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<title>Inbox Robot: Medicare - Iowa News</title>
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<title>Paxton payout won&apos;t hurt &apos; for now</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185723986</link>
<pubDate>30 Aug 2008 07:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  severance package may put a ripple in Iowa Central&apos;s budget, but probably not until the  ...  reaches age 65, he will qualify for Medicare and will no longer receive Iowa Central  ...
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<title>State Health Care Reform: Retargeting Medicaid Hospital Payments to Expand Health Insurance Coverage</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185635106</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 20:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  spending. Seniors receive their health coverage through Medicare, the huge entitlement program serving senior and  ...  offer tiered benefit packages to enrollees. Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, and Vermont have opened the traditional  ...
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<title>Paxton takes $400,000 severance</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185568020</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 08:03 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
... Dr. Bob Paxton will walk away from Iowa Central Community College with a $400,000 severance  ...  care benefits until he is eligible for Medicare. In exchange for the severance package, Paxton  ...
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<title>Obama tells huge Dem crowd he&apos;ll fix Washington</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185563813</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 07:07 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  veterans, he won the first test, the Iowa caucuses, on Jan. 3 Clinton rebounded to  ...  a Senate vote on July 10 for Medicare legislation that had been stalled in deadlock.  ...
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<title>Obama says he&apos;ll &apos;fix broken politics&apos;</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185531318</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 02:06 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  veterans, he won the first test, the Iowa caucuses, on Jan. 3 Clinton rebounded to  ...  a Senate vote on July 10 for Medicare legislation that had been stalled in deadlock.  ...
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<title>Sen. Grassley Calls For Review Of Medicare Durable Medical Equipment Payment Errors</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185449588</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 15:36 GMT</pubDate>
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... Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Tuesday sent a letter to acting  ...  the agency underestimated the extent of improper Medicare payments for durable medical equipment, the Inspector  ...
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<title>Utah delegate, 18, helps nominate Clinton</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185440979</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 14:38 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  of school to work for Clinton in Iowa and Nevada. Pazell, who said he was  ...  she cannot afford an assisted-living facility on Medicare,&quot; he said. &quot;I believe with all my  ...
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<title>The National Market Is Not the Savior of State Regulated Private Health Insurance</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185425757</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 13:15 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  insured of 2.7M. Medicaid increased by 1.3M, Medicare by 1M and military healthcare programs by  ...  times more expensive in New York than Iowa. True, New York is a guaranteed issue  ...
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<title>Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infections to be Focus of AVA Meeting</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185421985</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 13:10 GMT</pubDate>
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...  on the eve of major changes in Medicare that will eliminate payments to hospitals that  ...  Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa. -- An interactive panel and audience discussion,  ...
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<title>Biden says nation needs more than a good soldier</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185391233</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 09:53 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  veterans, he won the first test, the Iowa caucuses, on Jan. 3 Clinton rebounded to  ...  a Senate vote on July 10 for Medicare legislation that had been stalled in deadlock.  ...
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<title>Sad paradox exists in U.S. health care</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185374204</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 06:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  than three times what the government allowed Medicare patients to be charged in 2004, and  ...  bill to media and the office of Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who has inquired  ...
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<title>High cost of Medicare fraud</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185366861</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 05:27 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  as much as $93 million in fraudulent Medicare claims, of Medicare contractors who used false  ...  is outrageous,&quot; rightly declared Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, a frequent critic of CMS&apos;s record in  ...
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<title>Dems choose Obama in thunderous acclamation</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185336405</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 00:29 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  veterans, he won the first test, the Iowa caucuses, on Jan. 3 Clinton rebounded to  ...  a Senate vote on July 10 for Medicare legislation that had been stalled in deadlock.  ...
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<title>Youngest Utah delegate helps nominate Clinton</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185332994</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 23:54 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  of school to work for Clinton in Iowa and Nevada. Pazell, who said he was  ...  she cannot afford an assisted-living facility on Medicare,&quot; he said. &quot;I believe with all my  ...
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<title>Democrats poised to give Obama historic nomination</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185308446</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 20:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  be allowed to proceed. Kathleen Krehbiel, an Iowa delegate who had supported Clinton, credited the  ...  a Senate vote on July 10 for Medicare legislation that had been stalled in deadlock.  ...
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