Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won’t take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in an ongoing dispute over Medicaid reimbursement.
The company, which operates 121 stores in the state, will continue filling Medicaid prescriptions for current patients.
In a news release, Walgreens said its decision to not take new Medicaid patients stemmed from a “continued reduction in reimbursement” under the state’s Medicaid program, which reimburses it at less than the break-even point for 95 percent of brand-name medications dispensed to Medicaid patents.
Walgreens follows Bartell Drugs, which stopped taking new Medicaid patients last month at all 57 of its stores in Washington, though it still fills Medicaid prescriptions for existing customers at all but 15 of those stores.........
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SondraK, Lympian Slayer 
Troops aboard the Dutch warship HNLMS Tromp fired warning shots Wednesday off the coast of East Africa as suspected Somali pirates in two small skiffs raced toward their warship, the EU Naval Force said.
After the pirates realized they had made what spokesman Cmdr. John Harbour called a ”rather silly mistake,” they turned around and fled…
The Ugly American I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or Senate.......
Three unidentified women painted in colors of the Canadian flag hold a banner as they take part in PETA ( People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) picket in downtown St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. PETA members are protesting against the seal cull in Canada. The temperature in St.Petersburg is -15C.
A male voice came over the public-address system Sunday evening at a store in Washington Township, in southern New Jersey, and announced: ”Attention, Walmart customers: All black people, leave the store now.”
Bill “The Butcher” Cutting: That my friends, is the minority vote.
Now you tasted my mutton, how do you like it, huh? Look, I want you to see this. This is you, right here. Notch 45. You Irish bog bastard.
Why don’t you burn him… see if his ashes turn green.
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 03/17 at 10:32 AM •
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whom to believe
OR *clicky*clicky*
“...Your employer, it’s estimated, would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000% [three thousand percent]; which means they could give you a raise. ...”
how is that even possible?!?
OR
(AP)—President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print. Premiums are likely to keep going up even if the health care bill passes…
aaaand, for grounding, Heritage Foundation’s take
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 03/17 at 08:09 AM •
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...but the Republicans only said no and left the Democrats with all the thinking. So if you dont like this...blame the Republicans.
DougM (commissarophobe) Norrie May-Welby, 48, was born a man but had a sex change operation in 1990, at the age of 28.
After becoming unhappy as a woman, May-Welby decided to become a “neuter”. The 48-year-old is now officially recognised as a person of no specific gender.
May-Welby emigrated to Australia at the age of seven after being born in Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Officials there altered the Briton’s birth certificate to include the new no-gender classification after doctors were apparently unable to determine the sex of the expat’s body.
get a steak*
eyes shut… mouth open… perfect likeness.
Cindy Sheehan is restarting her campaign against wars in Iraq and Afghanistan today, setting up tents and teaching protest seminars near the Washington Monument.
Dubbed “Camp OUT NOW,"…
She notes that the peace movement has lost much of its steam since Bush left office.
*nah - won’t kill her. just cuz a steak makes a day good.
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 03/16 at 07:00 PM •
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