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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: St. Joseph Medical Center, Roman Catholicism, Medicare, Medical Procedures and Tests, Colleges and Universities
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Republicans block Obama's agenda at their peril
President Barack Obama's inaugural speech was inspiring and brilliantly focuses on the correct path the nation must take in the future ("Obama 2.0," Jan. 22). The president spelled out a progressive agenda that I and millions of American citizens voted...
Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Elections
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What might have been: Life under President Romney
News flash: President Romney and congressional leaders met today to review the terms of the recently concluded fiscal cliff deal wherein the Bush tax cuts were extended by four years, the corporate income tax rate was reduced from 35 percent to 25...
Tags: White House, Colin Powell, Medicare, Mitt Romney, New Orleans Saints
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Congress must act on Medicare reform
A recent article highlighted the dysfunction resulting from the broken Medicare physician payment system ("End the 'doc fix' charade, once and for all," Jan. 22). Physicians who care for millions of Medicare patients across our nation are weary of the...
Tags: Medicare, U.S. Congress, American Medical Association, General Practitioners
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A Washington poker game with $16 trillion in the pot
Every kid knows that falling off a cliff is never good, but what about a "fiscal cliff" — how would that feel? Americans may indeed find out, if Congress is unable to pass a budget plan prior to Jan. 1. So, what's at stake if such an event occurs?...
Tags: Republican Party, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, John Boehner, Medicare, Parties and Movements
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Investment outlook for 2013 clouded by uncertainty
Usually by early December, investment professionals have mapped out their outlook for the next year. But such forecasting has been made difficult by the "fiscal cliff" — the confluence of spending cuts and higher taxes that kick in automatically...Tags: Credit Ratings, Stock Market, China, Energy Resources, IBM
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Fix the debt? How about fixing private pensions first
While America's CEOs are fretting about the government's so-called "fiscal cliff," millions of American workers face a financial disaster that gets much less media attention. There's a half-trillion-dollar deficit in the nation's worker retirement...Tags: Finance, Public Finance, Medicare, Interior Policy, Fiscal Cliff
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Your guide to the fiscal cliff
Are we about to go over a fiscal cliff? It's looking more likely, but it may not be as alarming as it sounds. Here are three things you need to know about the impending crisis over the so-called fiscal cliff, the combination of tax increases and...
Tags: Doyle McManus, Republican Party, John Boehner, Medicare, Parties and Movements
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The lesson of the fiscal cliff: Our problem is jobs, not the federal deficit
I wish President Barack Obama would explain to the nation that the federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal. Our biggest problem is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth. And...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Republican Party, Public Finance, Finance, Money and Monetary Policy
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Republicans' infrastructure hypocrisy
If you want to see where rank hypocrisy sits in full flower, you have only to observe Republicans at their desks in the House and Senate. There, they have been openly ridiculing President Barack Obama's proposed $50 billion stimulus bill for desperately...
Tags: Republican Party, Finance, Mitch McConnell, Parties and Movements, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Fiscal cliff, here we come
Watch out, folks, this could get bumpy. With the release Monday of a proposal, or something approximating one, from House Republican leaders on a way to avert the "fiscal cliff," we now have the opening positions from both parties, neither of which...
Tags: Republican Party, Finance, Medicare, Mitt Romney, Heritage Foundation
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Fiscal cliff deal must protect Medicare, Social Security
The way some people talk in Washington, you could get the idea that Social Security and Medicare are little more than numbers in a budget. Yet for families in Maryland and all over America, Social Security and Medicare have a deeper meaning: They are...
Tags: Medicare, Social Security
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