Health Insurance
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New inner-city health center opens in Boston
… private insurance and about half receive Medicaid . And 23 percent have no health insurance at all — a startling figure in Massachusetts, where 98 percent of all residents have health insurance because of the state's landmark 2006 …
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CVS Caremark 4Q profit climbs nearly 4 percent
… contract with health insurer Aetna Inc. and new sales that came from the acquisition of insurer Universal American Corp.'s Medicare prescription drug business. Pharmacy network claims processed in the quarter climbed 46 percent to 193 million. Drugstore …
Audio & Video
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The First Look - Suzanne O'Halloran, BloombergBloomberg's Suzanne O'Halloran gives us the First Look into Today's Market.
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Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri, Oh My!Republican front-runner Mitt Romney today faces off with Rick Santorum and Ron Paul in political caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado. He hopes too extend his winning streak and add to his delegate count in his quest for the presidential nomination. Howie wanted to know who else was confident that Mitt will triumph.
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Russ Roberts, an economist, breaks down the jobs numbersRuss Roberts, host of the popular podcast Econtalk, talks Obama's economy and the last jobs report.
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Obama Forces Birth Control On Catholics
The Obama administration has decided to force Catholic institutions to provide birth control, abortion drugs and other contraceptive services. The administration would require Catholic institutions to abandon their doctrines on reproductive issues or face catastrophic fines forcing them them to close hospitals that care for about a sixth of U.S. patients. Howie said can you say discrimination.
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Who Exactly Are The Poor?
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign was in damage-control mode after Mitt made the remark that he's "not concerned about the very poor." He later said "No, no, no, no, I've said throughout the campaign my focus, my concern, my energy is gonna be devoted to helping middle income people, all right?" Howie understood what Mitt meant.
Pages & Blogs
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Congressman: Catholic Church Discriminates Against Women
… shouldn't have the same rights as it has as a church to do business. So if it wants to be in the business of providing health insurance , it should, it should do what every other health insurer must do under our laws. So, when you're local steakhouse …
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Rubio: Deadbeat Nation
… reform, meaningful cuts to discretionary spending, a balanced-budget amendment, and reforms to save Social Security and Medicare . If we had done this in mid-2011 when we last debated the debt ceiling, we could have set America on a path to economic growth …
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Tea Party Protesters to Greet Mitt in New Hampshire
… Freedomworks, explains that RomneyCare is the reason. You also have to look at how much the state government is spending, how much Medicaid is expanding... it's gone from $1 billion to $1.75 billion since RomneyCare was implimented. That's not a model …
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Dean: Dems Can't Do Entitlements
… reform without facing attack from the extreme wing of their party. Now there are some things you can't put into the pot. If Medicare eligibility goes up to 67 percent, you're going to see people running against democrats in primaries. Dean then went back …
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Matthews: Tea Party an Apartheid Movement
… FINEMAN: This is an ending of the social compact. This is three generations worth of agreement about Social Security, about Medicare , about the role of the federal government. The Tea Party people are saying, "we want to secede from that society."
