Articles filed under Health
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Questions linger as 'Obamacare' set to launchSep 30, 2013 2:00 pm - Much work is left to demystify the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act and how the massive new health care initiative will affect Americans. A key part of the new...
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Naperville may limit medical marijuana locationsSep 30, 2013 10:00 am - When Illinois' medical marijuana industry begins in January, where will new growing and dispensing operations go? The answer is at least partly up to municipalities, wh...
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Illinois unveils health marketplace adsSep 30, 2013 9:00 am - Illinois officials plan to launch a long-delayed, $33 million advertising campaign to inform residents about a new health insurance marketplaceTuesday, the ads first app...
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Hultgren's dilemma: Derail Obamacare or keep government runningSep 30, 2013 5:00 am - Congressman Randy Hultgren says he is deeply torn between two mandates from his constituents: Fighting Obamacare and keeping the federal government open for business. H...
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States resist, build nascent insurance marketsSep 29, 2013 4:11 pm - RALEIGH, N.C. — With new online health insurance exchanges set to launch Tuesday, consumers in many Southern and Plains states will have to look harder for information o...
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Fact check: Slippery claims on health law, budgetSep 29, 2013 4:00 pm - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is the insurance industry's most powerful pitchman these days as he drums up interest in the health insurance markets opening for bus...
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Who'll blink? Democrats, GOP in shutdown staredownSep 29, 2013 7:00 am - WASHINGTON — With the government teetering on the brink of partial shutdown, congressional Republicans vowed Sunday to keep using an otherwise routine federal funding bi...
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Home Depot sends part-timers to health care exchangesSep 29, 2013 6:15 am - Home Depot Inc., the world's largest home improvement retailer, plans to end medical coverage for about 20,000 part-time employees and direct them to government-sponsore...
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Affordable Care Act debut in suburbs gets mixed reactionSep 28, 2013 11:00 pm - When she got divorced two years ago, Megan Cochran of Hoffman Estates was removed from her husband's health insurance plan. She applied for Medicaid, but her $33,000-a-y...
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Obamacare incentives slow hospitals' revolving doorSep 28, 2013 11:00 pm - Obamacare has already transformed Esther Redd's health, like that of thousands of other Americans. Redd had been admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York seven times...