Tag: Congress
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Obama administration spent $25 million on health-care law publicity campaign, part of it exaggerating, McConnell complains
The Obama administration spent nearly $20 million on mailings to seniors touting the federal health-care reform law and another $5 million on postcards to small business owners informing them of...
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What will high court do on health law? 4 most possible scenarios
Last week, U.S. Supreme Court justices heard arguments about the constitutionality of the federal health-care reform law. At the center of the debate is whether the government can force people...
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Sen. Rand Paul puts holds on federal synthetic drug bans
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, left, has put a hold on several Senate bills aimed at banning chemicals used in synthetic drugs because he feels “enforcement of most drug laws can...
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What would solve primary-care crisis, create jobs and help banks? Building community health centers, writer contends
The federal health-care reform law will mean a glut of new patients who will be newly insured and bog down the primary-care system. Thousands of construction workers are out of...
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Caregivers of wounded soldiers find their lives are also changed; getting compensation
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan disproportionately affect rural areas, which provide more than the average number of recruits. The soldiers who make it home alive come back changed, with...
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Flexibility Act would give states more Medicaid authority, but it could mean that fewer children would have health coverage
MEDICAID PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL STATE SPENDING Children’s advocates are concerned the proposed State Flexibility Act would result in more children living without health insurance in Kentucky. The act “would repeal...
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National poll shows opposition to major cuts in Medicaid
In this year’s legislative sessions, Kentucky lawmakers wrangled to find a solution for a $166.5 million hole in the Medicaid budget. Now Congress is looking at reducing the federal deficit...
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States can’t reveal drug costs because federal law makes them secret; Montana governor blames drug lobby, Ky. contractor
When Montana journalists asked Gov. Brian Schweitzer to reveal the prices the state pays for drugs in government health care programs, he said he wanted to tell them, but had...
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McConnell’s health care repeal fails on party-line vote
The Senate voted along strictly partisan lines tonight not to repeal the health-care reform law of 2010, but Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky vowed to keep trying. All 50...
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McConnell says Senate will vote on repeal of health reform law
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Fox News Sunday that the Senate would somehow vote on whether or not to repeal the health-reform law. McConnell’s Democratic counterpart, Majority Leader Harry...