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KEVIN FREKING
House passes bill stopping Medicare cut for doctors
- In a matter of days the federal government is scheduled to start paying doctors 10.6 percent less when they treat Medicare patients.
States turn down US abstinence education grants
- Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity. Barely half the states are still in, and two more say they are leaving.
House adds health measures to war spending bill
- Schools, hospitals and nursing homes would get a reprieve from cuts in their Medicaid payments under a House bill to pay for the war in Iraq.
New rating system in the works for nursing homes
- The U.S. has five-star rankings for restaurants and hotels. So why not five-star rankings for nursing homes?
Patients signing away right to sue nursing homes
- Patients hoping to get into nursing homes increasingly are signing away their rights to sue over poor care.