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Doctors to Congress: Cutting Food Stamps Mean Higher Health BillsNewsmax.comFood stamps, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, feed 1 in 7 Americans and cost almost $80 billion a year, twice what it cost five years ago. Conservatives say the program spiraled out of control as the economy …

Doctors warn Congress that cutting food stamp programs may be shortsighted. Food stamps cuts may lead to health concerns for family's lacking access to proper nutrition. That, in term, could increase federal healthcare spending. More: continued here

WASHINGTON (AP) – Doctors are warning that if Congress cuts food stamps, the federal government could be socked with bigger health bills. Maybe not immediately, they say, but over time if the poor wind up in doctors' offices or hospitals as a result. More: continued here

DENVER—Food stamps for a pot brownie? It's an urban myth in Colorado, but state lawmakers want to make sure that doesn't happen. More: continued here

WASHINGTON — Doctors are warning that if Congress cuts food stamps, the federal government could be socked with bigger health bills. Maybe not immediately, they say, but over time if the poor wind up in doctors' offices or hospitals as a result. More: continued here

This photo taken Jan. 8, 2014 shows the contents of a specially prepared box of food at a food bank distribution in Petaluma, Calif., part of a research project with Feeding America to try to improve the health of diabetics in food-insecure families. More: continued here

Among the health risks of hunger are spiked rates of diabetes and developmental problems for young children down the road, doctors warn More: continued here

Stamps Health Services introduced Sports Medicine to its Silver Clinic this week as a new option for care and treatment for patients this semester. According to Dr. Angelo Galante, who will be the primary provider […] More: continued here

News & Observer NC threatened with federal sanctions for food stamp delaysNews & ObserverThe U.S. Department of Agriculture has threatened to sanction the state for failing to show it was addressing widespread problems with food stamp applications. The Dec. 11 warning letter came about two months after state Health and …

ThinkProgress Colorado School Stamps The Hands Of Students Who Can't Afford LunchThinkProgressAs explained by one grandparent, her grandchild was publicly shamed by having his hand stamped and given cheese bread instead of pizza like the rest of his peers were, thereby deterring him from eating hot meals provided by the …