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Agreement Boosts Health Care Access for American Indian Veterans
Native American military veterans will be able to access health care closer to home thanks to an agreement between the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs and the Indian Health Service. The agreement allows for Veterans Affairs to reimburse IHS for direct...
Tags: Eric Shinseki, Veterans Affairs
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Alaska Governor Asks Health Secretary to Rethink Welfare Waiver Plan
Channel 2 NewsAlaska's governor has asked U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to reconsider a plan to let states seek major changes in how they meet federal welfare-to-work requirements. Gov. Sean Parnell, in a letter released Wednesday, says he believes...Tags: Government, Regional Authority, Politics, Executive Branch, Interior Policy
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On a rainy day, Obama takes Cabinet secretaries Sebelius, LaHood out for a round of golf
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf — in the rain. The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) and outgoing Transportation...Tags: Politics, Washington, DC, Ray LaHood, Elections, Barack Obama
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Making sense of scandals
The Obama administration's first term was remarkably free of scandals. The second term is making up for lost time. Some of the President Barack Obama's harshest critics have even begun comparing him to President Richard Nixon, a byword for corruption,...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Richard Nixon, Richard M. Daley, Internal Revenue Service, Karl Rove
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Column: Obama accelerates loss of trust
WASHINGTON — Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government...Tags: Government, Lamar Alexander, Elections, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Global Warming
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George Michael: Obamacare - The coming train wreck
According to one national leader, Obamacare is “a huge train wreck coming down.” You might be tempted to dismiss this quote as another tea party attack on the president’s health care law. But you would be wrong. This statement was...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Healthcare Laws, Elections, Max Baucus
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Obama Debases Trust In Government
The Hartford CourantLast week was amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government's large capacity for misbehavior. And, entertainingly, the answer to the question "Will Barack Obama's scandals...Tags: Nicaragua, Government, Lamar Alexander, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. Congress
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Hospital charges vary widely across Lehigh Valley region, country
It's only about 33 miles from Gnaden Huetten Memorial Hospital in Lehighton to Lehigh Valley Hospital's Muhlenberg campus in Bethlehem, but the distance between what the two facilities charge to treat a complicated heart attack case is far greater....
Tags: Heart Attack, Insurance, Medical Procedures and Tests, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Government Health Care
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Hospital fees vary for same treatment, U.S. data show
Centegra Hospital in McHenry charged $36,000 for implanting a permanent pacemaker. Less than 30 miles away, Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan charged more than $165,000 for the same procedure. To treat a case of simple pneumonia, meanwhile, John H....
Tags: John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Health and Safety at School, Government, Insurance, Medical Procedures and Tests
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A bad case of Obamascare
The latest crack in Obamacare opened last week when Politico reported that leaders in Congress were negotiating how to exempt themselves and thousands of their staffers from a major provision of the new law. Politico said leaders held "high-level,...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. Congress, Politics, POLITICO LLC, Barack Obama
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High hospital bills go public, but will it help?
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, the government is publicly revealing how much hospitals charge, and the differences are astounding: Some bill tens of thousands of dollars more than others for the same treatment, even within the same city....
Tags: Insurance, Medical Procedures and Tests, Pneumonia, Government Health Care, Medicare
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GOP slams fundraising, other efforts to promote Obama health law
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans have opened a new line of attack on President Obama's healthcare law, charging that the administration has improperly sought help from the healthcare industry and other outside groups to implement the...
Tags: Lamar Alexander, Healthcare Laws, CVS Corp., American Cancer Society, Healthcare Industry
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