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Bill allows refusal of health care on moral basis
LANSING (AP) — For 35 years, Michigan law has protected health care providers who refuse to perform an abortion on moral or religious grounds. Hospitals and clinics can't be sued. Doctors and nurses can't lose their jobs for objecting to...
Tags: Nursing, Justice and Rights, Abortion Issue, Insurance, Eastern Michigan University
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Official: 12 bodies recovered after Texas blast
Updated 2:00 p.m. WEST, Texas (AP) — The bodies of 12 people have been recovered from the remnants of a tiny Texas farm town that was rocked by a roaring explosion at a fertilizer plant, authorities said Friday, confirming for the first time the...Tags: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Environmental Issues, Government, Fertilizer, Fines
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Ken Thorpe: Preventing chronic disease key to health care fix
The media is abuzz with stories of outrageous markups at many hospitals. One of the most eye-popping numbers making the rounds? A supposedly "non-profit"hospital charges $1.50 per pill for a generic version of Tylenol. That's about 100 times the retail...Tags: Medicare, Tylenol (drug), Stroke, Health Insurance Cost, Government
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Orlando jobs machine cranks out low pay
The most interesting — and unsettling — numbers to emerge from February's unemployment report are tucked inside the annual job growth figures for Metro Orlando. They show that the region added 20,500 jobs over the year, a 2 percent...
Tags: Orlando, Career and Workplace, Health Insurance Cost, Financial and Business Services, Tour Operations Industry
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West Fertilizer Co. fined $2,300 in 2006 for lack of safety plan
This post has been updated. See note below.The West, Texas, fertilizer plant that exploded Wednesday was fined $2,300 in 2006 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for not having a risk management program in place, records show. West Fertilizer Co. settled with the environmental agency in...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Explosions, Insurance, Punishment, Environmental Politics
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Labor nominee Perez faces sharp questions from GOP senators
Thomas E. Perez, the former Maryland labor secretary nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, faced pointed questions at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday about whether politics influenced his decisions as the top civil rights attorney in...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Justice and Rights, Voting, U.S. Department of Labor, The New York Times
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Chemical in Texas blast has a well-known deadly potential
The blast at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant on Wednesday night was so massive that investigators believe it probably involved a significant amount of ammonium nitrate, a chemical that some scientists say should be regulated as an explosive. In a report...
Tags: Science, Insurance, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Environmental Issues, Fertilizer
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State Retiree Health Benefits Under Attack in Long Look At Fiscal Crisis
The Hartford CourantConnecticut must cap state employee retiree health benefits and sharply raise fees for all sorts of state services in order to halt a long-term fiscal slide that is, in some ways, the worst in the nation. That was the advice Monday from David M. Walker,...Tags: George W. Bush, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Dannel P. Malloy , Bill Clinton, Civil and Public Service
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Suspicious package at mail center in West Lawn sends 3 to hospitals
Tribune reporterThree people, including two postal workers and a police officer, were taken to hospitals this morning after a suspicious package spurred a hazardous materials response at a sorting facility in the West Lawn neighborhood, officials said. The incident...Tags: Chicago Fire Department, Hospitals and Clinics, Government Postal Delivery, U.S. Postal Service
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French countess is key advocate for AIDS patients in Myanmar
SHWEPYITHA, Myanmar — After her heroin-addict husband died five years ago, Ei Ei Phyu discovered she was HIV-positive. She thought her life was over until friends directed her to the open-air clinic here where she receives antiretroviral medicine....
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Justice and Rights, England, Family, Crime, Law and Justice
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CalPERS picks four new HMO plans for 5-year contracts
The California Public Employees' Retirement System picked four new HMO plans for five-year health insurance contracts starting next year, a blow to incumbent carrier Blue Shield of California. The giant pension fund voted Wednesday to split up Blue...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, California Public Employees' Retirement System, Employees, Government, Politics
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Mayor Puts Hartford On More Frugal Course
Though it has not been a week for good news, there was a flicker of the positive in Hartford. Mayor Pedro Segarra released a $543.9 million budget proposal that would not raise taxes and would retain essential city services. For taxpayers who have seen...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Collective Contract, Interior Policy, Local Government, Career and Workplace
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