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The hoax of 'entitlement reform'
It has become accepted economic wisdom that the only way to get control over America's looming budget deficits is to "reform entitlements." The accepted wisdom is wrong. Republicans trot out federal budget data showing a 32 percent increase in...
Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Government Debt, Health Insurance Cost
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Clarksville: Local young musicians perform with Maryland Youth Symphony
The Maryland Youth Symphony concert conducted by Angelo Gatto set for Jan. 13 at 3 p.m. in the Fine and Performing Arts Theatre of CCBC Catonsville includes some of our very talented musicians. Lauren Bae and Drew Davis play cello. Alexis Datta and Rina...Tags: Senior Health, New Year's Day, PTA, Howard County, Hospitals and Clinics
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MD gets $36.5 million for improving children's access to health insurance
The federal government has awarded Maryland $36.5 million for its success at getting children enrolled in government subsidized health programs. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Wednesday that Maryland was among 23 states that was...Tags: Health Insurance, Children's Health, Medicaid
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Republicans won't be the only ones blamed if we go over the fiscal cliff
We are accustomed to the opprobrium columnist Thomas Schaller heaps on all things Republican. However, his most recent rant on who's to blame for the fiscal cliff deserves further reflection ("Crisis they created catches up with Republicans," Dec. 12)....Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, George W. Bush, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Injecting Obamacare into economy will hurt -- a lot
It's difficult to catalogue all the negative impacts of Obamacare in one place. Nevertheless, my readers deserve to know a few of the uglier details as the new year rings in one of the most expensive, convoluted policy experiments in American history....
Tags: Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Fiscal Cliff, Health Care Reform (2009), Barack Obama, U.S. Congress
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Fiscal cliff deal won't end war between Democrats, Republicans
"It's not all I would have liked," said Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, speaking of the deal on the fiscal cliff, "so on to the debt ceiling." For Republicans, the battle over the fiscal cliff is only a prelude to the coming battle...
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Fiscal Cliff, Unemployment Benefits, Democratic Party, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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The other, more dangerous, cliffs
The "fiscal cliff" isn't nearly the biggest cliff we face -- if we're talking about dangerous precipices looming on the horizon. Here are three: The child poverty cliff. A staggering number of our children are impoverished. Between 2007 and 2011, the...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Head Start, Government Debt, Health Insurance Cost
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Feds approve MD health exchanges
Maryland and five other states received conditional federal approval Monday to operate a state exchange, or marketplace where individuals can buy insurance under health care reform. The approval by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services means...
Tags: Judges, Justice System, Health Care Reform (2009), Barack Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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We all must be part of the fiscal cliff solution
I am a military veteran, a local legislator and the CEO of a company that works with the Department of Defense. I deeply understand the virtue of sacrifice, the benefit of a hard-won compromise and the dire situation that our national debt and the "fiscal...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Fiscal Cliff, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, John Boehner
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BWI to start charging for ambulance services this year
Sometime this year, the BWI Marshall Airport fire and rescue department will begin billing people for ambulance rides to the hospital. The move, dictated by the General Assembly last year, follows a statewide trend to try to recover some emergency...Tags: BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Air Transportation Industry, Montgomery County (Maryland), Insurance, Annapolis
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Obama to blame for running U.S. on borrowed money
President Barack Obama shares responsibility equally with the U.S. House of Representatives on the financial issues facing this country ("The GOP's cynical debt limit ploy," Dec. 10). He has not had a budget passed (or even got one vote in the Senate) and...Tags: Bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. House of Representatives, Elections
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In debt talks, everybody's got to put something on the table
Everyone needs to put something on the table for any resolution of the debt crisis to move forward ("McConnell key to 'cliff' deal," Dec. 27). I am newly retired and living on a fixed income, but I will rejoin the work world if I think I need the...Tags: Social Security, Medicare
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