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Sheriff pushing budget boost
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsAs Palm Beach County faces another budget shortfall, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw proposes boosting his department costs by $4 million. Bradshaw on Tuesday released a $471 million budget proposal. That would just be about a 1 percent increase from this year,........Tags: Property Tax, Budgets and Budgeting, Palm Beach County, Ric Bradshaw
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A health plan prescribed by 'Doc' Bowen
Instead of Obamacare, still so contentious and with all the pieces not yet in place, we could have had Bowencare, with the key piece put in place on July 1, 1988, by Ronald Reagan. It would be named for Dr. Otis R. Bowen, about whom there were many...
Tags: Government, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. Congress, Politics, Human Interest
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Is $1,721.75 the bill you'd expect for treating a cut?
It was your basic, run-of-the-mill accident. Kim Haselhoff's 9-year-old son got nipped in the finger by one of the family dogs. It didn't seem too serious, but there was a bit of blood. Unfortunately, the pediatrician's office had just closed, and the...Tags: Walmart, Aetna Inc., Insurance, Hospitals and Clinics, Prices
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Labor has helped L.A., but tweaks are still needed
I think it's fair to say that the men sitting across the table from me Monday afternoon were not terribly happy with my recent work. Bob Schoonover, president of Service Employees International Union, Local 721, and Art Sweatman, a shop steward and tree...
Tags: Government, Politics, Public Officials, Interior Policy, Public Employees
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Karanbir Gill: Deregulation would hurt state's trauma centers
In large states such as Florida, it is essential to carefully develop a statewide trauma care network that ensures our citizens have access to timely, life-saving care delivered by highly-trained specialists. Over the past 30 years, Florida has built a...Tags: Government, National Government, Politics, Florida Legislature, Hospitals and Clinics
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Jonathan Fielding, the public's MD
If you've got your health, the cliche goes, you've got just about everything. If you've got public health duties, you're responsible for just about everything from mosquitoes (West Nile carriers) to hygiene (wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing...
Tags: Health Organizations, Lung Cancer, Meningitis, Vaccines, AIDS
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New Cultural Plan a nice wish list, but city should focus on must-haves
Give the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events this much: It listened to what Chicagoans said they wanted in a Cultural Plan and wrote it down. And then wrote some more. And more. Released Monday, the Cultural Plan's 48 pages...
Tags: Chicago Loop, Artists, DuSable Museum of African-American History, Culture, Health Insurance
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A lazy budget
WASHINGTON -- There is something profoundly timid about President Obama's proposed $3.778 trillion budget for 2014. Stripped of boasts about "investments" for the future and a responsible "balance" between deficit reduction and economic growth, the budget...
Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Medicaid, Politics, Economic Indicator, Health Insurance
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Utter arrogance of Obamacare
With (the president) promising that every American will be covered by health insurance, it's fair to ask if you and I should be required to pay for fools who put themselves in the hospital by taking stupid chances. Like motorcycle riders who suffer...
Tags: Insurance, Chicago Sun-Times, AIDS, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance
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Orlando jobs machine cranks out low pay
The most interesting — and unsettling — numbers to emerge from February's unemployment report are tucked inside the annual job growth figures for Metro Orlando. They show that the region added 20,500 jobs over the year, a 2 percent...
Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Labor Legislation, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Financial and Business Services, Labor Markets
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In An Era of Fiscal Crisis, Malloy Has Few Places To Run
The Hartford CourantConnecticut's latest fiscal crisis roared to the forefront this week with patterns that say a lot about what we can expect to see not just this month or even in the coming year, but for the rest of Dannel P. Malloy's term as governor. The big picture...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Democratic Party, Dannel P. Malloy , Crime, Law and Justice, Health Insurance
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The reckoning on Obamacare
WASHINGTON — Obamacare dominated the 2010 midterms, driving its Democratic authors to a historic electoral shellacking. But since then, the issue has slipped quietly underground. Now it's back, summoned to the national stage by the confluence of...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Pneumonia, Health Treatments, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Judges
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