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Don't wait too long to buy long-term-care insurance for a parent
Q: My father is 68, relatively healthy and living alone. He has very little savings and works full-time. He can't afford to buy long-term-care insurance. If something happens to him, it's likely that my family and I will have to help pay for his care....Tags: Long Term Care, Alzheimer's Disease, Medicaid, Nursing, Medical Specialization
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Medicaid expansion needs special session
As a long time mental health court (criminal) judge in the state of Florida, I urge Gov. Rick Scott to call a special legislative session on Medicaid expansion. Everyday I face individuals and families desperate for medical treatment, mental health...Tags: Medicaid, Judges, Government, Prisons, Politics
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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: Economy, Business and Finance, Medicaid, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida)
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Negron says health care deal 'unlikely'
TALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Senate tomorrow will vote on a plan to expand health care to 1 million low income Floridians with $51 billion of federal money, but that seems to be as far as the plan will go. Senate Budget Chairman Joe Negron, R-Stuart, said...Tags: Joe Negron, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Prices, Florida Legislature
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Nelson to Scott: Call special session to take federal healthcare money
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has joined Democrats in the Legislature in calling on Gov. Rick Scott to call lawmakers back in special session and demand that they accept $51 billion in federal funds to expand healthcare to about 1 million Floridians. Nelson...
Tags: Regional Authority, Medicaid, Government, Politics, Bill Nelson
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Tallahassee robs South Florida again
A special group of South Florida hospitals that use locally raised revenue to provide health services to the poor will soon see those dollars diverted elsewhere, thanks to a so-called "compromise" by the Florida Legislature that will hurt hospitals that...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Medicaid, Politics, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Crime, Law and Justice
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Maryland hospitals oppose state plan to update waiver
The Maryland Hospital Association has sent a letter to state health officials saying it will not support a proposal that would link medical spending to the state's economic growth. The state presented the proposal to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
Tags: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Corporate Officers, Hospitals and Clinics, Medicaid, American Enterprise Institute
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Why health insurance costs are going through the roof
What kind of a novel, communistic idea is it to allow sick people with pre-existing conditions to have health insurance ("Care First proposes 25 percent rate jump," April 25)? Previously, sick people and people with pre-existing conditions were not even...
Tags: MRI (imaging), Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Insurance Cost
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Will Florida's rejection of Medicaid funds start the unraveling of Obamacare?
When the Florida Legislature rejected $51 billion in federal funds to expand Medicaid, they not only shafted at many as 1.7 million Floridians who needed the medical help. They have given Republicans an issue for the 2014 elections – unravel...
Tags: Medicaid, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Government Health Care, Florida Legislature
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Part-timers to lose pay amid health act's new math
Los Angeles TimesMany part-timers are facing a double whammy from President Obama's Affordable Care Act. The law requires large employers offering health insurance to include part-time employees working 30 hours a week or more. But rather than provide healthcare to more...Tags: University of California, Santa Barbara, Medicaid, Healthcare Laws, Judges, Employees
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Alertan a ancianos sobre los fraudes y robo de identidad
EL SENTINELSe “abre el telón”. Comienza la escena. “Soy Al el techero. Me acabo de dar cuenta que tiene problemas con el techo en su vivienda. Como estaba haciendo un trabajo en el vecindario y como viene mañana una tormenta fuerte, pensé que...Tags: Medicaid, Sunrise (Broward, Florida), Government Health Care
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Longtime Hagerstown firm loses 'heartbreaking' struggle to survive
arnoldp@herald-mail.comBelieving in his employees to the very end, Lynn Bowers used to encourage them, saying their small Hagerstown company could compete like “a Davy in an industry of Goliaths.” But last year, after struggling through the worst economy many of...Tags: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Health and Safety at Work, Sales, Consumers, Family
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