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The Wall Street Journal - Citing the substantial benefit in protecting the nation's critical frontline-caregiver infrastructure, the Coalition to Protect Senior Care (CPSC) today thanked Senator Susan Collins for helping to lead a successful, bipartisan effort in Congress to stop the Bush Administration from moving forward with a new regulation that would have cut Medicare-funded nursing home care by $4 billion over the next five years, and $770 million for FY 2009. The Administration announced last week that the regulation would not go into effect, and the success of Sen.

Senator Collins received this letter recently from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation:

Dear Senator Collins:

Seacoastonline.com - U.S. Senator Susan Collins was recently presented with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners "Legislator of the Year Award" by 18 Maine nurse practitioners, who traveled to Washington D.C. for the event. Sen. Collins received the award for her continued support of nurses and their patients...Read more >>

Small Business Times - A bipartisan proposal to take a state-based pilot program approach to health care reform is gaining momentum in Washington, D.C. The State-Based Health Care Reform Act is authored by U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). The proposal gained the support today of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)...Read more >>

Bangor Daily News - U.S. Sen. Susan Collins gave Health Access Network a ceremonial $5.1 million check on Wednesday, representing key funding to the health care provider’s plans to expand and consolidate its six town sites into one state-of-the-art facility.

The check, which came from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rural development agency, symbolizes the federal government’s commitment to improving health care in northern Penobscot County, Collins said.