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Health officials: Reform is 'big step'
Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series about the effects of the Obama administration's health-care reform on Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley health-care providers and their patients. Dr. Peter Anderson sometimes goes for days in...Tags: Medicare, Business, Health Insurance, Social Issues, Small Businesses
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House feels the heat on immigration reform
WASHINGTON — Committee approval of a sweeping Senate immigration overhaul has put pressure on the House, where Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and top leaders have been pushing a bipartisan group of lawmakers to produce its own bill. House...
Tags: Labor Legislation, John Boehner, Migration, Paul Ryan, Raul Labrador
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UC hospital strikers' numbers to be decided by court
Patient care workers at the University of California's medical centers plan to stage a two-day strike next week, but the number taking part will be decided Monday in Sacramento County Superior Court. A judge is expected to rule on a request for a...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Healthcare Contract Issues, Strikes, Career and Workplace, AFSCME
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Court will decide how many UC workers can strike
Patient care workers at the University of California’s medical centers plan to stage a two-day strike next week, but the number taking part will be decided Monday in Sacramento County Superior Court. A judge is expected to rule on a request for...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Strikes, Career and Workplace, AFSCME, Mike Feuer
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Rabinowitz named new vice president at Upper Chesapeake Health
Aaron Rabinowitz has joined the two hospital health system in Harford County as Vice President, General Counsel, Upper Chesapeake Health announced. Prior to joining UCH, Rabinowitz practiced as a health attorney at the Baltimore law firm of Ober Kaler,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Washington, DC, Health Insurance, Healthcare Laws, Colleges and Universities
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L.A. worries about immigration reform's cost to taxpayers
As Congress takes up immigration reform, Los Angeles County officials are voicing concerns that local taxpayers will be "left holding the bag" to pay for the brunt of healthcare and other services for the multitudes of immigrants who apply for...
Tags: Migration, U.S. Congress, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Politics, Don Knabe
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Medicare charges vary widely at California hospitals, new data show
Federal officials are shedding new light on how much hospital bills vary across Southern California and the rest of the country. Medicare released pricing information Wednesday for more than 3,300 U.S. hospitals on the top 100 procedures and...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Pneumonia, Gallbladder Removal, Medical Procedures and Tests, St. John's Health Center
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GCC budget still tight
This post has been corrected. See below for details. Glendale Community College officials on Friday announced that roughly 100 empty positions that have remained unfilled now for three years will remain so for another. Officials at the meeting on...Tags: Colleges and Universities
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L.A. County officials worried about costs of immigration overhaul
WASHINGTON — Few regions will absorb the impact of future immigration reforms more than Los Angeles County, home to an estimated 1.1 million people in the country illegally, one-tenth of the nation's total. As the Senate Judiciary Committee...
Tags: Labor Legislation, National Government, Migration, Crime, Law and Justice, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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Healthcare puts Jerry Brown, Capitol Democrats on different sides
SACRAMENTO — With California's deficit wiped out and its economy starting to hum, this was to be a year when Gov. Jerry Brown was free of the budget logjams that have paralyzed the Capitol. But instead, the governor has a fight on his hands...Tags: Darrell Steinberg, National Government, Holly J. Mitchell, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama
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Overselling Obamacare
WASHINGTON -- It's the great moral imperative behind the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"): People should not be denied health care because they can't afford insurance. Health status and insurance are assumed to be connected, and opponents have often been...
Tags: Prescription Drugs, Medical Research, Heart Attack, Health Insurance, Government Health Care
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Hospital prices diverge wildly, U.S. data show
New Medicare data reveal wildly varying charges among the nation's hospitals for 100 of the most common in-patient treatments and procedures, calling into question medical billing practices just as U.S. officials try to rein in rising costs. The...Tags: Pneumonia, Hospitals and Clinics, Insurance, Medical Procedures and Tests, Medicare
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