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RPT-Final Obamacare push will pitch to the low-income young
Reuters(Repeats for wider distribution. No changes to headline or text) By David Morgan WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - In the final months leading up to the launch of the key piece of President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms, the administration is...Tags: Max Baucus, U.S. Congress, Kathleen Sebelius, Private Health Care, Barack Obama
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Florida taxpayers need to know
The writer of the June 9 letter, "Rejecting Medicaid funds was costly decision," is apparently unaware that all of the money trees in the federal government's orchard have died. The money contributed by the federal government to state Medicaid programs...Tags: Local Government, Internal Revenue Service, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Tamarac
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The real costs of amnesty add up fast
The Heritage FoundationThe amnesty under consideration in Congress would come at an enormous cost: more than $5 trillion over the lifetime of immigrants who are legalized. But the bill is structured to hide most of those costs from voters. To see how, let's start with some...Tags: Local Government, National Government, Medicare, U.S. Congress, Government
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Editorial: Roseland Community Hospital needs to vastly improve quality of care to survive
Illinois officials hurried to the rescue of Roseland Community Hospital recently with an emergency infusion of $350,000. That was enough to keep the doors open a while longer at the distressed Far South Side hospital. You may wonder: Why is dead-broke...
Tags: Oak Forest, Roseland, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Hospitals and Clinics
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Voice of the People, Jun. 15
Gay marriage As our legislators in Illinois struggle with gay marriage laws, I would like to offer some insights about gay people that may help to expedite the process. I am not gay, but the following are statements I firmly believe to be true: •...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Government, Chicago Marathon, Soldier Field, Gays and Lesbians
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Medicaid managed care move gets final approval
TALLAHASSEE — The federal government gave final approval Friday to Florida's long-debated proposal to overhaul the Medicaid system by requiring beneficiaries statewide to enroll in HMOs and other types of managed-care plans. The decision was not...Tags: Humana Incorporated, Healthcare Policies, Kathleen Sebelius, Lobbying, Medicaid
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Suffolk woman sentenced on fraud charges
Daily PressA Suffolk woman was sentenced by a federal judge to almost three years in prison on charges that she defrauded the Virginia Medicaid Program. Angie L. Gilchrist, 58, was sentenced to three years of supervised release after her prison term and must pay...Tags: Judges, Prisons, Suffolk (Suffolk, Virginia), Punishment, Justice System
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Hagerstown pharmacist and owner of Russo's Rx pleads guilty to health care fraud
A Hagerstown pharmacist pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Baltimore to fraudulently selling powerful pain killers and billing Medicare and Medicaid for nearly $200,000 of the cost, the U.S. Department of Justice said. David Russo, 62, pleaded...
Tags: Medicare, Justice System, Health and Medical Professionals, OxyContin (drug), Methadone (drug)
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Wasserman Schultz decries Medicaid coverage gap
A million Floridians will be left without health care coverage because of Florida’s decision to put its Medicaid patients on managed-care plans run by private insurance companies, South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz warned on...
Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Weston (Broward, Florida), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Florida Legislature
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Florida gets OK to move Medicaid patients into managed care
Florida has received federal approval to move approximately 2.9 million Medicaid recipients into managed-care programs as soon as next Jan. 1, Gov. Rick Scott's office announced today. It's a major victory for Scott and the Florida Legislature --...
Tags: Insurance, Broward County, Florida Legislature, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Medicaid
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer pushes through Obama's Medicaid expansion
TUCSON — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer won a battle with state lawmakers this week, defying most other conservatives in her party to get a key component of President Obama’s Medicaid expansion through the Legislature. The Arizona Senate voted...
Tags: Government, Justice System, Barack Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicaid
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Snyder signs 2014 budget
LANSING -- Gov. Rick Snyder signed a 2013-14 state budget Thursday that doesn't address two of his major priorities -- expanded Medicaid coverage and raising more than $1 billion in extra revenues for repair and maintenance of state roads and bridges....Tags: Rick Snyder, Budgets and Budgeting, Medicaid, Health Insurance
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