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Health reform gap for Native Americans may affect few Utahns

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:08:53 MDT

Health reform gap for Native Americans may affect few Utahns

By Kirsten Stewart The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 15, 2013 08:08PM MDT

In Fort Duchesne, a federally funded health clinic offers free medical care — prenatal care, well-baby checks, dentistry and eyeglasses — to patients with Ute Indian ancestry. But under the Affordable Care Act, some of the clinic’s patients may have to either buy health insurance they don’t need or pay a tax penalty. American Indians are exempted from the act’s upcoming mandate to buy insurance, but its definition is limited to those who are members of approximately 560 tribes recognized by th...

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Philadelphia abortion doctor gets third life sentence

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:21:07 MDT

Philadelphia abortion doctor gets third life sentence

By MARYCLAIRE DALE The Associated Press

Updated May 15, 2013 10:21AM MDT

PHILADELPHIA • A Philadelphia abortion doctor was sentenced Wednesday to a third life term for killing an aborted baby that he described as so big it could “walk to the bus.” Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted this week of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies born alive, then stabbed with scissors. He was given two life sentences Tuesday in a deal with prosecutors that spared him a potential death sentence, and the third sentence was handed down Wednesday. Gosnell was also sentenced t...

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Philly abortion doctor guilty in 3 babies’ deaths

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:54:07 MDT

Philly abortion doctor guilty in 3 babies’ deaths

By MARYCLAIRE DALE The Associated Press

Updated May 13, 2013 07:54PM MDT

Philadelphia • An abortion doctor was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy, “house of horrors” clinic. In a case that became a grisly flashpoint in the nation’s abortion debate, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the overdose death of an abortion patient. He was cleared in the death of a fourth baby, who prosecutors say let out a...

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Philadelphia abortion doctor found guilty of murder in 3 babies’ deaths

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:20:06 MDT

Philadelphia abortion doctor found guilty of murder in 3 babies’ deaths

By MARYCLAIRE DALE The Associated Press

Updated May 15, 2013 10:20AM MDT

PHILADELPHIA • An abortion doctor was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy, “house of horrors” clinic. In a case that became a grisly flashpoint in the nation’s abortion debate, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the overdose death of an abortion patient. He was cleared in the death of a fourth baby, who prosecutors say let out a whimp...

Utah Indian tribe breaks into the health care business

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:39:00 MDT

Utah Indian tribe breaks into the health care business

By kirsten stewart The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 14, 2013 08:39AM MDT

A group of doctors is working with the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute to open a family health clinic in downtown Salt Lake City. Sacred Circle Health Care will be the first tribe-owned clinic located outside a reservation in Utah, say its founders. But that’s not all that sets it apart. The clinic is designed to be a moneymaker for the tribe — with the profits used to improve tribal members’ access to health care no matter where they reside. “Any money made by the Goshutes has to go to healt...