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Reader View: A happy 48th to Medicare
Sat, 27 Jul, 2013 08:03 PM PDT
On Tuesday, Medicare will be 48 years old. It covers more than 50 million Americans — those older than 65 and the disabled. It has improved financial security for the elderly and disabled and reduced health disparities related to race and socioeconomic status. Medicare recipients go to the doctor and t...
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Reader View: We must protect behavioral health services
Sat, 27 Jul, 2013 08:02 PM PDT
Providing behavioral health care services to New Mexicans is an important responsibility, and it's critical that the funding used to provide these services be spent properly. This administration has kept its word to protect those most in need by not tolerating fraud, waste, or abuse of Medicaid funds.
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Enid twins face off in Junior Open semis
Sat, 27 Jul, 2013 08:00 PM PDT
For Grace Dillingham, it's fun to have a twin sister (Elizabeth) to hit with and practice with. It's not so much fun to have to play her in a tournament like the twins had to do in the semifinals of the Intergris Bass Baptist Health Center Junior Open 2 Saturday at Oakwood Country Club.
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Children Not Immune to Mental Illness
Sat, 27 Jul, 2013 08:00 PM PDT
Bennie Allred, interim CEO of the Peace River Center, said he recalls having a 2-year-old child brought to the Crisis Stabilization Unit in Bartow for a mental-health assessment.
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Plenty of work left on selling health care
Sat, 27 Jul, 2013 07:59 PM PDT
First Read: President Obama spent time in his big economic speech talking up his health care law and low approval in the polls for the plan shows why.
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Dozens of Morsi backers killed in Egypt violence
Sat, 27 Jul, 2013 07:58 PM PDT
CAIRO – Security forces clashed with supporters of Egypt's ousted president early Saturday, killing at least 65 protesters, the Health Ministry said, in the country's bloodiest incidence of violence since the military deposed Mohammed Morsi.
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Feds ban some Medicare providers in crackdown
Sat, 27 Jul, 2013 07:56 PM PDT
MIAMI (AP) -- For the first time in history, federal health officials said Friday they will ban certain types of Medicare and Medicaid providers in three high-fraud cities from enrolling in the taxpayer-funded programs for the poor as part of an effort to prevent scams.
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At least 72 killed at pro-Morsi Cairo rallies
Sat, 27 Jul, 2013 07:55 PM PDT
At least 72 people were killed during clashes in Cairo yesterday, Egypt's health ministry said, after violence erupted at a demonstration in support of ousted president Mohamed Morsi. The ministry said nine others had died in violence in Egypt's second city, Alexandria, a day earlier, putting the toll ...
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Newest odd couple: Obama and McCain
Sat, 27 Jul, 2013 07:53 PM PDT
WASHINGTON — There was no conciliatory phone call, no heart-to-heart talk to soothe the tensions. No one knows exactly when President Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain went from bitter rivals in the 2008 presidential campaign and foes over health care and national security to bipartisan part...
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After Planned Parenthood closure, options for women remain available
Sat, 27 Jul, 2013 07:52 PM PDT
Pending closure of the Lufkin Planned Parenthood in August, health options for Nacogdoches County women will remain available through other facilities.
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