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<title>Inbox Robot: Medicare - Texas News</title>
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<title>Don&apos;t blame the Democrats</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=180007756</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 07:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in just to vote to stop the Medicare payment cuts? Every &quot;aye&quot; vote counts. --  ...  his life, did nothing as gov. of Texas, and his arrogance and abysmal lack of  ...
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<title>Contractor or employee? Ask the IRS</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=180001266</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 06:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the entire tab for Social Security and Medicare taxes  that means paying 15.3 percent  ...  expenses. Michael Cunningham, executive director of the Texas Building &amp; Construction Trades Council for AFL-CIO  ...
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<title>PEC cuts own pay</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179971968</link>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2008 02:16 GMT</pubDate>
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... BUDA, Texas (STPNS) -- At the first regular business  ...  *After debate, board members agreed to keep Medicare benefits for board members over the age  ...
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<title>Bipartisan virtue</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179955825</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 23:36 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Bush was defiantly unvirtuous in resisting a Medicare bill that preserves and strengthens government-funded health  ...  states  Georgia, Maine, Michigan, South Carolina, Texas and Washington. Congress should put a stop  ...
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<title>Texas doctors opting out of Medicare</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179954537</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 23:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to continue participating. They feel theyve carried Medicare on their back as long as they  ...  Dr. Williams is the president of the Texas Medical Association, the group that conducted a  ...
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<title>Tennessee: Medicare Cuts Take Toll on Patients, Doctors</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179952124</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 22:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  waiting game because she must. As a Medicare patient, it&apos;s her only option in a  ...  with similar challenges. A recent study in Texas found that just 58 percent of that  ...
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<title>John Lott: Coming Up Short on Poverty</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179941341</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 21:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  by Edgar Browning, an economics professor at Texas A&amp;M University and a world-renowned expert on  ...  year. According to him, adding this to Medicare, other uncompensated medical care, and other costs  ...
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<title>Torchmark Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179931545</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 20:50 GMT</pubDate>
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... MCKINNEY, Texas, July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Torchmark Corporation (NYSE:  ...  losses on investments (0.06) (0.02) (5.0) (1.8) Medicare Part D adjustment (0.02) (0.02) (2.1) (1.6)  ...
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<title>AMERIGROUP Corporation Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179928398</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 20:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Mexico, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. For more information, visit This  ...  the healthcare industry; changes in Medicaid and Medicare payment levels and methodologies; liabilities and other  ...
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<title>Court: $15K for folks of drowned boy was too rich</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179812523</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 06:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  brutally  as did the law in Texas and many other states  dead children  ...  had the women&apos;s movement, Head Start and Medicare. That year, in a case called Sanchez  ...
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<title>CMS Rewinds Round One as Bid Delay Takes Effect</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179796106</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 04:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  exactly how to proceed. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services program was suspended July  ...  Clayback, vice president, government relations, for Lubbock, Texas-based The MED Group. The industry should be  ...
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<title>No M.D.? Then No Home Sleep Testing</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179796103</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 04:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  ruling, especially in light of the recent Medicare cuts and the pain of the competitive  ...  Respiratory Network for The MED Group, Lubbock, Texas. Carol Laumer, executive director of Rice Home  ...
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<title>Phase One of DME Bidding Program Delayed</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179777093</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 00:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Program Delayed The first phase of a Medicare durable medical equipment, or DME, Family physicians  ...  zip codes in North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Florida, Pennsylvania, California and Puerto  ...
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<title>DeLay&apos;s lawyer rules out seeking pardon from Bush</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179774193</link>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2008 00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and remains embroiled in legal proceedings in Texas and Washington. With Bush&amp;rsquo;s second term winding  ...  2001 and 2003 tax cuts and the Medicare prescription drug bill. Legal experts say a  ...
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<title>Lawmakers tweak privacy language to keep business community on board with IT bill</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=179763009</link>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2008 22:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Dingell (D-Mich.) and ranking member Joe Barton (R-Texas), broadly seeks to advance the use of  ...  physicians to use electronic prescriptions for their Medicare patients. In addition to disagreements about who  ...
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