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Maryland picks model for essential health insurance benefits
Under national health care reform, insurance policies in Maryland will be required to cover acupuncture for pain management and chiropractic care in certain cases.
The plans won't cover acupuncture for other treatments, such as infertility or stress, and...Tags: Health Insurance, Health Treatments, Employees, Health and Safety at Work, Contracts
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Fix Medicare by lowering the eligibility age
Among the points discussed in this "fiscal cliff" conversation is the impending insolvency of Medicare. That "entitlement " program must be reformed. There is a solution for this part of the equation. The present age of eligibility for Medicare is 65....Tags: Bankruptcy, Pikesville, Medicare
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Congressional candidate profiles
MEET THE CANDIDATES When Marylanders head to the polls Nov. 6, they will elect members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in addition to casting their ballots for president. Dozens of people are running for a chance to represent the...Tags: Teachers, Interior Policy, Private Health Care, Small Businesses, Roger F. Wicker
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Nathaniel M. Pigman Jr., statistician
Nathaniel M. Pigman Jr., a retired statistician and teacher, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure Oct. 15 at the Gilchrist Hospice Care in Columbia. He was 92 and had lived in Columbia and Edgewater. Born in...Tags: University of Pennsylvania, COPD, Colleges and Universities, Health and Safety at School, Dundalk
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Hopkins program aims to keep elderly at home
When an occupational therapist walked through the home of 70-year-old Carol Glover two years ago, she immediately noticed safety hazards. Scatter rugs throughout the single-family home in Ednor Gardens left Glover, who has balance problems, vulnerable to...
Tags: Health Insurance, Medicaid, Medical Specialization, Nursing Homes, Long Term Care
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Who bears the burden in America?
Before WWII, a large number of people were against America's involvement in the wars in Europe and Asia. After Pearl Harbor, however, that argument disappeared, and virtually everyone got involved. Sons of rich families enlisted. The Kennedys, for...Tags: Mitt Romney, World War II (1939-1945), John F. Kennedy, James Stewart
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Mitt Romney's question-mark economy
We're closing in on Election Day, but the questions about what Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would do if elected are only growing larger. Rarely before in American history has a presidential ticket campaigned on such a blank slate. Yet, paradoxically, not...
Tags: Health Insurance, Mitt Romney, Immigration, Business, Republican Party
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Obama can't win with fear alone
However you read the polls, the 2012 presidential election is turning into a nail-biter. Former Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are just about tied among likely voters. The bump Mr. Romney got from the first debate seems to have been...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Fox News Channel (tv network), World War II (1939-1945), Republican Party, Democratic Party
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Where are the specifics of the Obama-Biden plan?
Regarding your recent editorial on the vice-presidential debate, I cannot understand why you fault former governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan for being vague on issues such as taxes, entitlements and foreign policy while praising the Obama campaign'...Tags: Mitt Romney, Ellicott City, Social Security, Paul Ryan, Joe Biden
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Fact-checking Biden's debate performance
Your editorial on Vice President Joseph Biden's debate performance against Rep. Paul Ryan seems to have somehow ignored several factual errors by the incumbent ("Biden connects," Oct. 13). For starters, Mr. Biden claimed "we weren't told they wanted more...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Family Planning, Health Treatments, Mitt Romney, Roman Catholicism
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Senior briefs
Support groups The Department of Aging and Disabilities has updated a booklet on community support groups. The booklet focuses on groups for care giving, Alzheimer's disease, bereavement for adults and children, diabetes, brain injury, cancer, stroke,...Tags: Flu, CVS Corp., Odenton, University of Maryland Medical Center, Nursing
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Did the pundits see the same debate I saw?
The commentators are at it — parsing, postulating and portending with a perception of the vice presidential debate that left me stunned ("VP rivals come out swinging," Oct. 12). Did they hear the same debate I heard? Vice President Biden was called...Tags: Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Medicare, Barack Obama
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