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Part-timers' hours cut as employers react to healthcare law [Live chat]
Hundreds of thousands of part-timers are facing smaller paychecks as employers cut worker hours to avoid paying for their benefits under the federal healthcare law. This move by a growing number of retailers, restaurants and even local governments and...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Employment, Employment Opportunities, Health Insurance, Federal Reserve
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A presidential bystander
WASHINGTON -- It's never a good sign for a president when he feels compelled to assure the public he still has a pulse. This is the unenviable position President Obama was in Tuesday morning when he held a news conference in the White House briefing...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Television Industry, U.S. Senate, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obama seeks to allay healthcare law concerns
WASHINGTON — President Obama sought to tamp down fears Tuesday that his landmark healthcare law would raise insurance costs and cause other disruptions, saying most Americans were already benefiting from it and others soon would. "Any time you'...
Tags: Justice System, Medicaid, Crime, Law and Justice, Insurance, Business
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U.S. task force calls for routine HIV testing for all adults
Reuters* Experts hope move will encourage more testing * Guidelines may trigger insurance coverage for tests (Adds comments from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in paragraphs eight and nine) By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, April 29 (Reuters) -...Tags: High Blood Pressure, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Stanford University, Abbott Laboratories, Agriculture
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Task force calls for routine HIV testing for all adults
ReutersCHICAGO (Reuters) - An influential U.S. panel is calling for HIV screening for all Americans aged 15 to 65, regardless of whether they are considered to be at high risk, a change that may help lift some of the stigma associated with HIV testing. The...Tags: High Blood Pressure, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Stanford University, Abbott Laboratories, Agriculture
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Test results are in: Gripe-o-Meter is negative for doctors
You're not alone in waiting for the doctor to see you. A survey released Thursday by Consumer Reports rates the biggest gripes patients have about visting the doctor. Long waits in the exam or waiting room bothered many of the 1,000 people surveyed,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Medical Professionals, General Practitioners
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Republican leaders withdraw healthcare bill amid conservative concerns
ReutersWASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the House of Representatives on Wednesday withdrew a bill that would change the Obama administration's healthcare law amid conservative concerns that the legislation was replacing one big government...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Raul Labrador, U.S. Senate, White House, Crime, Law and Justice
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WellPoint's first-quarter profit rises 3% as enrollment grows
Insurance giant WellPoint Inc. reported a 3% increase in first-quarter profit and raised its full-year outlook as the company prepares for major changes under the federal healthcare overhaul. WellPoint, which runs Anthem Blue Cross in California and...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Healthcare Provider, Health Insurance, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Amerigroup Corp.
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Employer health premiums rose 170% in California in last decade
Premiums for employer health insurance in California jumped 170% over the last decade, more than five times the 32% increase in the state's inflation rate. That escalation in premiums has taken a toll on employers' willingness to offer health benefits,...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Employment, Employment Opportunities, Health Insurance, Crime, Law and Justice
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Officials: Democratic Sen. Baucus to retire
Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee who steered President Barack Obama's health care overhaul into law but recently broke with his party on gun control legislation, has decided to retire, Democratic...Tags: Justice System, Saxby Chambliss, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice
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Fewer Californians get health insurance at work as premiums rise
A new report shows that 53% of Californians get their health insurance through work, down from 62% in 2000. About 17.6 million state residents received employer health benefits in 2011, nearly 1.3 million fewer than a decade earlier. The report issued...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Employment, Employment Opportunities, Health Insurance, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obama's budget eyes health costs, cigarette tax
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's new budget offers Medicare cuts to entice Republicans into tax negotiations, while plowing ahead to cover the uninsured next year under the health care law the GOP has bitterly fought to repeal. But the...
Tags: Tobacco Products, Medicaid, Budgets and Budgeting, Government Health Care, Crime, Law and Justice
May 2, 2013
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May 1, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 29, 2013
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Apr 29, 2013
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Apr 25, 2013
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Apr 24, 2013
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Apr 24, 2013
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Apr 24, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 11, 2013
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Apr 10, 2013
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