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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... -
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: Finance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Politics, Homelessness, Interior Policy
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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, Bill Shuster, Pharmaceuticals
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How Obama can rescue his candidacy
Here's the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Barack Obama's second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn't without some merit. On none...
Tags: Henry Kissinger, Justice System, United Nations, Politics, Barack Obama
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Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities
WASHINGTON — Republican opposition in many statehouses to expanding Medicaid next year under President Obama's healthcare law — opposition that could leave millions of the nation's poorest residents without insurance coverage — will...
Tags: Social Issues, U.S. Supreme Court, Regional Authority, Barack Obama, Politics
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As grocers, restaurants bicker, many menus still lack calorie counts
Three years after Congress voted to require it, you still won't find calories listed on the menus of most restaurant chains. The problem? The federal government has yet to write the specific rules to carry out the law, in part because supermarkets are...
Tags: Pizzas, Restaurants, Publix Super Markets Inc., McDonald's, Dining and Drinking
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Biased press doesn't deserve protection
The IRS is constitutionally protected in the execution of its duties to collect income taxes. Reporters are constitutionally protected when they report fairly and honestly. The First Amendment gives the right to print the truth, not to print biased...Tags: Mitt Romney, Work Relations, Career and Workplace, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation
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GOP can't help overreaching on Obama scandals
Well, that didn't take long. Just as several genuine scandals cast the Obama administration in an unfavorable light, Republicans in Congress are already overreaching — with hyperbolic comparisons to Watergate, calls for special prosecutors,...Tags: Mike Huckabee, Andrew P Harris, Justice System, Politics, Barack Obama
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Some could have gaps in medical coverage under new law
When the national healthcare law takes full effect next year, millions of Americans risk disrupted health coverage because of common life events: getting married or divorced, having children or taking on a second job. As their family incomes change,...
Tags: Social Issues, Government Health Care, Chemical Industry, Diabetes, Health Insurance Cost
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City of San Francisco, worker unions protest Kaiser premium hike
SAN FRANCISCO — It's a trend many public employees can relate to: Health insurance premiums climb year after year, while at the bargaining table workers have agreed to kick in more for pensions, take salary cuts and sign on to furlough days. But...Tags: Employment, Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics, Public Employees, Politics
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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: Work Relations, The Washington Post, Barack Obama, Politics, Benghazi
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