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American Legion plans meeting on Fort Wayne VA
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The American Legion is planning a town hall meeting next week on the quality of health care that veterans receive at the Department of Veterans Affairs Northern Indiana Health Care System in Fort Wayne. Legion officials...Tags: U.S. Congress, Veterans Affairs, American Legion
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Here is the latest Indiana news from The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Department of Agriculture has named a northern Indiana development veteran to lead the agency's economic development and trade initiatives. The department announced the appointment of Connie Neininger this week....Tags: American Legion, Prisons
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Senate confirms Tavenner to run health insurance programs with bigger budget than Pentagon
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — A former intensive care nurse with a businesslike approach to a politically divisive public policy area won Senate approval Wednesday to run Medicare and other major health insurance programs. By an overwhelming 91-7 vote, the...Tags: Eric Cantor, U.S. Congress, Government, Republican Party, Barack Obama
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Rabinowitz named new vice president at Upper Chesapeake Health
Aaron Rabinowitz has joined the two hospital health system in Harford County as Vice President, General Counsel, Upper Chesapeake Health announced. Prior to joining UCH, Rabinowitz practiced as a health attorney at the Baltimore law firm of Ober Kaler,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Healthcare Laws, Colleges and Universities, Harvard University, Health Insurance
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Obama's health secretary seeks donations from companies for healthcare law
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is asking companies for financial donations to help implement President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul, months before it is due to take effect. In telephone calls that began...Tags: U.S. Congress, Congressional Budget Office, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Lawyers
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L.A. worries about immigration reform's cost to taxpayers
As Congress takes up immigration reform, Los Angeles County officials are voicing concerns that local taxpayers will be "left holding the bag" to pay for the brunt of healthcare and other services for the multitudes of immigrants who apply for...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Jeff Sessions, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Politics, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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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: Holly J. Mitchell, National Government, Government, Barack Obama, Healthcare Provider
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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: High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Prescription Drugs, Medical Research
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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: Insurance, Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Medicare, Health Insurance Cost
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Insurance, Healthcare Laws, Hospitals and Clinics, Medicare
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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: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Gallbladder Removal, Medicare
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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: Punishment, U.S. Congress, National Government, Government, Barack Obama
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