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Feds loan $638M for health co-ops in 8 states, including NY

Observer-Dispatch (AP)

The Obama administration is awarding loans totaling more than $638 million to start up new health care cooperatives serving eight states.

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Health exchanges must be affordable

The Post-Standard Op-Ed

Federal health care reform is coming to New York state. For those of us living Upstate and struggling through an ongoing recession, the painful questions we all must ask are: How much will it cost? Will it be affordable? Can it be done without creating a new, burdensome state bureaucracy?

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A Real 'Doc Fix'

The New York Times Editorial

In last week's flurry of budget deals, Congress patched together yet another temporary fix for a flawed formula used to calculate the fees paid to doctors by Medicare.

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Tim Godzich: Americans need to come to terms with hard facts

Buffalo News Op-Ed

After listening to the recent State of the Union address, State of the State address and Buffalo's State of the City address, there is a common crucial element missing from each: That is the need to get all of us to start the grieving process and get from denial to acceptance that the promises made on health care are not going to be able to be kept.

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How ObamaCare is already failing

New York Post Op-Ed

A key technocratic gimmick of ObamaCare, the Accountable Care Organization, is rolling out now - but the wheels are already starting to come off.

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Guest Viewpoint: Nursing home shortage began long before flood of 2011

Press & Sun-Bulletin

Regarding reporter Steve Reilly's piece on the shortage of nursing home beds in Broome County ("Flooding leaves region with nursing home bed shortage," Jan. 28):

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