Tag Archives: Federal assistance in the United States

Amandla Stenberg lives below the line, Gwyneth Paltrow asks for social change

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Amandla Stenberg’s open dialogue against black culture appropriation splashed across headlines this week. When Billboard attempted to use a school project presentation posted on her Tumblr page to...

Republican Representatives Call For Food Stamp Purchase Transparency

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In the current economy, food stamps have become a necessity for many U.S. citizens.The budget for food stamps, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has dramatically increased since...

$1,000-a-Pill Sovaldi Shakes Medicaid

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Medicaid is in somewhat of a fix. The extremely costly Sovaldi pill which comes for $1,000 is an anti-Hepatitis C drug. But the sheer cost prohibits its common use for the treatment of the poor....

Medicare: Why A Medicare Reformer Resigned?

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One of the major figureheads responsible for transforming and virtually revolutionizing the Medicare system under the Obama administration has called it quits. Jonathan Blum is a Medicare director...

Two Gamers Aim To Transform Hospital Performance Evaluation

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Key evidence suggests that as hospital systems in the US reach a crisis point – involving the transition to value-based purchasing and tying Medicare and Medicaid dollars to performance – quality of...

AP Exclusive: Health law cybersecurity challenges

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WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Obama administration raced to meet its self-imposed deadline for online health insurance markets, security experts working for the government worried that state computer...

Medicare Budgetary Cuts May Prove Detrimental

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While Obamacare is being given all the media hype and moral support from the Democrats, there are other older medical caregivers that are not being given any attention. The way things are going, the...
    






Does Obamacare Deserve Credit For Slowing The Growth In Health Care Spending?

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The annual report of from the actuaries over at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is out for 2012 and, for the fourth year running, the news is surprisingly good. Total healthcare...