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Protesters accuse Hopkins of withholding Medicaid funds
The owner of a Baltimore substance abuse center led a protest of more than 120 people Thursday morning at the doors of Johns Hopkins Hospital, saying the medical giant owes his organization more than $100,000 in Medicaid payments.
The Rev. Milton E....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Substance Abuse, Activism, Heroin, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Biden connects, Ryan dances
Vice President Joe Biden was stronger in Thursday's debate than challenger Rep. Paul Ryan, but the matchup didn't produce the kind of clear winner that the debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney did. Joe Biden was Joe Biden —...
Tags: Iran, Republican Party, Joe Biden, ABC (tv network), Medicare
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Insurance co-op to start with $65 million federal loan
A Maryland group led by Howard County health officer Peter Beilenson has received a $65 million loan under federal health reform to start the state's first insurance co-op, a consumer-owned nonprofit that will compete against private insurers to sell...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Insurance, Howard County, Medicare, Companies and Corporations
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The Evergreen way
The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was intended to extend health insurance coverage to 32 million of the roughly 50 million Americans who currently lack it. Yet even after the law fully goes into effect in 2014, millions of Americans...Tags: Family, Hospitals and Clinics, Employees, Health and Medical Professionals, Justice System
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Obama's policies aren't enough to save the economy; Romney's will make it worse
The White House is breathing a bit easier. The president's awful debate performance was bad enough. If it had been followed by a bad jobs report, the president's chances for re-election might have plummeted. But the report showed September's unemployment...
Tags: White House, Labor Markets, Robin Hood, Mitt Romney, Elections
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Freedom for dialysis patients
On Tuesday, I'm lucky to be speaking at Home Dialyzors United's third-annual meet up and conference in Baltimore. As an end stage renal disease patient currently doing home hemodialysis treatment, this is an issue I am passionate about. And, mostly...Tags: Dialysis, Medicare, Kidney, Kidney Disease, Renal Failure
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In Denver, Romney told some mile-high lies
The recent presidential debate served the American people with another dish of lies and distortions ("Battle is joined over jobs, taxes," Oct. 4). Mitt Romney is repeatedly on record as proposing a $5 trillion tax cut, but during the debate he made the...Tags: Medicare, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama
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Romney wins a Denver snoozefest
Mitt Romney won Wednesday night's debate with President Barack Obama. That might be a substantial help to him in the presidential race — if enough Americans managed to stay awake through the whole thing. This first encounter between the...
Tags: George W. Bush, Medicare, Bain Capital, LLC, C-SPAN (tv network), Health Care Reform (2009)
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Maryland braces for mandatory federal spending cuts
Looming federal budget cuts the nation faces in January could strike a body blow to Maryland's economy, taking $2.5 billion in personal income out of residents' pockets and crimping social programs in health and human services, education, and workforce...Tags: Tom Harkin, Towson University, Poverty, Public Finance, HIV
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Memo to Romney: It's the rich who get free stuff
Thomas Schaller, in his column, "Older, wealthier get plenty of free stuff" (Nov. 14), is right on the mark when he points out that the real receivers of undeserved entitlements in our society are not the truly needy, that is, the poor, sick, elderly...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Republican Party, Microsoft Corporation, Ronald Reagan, Credit Ratings
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Minus both incumbents, congressional candidates field difficult questions at HCC forum
Congressional candidates for Districts 1 and 2 addressed issues, such as the economy, partisan voting and Social Security during a moderated forum at Harford Community College Thursday night. Some candidates went so far as to take political jabs at the...Tags: Nancy Jacobs, Social Security, Republican Party, Harford Community College, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger
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Health care reform: Caring about costs, too
By establishing a health benefit exchange and expanding Medicaid coverage, Maryland is on a path to extend access to affordable health care to hundreds of thousands of individuals, families and small businesses. For our progress to be sustainable,...
Tags: Family, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals, Business, Health and Safety at Work
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