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California budget accord balances restraint, social services
SACRAMENTO — The budget deal that lawmakers will vote on this week is an effort to mesh financial restraint with a desire to provide more social services and healthcare for the needy — giving the state's economy extra time to recover before...Tags: Environmental Issues, Health and Safety at School, Government, University of California, Los Angeles, Pension and Welfare
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Doctors brace for pain as 10% cut to Medi-Cal rates looms
In a office decorated with Chinese art and diagrams of body parts, Dr. George Ma cares for more than 4,000 patients. Nearly three-quarters are covered by Medi-Cal, the state's public insurance program for low-income Californians, and Ma said he receives...
Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Government, Hospitals and Clinics, Medicaid, Personal Income
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Treatments of physical and mental health are coming together
Many days, the sheer weight of Iszurette Hunter's clinical depression becomes more than she can lift. She clings to her bed in her South Los Angeles home. Important obligations slide away, including keeping appointments with doctors who are trying to...
Tags: Health Insurance, Hospitals and Clinics, Anxiety, Glaucoma, Mental Health
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State steps in to keep Roseland hospital open
Tribune reporterIllinois will give about $350,000 in emergency cash to Roseland Community Hospital to allow the financially distressed Far South Side hospital to avert a threatened shutdown. The "temporary assistance," announced Wednesday afternoon by Gov. Pat Quinn'...Tags: Government, Hospitals and Clinics, Corporate Officers, Mental Health, Politics
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Health insurance: Can it be made simple?
The success of the 2010 federal healthcare law depends in part on more uninsured Americans obtaining coverage. So it's crucial that when the uninsured try to sign up for policies, they don't get a bureaucratic runaround or wind up in phone-tree hell....Tags: Healthcare Laws, Health Insurance, Medicaid, Crime, Law and Justice, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
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Negotiations could yield healthcare deal in Capitol
SACRAMENTO -- County officials and Gov. Jerry Brown's administration are inching toward a compromise on healthcare funding. The potential deal is the result of intense negotiations, including face-to-face meetings, phone calls and late-night text...Tags: Jerry Brown, Budgets and Budgeting, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Obama 'obsession' fueled by radicalism and racism
I've enjoyed reading the more moderate conservative pundits trying to reason with their base to, as Timothy Meyer puts it, get over their "Obama obsession" ("Conservatives: Lose the Obama obsession," May 30). Good luck with that. President Barack Obama...Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Barack Obama, Mitt Romney
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Lehigh Valley schools factoring Obamacare into their budgets
As they hash out the final details of their budgets for 2013-14 this month, Lehigh Valley school districts are providing a first look into full implementation of President Barack Obama's health care law. The early results look rather like the pre-...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Pen Argyl, Collective Contract, Employment, Employment Opportunities
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Like your health care policy? You may be losing it
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many people who buy their own health insurance could get surprises in the mail this fall: cancellation notices because their current policies aren't up to the basic standards of President Barack Obama's health care law. They, and...
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Health Insurance, Small Businesses, Washington, DC, Personal Income
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Symposium on health care policies and aging in Newport News
The Newport News Task Force on Aging is hosting the '2013 Healthcare Changes and Social Policy Symposium' on Friday, June 7, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Denbigh Community Center, 15198 Warwick Blvd., Newport News. Topics will include: -...
Tags: Denbigh, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Mentally ill California inmates ask judge to change policies
When a mentally ill inmate at Corcoran state prison stripped himself naked, yelled that he was the "creator" and threatened to kill himself, guards responded by dousing him with 44 rounds of pepper spray, including four grenades of the caustic chemical....Tags: Government, Mental Health, Politics, Behavioral Conditions, Jerry Brown
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Gov. Jerry Brown faces off with counties on California budget
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown has promised to be blunt when tackling the state's problems, and he had a straightforward message for county officials on Wednesday. "Give me $300 million and we'll call it a day," he said. Brown is trying to reduce...
Tags: Government, Jerry Brown, Executive Branch, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics
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