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Philadelphia Advocates Say Study Backing Medicaid Makes Sense
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Medicaid is a key part of President Obama’s health care reform law, and a new study shows that it does help to make people’s lives better. Economists at MIT and Harvard have found...
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Corbett Challenged Over Moving Kids To Medicaid
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Corbett is pressing the federal government for an exemption that he said will prevent about 70,000 Pennsylvania children in a state-subsidized health insurance program...
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Corbett’s Medicaid Expansion Plan Gets Mixed Reception at Phila. Hearings
By Cherri Gregg PHILADELPHIA (CBS) –The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare today held two public hearings in Philadelphia focusing on Gov. Tom Corbett’s controversial proposal for expanding...
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Study Shows Criminal Records Present Significant Employment Hurdle For Women...
By Cherri Gregg PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The city and the nation has focused a lot attention on the impact of the criminal justice system on men and boys of color, but a new report shows women of color who...
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Head of Community Legal Services Gets Phila. Bar Association Service Award
By Paul Kurtz PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Philadelphia Bar Association today honored the head of the nonprofit group that provides legal services to the city’s poor for a career devoted to justice and...
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Pa. Attorney General: Chain Of Nursing Homes Took Advantage Of The Elderly...
By KYW community affairs reporter Cherri Gregg PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office has filed a lawsuit in Commonwealth Court against a nursing home operator with dozens of...
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