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Column by Bruce Sallan www.brucesallan.com The parents of every generation expect and hope that their children can and will do better than they did. Ours may be the first generation, in a very long while, where it is both unlikely and unrealistic to have this expectation. The world has just gotten much more complicated,…
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Column by Feda Morton www.fedaforcongress.com Wednesday night in President Obama’s lengthy State of the Union address he declared our union to be “strong”. I take issue with that. I do believe the resolve of hard working Americans is strong. I believe in the strength of the voices of the voters of Massachusetts in last…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Everything you wanted to know about the State of the Union, but were afraid to ask. We have the full texts and videos of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s Republican response. We also have reactions from Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner, congressmen…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] For the fourth consecutive year, Rockingham Memorial Hospital has been ranked number one in Virginia, and among the top 10 percent of all hospitals nationally, for coronary interventional procedures by HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent healthcare ratings company. Coronary intervention, also referred to as percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] See if you can guess who updated their Facebook status this way over the weekend. “A year later is has become abundantly clear that Obama and the dems are no better than bush and his republican sleaze. They are all corporate wh@#es, liars and thieves. The only difference is…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] John A. McGowan, M.D. has been named president and chief executive officer of the RMH Medical Group and has joined the RMH Healthcare senior leadership team. The RMH Medical Group is a subsidiary company within RMH Healthcare designed to align and integrate RMH’s employed physicians and provide selected services…
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Column by Randy Forbes www.forbes.house.gov Stay in Washington for a couple of weeks, and you’re bound to hear the phrase “on message.” Generally, the phrase is a reminder when speaking to the press or the public to keep your comments aimed in a singular direction. In the epicenter of national and global political debate,…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] The temporary hospital visitation restrictions recently put in place at RMH to help prevent the spread of flu will stay in effect throughout the winter, according to RMH infection prevention specialists. “The temporary visitation restrictions were established to provide a safe and caring atmosphere for our patients,” explained Becky…
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Column by Robert Dean Banta With all the details and sideline deal-making of the current health-care reform efforts it seems the answer of how to pay for health care must be much simpler than the tangled spaghetti Congress now twirls their forks around. In imagining what I want out of health-care reform I have come…
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Column by Dr. Raj K. Gandhi The Medicare Fair Drug Pricing Act (MFDPA) must replace the Medicare Drug Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003. Ever since MMA went into effect in 2006 it has cost an additional $40 billion to $75 billion annually and helped the already rich pharmaceutical and insurance industries get even…
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