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Premiums Rising?
A survey shows the cost of workplace health insurance might rise about 5.7 percent, on average, for 2009, and many workers can expect to pay more of their bills. Page E2Tags: Private Health Care, Health Treatments
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Medicare guidelines for drugs not met
The Associated PressAbout 85 percent of the marketing materials that private insurers use for their prescription drug plans fail to meet all of Medicare's guidelines for those products, federal auditors said Thursday. The marketing products include enrollment applications...Tags: Accounting and Auditing, Max Baucus, Medicine, Medicare
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Survey: Health Benefit Costs Could Rise 5.7%
Courant Staff WriterThe cost of workplace health insurance might rise about 5.7 percent, on average, for 2009, and many U.S. workers can expect to pay a bigger portion of medical bills themselves, an annual survey shows. The preliminary survey results from benefits...Tags: Employers, Healthcare Policies, Employees, Private Health Care, Health Treatments
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Get lawful citizens health care before crack abusers
Staff writer June Torbati wrote an interesting article Aug. 5 about the lack of health care for Florida's crack-cocaine users and the difficulties for HIV-infected drug users to get help in our state's strained health care system. Fortunately, researchers...Tags: Medicaid, Medical Research, AIDS, National Institutes of Health, Florida
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Church, tribe form bond
247-7429As a registered nurse, Sharon Kiefer knows how hard it can be to navigate the health care system. It can be daunting, but factor in generations of racial discrimination and poverty, and it can feel impossible for some American Indians. That's what Kiefer...Tags: Illnesses, Medicaid, Hospitals and Clinics, Virginia, Medical Staff
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Probe Underway Of E. Coli In Willington Oaks Apts. Water
Courant Staff WriterState and local health inspectors Thursday began investigating how E. coli got into the water supply at the Willington Oaks Apartments, off-campus apartments popular with UConn students. After E. coli bacteria — an indicator of recent contamination...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Medicaid, Water Pollution, Academic Progress, Rental Service
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Medevac copters' usage curtailed, legislators told
Maryland's medevac program this year implemented changes designed to reduce unnecessary use of state police helicopters, a senior official told lawmakers in Annapolis Thursday morning. Patients who are within a 30-minute drive to a trauma center must now...Tags: Illnesses, Medicaid, Mental Illness, Medicine, Medical Specialization
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Full Text Of John McCain's Nomination Acceptance Speech
Thank you all very much. Tonight, I have a privilege given few Americans -- the privilege of accepting our party's nomination for President of the United States. And I accept it with gratitude, humility and confidence. In my life, no success has come...Tags: Illnesses, Charter Schools, Medicaid, Family, Sarah Palin
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Broadway Notes
'Blithe Spirit' Set for Broadway Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" is performed not nearly as often as "Private Lives," but it's still a favorite among light old-fashioned comedies. Its crazy plot follows an English socialite who is haunted by his late wife...Tags: Music Theater, Music, Theater, Tribeca, Private Health Care
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Bar could lose liquor license over smoking
The Iowa attorney general's office says it is seeking the suspension or revocation of a West Burlington bar's liquor license after repeated violations of the state's smoking ban. State officials filed a complaint this week with the Iowa Alcoholic...Tags: Medicaid, Iowa, Health Organizations, Burlington
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Text of John McCain's speech
Sen. John McCain delivered these remarks Thursday night at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN: Tonight, I have a privilege given few Americans: the privilege of accepting our party's nomination for president of the United States....Tags: Illnesses, Family, Medicaid, Defense, Mental Illness
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Community Calendar - September 4, 2008
TODAY Allentown Chapter 5415 of AARP meeting, St. Timothy's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 140 S. Ott St., Allentown. Social hour, noon-1 p.m. followed by the business meeting. Speakers: Dr. Donald Detsch on Medicare fraud, and Chuck Pennacchio,...Tags: Corporate Crime, Pennsylvania, Whitehall, American Legion, Delaware
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