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Obama's health-care budget-buster
Washington Post - 10 Hours ago
The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Quinnipiac University poll of a national
What are the positive aspects of Obama's health-care reform plan? Columbus Business First
Obamas brace for battle on health care reform TheStar.com.my
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Congress must fix Medicare
Washington Post - 10 Hours ago
Regarding the Nov. 15 editorial 'A $300 billion deception': Fixing the Medicare physician payment problem is essential to the stability of Medicare and the success of health-care reform. If Congress fails
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Health care's vital signs
Washington Post - 10 Hours ago
To an extent, the question reflects an America-in-decline-ism that becomes fashionable from time to time, especially when the U.S. economy is dragging. The United States always has turned out to be more
Vital Signs: Primary-care doctor crunch offers no quick fix MarketWatch
Vital Signs: No easy cure for doctor shortage MarketWatch
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Church ripped for feeding homeless
CNN - 12 Hours ago
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Church rips out pews to feed needy TurnTo10.com
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McCain Targets Ben Nelson on Health Care Vote
ABC News - 15 Hours ago
ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports: Senator John McCain has taken the unusual step of personally targeting a fellow senator in an attempted grassroots campaign against the Democratic health care reform bill.
Note: John McCain Targets Ben Nelson on Health Care Vote ABC News
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Obama talks jobs, not healthcare, from Asia
The Hill - 3 Hours ago
President Barack Obama on Saturday pledged a â??relentlessâ? approach to the U.S. economic recovery, claiming progress during his Asian trip in opening up foreign markets to American goods.Obama tackled
Obama: Asia sojourn was about jobs Boston Globe
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Tax hikes in Reid-Obama healthcare bill can affect families with special needs children
News-Medical.Net - 3 Hours ago
There are 18 separate tax hikes in the Reid-Obama healthcare bill. One of them caps the amount that can be deferred in Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) at $2500 per year (a similar provision was included
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Healthcare Radicals Bank on Public Ignorance and Gullibility
Human Events Online - 5 Hours ago
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hid a radical health care overhaul bill behind closed doors for weeks, then finally emerged in a news conference on November 18 to proclaim that the bill somehow would
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Obama group targets Palin on health care
Keep Media - 11 Hours ago
President Obama's grassroots organization is targeting Sarah Palin by name, showing how large a public figure she has become and hinting perhaps that it sees her as a potential rival in 2012. (The
George: Obama Group Targets "Dangerous" Palin ABC News
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Quick Fact: Hannity falsely claimed Gore was wrong to say British judge ruling
Media Matters for America - 11 Hours ago
In an interview with British filmmaker and climate change skeptic Phelim McAleer, Sean Hannity falsely claimed that Al Gore's statement that a 2007 ruling by a British judge about Gore's documentary
Quick Fact: Hannity falsely suggests Democratic health bills would "actually" only Media Matters for America
Quick Fact: Gateway Pundit claims Senate will vote on health care reform bill after Media Matters for America
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HUD Gives NeighborWorks America More than $4.8 Million
DSNews.com - 13 Hours ago
Because of NeighborWorks America, nearly 1.2 million low- to moderate-income families have been assisted with their housing needs. Now, thanks to $4,860,802 in funding from the U.S. Department of Housing
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Molina Healthcare Medicaid Plans Ranked Among "U.S. News / NCQA America's Best Health
Individual.com - 14 Hours ago
Molina Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:MOH), today announced that U.S. News and World Report has ranked all of Molina's eligible subsidiary Medicaid health plans in California, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah
Healthcare included in cost-cutting plans British Medical Association
Molina Healthcare's Medicaid plans included in 'Americaâ??s Best Health Insurance News-Medical.Net
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HUD Touts Higher-Quality Books of FHA Business, But Some Still Concerned About FHA
Inside Mortgage Finance Publications - 15 Hours ago
Department of Housing and Urban Development officials are pinning a lot of their optimism about the health of the FHA mortgage insurance fund on the better-quality loans insured in 2009, but the long-awaited
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HUD Might be Flexible on Extra Worksheets for Other Disclosures Under New RESPA
Inside Mortgage Finance Publications - 15 Hours ago
The Department of Housing and Urban Development this week said lenders and other settlement service providers may add extra worksheets or separate pages as long as they are not meant to expand the new,
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RESPA Stakeholders Elated by HUD's 120-Day Grace Period to Help Ease RESPA Compliance
Inside Mortgage Finance Publications - 15 Hours ago
RESPA Stakeholders Elated by HUD's 120-Day Grace Period to Help Ease RESPA Compliance Mortgage lenders are praising the Department of Housing and Urban Development for announcing restraint in enforcing
HUD updates new RESPA rule FAQs Mortgage Mag
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House moves to protect doctors from Medicare cuts
WTVD Raleigh Durham - 10 Hours ago
WASHINGTON -- The measure, approved on a near party-line vote of 243 to 183, is a top priority for the American Medical Association. The GOP contended that Democrats supported the bill to thank the doctors
House vote protects doctors' Medicare payments Columbus Dispatch
House moves to spare doctors from Medicare cuts Denver Post
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Reid: Congress closer than ever to health overhaul
Tri-City Herald Online - 10 Hours ago
WASHINGTON The Senate Democratic leader says Congress is closer than ever to overhauling the nation's health care system. At a Capitol Hill rally, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that the $848
Reid, as Legislative Tactician, Takes Ownership of Health Care Overhaul Southwest Florida Herald Tribune
Reid Takes Ownership of Health Care Overhaul New York Times
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Massachusetts' Success in Helping Medicaid Recipients Quit Smoking Shows Why Congress
Tobacco.org - 11 Hours ago
Massachusetts today announced extraordinary results from its aggressive efforts to help Medicaid beneficiaries quit smoking by providing easy access to coverage for smoking cessation medication and counseling.
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Half of children in 17 U.S. counties live in poverty
Upstatetoday.com - 14 Hours ago
- 12:00 a.m. EST Photo Click on photo to enlarge A child lies in the bedroom of an apartment in Los Angeles, June 11, 2009. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least one in two children in
Half of U.S. children will use food stamps, study finds Philadelphia Daily News
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Obama poised to follow in LBJâ??s footsteps on health-care reform
Red Deer Advocate - 16 Hours ago
WASHINGTON â?? Many have tried, and almost all have failed â?? but Barack Obama stands on the brink of becoming only the second U.S. president in history to achieve a sweeping overhaul of the countryâ??s
Obama poised to follow in Lyndon Johnson's footsteps with health-care reform Medbroadcast
Obama poised to follow in Lyndon Johnsonâ??s footsteps with health-care reform Amherst Daily News
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Healthcare Lobby Set for Record Spending This Year
ABC News - 16 Hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It's not just spending on U.S. healthcare that is breaking records. Drugmakers, insurers and industry groups are on track to spend an all-time high of more than $500 million this
U.S. Healthcare Companies Set For Record Lobbying In 2009 Post Chronicle
US healthcare cos set for record lobbying in 2009 London South East
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Senate tax hike misses the mark
CNN - 19 Hours ago
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The health care bill that faces a crucial test vote in the Senate on Saturday is proof that getting reform passed and getting it right are two very different things. Both are
US Senate Medicare Payroll-Tax Hike Draws Criticism Morningstar.com
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Delaware Physicians Care Named One of Top Medicaid Plans In the Nation by U.S. News
Reuters - 23 Hours ago
DOVER, Del.--(Business Wire)-- For the second year in a row, Delaware Physicians Care has been selected as one of the top 25 Medicaid Plans out of hundreds in the nation by the National Committee for
Delaware Physicians Care Named One of Top Medicaid Plans In the Business Wire via MSN Money
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Sex Education Looms in Health-Care Overhaul
Education Week - 19 Hours ago
Advocates on both sides are watching to see whether Congress will come down on paying for "abstinence-only" or "comprehensive" programs.
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D.C. AIDS office ordered to answer HUD
Washington Post - 11/17/2009
Catania (I-At Large) said the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has been requesting a program audit and other documentation from the city's HIV/AIDS administration since June, with no
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