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Manatee indigent health care trust fund: wisely spent or squandered?

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Ed note: First in an occasional series of reports leading up to the special election June 18. By SARA KENNEDY skennedy@bradenton.com MANATEE — The year was 1983 and the chief of the medical staff at Manatee Memorial Hospital was applying for staff privileges at a competing hospital. His doctors were fleeing Manatee Memorial, which was running low on patients. Continue reading →

Strike at UC San Diego Medical Centers: Health care workers push for new contract – Video

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Strike at UC San Diego Medical Centers: Health care workers push for new contract Thousands of health care workers at UC San Diego Medical Center and University of California hospitals across the state began a two-day strike Tuesday, walki… Continue reading →

Health care reforms not keeping pace with needs of Canadians, says report

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The Health Council of Canada releases annual report on health care renewal SASKATOON, SK, May 23, 2013 /CNW/ – Today, the Health Council of Canada releases Progress Report 2013: Health care renewal in Canada, highlighting the progress achieved by governments in five key areas: wait times, primary health care and electronic health records, pharmaceuticals management, disease prevention/health promotion and Aboriginal health. The report finds that, overall, efforts at reform are not keeping pace with the changing health care needs of Canadians. There is variability of access to services across the country. Continue reading →

IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office – Video

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IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office World news IRS probe ignored most influential groups Boston.com – lrm;1 hour ago lrm; WASHINGTON (AP) – There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown… Continue reading →

Health Care: In the IRS we trust?

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WASHINGTON — There’s a growing concern about the competency of the IRS and its ability to oversee Obamacare. Sara Hall Ingram, the same executive that was in charge of the tax-exempt office under scrutiny for targeting conservative groups, is now responsible for enforcing dozens of new health care laws Continue reading →

Coalition For The Advancement Of Medical Research Transfers Mission And Assets To Alliance For Regenerative Medicine

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WASHINGTON, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –The Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR) announced today it is transferring its mission and its assets to the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM). “Human embryonic stem cell research has grown and evolved to a point where it’s time for CAMR to hand off its mission to an organization that can advance policy initiatives to support where the science is now, and where it is headed,” said CAMR president Amy Comstock Rick, J.D Continue reading →

Fox’s Dobbs Revives False Claim That Health Care Costs Have Doubled – Video

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Fox's Dobbs Revives False Claim That Health Care Costs Have Doubled From the May 17 edition of Fox Business' Lou Dobbs Tonight Fox's Dobbs Revives False Claim That Health Care Costs Have Doubled. By: TheUSLive Continue reading →

Health care reform law will enable subsidies, may slash COBRA usage

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The need for the COBRA safety net is expected to shrink dramatically next year when the health care reform law will enable many COBRA beneficiaries to buy federally subsidized health coverage through public insurance exchanges.Enacted in 1986, COBRA has helped millions of group health plan Continue reading →