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More than 700,000 federal workers will be looking for ways to put food on the table as much of the federal government shut down Tuesday over budget squabbles in Congress. But if you're a federal rat, it's still fat city. Federal mice, too.
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The U.S. government was on the brink of a partial shutdown Monday after the Democratic-led Senate refused to back down in a clash with the Republican-led House over President Barack Obama's landmark health law.
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Defying Senate Democrats and critics in their own party, House Republicans pushed through a short-term spending bill early Sunday that increases the likelihood of a government shutdown by requiring a one-year delay in implementing and funding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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A year ago, few people outside of the pharmacy sector knew much about drug compounding. Now the industry is at the center of legal and regulatory action.
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Congress' across-the-board sequestration cuts may deliver short-term savings, but at the expense of the long-term investment needed to generate even greater savings down the road.
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On the brink of a government shutdown, House Republicans on Saturday prepared to amend the Senate's recently passed short-term spending bill with provisions to delay the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for one year and repeal the law's medical device tax.
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The House easily approved bipartisan legislation Saturday aimed at improving the safety of drugs produced by compounding pharmacies that mix customized pharmaceuticals.
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Locked in a deepening struggle with President Barack Obama, House Republicans demanded a one-year delay in major parts of the nation's new healthcare law and permanent repeal of a tax on medical devices Saturday as the price for preventing a partial government shutdown threatened for early Tuesday.
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As Congress remains paralyzed over a short-term spending bill to fund the government after Sept. 30, analysts are looking ahead at key health policy issues other than the reform law that have taken a back seat during the spending fights and at how, where and when they might resurface.
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A potential federal shutdown hurtling ever closer, the Senate on Friday dealt an emphatic defeat to a core of rebellious young conservatives opposed to Obamacare and approved legislation preventing government agencies from closing next week.
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