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Schumer: No turning back on health reform

Congress has no choice but to pass a nearly trillion-dollar health-care reform plan, Sen. Chuck Schumer said yesterday. "Failure is not an option. We will come together," Schumer (D-NY), told The Post's editorial board. But a quartet of centrists have ...

From GEOFF EARLE AND CARL CAMPANILE, New York Post,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chuck Schumer,  Blanche Lincoln,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

Nursing-home patient 'buy'

A Bronx nursing home allegedly paid a hospital social worker to steer elderly patients its way, The Post has learned. Ex-Kingsbridge Care Center CEO Helen Sieger gave New York Presbyterian's Frank Rivera nearly $20,000, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo ...

From CARL CAMPANILE, New York Post,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Andrew Cuomo

Oldsters' nurse a fake: AG

State Medicaid fraud probers say a woman with no medical training worked as a nurse at a Staten Island nursing home for four years. Sharron Kimberly Phillip allegedly stole the identity of a licensed nurse with a similar name and duped her employment ...

From CARL CAMPANILE, New York Post,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Andrew Cuomo

Bishops raising holy hell on abort

President Obama’s effort to reform the health-care system could blow up in a holy war with the nation’s Catholic bishops over the historically hot-button issue of abortion. The Catholic Church claims the Senate bill introduced by Majority Leader Harry ...

From CARL CAMPANILE, New York Post,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. House of Representatives,  White House,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Harry Reid

Bloomy to educate DC

Mayor Bloomberg plans to aggressively promote his school-reform agenda in the nation's capital next week, in hopes of winning hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid from the Obama administration. Bloomberg is expected to tout his ideas for the ...

From CARL CAMPANILE, New York Post,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Bloomberg,  Barack Obama,  Arne Duncan,  Education Trust

Pals hail Koch on his 85th

He'd famously ask, "How'm I doin'?" when he was New York's mayor. And last night at The St. Regis hotel, the irrepressible Ed Koch showed he's still doing just fine, celebrating his upcoming 85th birthday with jokes and accolades from dozens of friends, ...

From CARL CAMPANILE, New York Post,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ed Koch,  Michael Bloomberg,  Mario Cuomo,  Henry Kissinger,  Bill Clinton

NY suer system stinks

New York's court system is among the most lawsuit-friendly in the country -- socking citizens with millions of dollars in wacky jury awards, higher taxes and increased costs of insurance and health care, a study released yesterday found. The state ...

From CARL CAMPANILE, New York Post,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: MTA,  Michael Bloomberg,  Food and Drug Administration

Medical nicotine

Holy smokes! Columbia University investigators are studying whether nicotine can be used as a temporary pain reliever. Researchers have given small doses of nicotine nasal spray to patients with chronic back pain and post-surgery swelling. Others are ...

From CARL CAMPANILE, New York Post,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Columbia University

Pearl's dad is sickened by the move

The father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl slammed the Obama administration's decision to hold a public trial for admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed -- who boasted of killing his son in Pakistan. Judea Pearl said he was ...

From CARL CAMPANILE, New York Post,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  Daniel Pearl,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Department of Justice,  University of California, Los Angeles

Dems run out of town

LEWISBORO, NY -- The voters' revolt against high taxes and a deep recession was so intense that even community leaders of New York's sleepiest hamlets got tossed. Nowhere was this more evident than in the tiny town of Lewisboro -- a northern ...

From CARL CAMPANILE, New York Post,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Jon Corzine,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Frank Kelly

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