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Jobless to feel pinch of federal cuts
SACRAMENTO — An estimated 400,000 Californians who have been unemployed for more than six months soon will be feeling the bite of federal spending reductions. As of April 28, they'll be getting a 17.7% cut in their weekly unemployment benefits...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Employment, Unemployment Benefits, U.S. Congress, Budget Control Act of 2011
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West Fertilizer Co. fined $2,300 in 2006 for lack of safety plan
This post has been updated. See note below.The West, Texas, fertilizer plant that exploded Wednesday was fined $2,300 in 2006 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for not having a risk management program in place, records show. West Fertilizer Co. settled with the environmental agency in...Tags: Fines, Explosions, Fertilizer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Emergency Incidents
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West Fertilizer Co. had spotty regulatory history, records show
The West, Texas, fertilizer plant destroyed by a massive explosion has paid nearly $8,000 to at least two regulatory agencies for safety and transportation violations, records show. West Fertilizer Co. paid $5,250 last year to the U.S. Pipeline and...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Fines, Explosions, Fertilizer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Why are prices for medical care such a mystery?
Ted Kamp wanted to make sure his daughter received the medical treatment she needed. That was his first priority. His second was making sure his insurance would cover things and that he'd pay a fair price for any procedures. The fact that this...
Tags: MRI (imaging), Prices, Radiology, Cigna Corporation, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Chemical in Texas blast has a well-known deadly potential
The blast at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant on Wednesday night was so massive that investigators believe it probably involved a significant amount of ammonium nitrate, a chemical that some scientists say should be regulated as an explosive. In a report...
Tags: Explosions, Fertilizer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science, Health and Safety at Work
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Effort to save state's unemployment insurance program is underway
SACRAMENTO — A rescue effort is underway for the state's financially troubled unemployment insurance program, an economic lifeline that currently provides weekly monetary support for 525,000 jobless Californians. More than $10 billion in the red,...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Small Businesses, Employment, Unemployment Benefits, Labor Legislation
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UnitedHealth reports lower first-quarter profit, higher costs
UnitedHealth Group Inc., the nation's largest health insurer, said its first-quarter profit dropped 14% as medical costs climbed higher. The Minnetonka, Minn., company said its health plan membership increased 18% in the quarter to 42 million people,...
Tags: Healthcare Provider, Stephen J. Hemsley
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Study questions 'community benefits' paid by tax-exempt hospitals
Private, tax-exempt hospitals spent an average of 7.5% of their operating expenses on community benefits in 2009, according to a new study that raises questions about whether the amount is enough. Overall, the study published Wednesday in the New...Tags: Barack Obama, University of California, Los Angeles, Hospitals and Clinics
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How to handle medical bill problems
When Keith Yaskin and his wife, Loren, rushed their 2-year-old son to the hospital with a dangerous infection in his neck, they weren't thinking about how much his care would cost. After his three-day inpatient stay with nonstop intravenous antibiotics,...
Tags: Medicare, Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Consumers, Health and Medical Professionals
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The five biggest lies about entitlement programs
Everybody loves lists. Most of those you see in the papers or online tend toward the inconsequential (The Six Best "Fast & Furious" Movies). So here's a list with a bit more gravitas: The five biggest lies you're being told about entitlement programs....
Tags: Medicare, Finance, The Wall Street Journal, Health Insurance Cost, Economic Indicator
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Letters: Medicare works, so why change?
Re "GOP revisits Medicare reform," March 3 People get the greatest share of their lifetime medical care after age 65, and Medicare is currently the cheapest solution to that problem. The federal program's overhead is smaller than private insurance,...Tags: Medicare, Private Health Care, Politics, Health Insurance
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Anthem Blue Cross customers pursue case over changing deductibles
Some Anthem Blue Cross policyholders are pressing a court fight over the company's midyear changes in annual deductibles and other limits on out-of-pocket medical costs. Dave Jacobson, a film production supervisor in Santa Monica, is one of the...
Tags: Breach of Contract, Healthcare Provider, Corporate Crime
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