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Mission helps keep La Rabida expansion on track
Wedged between Lake Michigan and a small boat harbor in the far reaches of Jackson Park on the city's South Side, La Rabida Children's Hospital is all on its own, in more ways than one. The tiny, independent pediatric specialty hospital is known for...
Tags: Asthma, Family, Renovation, Hospitals and Clinics, Finance
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Florida's shame: the Florida House
The legislative session ended Friday with state lawmakers scurrying out of Tallahassee with the one thing 3.8 million of their fellow Floridians lack — decent health care. Poor constituent service? You betcha. Missed opportunity? Huge. One out...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Rick Scott, U.S. Senate, Executive Branch
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Group chosen to help implement health reform settled with feds over fraud
Maryland tapped the nonprofit Seedco to help implement health care reform despite a $1.7 million settlement the agency agreed to in December to resolve a federal fraud suit. The U.S. government sued the agency, saying it defrauded a federal employment...
Tags: Worcester County, Manhattan (New York City), Health Insurance, Montgomery County (Maryland), Employment Opportunities
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Some hospitals can't afford liability coverage
Virtually all hospitals in Illinois maintain liability insurance coverage to protect them in the event of a patient injury. There are some hospitals, however, that do not maintain liability coverage. I submit that this is not a choice, but a necessity....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Prices, Insurance
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Reassess school funding
The Tribune’s recent article on “poverty grants” to local school districts raises some important issues about education funding in Illinois (“Illinois’ method for measuring student poverty raises count statewide,” News,...Tags: Health Insurance, Personal Income, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Budgets and Budgeting, Economic Policy
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Passive resistance won't kill Obamacare
The Kansas City StarObamacare haters first looked to the U.S. Supreme Court to kill health care reform. When that didn't work, they fixed their hopes on Mitt Romney's election and a Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate. Foiled again. Opponents in Washington and state...Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, U.S. Senate, Justice System
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One million reasons for lawmakers to expand care
With this year's session of the Florida Legislature due to end Friday, lawmakers have passed some significant legislation. The list includes bills to reform government ethics rules, create a new path to high school graduation and keep Everglades...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Everglades, Rick Scott, Justice System
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Tri-State briefs
Shepherd University to open center in Martinsburg SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — Shepherd University has received approval from its regional accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission, to open an additional location in Martinsburg, W.Va., according to a...Tags: Education, Human Interest, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Franklin County (Pennsylvania)
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Voice of the People, Apr. 30
Lessons from Boston It was uplifting to see how quickly local, state and federal authorities, with the help of the public, were able to apprehend those allegedly responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15. Citizens' tips seemed to play...Tags: Periodicals, Abortion Issue, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Abortion
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Closer to Obama's 'grand bargain'
The budget proposal President Obama released Wednesday sticks close to the themes of increased public investment and middle-class growth that he sounded in his reelection campaign, but it includes one notable new feature. For the first time, Obama lays...Tags: Politics, Personal Income, Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Medicare
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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: Politics, Health Insurance, Executive Branch, Government, Regional Authority
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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: Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Senate, John Boehner, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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