last of the nuns who helped run the Catholic hospital that became a large regional medical center in this Mormon town on the edge of the eastern Idaho desert will return to the Wisconsin convent they left behind four decades ago....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics
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Florida among states prolonging health coverage for adult dependent children
McClatchy NewspapersFinally, an accelerating trend in health care insurance that's good news for many parents. More than two dozen states, including Florida, have signed into law or recently passed legislation that generally requires employer health care plans to continue...Tags: Private Health Care, People, Health Treatments, Adults, Medical Services
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Los Angeles port, truckers group head for court
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe nation's busiest port complex and the largest trucking association are expected to face off in federal court today to resolve a vexing question: Who would suffer more from the landmark clean trucks program set to begin Oct. 1: the trucking industry...Tags: Private Health Care, Beach Vacations, Government, Air Pollution, Heavy Engineering
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Sarah Palin's leadership style has admirers and critics
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThree years ago, when a Democratic state legislator tried to get bipartisan support for investigating charges of unethical conduct by a senior Republican official, only one member of the GOP answered the call: Sarah Palin. Palin pursued the allegations...Tags: Laws, Private Health Care, Lyda Green, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin
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