Medicare drug card program prompts Iowa outreach and confusion
Agencies push enrollment as a $600 subsidy deadline nears for low income seniors. Heritage serves 60 000 eastern Iowa seniors and has enrolled 350, answered 1 500 questions with grants totaling 55 000. SHIIP notes mail solicitations and 40 plus card options create confusion among eligible beneficiaries.
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Centers For Medicare
Medicaid Services
Medicare
Iowa
HIPAA
Linda Dearinger
Heritage Agency On Aging
Protective Services
Heritage
Dearinger
HACAP
Kris Gross
Senior Health Insurance Information Program
SHIIP
Gross
Administration On Aging
Patrick Barnes
Northwest Pharmacy
Cedar Rapids
Barnes
Iowa Senate budget fight splits over cigarette tax rise
Senate Democrats push a 5.0 billion General Fund budget for FY 2006 with new cigarette taxes to fund Medicaid and education. Republicans counter with 4.8 billion, opposing tax hikes though open to negotiating on a cigarette levy if tied to health care spending.
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Senate
Mike Gronstal
Council Bluffs
Democrats
Republicans
GOP
Jeff Angelo
R-Creston
Senate Appropriations Committee
Gronstal
Jeff Lamberti
R-Ankeny
House
Christopher Rants
Sioux City
Rants
Regent
Iowa lawmakers mull stricter meth precursor restrictions
Iowa considering SF 169 to curb meth by limiting pseudoephedrine sales in stores. The bill would require 18 plus ID and pharmacist logbooks while halting popular decongestants without prescriptions. Senate leaders seek middle ground as labs rose from two in 1994 to 1,472 last year.
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Iowa
SF 169
Bob Brunkhorst
R-Waverly
Brunkhorst
Oklahoma
Iowa House committee cuts bottle refund to 4 cents
The Iowa House Environmental Protection Committee voted 18 to 3 to reduce the nickel bottle refund to 4 cents and double the handling fee to 2 cents. Retailers would keep 1 cent handling and receive an additional penny of the nickel refund, with debate over the bill continuing.
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James Q. Lynch
Gazette
DES Moines
Iowa House Environmental Protection Committee
Iowa
Don Shoultz
D-Waterloo
Panel backs plan to raise non-resident deer licenses
DES MOINES The House Natural Resources Committee backed House File 304 to issue 6,000 more non-resident licenses for antlered or any sex deer. Buyers must obtain an extra venison license for 100 dollars to fund herd reduction and a one dollar surcharge to support a venison donation program feeding hungry towns, aimed at financing meat processing costs.
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Gazette
Des Moines
House Natural Resources Committee
House
Department of Natural Resources
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