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Mailbag: Classrooms, not offices, need district's help
The Huntington Beach City School District wants to sell part of its property to a home developer that would "help pay for a new headquarters" ("School site up for discussion," July 19). The district is currently using the LeBard site as its headquarters....Tags: Health Insurance, Religion and Belief, Islam, Insurance
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Coordinated Health names new CFO
Coordinated Health, the Lehigh Valley specialty health care provider, has named Patty Bokanyi its chief financial officer. She joined Coordinated Health more than a year ago, and has an extensive multidisciplinary background in supply chain management,...Tags: Corporate Officers, Finance, Companies and Corporations, Lehigh University, Economy, Business and Finance
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Chan Lowe: Florida legislators' health care hypocrisy
Sometimes I’ll ask somebody I’m having a conversation with if he can name his representative in Congress. Nine times out of ten, he doesn’t know. With that kind of record, it’s well nigh impossible to find anybody who knows...
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his fangirls
OK, so Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stands accused of blowing up three people, injuring 282 more and shooting to death an MIT campus police officer. He's also got fans, or more accurately, he's got fangirls, thousands of them. These besotted double-X chromosome-...Tags: Mother's Day, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Health Insurance
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Going to college? Some things you need to know
I had dinner recently with my sister Teddi, who had just returned from her freshman year at George Washington University. "What do you wish you knew before you went off to school?" I asked. "I definitely wish I knew that I was only going to use 10...Tags: Students, Teachers, Skype, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning
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Why the medical device tax needs to stay
The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...Tags: U.S. Congress, Science and Technology, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Invention and Innovation
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Local medical professionals talk impact of Obamacare
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - otherwise known as Obamacare - was signed into law in 2010. Since then it has been the topic of much debate within the medical and insurance industry here in the United States. It was also the topic of...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics, Plastic Surgeons, Justice System, Lake Worth
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Replace Obamacare with something more simple
You can nix the entire almost 2,000 pages of the "Obamination" health care law and its 20,000 pages and growing of regulations and replace it with a federal law of only five statements: Health care insurance is portable across state lines; one cannot be...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Macungie
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Corbett's public welfare chief disputes financial gains of Medicaid expansion
HARRISBURG — The Legislature's Independent Fiscal Office has been praised for its thorough, fair number-crunching and for being as nonpartisan as its name suggests since opening last year. But that pristine image may be tarnished now that the...Tags: Tom Corbett, Homelessness, Finance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Social Services
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Health care concerns
I'm not statistician enough to know how much of the story U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster's editorial ("Time to repeal Obamacare," May 16) tells, but surely we agree that the existing health care system deserved overhaul. We are a sick nation, getting sicker,...Tags: Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Bill Shuster
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Tea party looks to take advantage of moment
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so. They say the IRS acknowledgement that it had targeted their groups for extra...
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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, Medicare, Allentown, Health Insurance Cost
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