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Newcastle's inner city parking woes loomed long before Supercars

The influx of builders working on various big projects means there has been a flood of trades all needing parking, but spaces are limited.

Newcastle Herald

Social Security and Medicare: Troubling math, tough politics

It seems no one wants to cut Social Security or Medicare benefits

The Independent UK

After staying away during pandemic, doctors return to lobby Congress

WASHINGTON — Dr. Timothy McAvoy, an internist from Waukesha, Wisconsin, held his infant granddaughter last Tuesday while standing in the Longworth House Office Building, waiting to talk to a congressional aide about increasing Medicare pay for doctors.

Tribune News Service

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Texas town tries a new model for saving rural health care

BOWIE, Texas — After sitting empty and exposed to thieves and vandals for more than two years, the one-story hospital that served Bowie for more than five decades is close to making a comeback — of sorts.

Tribune News Service

Doyle McManus: Biden's 2024 presidential campaign harks back to past Democratic triumphs

WASHINGTON — When the 1996 presidential campaign approached, Bill Clinton faced an uphill struggle to win a second term. His biggest legislative proposal, a sweeping health care bill, had failed. His party had lost the House of Representatives to Republicans led by a fiery conservative, Newt Gingrich. Clinton's poll ratings…

Los Angeles Times

Submissions to Senate sports concussion inquiry call for more funding, research and education and consistent guidelines

Submissions to a Senate inquiry into concussions in contact sports urge consistent guidelines and definitions of concussion, and action on investment in research, better education and support for players, and a public registry for those affected.

ABC News

Jimmy Carter enters hospice care

Carter has faced some health issues in recent years and received treatment for cancer in 2015

Salon

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Ask the Expert: Tax components and super – what happens (financially) after we die?

You can nominate your estate as a beneficiary, then who you want to receive your super benefits. But here's where this strategy falls down.

The New Daily

LOCALIZE IT: Health facilities cited for COVID vaccinations

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The Independent UK

Health care vaccine mandate remains as some push for an end

A federal mandate for health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been in place nationally for a year

The Independent UK

Florida Sen. Rick Scott backtracks on GOP plan to sunset Social Security that Biden blasted at State of the Union speech

Republican Sen. Rick Scott Friday backtracked on his plan to sunset Social Security and Medicare that President Joe Biden called out during his fiery State of the Union speech.

Tribune News Service

GOP senator ditches plan to sunset Social Security and Medicare that Biden called out in State of the Union

Rick Scott’s updated policy proposal would exempt ‘Social Security, Medicare, national security, veterans benefits, and other essential services’ from his sunset provision

The Independent UK

Sen. Rick Scott alters policy plan causing heartburn for GOP

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida has amended a plan to overhaul how the federal government works after Democrats repeatedly seized on it to accuse Republicans of looking to cut Medicare and Social Security

The Independent UK

Scott quietly edits plan to end Medicare

The Florida Republican changed his plan to exclude the programs after backlash from Democrats and his own party

Salon

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WEKU

Why hundreds of doctors are lobbying in Washington this week

They came to tell Congress about their "recovery plan" for physicians, which includes a Medicare pay boost and an end to some frustrating insurance company requirements.

Axios

Rick Scott accuses Biden and McConnell of "gotcha politics" on Social Security

"To say otherwise is a disingenuous Democrat lie," Scott wrote about Biden.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: the electorates where it’s hardest to find a bulk-billing GP; Brisbane’s new Olympic arena; and Bruce Willis has dementia

New data reveals the extend of Medicare’s woes across the country

The Guardian - AU

Revealed: the areas where Australians are struggling to access free GP care

Exclusive: Data shows low bulk-billing rates in affluent Sydney suburbs as well as several regional electorates and Tasmania

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Reason

Social Security and Medicare Cuts Are Coming, Whether Politicians Do It or Not

As legislators refuse to act, benefits will be cut without any possibility of sheltering those seniors who are poor.

Salon

Where David Cross draws the comedy line

Cross talks to Salon about his stand-up tour, capitalism, rejecting theocracy and how a fan once changed his mind

AAP

Labor's 'suburban mum' first off in big by-election bid

The selection of a Labor candidate for the Aston by-election in Victoria is expected to be followed by a swathe of other announcements by parties and groups.

Los Angeles Times

LA County-run hospitals could expand free and discounted care

LOS ANGELES — Hospitals run by Los Angeles County could make free care available to more of their financially strapped patients under a new proposal aimed at expanding relief from medical bills.

Los Angeles Times

What happens to COVID vaccines and drugs authorized for emergency use when health emergency ends?

On May 11, the central pillar of the country's pandemic response — the declaration of a national emergency that began March 1, 2020 — will come down. But Americans will continue to have access to the vaccines, drugs and medical devices that were authorized for emergency use against COVID-19, so…

Axios

Medicare politics are on a crash course with reality

All the solutions are unpopular, but the problem will be worse.

WEKU

How seniors could lose in the Medicare political wars

Politicians are again pointing fingers over cutting Medicare. Any party accused of threatening the program tends to lose elections, but without a bipartisan agreement, seniors stand to lose the most.

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