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Vista Latina: Health benefits for farmworkers likely to remain scarce
Staff Writer, Copy EditorAs the Affordable Care Act slowly starts to get implemented, one group of employees that is excluded from benefiting from the major health care reform is undocumented farmworkers. This distinct outcome may also extend to the farmworkers not in the...Tags: Felipe Calderon, Conservation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health and Safety at Work, Mexico
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Health care "reforming" the Valley
Imperial Valley Press Staff WriterImperial County is in a particular spot as far as health-care management changes and the tensions these changes could bring, although not all of these changes are related to the Affordable Care Act. As the Affordable Care Act goes into effect, the...Tags: General Practitioners, Human Interest, Hospitals and Clinics, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health and Safety at Work
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Affordable Care Act set to kick in: Health care reform 101
Imperial Valley Press Staff WriterIt’s been years since Graciela Hernandez had health insurance and although she has diabetes, the last time she saw a doctor was two years ago. The Brawley resident does qualify for Medi-Cal, but her share of cost came out to be almost $1,000 a...Tags: Diabetes, General Practitioners, Obesity, Pharmaceuticals, Health Insurance Cost
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County employee benefits amended
Staff WriterCo-insurance costs for preventive care services, as well as women’s preventive benefits of certain county employees, were eliminated by the Imperial County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The agenda item also called for the board to disallow...Tags: Employees, Employment, Health and Safety at Work, Employment Opportunities, Career and Workplace
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Life Out Here: Trout fishing in Ryan-Koch America
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” That old English proverb was a recurring theme at least week’s Republican National Convention, where ideological leadership was...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mouth, Lakes and Ponds
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Locals react to Supreme Court's health care decision
Staff WriterDolores Rosales, 77, never used to get sick. The El Centro resident only saw the doctor as she delivered her 11 children when she was younger, she said. Now, though, she’s having to visit a clinic in El Centro for high blood pressure, a...Tags: Elections, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Specialization, Health Insurance Cost, Politics
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From the Right: Ruling good and bad for Obama
President Obama and his administration received a huge, huge victory last Thursday. The Supreme Court ruled overall his healthcare plan constitutional. They even got one of the more conservative justices, Chief Justice Roberts, to go along as the deciding...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Barack Obama, Health
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Our View: Lack of docs has multiple effects
The lack of physicians, both in general practice and in specialties around Imperial County is a problem that doesn’t seem to be getting much better. That fact has been long established, as local hospitals and physicians’ groups do what they...Tags: Private Health Care, General Practitioners, Private Health Care, Health, Lobbying
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Are Heber school board trustees insured?
Do Heber Elementary School District board trustees get health insurance? Why would they have health insurance if so many of them have other jobs that provide it? Are they planning on cutting their health insurance so that the students could possibly...Tags: Health, Health and Safety at School, Family, Health and Safety at Work
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Appeals court strikes Obama's health insurance requirement
ATLANTA -- A federal appeals court has struck down the requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul package that virtually all Americans must carry health insurance or face penalties. A divided three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit...Tags: Elections, Politics, Judges, U.S. Supreme Court, Justice System
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Health care is at the heart of disagreement between grocers and union
Staff WriterWorkers and supermarket management are expected to head back to the bargaining table today to try and settle a long simmering labor dispute over mainly health-care benefit issues. A federal mediator has been tapped to help broker a deal but it remains...Tags: Employees, Social Issues, Employers, Drugs and Medicines, Health
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Obama announces debt plan built on taxes on rich
WASHINGTON -- In a blunt rejoinder to congressional Republicans, President Barack Obama called for $1.5 trillion in new taxes Monday, part of a total 10-year deficit reduction package totaling more than $3 trillion. He vowed to veto any deficit...Tags: Washington, DC, White House, John Boehner, Economy, Business and Finance, Mitch McConnell
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