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Column: Obama accelerates loss of trust
WASHINGTON — Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. Congress, Benghazi, White House, Lamar Alexander
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Obama agenda withstanding IRS focus on tea party groups, Benghazi fallout, other controversies
AP Special CorrespondentWASHINGTON (AP) — Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of...Tags: Devin Nunes, Gina McCarthy, FBI, U.S. Congress, Benghazi
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Obama Debases Trust In Government
The Hartford CourantLast week was amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government's large capacity for misbehavior. And, entertainingly, the answer to the question "Will Barack Obama's scandals...Tags: U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. Congress, Weather, Elections
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Making sense of scandals
The Obama administration's first term was remarkably free of scandals. The second term is making up for lost time. Some of the President Barack Obama's harshest critics have even begun comparing him to President Richard Nixon, a byword for corruption,...Tags: Social Issues, Richard M. Daley, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Taxation, Internal Revenue Service
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High hospital bills go public, but will it help?
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, the government is publicly revealing how much hospitals charge, and the differences are astounding: Some bill tens of thousands of dollars more than others for the same treatment, even within the same city....
Tags: Pneumonia, Medical Procedures and Tests, American Hospital Association, Insurance, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland)
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GOP slams fundraising, other efforts to promote Obama health law
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans have opened a new line of attack on President Obama's healthcare law, charging that the administration has improperly sought help from the healthcare industry and other outside groups to implement the...
Tags: Healthcare Laws, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, CVS Corp., U.S. Congress, Laws
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AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
Acting IRS commissioner repeatedly failed to tell Congress that tea party groups were targeted WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress was not told tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted by the Internal Revenue Service, even after acting agency...Tags: New Products, Companies and Corporations, Mother's Day, Washington Capitals, O.J. Simpson
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Florida prepares for massive insurance signup
WASHINGTON – Facing the next big health-care challenge in Florida, Uncle Sam plans to enlist hundreds of consumer "navigators" over the next several months to help enroll up to 3.5 million uninsured state residents by January, when everyone is...Tags: Credit and Debt, Social Issues, Health and Safety at Work, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Labor Legislation
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Judge again rejects limits on emergency contraception
In yet another scathing critique of government health officials, a federal judge refused Friday to stay his order making emergency contraceptives available to consumers of all ages without a prescription. Calling government efforts to restrict the...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Family Planning, U.S. Department of Justice, Judges, Plan B (drug)
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Judge blasts government's Plan B contraceptive filing
In yet another scathing critique of government health officials, a federal judge refused Friday to stay his order making Plan B emergency contraceptives available to all consumers without a prescription. Ruling that government efforts to restrict the...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, Judges, Plan B (drug), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited
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Illinois hospital prices vary widely, Medicare data show
Tribune staff reportHospitals in Illinois charged vastly different amounts of money for the same procedure -- with some charging seven or eight times more than another -- according to data released by the government Wednesday. The discrepancies are detailed in a report from...Tags: University of Chicago, Pneumonia, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Insurance, Aurora
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Hospital charges vary widely across region, nation
Making hospital charges more transparent, the federal government this week released data showing what medical centers across the country charge for treating 100 of the most common reasons patients get admitted. The charges vary dramatically —...
Tags: Ocoee, Medical Procedures and Tests, Insurance, COPD, Diseases and Illnesses
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|Story| AP Member Choice Limited
May 17, 2013
|Column| Hartford Courant
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|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 14, 2013
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May 13, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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May 12, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 11, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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May 8, 2013
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May 9, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
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