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Medical credit cards can cause heartburn
Premium Health News ServiceYou already trust your health care providers with your physical well-being. Should you also trust them with your financial health? That's the question consumers are facing as a growing group of health care providers give patients the option to charge...Tags: Citigroup Incorporated, Justice System, Health Insurance Cost, Syracuse, Credit and Debt
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UPDATED: Gov. Snyder, GOP lawmakers agree to budget targets
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and leaders of the GOP majority in the Legislature reached a budget agreement Tuesday for next fiscal year that doesn't include an expansion of government health insurance for low income-adults and...
Tags: Justice System, Medicaid, Politics, Executive Branch, Barack Obama
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Why the medical device tax needs to stay
The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...
Tags: Elizabeth Warren, Science and Technology, Dianne Feinstein, Employment Opportunities, Amy Klobuchar
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David Chaffee: Medicaid expansion for Michigan saves money, lives
The following guest commentary was written by David Chaffee, of Petoskey, former Title XX Social Services Administrator, Office of Planning, Budget, and Evaluation, State of Michigan. Gov. Snyder's bold lead to expand Medicaid to 133 percent of the...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Substance Abuse, General Practitioners, Dentistry and Dental Health, Medicaid
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Expanding Medicaid to remain on Gov. Nixon's agenda
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Jay Nixon says he'll continue trying to expand Medicaid health coverage to more Missourians. The Democratic governor campaigned throughout this year's legislative session to increase Medicaid eligibility for lower-income...
Tags: Jay Nixon, Government, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Politics
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Texas House passes measure to prevent Medicaid expansion
ReutersBy Corrie MacLaggan AUSTIN, Texas, May 21 (Reuters) - The Texas House passed a measure on Tuesday that would prevent the state from expanding its Medicaid program as outlined by President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law. Texas Governor Rick Perry,...Tags: Rick Perry, U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Medicaid, Health Insurance
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Poll: Public, lawmakers in Deep South at odds on expanding Medicaid
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Even though governors and lawmakers in five Deep South states oppose a plan to cover more people through Medicaid under the health care overhaul, 62 percent of the people in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina support...Tags: Judges, Justice System, Elections, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicaid
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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: Homelessness, Elections, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Politics
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Angelina Jolie's courageous act will save women's lives
Four days after her April 27 breast reconstruction, the third and final surgery aimed at sparing her an early death from breast cancer, Angelina Jolie was in good spirits at home. Upon paying a house call, her surgeon, Dr. Kristi Funk of the Pink...
Tags: Biology, Science and Technology, Breast Cancer, Angelina Jolie, Ovarian Cancer
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Angelina Jolie puts on her bra in the morning just like the rest of us
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceI never liked Angelina Jolie. She's too wide in the mouth, too thin in the waist, too in-your-face with her three adopted-from-around-the-world kids plus three more for whom she likely has a nanny and a chef. I have questioned her humanitarian work,...Tags: The Boston Globe, Mastectomy, Angelina Jolie, Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer
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Gov. Rick Scott to veto tuition hike
Miami HeraldGov. Rick Scott on Monday will veto a 3 percent increase in Florida college tuition and approve $65 million in extra Medicaid funding to hospitals that provide much of the care to the poor, including Jackson Memorial in Miami and Broward Health in Fort...Tags: Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Lobbying, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Charlie Crist
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Bus stop at Olive View's mental health center could be lifesaver
Los Angeles Daily NewsWith its skylights, specially commissioned sculptures and enclosed courtyard, the Olive View Community Mental Health Urgent Care Center is regarded as the jewel of the Los Angeles County mental health system. But two years after it opened to help...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Disasters and Accidents, Mental Health, Schizophrenia, Personal Income
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