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Health care follow-up
One of our readers contacted our editor to let him know that Gov. Corbett sent a letter to Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services indicating that PA would be opting out of the Medicaid Extension portion of the...Tags: Religion and Belief, Medicaid, Carl Walker Metzgar, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Government Health Care
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Corbett’s Medicaid Mire Campaign Fodder?
Capitol IdeasYo, If you see smoke coming from the Capitol on Tuesday, don’t panic. It’s senate Democrats trying to light a fire under Public Welfare Department to get Gov. Tom Corbett to accept Medicaid expansion that is being offered under the...... -
In budget fight, sky is falling again
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and his officials are doing their best to drum up public concern over the shock wave of spending cuts that could strike the government in just days. So it's a good time to be alert for sky-is-falling hype....
Tags: Ray LaHood, Job Layoffs, Politics, Government Health Care, Lobbying
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U.S. judge widens 'morning-after' pill access for young girls
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make "morning-after" emergency contraception pills available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age and criticized the Obama administration...Tags: General Practitioners, Abortion Issue, Food and Drug Administration, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, IMS Health Incorporated
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Court ruling lifts age limit on morning-after pill
President Obama once fretted about the prospect that girls as young as 10 or 11 could walk into a drugstore and buy emergency contraception pills as easily as "bubble gum or batteries." With his blessing, the Department of Health and Human Services...
Tags: Benadryl (drug), Food and Drug Administration, Family, Health Treatments, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Teen contraception decision: Doctors say science trumps politics
Science trumped politics, but politics may still present problems for teens trying to purchase emergency contraception. “A lot of stuff is going to happen over the next 30 days,” said Dr. Cora Breuner, a pediatric medicine specialist at...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Medicaid, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Government Health Care, Disasters and Accidents
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GOP governors embrace Obamacare
WASHINGTON -- "It is not a white flag of surrender," Florida Gov. Rick Scott said. This was technically true: Scott did not wave a banner of any color when he announced Wednesday that he wants Florida to expand Medicaid, a key piece of Obamacare....
Tags: Medicaid, Rick Scott, Tea Party Movement, Hospitals and Clinics, Government Health Care
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Obama faces choice on morning-after pill limits
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama supports requiring girls younger than 17 to see a doctor before buying the morning-after pill. But fighting that battle in court comes with its own set of risks. A federal judge in New York on Friday...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Over-the-Counter Medicines, Gun Control, Politics, Jay Carney
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The Plan B morning-after pill and the new war on abortion
North Dakota is trying to ban all abortions. Arkansas is trying to ban them after 12 weeks. Mississippi is down to its last abortion clinic. If you think the abortion question in this country was settled after the Supreme Court made its historic Roe vs....
Tags: Social Issues, Food and Drug Administration, Over-the-Counter Medicines, Politics, Abortion
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Plan B must be available to all without a prescription, judge rules
A federal court judge has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to lift controversial restrictions on the so-called morning-after pill, saying females of all ages should have unimpeded access to emergency birth control. In a ruling released...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, Family Planning, Birth Control, Plan B (drug)
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Health reform's changes stir worries as they take shape in Md.
State lawmakers put finishing touches last week on plans to apply federal health care reforms in Maryland come Jan. 1. But who becomes newly insured — and at what cost —still worries stakeholders as the state speeds toward becoming one of...
Tags: Medicaid, Hunt Valley, Hospitals and Clinics, Martin O'Malley, Politics
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Corbett unswayed on Medicaid expansion after Sebelius meeting
Call Washington BureauPennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's face-to-face meeting Tuesday evening with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius did not convince the governor to accept the federal government's Medicaid expansion offer. Corbett, in a statement...Tags: Health Insurance, Medicaid, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Tom Corbett, Government Health Care
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Feb 25, 2013
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Apr 6, 2013
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Apr 3, 2013
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