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Indiana legislative leaders ponder health costs
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's top lawmakers said Monday they're not sure what to expect from the federal health care law other than greater costs at a time the state's budget is already stretched thin. Republican Senate President Pro Tem David...
Tags: Personal Income, Republican Party, Politics, Medicaid, Healthcare Laws
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Lawmakers brace for health law, potential costs
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers are bracing for the implications of the federal health care law but say they have questions about it as they prepare for the critical budget-writing legislative session that begins in January. Hopes that the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Mike Pence, Justice System
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Insurance costs irk South Bend school workers
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- These days, South Bend schools bus driver Linda Frick feels like she's working primarily to buy health insurance. She's paying more than $300 every two weeks for the nine months she's employed for coverage for herself and her husband for...Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Health and Safety at Work, Health and Safety at School, Hartford Equus Academy
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Pence solidifies opposition to state exchange
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov.-elect Mike Pence is formalizing his opposition to a state-run health insurance exchange in a letter to Gov. Mitch Daniels. Pence wrote Thursday that the state could not afford to build its own exchange for residents to...Tags: Politics, Executive Branch, Elections, Government, Health Insurance
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Indiana GOP taps health care expert to run budget panel
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma is tapping a new Ways and Means chairman with an eye on dealing with health care costs in the coming years. Bosma said Tuesday that Public Health Chairman Tim Brown would move over to take...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Republican Party, Mike Pence, Healthcare Laws, Democratic Party
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Deficit cutters look to Pentagon budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — One war is done, another is winding down and the calls to cut the deficit are deafening. The military, a beneficiary of robust budgets for more than a decade, is coming to grips with a new reality — fewer dollars. The...
Tags: Republican Party, Public Finance, Michael G. Mullen, Joe Lieberman, Elections
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Better off 4 years later? A mixed bag of answers
It's a staple of every presidential election, a single question that puts the incumbent's record on trial and asks American voters to be the jurors. "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Ronald Reagan asked in 1980 at the end of a...
Tags: Small Businesses, Republican Party, LinkedIn Corp., Arthritis, Elections
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Ryan asked for federal help as he championed cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, a fiscal conservative and critic of federal handouts, has sought for his constituents in Wisconsin an expansion of food stamps, stimulus money, federally guaranteed business loans,...
Tags: Executive Branch, Culture, Elections, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Government
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Push for healthier truckers gains momentum
DALLAS (AP) — In the months after Doug Robinson started driving a truck, he noticed his clothes were increasingly more snug-fitting. He was already overweight but soon realized that spending up to 11 hours behind the wheel, frequently eating fast...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Weight Loss, Heart Problems, Vehicles, U.S. Department of Transportation
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Red-tape victim fights back
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- When Shirley Fulton's husband died in 1992, he left no savings or insurance benefit to pay for a funeral. The two had been estranged since she left Buffalo, N.Y., years earlier, but Fulton recalls struggling to borrow enough money to take...Tags: Politics, Medicaid, Public Officials, Religious Festivals, Government
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Frozen pay still the rule in Niles
South Bend TribuneNILES -- The impact of a decline in property taxes and state revenue-sharing funds continues to play out in the city of Niles in the form of frozen pay for city workers. As it did two weeks ago with city police officers and firefighters, the Niles City...Tags: Career and Workplace, Water Supply, Collective Contract, Wage Contract Issues
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Obama Medicare plan: No voucher but maybe a higher bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — He'll never turn Medicare into a voucher, but if you are lucky enough to be financially comfortable in retirement, odds are you'll pay higher premiums under President Barack Obama's plan. It's not just the 1 percent who'll feel the...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Prescription Drugs, Healthcare Policies, Healthcare Laws
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