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"Health Law Bans New Doctor-Owned Hospitals, Blocks Expansion of Existing Ones" SNIPPET: "The rules fall under Title VI, Section 6001 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The provision is titled “Physician Ownership and Other Transparency – Limitations on Medicare Exceptions to the Prohibition on Certain Physician Referral for Hospitals.” More than 60 doctor-owned hospitals across the country that were in the development stage will be canceled, said Molly Sandvig, executive director of Physician Hospitals of America (PHA). “That’s a lot of access to communities that will be denied,” Sandvig told CNSNews.com. “The existing hospitals are greatly affected. They...

Time's up: Cheney apppeal fails, aid offer to Turkey withdrawn SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COMSunday, March 16, 2003 The United States has withdrawn its offer of $15 billion to Turkey for the deployment of up to 62,000 American troops. U.S. officials said the Bush administration has determined that Turkey failed to respond to the offer in time. They said Washington has implemented contingency plans that do not envision Turkey as a major participant in any northern front against Baghdad. The officials said Turkey was warned several times over the last two weeks that the U.S. aid compensation package would be...

  Suddenly the big news is about exaggerated earnings, disguised liabilities and the deception of all sorts of fraudulent, off-budget shenanigans. But, this time they were not talking about government. The topic was misdeeds by the captains of corporations. Businessmen! What's going on here? Don't these guys understand that only governments may violate the law with impunity? The answer is both yes and no. If publicly traded businesses kept their books like the federal government does, few of the corporations on our stock exchanges would be worth much of anything. But, if "generally accepted accounting practices" are what the law...