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Auto Club of Southern California cuts car insurance rates
About 1 million customers of the Automobile Club of Southern California will get an average $65 reduction in their annual car insurance premiums, the company and the state insurance department announced Wednesday. The total rate cut came to $70 million,...
Tags: Holiday Vacations, Substance Abuse, Insurance, Travel, Trips and Vacations
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Letters to the editor: Oklahoma tornado, public school chiefs, and assault rifles
Once again, teachers protected their students. It happened at Sandy Hook Elementary in December, and it happened in Monroe, Okla., this week. Stories are being reported of teachers placing their bodies over their students, and as one child said, "Our...Tags: NAACP, Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School, Weight, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Guess who's watching the sheriff's budget?
Surprise, surprise. Look who we found in the audience at Tuesday's budget workshop in County Hall, where Sheriff Scott Israel will talk about his request for a 14 percent increase. Yes, it's his political nemesis, former Sheriff Al Lamberti, sitting...
Tags: Al Lamberti, Cooper City, Budgets and Budgeting, Broward County Sheriff's Office, Fort Lauderdale
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Caterpillar, Milwaukee union to resume negotiations
Tribune staff reporterCaterpillar Inc. and the United Steelworkers Local 1343 in Milwaukee are set to return to the negotiating table on Thursday, the Peoria-based company said in a statement. ?Negotiations had stalled on May 8. Production workers at the company’s...Tags: Career and Workplace, Caterpillar Inc., United Steelworkers, Employees
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Sheriff Israel asks for $93.7 million more, 14% increase
UPDATED with information from BSO The first details of the new Broward County sheriff's budget have emerged: He's asking for a $93.7 million increase in spending, or 14 percent more than was approved last year. To put the number into context, it's...Tags: Al Lamberti, Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Broward County Sheriff's Office, Career and Workplace
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Hospital cost report shows need for single-payer system
Compliments to Morning Call reporter Tim Darragh on his recent coverage of U.S. Health and Human Service's release of hospital charge data. It's eye-opening how charges for identical services vary widely across hospitals in our region. At first blush,...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Government Health Care, Allentown
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Some could have gaps in medical coverage under new law
When the national healthcare law takes full effect next year, millions of Americans risk disrupted health coverage because of common life events: getting married or divorced, having children or taking on a second job. As their family incomes change,...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Poverty, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Pharmaceuticals
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Here's what happens when Indy dreams big
It took 12 years to go eight miles, but don't underestimate just how far Indianapolis has come while dreaming about, building and completing the Downtown Cultural Trail. In a city and state that desperately need to promote exercise, the trail is an...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Career and Workplace, High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Employees
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Editorial: Worry about food stamp growth, not junk food
Is there any human impulse stronger than the urge to tell others what not to eat? Fast food, red meat, white bread, trans fats, sugary cereals, processed foods, salty snacks, fried anything, refined grains, hydrogenated oils, preservatives, artificial...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, PepsiCo Inc., Heart Disease, Nikki Haley, Weight
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SOUTH BEND On-Site Health Solutions received certification by the state of Indiana as a woman-owned business enterprise. Owner Connie Bryan, R.N., started the company in 2006 to help companies in Indiana and Michigan control health care costs with on-site... -
What we think: Central Florida needs to break the obesity cycle
Not so long ago, about one in every 10 adult Floridians was obese. Today, if you line up four Floridians, one of them will be obese. The good news? At least we're not Mississippi, where every third person has a body mass index of 30 or higher —...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Family, Maitland, Body Mass Index
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Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities
WASHINGTON — Republican opposition in many statehouses to expanding Medicaid next year under President Obama's healthcare law — opposition that could leave millions of the nation's poorest residents without insurance coverage — will...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, George W. Bush, Politics, Medicaid
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