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Part-timers' hours cut as employers react to healthcare law [Live chat]
Hundreds of thousands of part-timers are facing smaller paychecks as employers cut worker hours to avoid paying for their benefits under the federal healthcare law. This move by a growing number of retailers, restaurants and even local governments and...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, Labor Legislation, Federal Reserve, Employment Opportunities
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Obamacare and the plight of part-time employees
A flurry of news reports, including one Thursday by my colleague Chad Terhune, has documented an unintended consequence of Obamacare: the decision by some employers to keep fewer full-time workers on the payroll or reduce the hours of near full-time...
Tags: Judges, Career and Workplace, Barack Obama, Lawyers, Health Care Reform (2009)
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Prosthetic device makers offer aid to Boston Marathon victims
A group of companies that design, manufacture and service orthotic and prosthetic devices has banded together to aid uninsured and under-insured victims of the Boston Marathon bombing who have had limbs amputated and may need years of costly care. The...
Tags: Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Health Insurance Cost
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House passes Medicaid alternative plan
TALLAHASSEE -- Firmly sticking a wedge between the House and Senate, the House passed a controversial low income health insurance bill that would reject federal money and instead use state dollars to give health care stipends to 115,700. The plan, which...Tags: Government Health Care, Politics, Medicaid, Joe Negron, Poverty
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Md. hospitals say rate vote means jobs cuts
Maryland hospitals said they will need to cut jobs and patient services after a state panel voted Wednesday to keep hospital rates flat, despite a 2 percent cut in Medicare payments required by federal sequestration. "There are significant job cuts...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Corporate Officers, Medicare, Medical Specialization
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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: Mental Health, Personal Income, High Blood Pressure, Health and Safety at School, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Today's Buzz: Should Fla. accept Obamacare billions?
Orlando Sentinel Editorial BoardDemocrats in the Florida House brought lawmaking in the chamber to a halt this week after Republicans refused to endorse a bipartisan Senate plan to expand health care coverage to working poor. The Senate plan would use $51 billion in federal funds and...Tags: Politics, Private Health Care, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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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: Orlando, Parties and Movements, Rick Scott, Elections, Buddy Dyer
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6 insurers offer 165 health plans for Illinois exchange review
Six insurance carriers submitted 165 health insurance plans to be offered on the Illinois Health Insurance Marketplace, the online exchange where individuals and small businesses in October can begin buying coverage for 2014, state officials said...
Tags: Humana Incorporated, Prescription Drugs, Pat Quinn, Barack Obama, Health Insurance Cost
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Woman stole from Medicaid, lived high life, records show
With thousands of dollars in public funds at her disposal, authorities say, Janie Vittini was living the life of luxury. The 29-year-old lived in a posh condo at The Vue overlooking Lake Eola; bought homes and luxury vehicles for her friends and family;...
Tags: Vehicles, Medicare, Government Health Care, Organized Crime, Lake Eola
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Health is focus of lunch and learn
MISHAWAKA -- Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center and community partners will host a lunch and learn for area adults and seniors from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at Kindred Hospital, 215 W. Fourth St. Local experts will be on hand to offer advice on...Tags: Indiana University South Bend
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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: Government, Executive Branch, Credit and Debt, Budgets and Budgeting, Parties and Movements
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