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GOSHEN — Two years ago, Orange County enlisted three firms to scour medical billing records and help recover an estimated $2 million per year misspent in the single largest expense in the county budget, Medicaid.
As if traveling with the kids over the holidays weren’t tough enough, this year we must contend with airline surcharges and swine flu, as well as all the usual annoyances and delays that go along with traveling — especially with children — during the busiest travel weeks of the year.There is some good news, though. Travelocity’s Genevieve Brown reports that domestic airfare is down 12 percent ...
TemeculaModel rocket launch planned for Sunday The Temecula Rocket Group will hold a model rocket launch from 9 a.m. to noon Sunday at Temecula Middle School, 42075 Meadows Parkway. Spectators are welcome. People with model rockets can use the group's launch equipment. There is no charge to participate.
Vote clears way for debate to begin
Earlier this year, lawmakers agreed to temporarily subsidize health insurance for laid-off workers, providing a big discount for coverage. That worked out nicely for people who found a job before their subsidy expired. But many people who qualified for the benefit are still unemployed.
ROCHESTER - News, notes and other information from the Bonnies’ 69-68 loss to St. John’s on Tuesday night at Blue Cross Arena. - St. Bonaventure fell to 5-12 all-time against St. John’s, dropping the last three contests in the series.
Who's covered: About 94 percent of legal residents younger than 65 — compared with 83 percent now. Government subsidies to help buy coverage start in 2014.
The apparent suicide of Chicago Public School Board President Michael Scott didn't fit with the man friends and family said they knew. "Nobody was more upbeat all the time," former U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley told the Sun-Times after Scott's body was found Monday in the Chicago River. The Cook County medical examiner's office said Scott, 60, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound ...
Two decades of improved treatments haven't made a dent in the threat of heart disease in the U.S. because too many adults are obese, according to researchers from the University of Texas.As the nation's average body mass index, a measure of excess weight, surged between 1988 and 2006, the number of people with healthy blood pressure and blood sugar levels -- important measures of cardiovascular ...
A child psychologist who was headed to prison for health care fraud died Thursday from a heart attack he suffered while driving, his attorney said.
Public schools may not look the same next fall, two months after Virginia begins a new budget year. Class sizes could grow as large as state law allows. Music, art and physical education could shrink to the minimum. Teaching assistants and other support staff could disappear. “I believe it would reflect a level of quality that would shock virtually every community in Virginia,“ Hanover County ...
It took well over a year, but the federal government has finally realized that it was out of bounds to require immigrant women to be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer.In August 2008, authorities began requiring the vaccine for girls and women ages 11 to 26 who were applying for green cards. The vaccine is effective against the four strains of the ...
Jackson resident Cindy Justice relies on the state for food, cash, child care and Medicaid so she and her family can stay afloat.She waited two months to get child-care assistance, and has waited in long lines winding through the cramped...
Hundreds of people lined up at Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester yesterday for free swine flu vaccines to ward off a virus that has hit a historic high in Massachusetts...
In a show of unity, Senate Democrats sealed a 60-vote majority needed to advance the bill.
I swear, I find no no joy in being Debbie Downer. I really wish I could celebrate the Senate's 60-39 vote to begin the debate...
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