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Bill to expand Pa. health insurance sparks debate
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1.7.2009 |
Philly.com News |
| Democratic leaders in Pennsylvania hope to double the number of residents who receive state-sponsored health insurance, known as adultBasic, but Republicans fear the costs may be too high. |
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Bill to expand Pa. health insurance sparks debate
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1.7.2009 |
Philly.com News |
| Democratic leaders in Pennsylvania hope to double the number of residents who receive state-sponsored health insurance, known as adultBasic, but Republicans fear the costs may be too high. |
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Wal-Mart endorses health insurance mandate
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1.7.2009 |
LA Times: Health |
| Executives of the nation's largest private employer agree to back a federal requirement that businesses contribute to the cost of workers' health insurance.
After years of strenuous opposition, Wal-Mart announced Tuesday that it supports a controversial new requirement that businesses contribute to the cost of employee health ... |
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Autism patients' treatment is denied illegally, group says
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1.7.2009 |
LA Times: Health |
| Consumer Watchdog asks a judge to order the state Department of Managed Health Care to require insurers to cover prescribed treatments, including a high-cost therapy that insurers have disqualified.
State regulators are violating mental health and other laws by allowing health insurers to deny effective treatment for children with autism, consumer advocates ... |
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Animated film tells of Gaza woman's cancer battle
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1.7.2009 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| Her back to the camera, a Gaza woman ashamedly unbuttons her dress before a female Israeli soldier, revealing that her breasts were removed in a failed attempt to halt cancer. |
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FDA urged to ban popular painkillers
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1.7.2009 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| A federal advisory panel voted narrowly Tuesday to recommend sweeping safety restrictions on widely used painkillers, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet, because of their effects on the liver. |
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Wal-Mart Endorses Employer Health Insurance Mandate
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1.7.2009 |
Washington Post: Politics |
After years of strenuous opposition, Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer, announced yesterday that it supports a controversial proposal requiring businesses to contribute to the cost of employee health insurance.
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Wal-Mart embraces Obama's call for health insurance
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1.7.2009 |
Houston Chronicle: Business |
| Wal-Mart has embraced President Barack Obama's call for requiring all large employers to offer health insurance to their workers, adding momentum to the president's push for far-reaching changes to the nation's health care system.
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N.M. Health Centers To Get $12.8 Million in Federal Funds
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1.7.2009 |
Albuquerque Journal: State News |
| New Mexico will receive more than $12.8 million in federal stimulus funds to help increase access to health care for New Mexicans. |
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Palestinian filmmakers use animation to tell sad Gaza tale of woman battling cancer
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1.7.2009 |
Star Tribune: World |
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David Brooks: Mishmash that can pass vs. policy that can work
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1.7.2009 |
Twincities.com: Opinion |
| Freud said we're forever changed by the traumas of our youth, and so it is with the Democrats and Clintoncare. Even as you watch the leading Democrats today in their moment of glory, you can still see wounds caused by the defeat of the Clinton health care initiative. You see the psychic reactions and the scars and the lessons they have taken away so that sort of debacle never happens again. |
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How Dysfunction Helps the GOP
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1.7.2009 |
Wall St. Journal: Policy |
| The party says its own mistakes prove government can't ... |
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George Newman: Parsing the Health Reform Arguments
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1.7.2009 |
Wall St. Journal: Policy |
| Some of the shibboleths we've heard in recent weeks don't make much ... |
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How Dysfunction Helps the GOP
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1.7.2009 |
Wall St. Journal: Opinion |
| The party says its own mistakes prove government can't ... |
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George Newman: Parsing the Health Reform Arguments
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1.7.2009 |
Wall St. Journal: Opinion |
| Some of the shibboleths we've heard in recent weeks don't make much ... |
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Obama gets ally for health care plan: Wal-Mart
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1.7.2009 |
MSNBC |
|  Wal-Mart, which was once criticized for less than generous employee benefits, has embraced President Barack Obama's call for requiring all large employers to offer health insurance to their workers.
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Wal-Mart endorses health insurance mandate
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1.7.2009 |
LA Times: Nation |
| Executives of the nation's largest private employer agree to back a federal requirement that businesses contribute to the cost of workers' health insurance.
After years of strenuous opposition, Wal-Mart announced Tuesday that it supports a controversial new requirement that businesses contribute to the cost of employee health ... |
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One woman's trip through the insurance maze in Minnesota
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1.7.2009 |
Twin Cities Daily Planet |
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Markos Moulitsas Warns Harry Reid: Franken Win Takes Away Your 60-Vote Excuses (VIDEO)
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1.7.2009 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos, and Bill Press, a syndicated radio host, were guests on "The Ed Show" tonight to discuss the political... |
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Wal-Mart, union back employer health insurance
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1.7.2009 |
Yahoo: Politics |
| AP - Wal-Mart is the latest in a line of traditionally Republican-leaning businesses to embrace key portions of President Barack Obama's bid to overhaul health care, a trend that could complicate opponents' efforts to build a united front when Congress ramps up its work on the issue this summer. ... |
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