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Winning ticket for $590.5 million Powerball lottery sold in Florida

(Reuters) – A single winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth $ 590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state … Continue reading

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C R Bard to pay $48 million to settle kickback allegations, DOJ says

(Reuters) – Medical device maker C.R. Bard Inc will pay about $ 48.3 million to resolve allegations it made illegal payments to hospitals and physicians to entice them to buy its radiation treatment for prostate cancer, the Justice Department said.

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Ranbaxy pleads guilty, to pay $500 million in U.S. settlement

(Reuters) – Indian generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd pleaded guilty on Monday to felony charges related to drug safety and will pay $ 500 million in civil and criminal fines under the settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Florida rejects Medicaid expansion, leaves 1 million uninsured

It seemed like a watershed moment for the Affordable Care Act when Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R), a staunch Obamacare opponent, embraced the Medicaid expansion in February. “While the federal government is committed to paying 100 percent of the costs, … Continue reading

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Florida rejects Medicaid expansion, leaves 1 million uninsured

It seemed like a watershed moment for the Affordable Care Act when Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R), a staunch Obamacare opponent, embraced the Medicaid expansion in February. “While the federal government is committed to paying 100 percent of the costs, … Continue reading

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Florida rejects Medicaid expansion, leaves 1 million uninsured

It seemed like a watershed moment for the Affordable Care Act when Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R), a staunch Obamacare opponent, embraced the Medicaid expansion in February. “While the federal government is committed to paying 100 percent of the costs, … Continue reading

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LivingSocial is hacked, affecting 50 million worldwide

Daily-deals company LivingSocial acknowledged Friday that it had experienced a cyberattack that accessed the names, e-mail addresses and birth dates — and even encrypted passwords — of 50 million customers worldwide. Read full article >>     

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Does an $8 million advertising campaign really make Obamacare into the Iraq War?

“Obamacare is the Iraq of the Obama administration,” tweets Ben Domenech. This is a wonderful piece of Twitter ephemera — both in its implicit view of what the Iraq war was, and what Obamacare is. But the link is even … Continue reading

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UPDATE 3-J.C. Penney draws down $850 million to keep liquidity

* Using proceeds to buy inventory as part of home dept revamp

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Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein pay fell to $13.3 million last year

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein received $ 13.3 million in compensation last year, an 18 percent drop from his pay in 2011, according to a securities filing on Friday.

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