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Local medical professionals talk impact of Obamacare
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - otherwise known as Obamacare - was signed into law in 2010. Since then it has been the topic of much debate within the medical and insurance industry here in the United States. It was also the topic of...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics, Justice System, Health Insurance Cost, Plastic Surgeons
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his fangirls
OK, so Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stands accused of blowing up three people, injuring 282 more and shooting to death an MIT campus police officer. He's also got fans, or more accurately, he's got fangirls, thousands of them. These besotted double-X chromosome-...
Tags: Sports, Health Insurance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Why the medical device tax needs to stay
The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...
Tags: Science and Technology, U.S. Congress, Government Health Care, Barbara Boxer, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Corbett's public welfare chief disputes financial gains of Medicaid expansion
HARRISBURG — The Legislature's Independent Fiscal Office has been praised for its thorough, fair number-crunching and for being as nonpartisan as its name suggests since opening last year. But that pristine image may be tarnished now that the...Tags: Government Health Care, Homelessness, Republican Party, Finance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
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Replace Obamacare with something more simple
You can nix the entire almost 2,000 pages of the "Obamination" health care law and its 20,000 pages and growing of regulations and replace it with a federal law of only five statements: Health care insurance is portable across state lines; one cannot be...Tags: Career and Workplace, Macungie, Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice
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Poll: Public, lawmakers in Deep South at odds on expanding Medicaid
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Even though governors and lawmakers in five Deep South states oppose a plan to cover more people through Medicaid under the health care overhaul, 62 percent of the people in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina support...Tags: Government Health Care, Lawyers, Think Tanks, Justice System, Medicaid
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LETTER: Health Care Plan Cost Doubles -- Time To Fire Obamacare Team
When President Obama was selling his health care legislation to Congress, he declared that "the plan I'm proposing will cost around $900 billion over 10 years."¯But with the law's major provisions set to kick in next year, a new analysis by the...Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Congressional Budget Office, Barack Obama, Justice System
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LETTER: Looks Like A Banana Republic
As we witness the spectacle of the attempted right-wing repeal of Obamacare for the 38th time in the U.S. House; the Benghazi conspiracy cabal; the right-wing's exploited "outrage"¯ about the IRS' scrutiny of applications for tax-exempt status by... -
Going to college? Some things you need to know
I had dinner recently with my sister Teddi, who had just returned from her freshman year at George Washington University. "What do you wish you knew before you went off to school?" I asked. "I definitely wish I knew that I was only going to use 10...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Students, Consumers, George Washington, Education
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The Sacramento Bee Dan Walters column
The Sacramento BeeAs he presented his revised 2013-14 budget to the Legislature last week, Gov. Jerry Brown warned against expanding spending beyond his administration's conservative revenue estimates. Citing darkening economic and revenue forecasts, Brown called on...Tags: John A. Perez, Politics, Jerry Brown
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Health care concerns
I'm not statistician enough to know how much of the story U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster's editorial ("Time to repeal Obamacare," May 16) tells, but surely we agree that the existing health care system deserved overhaul. We are a sick nation, getting sicker,...Tags: Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Bill Shuster
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