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Democratic Club will discuss healthcare
The next meeting of the Caņada Crescenta Democratic Club will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 21, at the La Caņada home of Celina Lew and Ed Castro. The topic for discussion will be the Affordable Care Act and will feature guest speaker Gerald... -
Merger of Verdugo Hills Hospital, USC behind schedule
The merger of Verdugo Hills Hospital into USC’s Keck Medical Center is behind schedule. In June 2012 leaders of the independent Glendale hospital voted to partner with USC, and a hospital spokeswoman said at the time that Verdugo Hills hoped to...
Tags: Restructuring and Recapitalization, Hospitals and Clinics, Barack Obama
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Year in Review: JPL reaches Mars, Leko let go, a new market sprouts up
“We're safe on Mars.” La Caņada Flintridge's connection to the heavens made for a sensational story in 2012, as Jet Propulsion Laboratory safely landed the NASA rover Curiosity on the Red Planet. JPL engineer Al Chen made the announcement...
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Obamacare should not be repealed
I am appalled at the scare tactics and lies still being thrown around by politicians and journalists when it comes to “Obamacare.” Having worked in the health insurance industry for the last 20 years, can I set the record straight?...Tags: Insurance, Companies and Corporations, Drugs and Medicines, Economy, Business and Finance, Health Treatments
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Obamacare's slippery slope
Re: last week's Forum page debate over Obamacare. Ask anyone from Canada or England about government-run health care. One-size-fits-all thinking is just stupid. Ask yourself what government program, starting with President Johnson’s War on...Tags: National Government, Politics, Government
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Verdugo Hills Hospital to merge with USC medical center
Verdugo Hills Hospital, for the last 40 years an independent hospital, has entered into merger talks with USC’s Keck Medical Center, officials said Tuesday. Members of the Verdugo Hills board of directors voted at a June meeting to partner with...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Internists, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals
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Hospitals react to 'Obamacare' ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Thursday to uphold President Obama's health insurance mandate will expand coverage to many uninsured Americans, but its effect on area hospitals remains unclear. Len LaBella, president of Verdugo Hills Hospital, is...
Tags: Health Insurance, Health, Democratic Party, General Practitioners, Barack Obama
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Everybody's talking about Obamacare
David C. Wilcox's content-free analysis of the threat to liberty posed by the requirement for people to have medical insurance (“Get rid of Obama and Obamacare,” Mailbag, July 5) misses a rather important point: It's highly unlikely that...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, U.S. Senate, Justice System, Democratic Party
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Support for healthcare law and reelecting Obama
To read David C. Wilcox's July 5 letter about “Obamacare,” one would think that the U.S. Constitution consists entirely of the common third-grade retort, “It's a free country — I can do what I want!” Yes, America was...Tags: Elections, Politics
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Obamacare may help poor get care
This is in reply to David Wilcox's letter to the editor, “Get rid of Obama and Obamacare.” I think how very fortunate he and his family are to have such a splendid healthcare plan. Now that “Obamacare” is the law of the land,... -
Health care concerns
I'm not statistician enough to know how much of the story U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster's editorial ("Time to repeal Obamacare," May 16) tells, but surely we agree that the existing health care system deserved overhaul. We are a sick nation, getting sicker,...Tags: Bill Shuster, Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals
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