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Instead of seeing a nice profit, the new reimbursements rate cut payments about 45 percent.

Medicare's 'suicide reimbursement rates' force firings at medical firms
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A dramatic cut in Medicare payments to medical suppliers, coupled with a 250 percent increase in audits, is hitting large and small firms hard, with one mail-order company revealing that it had to fire eight workers just to stay open.

Report: 'New' Russian nuclear programs alarm neighbors Russia is expanding and modernizing its nuclear arsenal, raising questions from surrounding nations about what Moscow and President Vladimir Putin are up to, according to a new report from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Polls find strong support for national gun registry, Keystone XL pipeline Three new polls released Tuesday found growing and overwhelming support for a national gun registry that could require all gun owners to tell police what they have, including how much ammo they’ve hidden away.

3,000 flight cancellations cost U.S. $94 million last week; $3.5b in 2013 The bad weather that cancelled some 3,000 flights last weekend as the heavy rains in California swept through the Midwest and dropped snow on the East, cost the U.S. economy $94.8 million, according to a new travel industry study.

Poll: Just 11% of blacks say life under Obama is better for young African-Americans President Obama is going to have to do a whole lot more than promise to make things better for young blacks under his new “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, because 71 percent of voters in a new poll say life for the group is the same or worse than before he came into office.

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