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Gov. pushes for Medicaid expansion in Missouri
ewood@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The healthcare debate continued in Missouri on Wednesday with the state's governor again calling for an expansion of Medicaid during a stop in Springfield. It is something he said would boost the economy, but some leading...Tags: Health Insurance, Executive Branch, Jay Nixon, Government, Politics
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Now on the table: Entitlements
At a Republican presidential debate in 2011, all eight candidates on the stage said they would reject a budget deal that raised taxes even if it had $10 of spending cuts for every dollar of tax increases. At Tuesday's protest, I put the reverse question...
Tags: Republican Party, Bernard Sanders, Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama
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Can Obama sell 'chained CPI'?
President Barack Obama didn't release his proposed budget for 2014 until Wednesday, but liberals and the AARP have been howling all week about something they expected to be in it. What has our president done to provoke such outrage among his supporters?...Tags: Consumer Confidence, Bernard Sanders, Economy, Business and Finance, Labor Legislation, U.S. Congress
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Strategies for cutting the cost of prescription drugs
When Maggie Heim had a recurrence of ovarian cancer about a year after her initial treatment, her oncologist suggested that she take what he believed could be a lifesaving drug. There was just one problem: Her insurer wouldn't pay for it. The 59-year-...
Tags: Herceptin (drug), Science and Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Drugs and Medicines, Insurance
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Obama says his budget has 'manageable' cuts to entitlement programs
WASHINGTON -- President Obama argued for “manageable” changes to Medicare and other social safety net programs as he released his budget proposal, a plan aimed at staking out the middle ground in the stalled deficit reduction talks. “...Tags: Republican Party, Public Finance, Health Insurance Cost, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Congress
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Medicaid has mixed record on improving health for poor, study says
WASHINGTON — As state leaders debate whether to expand their Medicaid programs next year under President Obama’s healthcare law, new research suggests the government insurance plan for the poor has only a mixed record of improving health....
Tags: Health Insurance, Science and Technology, Personal Income, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mental Health
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House erupts over tax-cut vote after daylong slowdown
TALLAHASSEE — A showdown over expanding health care to low-income Floridians slowed the Legislature to a crawl for a second day Wednesday, with the fate of an elections-reform package, sports-stadium tax breaks and other bills hanging in the...
Tags: Health Insurance, Republican Party, Orlando, Daytona International Speedway, Crime, Law and Justice
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Miffed with the Triangulator
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, red in the face, took off his jacket and rolled up a shirt sleeve -- but there was no relief from the discomfort of his affliction. The poor guy is suffering from triangulation. The man triangulating him,...
Tags: Republican Party, Bernard Sanders, AFL-CIO, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics
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Obama's budget: A put up or shut up moment for the GOP
It's facile to say that if the extreme right and left of American politics dislike something, it must be a good idea, but in the case of President Barack Obama's budget proposal, it may be true. The president is taking one more stab at a "grand bargain"...Tags: Bernard Sanders, Economy, Business and Finance, Health Insurance Cost, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics
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Michigan Senate approves more of state budget plan
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan would spend $50 million on tax incentives to lure moviemakers and not bank on savings from making more poor people eligible for government-backed health insurance under a budget bill approved Tuesday by the state...
Tags: Health Insurance, Republican Party, Executive Branch, Credit and Debt, Budgets and Budgeting
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House Democrats shut down chamber in Medicaid standoff
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- House Democrats brought the chamber to a halt Tuesday by requiring that bills be read in full, a "nuclear option" maneuver the minority-party was employing in order to try and force Republicans to take up a health-care expansion the...Tags: Health Insurance, Republican Party, Politics, U.S. Senate, Medicaid
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Workers fired from Nevada hospital accused of 'patient dumping'
Two employees have been fired and three others disciplined at a Las Vegas hospital accused of "patient dumping" -- sending mentally ill patients to other states, including California. The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday...
Tags: Medicare, Pharmaceuticals, Brian Sandoval, Hospitals and Clinics, Starbucks Corp.
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