Big Bird is back. After suffering the debating slings and arrows of Republican Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential election campaign, the iconic feathered star of Sesame Street is taking a big new role for President Barack Obama’s White House....
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Big Bird of Sesame Street in New York City.
Big Bird, Live, at the White House — Dancing with the First Lady
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Demonstrators in favor of the Affordable Care Act stand outside the Supreme Court building on June 28, 2012.
Obama Says Health Law Cutting Costs; CBO Chief Isn’t So Sure
From Bloomberg Government’s Congress Tracker blog President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address that his health-care overhaul is taming costs, though Congress’s top budget advisor isn’t so sure. Douglas Elmendorf, director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget...
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Demonstrators in favor of the Affordable Care Act hold up signs outside the Supreme Court building after the court's ruling in Washington on June 28, 2012.
Last Chance: States’ One Shot at Exchange Control Looms
This week will be the last opportunity for states to retain some control over the new health insurance markets being readied for 2014 as part of the U.S. Affordable Care Act. States still on the fence about building the exchanges...
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A cardboard cut-out of President Barack Obama in a tent defending "Obamacare" at a street fair in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Health-Care’s Added Cost: Compliance
The 2010 health-care law that’s expected to expand insurance coverage to 27 million Americans in the next decade isn’t cheap: About $1.2 trillion through 2022. There’s another cost, less well known: The time Americans will spend complying with the law...
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie laughs with David Letterman when the governor makes his first visit to CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman," on Feb. 4.
Christie to Doctor: ‘Shut Up’
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has some advice for the long-distance doctor who advises him to lose weight: “Shut up.” The Republican governor, speaking in Sea Girt today, commented on a news report of Connie Mariano, a physician who worked for...
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A combat-disabled veteran of the Vietnam War demonstrates his newly fitted Otto Bock Healthcare X2 prosthetic limb with a physical therapist at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
VA, Military to Beat Health-System Deadline by Changing Their Goal
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pledged last year to “meet or beat” a 2017 deadline to integrate two health-records systems, one for troops and the other for veterans. Now, Panetta and Eric Shinseki, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, are...
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Oprah Winfrey speaks with Lance Armstrong during an interview regarding the controversy surrounding his cycling career on Jan. 14, 2013 in Austin, Texas.
Armstrong’s Confessions Stir No Interest from Federal Prosecutor
After weeks of public lashings and millions in lost sponsorship deals, Lance Armstrong finally received a shred of good news today. While Armstrong’s primetime television doping confession may have changed how people feel about the cancer-surviving former cycling champion, one...
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John Kasich, governor of Ohio, center, announces his state's choice for presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention.
Ohio’s Kasich Accepting Medicaid Expansion Under ‘Obama-care’
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, an opponent of President Barack Obama’s federal health care program, has joined Republican governors in states including Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico in saying he supports the state accepting the Medicaid expansion under the law. Kasich...
Read more »IDL Dances With CACI After Federal Health Contract
IDL Solutions Inc., a small health-care technology firm, got its “ticket to the dance” in 2007 after winning a seat on a federal contract valued at $4 billion over a decade. Now, it has a dance partner: CACI International Inc.,...
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Community and chain drug stores may have lost their fight in refilling maintenance medication under Medicare.
Retail druggists get lump of coal from Congress
Congress gave retail pharmacies a lump of coal for Christmas and may have tossed a few sugar plums to McKesson Corp. and Express Scripts Inc. Community and chain drug stores have spent much of 2012 fighting a push for more...
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