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Obama says his health care law mostly in place
President Barack Obama argues that his signature health care law is already benefiting most Americans even if they don't know it. The president says despite what he calls "sky is falling" predictions, the Affordable Care Act's provisions are already in place for those with health insurance. He says what's left ...
Senate not backing down on Medicaid expansion
With just four days left in the Legislative session and neither the House nor Senate willing to concede, it seems the Medicaid expansion alternative is at a stalemate and may have to wait until next year, leaving rough 1.1 million eligible Floridians without health insurance. The Senate had been juggling ...
Hickenlooper signs next year's budget for Colo.
Gov. John Hickenlooper signed next year's budget for Colorado on Monday, a spending plan that includes more funding for public schools, pay raises for state workers, and money to expand mental health services. Improving tax receipts allowed state lawmakers to fund areas of the budget they had cut during the ...
Billings Clinic hopes to start residency program
The Billings Clinic is hoping to create an internal medicine residency program in an attempt to produce doctors that will remain in Montana and help relieve a statewide doctor shortage. The Billings Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/13Erufe) the clinic last fall applied for accreditation from the Chicago-based Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical ...
Part-time profs lose work over insurance mandate
Some adjunct professors at Moberly Area Community College are losing work as the school seeks to lower the costs of providing health insurance to employees. The Columbia Daily Tribune (bit.ly/ZBPlMf ) reported that the school has told its part-time professors that they will have a six-credit teaching limit this summer ...
Fla. House passes limited health care bill
The Republican-controlled Florida House on Friday passed its plan to provide health coverage to about 115,000 of the state's neediest residents but bypassed tens of billions of federal dollars available under the Affordable Care Act. The bill's passage now sets up a standoff between the House and Senate in the ...
House shoots down plan to offer health care to 1M
The Florida House rejected an amendment Thursday that would have accepted tens of billions of federal dollars and provided health coverage to an estimated 1.1 million residents, setting up a standoff between the House and Senate in the final week of the legislative session. Republican Rep. Mike Fasano sponsored the ...
Dems, GOP talk up deficit reduction, but don't act
Liberals' loud objections to White House proposals for slowing the growth of huge social programs make it clear that neither political party puts a high priority on reducing the deficit, despite much talk to the contrary. For years, House Republicans have adamantly refused to raise income taxes, even though U.S. ...
Health insurer WellPoint's 1Q profit rises 3 pct
WellPoint shares hit their highest level since the summer of 2011 on Wednesday after the nation's second largest health insurer trumped first-quarter earnings expectations, raised its 2013 forecast and said it could profit immediately from a key health care overhaul coverage expansion next year. The Indianapolis company's performance to start ...
Fla. House, Senate negotiating Medicaid compromise
Florida House and Senate leaders are negotiating a deal that would use state and federal dollars to offer health coverage to thousands of uninsured Floridians under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, according to a person close to the talks. The state would use federal funds to cover more vulnerable ...
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