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• Nominees for District 1 discuss issues
  Sep 3, 2010 — Portsmouth Herald
  I will work to defund this program until it is possible to repeal it. I support a full repeal of Obamacare, but we can't stop there. The individual mandate is unconstitutional and the regulatory burden Obamacare places on small businesses will kill jobs.
• EDITORIAL
  Aug 17, 2010 — The Keene Sentinel
  ...of the oddities of health insurance is that cochlear implants, which are surgically installed electronic devices, are at least partly covered whereas hearing aids, which cost a fraction of the so-called bionic ears, are mostly not. Tens of millions of Americans have major hearing deficiencies, but since most of them don't qualify for implants they've been left pretty much on their own to cover the sometimes considerable cost of hearing aids -- as much as $6,000 per ear. Why the...
• State to receive $1m to defray health premiums
  Aug 17, 2010 — Foster's Daily Democrat
  A key component will be a website that gives consumers "plain language" summaries explaining any premiums changes. In 2011, insurers will generally be required to spend at least 80 percent of premiums on medical services -- while limiting overhead, marketing, executive salaries, and profits. The U.S. DHHS will also make public "unreasonable" premium increases.
• Greater Nashua Mental Health Center hit by cuts
  Aug 6, 2010 — The Telegraph (Nashua, N.H.)
  NASHUA -- Cuts totaling $1 million across the state will make a roughly $60,000 dent in the budget of the local mental health center, according to the center's executive director and chief medical officer. "Most mental health centers run very close to even or slightly at a loss," said Dr. Hisham M. Hafez. The cuts will require belt-tightening at the local center, officially called the Greater Nashua Mental Health Center at Community Council. The good news, Hafez said, is...
• Congressional candidate Guinta unveils 10-point plan to grow jobs, economy
  Jul 30, 2010 — Foster's Daily Democrat
  The deficit is $1.5 trillion and the debt is $13 trillion. In order to address those issues we need to reduce the amount of spending at the federal government level and enhance the economic conditions in the country to create jobs. That is sucking money out of the economy and taking money away from business owners.
• Keene hospital joins new program
  Jul 21, 2010 — The Keene Sentinel
  Currently, no one at the hospital serves that role. Primary care, historically an unpopular choice for medical students, will have a brighter future under this model, Nichols said.
• SNHMC picked for health care collaboration
  Jul 16, 2010 — The Telegraph (Nashua, N.H.)
  ...health care spending that's run eight times above the cost of living. "Right now, we are not spending our health care dollars the right way, but that is about to change," Lynch said at a news conference Thursday. This Accountable Care Health Organization Pilot Project seeks to be competitive in getting a piece of incentive grants in the federal Obama health care reform law to reward providers that "bend the cost curve." SNHMC Vice President of Administration David Cawley...
• Government nonprofit, under fire, claims it's failed to explain role
  May 31, 2010 — The Telegraph (Nashua, N.H.)
  You can understand we're in the middle." In a newly filed lawsuit, the firefighters union is seeking about eight years' worth of LGC meeting minutes.
• Health care lawsuit still up in the air
  May 24, 2010 — The Telegraph (Nashua, N.H.)
  John Lynch are Democrats. Earlier this month, a leading lobbying group for small businesses, the National Federation of Independent Business, joined the suit.