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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: NEWARK ADVOCATE: Newark veterans clinic to move, expand
Jul 30, 2010
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Newark's Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic will get its long-awaited expansion when it moves within the next few years.
The current facility, at 1912 Tamarack Road, was crowded when it served 2,000 local veterans in 2008. It now serves more than 2,600 veterans in its 3,400 squa...
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NEW NEWARK VETERANS OUTPATIENT CLINIC SITE SELECTED
Jul 28, 2010
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U.S. Congressman Pat Tiberi (R-OH) applauded the selection of Scout Development LTD as the construction contractor for the new Veterans Affairs (VA) Community-Based Outpatient Clinic in Newark. The new clinic will be built at 1861 W. Main Street in Newark.
“This is great news for veterans in o...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: BOSTON GLOBE COLUMN: Medicare and the Mayo Clinic
Jan 6, 2010
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PRESIDENT OBAMA is a great admirer of the Mayo Clinic. Time and again he has extolled it as an outstanding model of health care excellence and efficiency.“Look at what the Mayo Clinic is able to do,’’ the president proclaimed at a rally in September. “It’s got the best quality and the lowest cost of...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY EDITORIAL: Mayo Vs. Medicare
Jan 5, 2010
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Health Reform: President Obama suggested last summer that the Mayo Clinic was the model for government medical care. On Monday, the Mayo Clinic in Arizona stopped taking Medicare patients. Now what?If the nonprofit Mayo Clinic is "what works," as the president believes, then it's clear that governme...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE: Home Care Patients Worry Over Possible Cuts
Dec 5, 2009
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CARIBOU, Me. — Dozing in a big lift chair, propped up by pillows in the living room of her modest home here, Bertha G. Milliard greeted the nurse who had come to check her condition and review the medications she takes for chronic pain, heart failure, stroke and dementia.Ms. Milliard, 94, said those...
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STANDING UP FOR SENIORS AND VETERANS
Oct 2, 2009
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This week, Representatives Ginny Brown-Waite (FL-05), Pat Tiberi (OH-12) and Dave Reichert (WA-08) introduced H.R. 3691; The Seniors and Veterans Economic Stimulus (SAVES) Act of 2009. If passed, this bill would use unobligated funds from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to provide S...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: FORBES OP/ED: Obama's Medicare Disadvantage
Sep 29, 2009
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Medicare Advantage is a recently instituted federal program that allows individuals eligible for Medicare to opt to take their coverage from a private carrier, such as a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) of Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). These MA deals usually offer somewhat better cover...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL:Medicare and Gag Orders
Sep 24, 2009
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Maybe Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus should put a gag order on Douglas Elmendorf too. On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office director told Mr. Baucus's committee that its plan to cut $123 billion from Medicare Advantage—the program that gives almost one-fourth of seniors private health-insu...
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TIBERI BILL WOULD HELP GIVE VETERANS BURIAL THEY DESERVE
May 21, 2009
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U.S. Congressman Pat Tiberi (R-OH) today announced the introduction of his bill, the Missing in America Act. The bill he wrote would help give all veterans a proper burial and internment in a National Cemetery.
“It’s easy for the remains of veterans to slip through the cracks,” said Congressman...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: USA TODAY COLUMN: Stimulus benefits could end up costing retirees at tax time
Apr 21, 2009
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When lawmakers enacted the economic stimulus package this year, they included benefits for seniors. Smart move: Many retirees also have been hit hard by the economic downturn, and they vote in large numbers. Unfortunately, some of the tax headaches we discussed in an earlier column could also affect...
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