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Where is the Democrats' plan to avoid sequestration?
Chicken Little is alive and well writing editorials for The Sun ("The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). The world will apparently come to an end when the sequester, better known as budget cuts, goes into effect on March 1. These budget cuts are apparently far...
Tags: Government Debt, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, White House
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O'Malley warns of 'job-killing' sequester cuts
Gov. Martin O'Malley warned Sunday morning that Maryland faces "job-killing cuts" if Congress allows a wave of automatic spending reductions to take place this Friday as scheduled. Appearing on CBS' Face the Nation alongside Virginia Republican Gov. Bob...Tags: Elections, Executive Branch, Business Enterprises, Jan Brewer, Illegal Immigrants
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Maker of bed sore ointment accused of defrauding Medicaid
The Maryland Attorney General's office in conjunction with the federal government and 46 other states has reached a $48 million settlement with a Texas drug company that marketed an ointment to treat bedsores even though it wasn't approved by the Food and...Tags: Medicaid, Health Insurance, Nursing Homes, Food and Drug Administration
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Ehrlich is wrong: Lower taxes don't spur growth or solve deficits
I read Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s column ("Obama economics: More government means more growth," June 20) with interest and disbelief. Well, not really. But his comment at the end about the "left's dangerous love affair with ever-higher taxes" brought a...
Tags: Elections, Rush Limbaugh, Republican Party, Medicare, Social Security
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Peter Beilenson's next great adventure in health care
Peter Beilenson — doctor and public health visionary, Baltimore health commissioner, Howard County health officer, quick-study scholar and decoder of federal regulations — remains one of our most interesting men. A person whose leadership has...
Tags: Litigation and Regulation, Medical Procedures and Tests, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Prince George's County, Ken Ulman
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St. Joseph loses $400,000 every day it can't bill Medicare
University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center loses about $400,000 every day it's not certified by Medicare to collect payments from the federal health care program. The big question is how much that will ultimately cost the Towson hospital. Tens...
Tags: Finance, Hospitals and Clinics, Towson, Health Insurance, Roman Catholicism
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Wednesday
The Baltimore SunWEATHER: Cloudy, mid-40s, with rain or wintry mix late. TRAFFIC: Check our traffic updates for this morning's issues. TOP NEWS College Park shooter in murder-suicide identified as Morgan graduate: Police said they are investigating whether Dayvon...Tags: Christopher Dorner, Hospitals and Clinics, Physical Fitness and Exercise, State of the Union Address, Barack Obama
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Raising costs doesn't create jobs
I am writing in response to Bill Barry's commentary ("A farewell to jobs?" Feb. 8). While I sympathize with him in his concern for American job losses, his solutions are worse than the problem. His suggestion to shorten the workweek is rife with issues....
Tags: Bankruptcy, Glen Burnie, Medicare
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St. Joseph Medical Center not certified by Medicare system
The University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center failed a critical federal inspection and has been unable to collect what is likely millions of dollars in Medicare reimbursements from the federal government since Dec. 1. As part of its takeover of...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Clinics, Cardiologists, Medicaid, Medicare
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Obama's State of the Union address as prepared for delivery [Text]
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Al-Qaeda, Medical Procedures and Tests, John McCain, Government
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Solving the state's health disparities
Nearly 10,000 people in West Baltimore are diagnosed each year with new cases of diabetes, hypertension and other treatable, chronic health conditions — enough to fill 24 jumbo jets. These illnesses will kill many of them and complications will...
Tags: Finance, Substance Abuse, Hospitals and Clinics, Social Sciences, Prince George's County
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Catholic Health to pay $4.9 million in St. Joseph overbilling case
The previous owner of University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center has agreed to pay the federal government $4.9 million for overbilling the Medicaid and Medicare system by keeping patients in the hospital longer than needed. Catholic Health...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Mark G. Midei, Health Insurance, Roman Catholicism
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