Medicare drug cards start in June amid advertising push
The Bush administration rolls out a second round of Medicare drug card ads in May as cards launch in June. About 7 million people are expected to sign up, with 4 million qualifying for low income subsidies. Advice varies as counselors warn the decision is complex and many card options exist.
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Calif
Scott Peterson
Peterson
Laci Peterson
Alfred A. Delucchi
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Discount drug card program for low income Medicare recipients
Beginning next week eligible low income Medicare recipients can apply for prescription drug discount cards. The program offers a $600 annual credit for this year and next to buy medicines. Enrollment begins May 3 with income ceilings noted. cards activate via December 31 and terminates prior to 2005 program replacement in 2006 by a Medicare prescription plan. More information is available online through Medicare Assistance Programs.
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Plastics plant to keep paying workers after fatal blast
Formosa Plastics Corp in Illiopolis will rebuild after a Friday explosion that killed four workers and injured eight. Company officials said payroll would continue for an undetermined time while repairs and a restart are planned, though residents doubt the plant will reopen.
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Allen Brickey
Formosa Plastics Corp
Rob Thibault
Thibault
Jess Rogers
Pam Furstenberg
Supreme Court declines case on VMI school prayer
Washington AP report: Justice Scalia and Chief Justice Rehnquist fault liberal justices for avoiding a potentially pivotal ruling on whether the courts ban on school sponsored prayer extends to college students at Virginia Military Institute. Justice Stevens notes procedural flaws. Lower court ruling stands that nightly prayers violate the First Amendment.
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Supreme Court
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William H. Rehnquist
Scalia
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VMI
John Paul Stevens
Questions and Answers on Medicare Drug Cards
A Q and A on Medicare drug cards outlines how to get a card through Medicare contact and enrollment forms. It discusses choosing the best card, costs up to 30 dollars, and potential government aid for low income with income thresholds, plus cautions about price changes and scams.
Polio shots remembered fifty years later in McLean
Fifty years on adults recall the 1954 first inoculation of the Salk polio vaccine given to second graders at Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean. Dr. Richard Mulvaney helped vaccinate about 1.8 million children, recalling the historic moment.
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Franklin Sherman Elementary School
Jonas Salk
Richard Mulvaney
Federal judge halts Canada beef imports bid in Billings
U S District Court in Billings granted a cattlemen group request for a temporary restraining order to block Agriculture Department plans to expand Canadian beef imports. RCALF United Stockgrowers of America argues the April 19 decision to allow edible bovine products raises human health risks and harms the cattle industry citing mad cow disease cases in Canada and Washington state.
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Agriculture Department
Canada
Rcalf United Stockgrowers of America
USDA
Washington State
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Professor charged after false vandalism claim at forum
Psych professor Kerri Dunn of Claremont McKenna College faces up to six years in prison after allegedly fabricating a March report that her car bore racist and anti Semitic slurs during a campus racism forum. The claim triggered student sit ins and rallies.
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Calif
Kerri Dunn
Claremont McKenna College
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