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How budget cuts could affect you
Automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect Friday are expected to touch a vast range of government services. Some examples: DEFENSE One of the Navy's premiere warships, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, sits pier-side in Norfolk, Va.,...Tags: Defense Intelligence Agency, Illegal Immigrants, Students, George Wright, Unemployment
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How to handle medical bill problems
When Keith Yaskin and his wife, Loren, rushed their 2-year-old son to the hospital with a dangerous infection in his neck, they weren't thinking about how much his care would cost. After his three-day inpatient stay with nonstop intravenous antibiotics,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Corporate Officers, Finance, Insurance, Government Health Care
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VIDEO: Good questions -- and answers on the sequester
Rumor: Military pay and allowances will be cut. False. Fact: Military pay and allowances are protected. Paychecks will be paid on time and basic allowance for housing and other pays will continue. Retirees and survivors will also continue to receive...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Unemployment, TRICARE, Budget Control Act of 2011, Family
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No ruckus about Medicare cuts in sequester
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hospitals, doctors and other Medicare providers are on the hook for a 2 percent cut under looming government spending reductions. But they're not raising a ruckus. Why? The pain could be a lot worse if President Barack Obama...Tags: Henry Ford, Public Finance, Health Insurance Cost, Government Health Care, Congressional Budget Office
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Problem Solver: Medical billing causes patient pain
Before he visited the doctor to get custom orthotics, Gil Harris contacted both Medicare and his supplemental insurance company, Aetna, to see if they would pay for the shoe inserts. Medicare said no but Aetna said yes — as long as the bill was...
Tags: Jon Yates, Aetna Inc., Insurance, Government Health Care, Health and Medical Professionals
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More comprehensive solutions needed for Social Security and Medicare
Robert Reich's op-ed ("Obama should not compromise on Social Security and Medicare" April 3) prompts me to write. Mr. Reich's prescription for these programs isn't completely off the mark. But there is a much more comprehensive solution to each....
Tags: Social Security, Government Health Care, Pikesville
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How to fix US debt without hurting fragile economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — An ax is scheduled to hit the federal budget Friday: Unless the White House and Congress reach a budget deal by then, automatic cuts will carve $85 billion out of the budget through Sept. 30 and $1.2 trillion over the next decade....
Tags: Unemployment, Government Debt, Labor Markets, Public Finance, Politics
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Hospitals concerned about state rate-setting proposal
A state plan to tie medical spending to the growth of the economy is making hospital executives uneasy. Executives support the spirit of the plan proposed by the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which seeks to reduce health spending by...
Tags: General Practitioners, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Medicaid, Corporate Officers
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Obama's budget plan draws fire from both sides
WASHINGTON — The budget that President Obama is scheduled to release next week drew attacks Friday from both the left and right — a reaction that White House aides appeared to welcome as they sought to portray the plan as a middle-of-the-...
Tags: Taxation, Politics, White House, Barack Obama, Jay Carney
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Obama seeks deal, proposes cuts to Social Security
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's proposed budget will call for reductions in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs while still insisting on more taxes from the wealthy in a renewed attempt to strike a broad deficit-...
Tags: John McCain, Public Finance, AFL-CIO, Politics, Barack Obama
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Study: Dementia tops cancer, heart disease in cost
Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but Alzheimer's is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to $215 billion a year, according to a new study that looked at this in unprecedented detail. The biggest...
Tags: Physical Conditions, Science and Technology, National Government, Alzheimer's Disease, Stroke
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Closure of three Southland hospitals may be part of a trend
Hospital owner Pacific Health Corp. said it will close its three remaining Southern California hospitals, citing the fallout from a federal fraud case last year in which the company admitted paying to recruit homeless people off skid row in Los Angeles...
Tags: Symptoms, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Government Health Care, Hospitals and Clinics
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