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L.A. County officials worried about costs of immigration overhaul
WASHINGTON — Few regions will absorb the impact of future immigration reforms more than Los Angeles County, home to an estimated 1.1 million people in the country illegally, one-tenth of the nation's total. As the Senate Judiciary Committee...
Tags: Immigration, Justice and Rights, Zev Yaroslavsky, Barack Obama, Government
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GCC budget still tight
This post has been corrected. See below for details. Glendale Community College officials on Friday announced that roughly 100 empty positions that have remained unfilled now for three years will remain so for another. Officials at the meeting on...Tags: Colleges and Universities
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Healthcare puts Jerry Brown, Capitol Democrats on different sides
SACRAMENTO — With California's deficit wiped out and its economy starting to hum, this was to be a year when Gov. Jerry Brown was free of the budget logjams that have paralyzed the Capitol. But instead, the governor has a fight on his hands...Tags: Jerry Brown, Parties and Movements, Darrell Steinberg, Hospitals and Clinics, Barack Obama
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California calls for more disclosure of medical costs [video chat]
California officials are looking to build on a federal effort to disclose more healthcare pricing information to consumers. Medicare officials released new data this week that showed wildly different hospital charges across the nation for 100 of the...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Pneumonia, Healthcare Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Insurance
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Overselling Obamacare
WASHINGTON -- It's the great moral imperative behind the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"): People should not be denied health care because they can't afford insurance. Health status and insurance are assumed to be connected, and opponents have often been...
Tags: Diabetes, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Health Insurance Cost
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Hospital prices diverge wildly, U.S. data show
New Medicare data reveal wildly varying charges among the nation's hospitals for 100 of the most common in-patient treatments and procedures, calling into question medical billing practices just as U.S. officials try to rein in rising costs. The...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Pneumonia, Health Insurance, Medical Procedures and Tests, Insurance
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Medicare charges vary widely at California hospitals, new data show
Federal officials are shedding new light on how much hospital bills vary across Southern California and the rest of the country. Medicare released pricing information Wednesday for more than 3,300 U.S. hospitals on the top 100 procedures and...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Pneumonia, Gallbladder Removal, Medical Procedures and Tests
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'Safety net' hospitals watching health law impact
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana hospitals that serve as safety nets for the poor and uninsured say they're waiting to see what impact the federal health care overhaul has on their bottom lines. The law will give more people access to insurance...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health Insurance, Crime, Law and Justice, Government Health Care, Medicaid
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Aetna Beats Analysts' Expectations, Net Income Lower On Coventry Purchase
The Hartford CourantAetna beat analysts' expectations Tuesday, reporting strong operating income for the first three months of the year compared with 2012. Net income was lower, however, because of costs related to buying Coventry Health Care Inc. Aetna announced plans in...Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Thomson Corporation
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State's health workers deserve protection from violence
Workplace violence is a serious occupational hazard in hospitals and other health care facilities, a fact that has escaped an unsuspecting public. Nationally, nursing assistants employed by nursing homes have the highest incidence of workplace assault...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Memorial Day, Long Term Care, Arts and Culture, Social Sciences
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CareFirst proposes 25 percent rate increase under health care reform
Blaming the cost to implement health care reform, the state's largest health insurer has proposed eye-popping rate increases to state regulators for individuals and small businesses. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield wants to raise rates an average of 25...
Tags: Business, Health Care Reform (2009), Judges, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Government
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Scott at odds with House, Senate
Gov. Rick Scott sent a message Tuesday to House Speaker Will Weatherford and Senate President Don Gaetz that his priorities need to get more attention. “I’m sure that the speaker of the house and the senate president would like to have a...Tags: Government, Politics, Joe Negron, Rick Scott, Executive Branch
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