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Margaret Comeau: Legislative Briefing on California Children with Special Health Care Needs – Video

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Margaret Comeau: Legislative Briefing on California Children with Special Health Care Needs Children with Special Health Care Needs in Medi-Cal and the California Exchange – Margaret Comeau, The Catalyst Center. By: CSHCNvideo Continue reading →

Aerospace executives urged to fight for more help

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Published: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 12:01 a.m. They said efforts to enlarge training programs, expand enrollment in college engineering and computer science courses and reform workers compensation, as desired by the industry, are all on the table for action in the final weeks of the legislative session. But with a budget shortfall, and political differences between the House and Senate, they may not all get done unless the aerospace leaders inject themselves aggressively into the debate, lawmakers cautioned. Continue reading →

What the new health care market means for Fla.

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MIAMI – Florida’s Republican lawmakers are reluctantly acknowledging that the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land and are taking steps to determine exactly what that will look like. The Sunshine State has one of the highest numbers of uninsured residents in the country, some of the most stringent eligibility requirements for health care safety nets, a large number of legal immigrants and a proposal to privatize its Medicaid program statewide. So how will the federal health overhaul impact that? Continue reading →

Republicans Are Bad for the Economy – Video

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Republicans Are Bad for the Economy “…the only basic issue…is whether our government will fall in a conservative rut and die there, or whether we will move ahead in the liberal spirit of daring…” [John F. Continue reading →

Falkland Islands lifted by economy

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Thirty years after Britain liberated the Falkland Islands from Argentinian occupation, the islanders are keen not to solely be defined by the events of 1982. On the anniversary of the end of the war, Falklanders stood side by side with the veterans who fought for their freedom and said they wanted to show the loss of 255 British servicemen and three Falklanders were not in vain. During last week’s visit to the islands Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne was shown parts of the island’s successful fishing and farming industries, their improved education system and witnessed their passion for self-determination. Continue reading →

New federal health-care tax on medical devices concerns Florida manufacturers

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Included as a measure in the federal health-care reform act, an excise tax set to take effect in 2013 would be imposed on medical devices sold and made in the United States. It is one of many taxes included in the health-care bill to pay for insurance subsidies for 30 million uninsured Americans. Continue reading →

LEAD: Falkland Islands referendum over "political status" announced

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London (dpa) – The Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic will hold a referendum next year about their “political status” in the hope of bringing to an end a dispute between Britain and Argentina over the islands sovereignty, the islands government said Tuesday. Continue reading →

Falkland Islands plan referendum 'to send a message to Argentina'

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A Falkland Islands spokesman said the vote would reinforce the message that residents had the right to freely reject the Argentinian claims. He said that only a few residents, “probably those who misread the question”, were expected to vote against continued ties to Britain Continue reading →

Falkland Islands to vote on UK or Argentina rule

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By NBC News’ partner, ITV News Britains Falkland Islands are to hold a referendum on their “political status” – hoping to bring an end to the continuing dispute with Argentina over the islands’ sovereignty, their government said Tuesday. Britain and Argentina in 1982 went to war over the South Atlantic islands, and 30 years later tensions have escalated between the two nations. Cristina Fernandez, Argentina’s president, has asserted her country’s claims to the islands – known in Spanish as Las Malvinas and has asked for negotiations with Britain to end their colonial control from London. Continue reading →

Eugenics compensation bill passed by house

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RALEIGH, NC (AP) — North Carolina moved closer to becoming the first U.S. state to compensate victims of a forced sterilization program when the state House approved legislation Tuesday to compensate living survivors $50,000 each. North Carolina laws enforced from 1929 to 1974 allowed more than 7,600 people to undergo surgeries that left them unable to reproduce. Continue reading →

State budget puts health care for kids at risk

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Low-income children in rural California communities are in jeopardy of losing their doctors and health care plans under Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal, according to state lawmakers, doctors and health advocates. The governor is proposing to transfer nearly 900,000 children enrolled in Healthy Families, the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program, to Medi-Cal — a program aimed at serving the state’s poorest families, seniors and disabled residents. Continue reading →