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Cleveland Clinic to Cut $330 Million from Next Year's Budget, May Cut Jobs
Cleveland Plain Dealer 
Sept. 19, 2013
"Cleveland Clinic Chief Executive Toby Cosgrove [announced] ... that the health system may have to eliminate jobs to meet a target of cutting $330 million from its 2014 budget. The Clinic will first offer early voluntary retirement to about 3,000 employees, who will be notified in October. It's not clear if any further cuts in staff could be avoided if all these employees choose to retire, however.... 'Healthcare reform has really changed things, and the burden of cost is going to be falling on patients,' [said a hospital spokeswoman]. 'We want to make sure we can keep care affordable.'"
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Cleveland-Area Employees Paying More for Health Coverage at Work
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Nov. 20, 2012
"Cleveland-area employees will contribute an average of $2,500 out of their paychecks next year for health insurance premiums -- that's 56 percent more than they paid toward coverage in 2007 ... premiums for single and family coverage will average $10,638 for employees in Northeast Ohio. The employee will pay about $2,500 of that out of their paycheck and the employer will pick up the rest."
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Some Heart Care Costs Stay Outside Insurance Coverage, Lowe's Does National Comparison Shopping For Employees' Heart Surgery
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Feb. 17, 2010
Excerpt: [H]ardware store chain Lowe's has decided to shop nationally for 'the best deal in heart surgery for its employees and it landed at the Cleveland Clinic,' The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. 'The nation's second-largest home improvement retailer reached a three-year agreement with the Clinic. The deal was praised widely as a groundbreaking business effort to purchase health care based on documented quality and value.
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Iron Workers Retirees Get Temporary Reprieve from Pension Cuts
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Aug. 5, 2016
"Retired iron workers in Northeast Ohio will get a short reprieve before their pensions could be cut.... Cuts of monthly pensions by up to about half must be made for some retirees in order to make sure there's something left for everyone over time, the pension's trustees say. But the union fund's trustees late last week withdrew their government application for permission to make those cuts, and submitted a revised one instead."
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New ACA Court Challenge Could Come from Ohio
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jan. 16, 2015
"The [state of Ohio and Warren county] are self-insured, although they retain outside companies to administer their plans.... [Self-insured] local and state governments must find ways to offset the payments to the ACA reinsurance fund or else pass the costs on to taxpayers.... The legal issue here: The transitional reinsurance fee amounts to a tax, according to [Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine], and to [Warren county commission Chairman David Young]. And the thing is, they say, the federal government may not tax a different domestic government."
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Auditor for State of Ohio Warns GASB Reporting Rule Could Hurt Local Government Budgets
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Sept. 11, 2014
"State law allows pension systems to offer medical insurance, but there is no legal obligation to employers beyond the employer pension contribution. [Ohio Auditor Dave] Yost noted in his written testimony that Ohio's pension systems choose to fund medical care through established contributions. Yost said the proposed rule requires employers to record a liability they have no control over and, in Ohio, a liability state retirement systems have no duty to ever provide."
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Ohio Public Officials Defend Practice of Double Dipping
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Oct. 29, 2013
"While some officials believe the term 'double dipping' should be limited to the practice of retiring from a public job, collecting a public pension and returning to the same job, often in the same week, [the authors] at Northeast Ohio Media Group define a double dipper as someone who collects a public pension while on the public payroll.... [W]e offered a dozen current and former elected officials who fit that description to defend the practice."
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Ohio Won't Promote Health Insurance Enrollment, But Advocates and Politicians Say They Will
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Aug. 7, 2013
"Ohio's Department of Insurance has planned no marketing, advertising or outreach to promote the Affordable Care Act, even though enrollment begins in less than two months. Consumers nonetheless can expect to hear plenty about it -- the good, the bad and, especially, the political -- in coming weeks."
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HHS Tries Selling Contraception Mandate with a Morality-Laundering Scheme
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Feb. 7, 2013
"But [the new proposal is] not compromise. That's 'you lose,' attached to a morality-laundering scheme. It does nothing meaningful to address the objections of religious-affiliated employers who provide health insurance for employees and it does nothing at all to protect the freedom of conscience of private employers who object to the mandate."
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Ohio Lawmakers Give Final OK to Public Pension Reforms
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Sept. 14, 2012
"The changes will mean increased pension contributions down the line for teachers, cops and firefighters. The bills also raise retirement eligibility ages, set new guidelines for cost-of-living adjustments and establish a new formula to calculate benefits. Each system will undergo a unique combination of adjustments. The bills, for the most part, will not affect current retirees. The reforms also do not increase pension contribution rates for public-sector employers."
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Ohio Lawmakers Ready to Approve Public Pension Reforms
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Sept. 11, 2012
"State lawmakers are poised to approve a package of public pension reforms this week that would eventually increase pension contributions for teachers, police and firefighters and make several other changes to stabilize the retirement systems' financial health.... The bills would affect 700,000 contributing members and 400,000 retirees throughout Ohio who have waited anxiously for the past few years to learn how their benefits would be affected. Legislative leaders said the changes, while unpopular among some workers, are needed to make sure members get the benefits they deserve."
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American Medical Association Questions Power of Health Insurance Companies
The [Cleveland] Plain Dealer
Jan. 23, 2003
Excerpt: In a study to be released this week, the national physicians group contends that too many communities are dominated by a handful of insurers who unfairly use their control to restrict patient care and shortchange doctors for services they perform. It asks the federal government to investigate insurance company tactics.
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G.O.P. Says Health Issues Top To-Do List
The [Cleveland] Plain Dealer
Dec. 23, 2002
Excerpt: Experts believe health care reform will be an even bigger priority if, as seems likely, Tennessee GOP Sen. Bill Frist, a heart and lung transplant surgeon who leads many of his party's health care initiatives, succeeds Mississippi's Trent Lott as Senate Republican leader.
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Big Blue Draws Protest
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Apr. 27, 2000
"Although shareholders of International Business Machines Corp. yesterday turned down a proposal that would have restored workers' traditional pensions, supporters called the vote a victory that should catch national attention."
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Ohio Public Pension Systems' Refusal to Disclose Records Draws Attention of State Lawmakers
Cleveland Live, Inc.
Aug. 12, 2010
Excerpt: Two state lawmakers want to open up state retirement records to public scrutiny after The Plain Dealer and seven other Ohio newspapers were denied access to the information.
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