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NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 12/10/12 -- Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) by law are required to pay out a minimum of 90 percent of their taxable income through dividends. A dividend tax increase has been a major concern for investors as current top tax rate is set to expire in the New Year. Five Star Equities examines the outlook for dividend yielding companies and provides equity research on American Capital Agency Corp. (NASDAQ: AGNC) and Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY).
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The current top tax rate on dividends, which was set in the Bush-era, will expire in January. If lawmakers fail to take action dividends will be taxed at the same level as wages and salaries in 2013. President Obama's plan would see the top tax rate on dividends rise to from 15 percent to 39.6 percent for high-income earners, which doesn't include the new 3.8 percent tax on investment income added by Obama's health-care law. Since mREITs are already taxed as ordinary income they are likely to see just a slight increase in taxation, compared to almost triple for other high yielding companies.
"The prevailing fear is that if taxes for dividends increase, dividend yielding companies could grow less attractive and could see a multiple de-rating," said Savita Subramanian, a strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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American Capital, both directly and through its asset management business, originates, underwrites and manages investments in middle market private equity, leveraged finance, real estate and structured products. The company offers investors an annual dividend of $5.00 per share for a dividend yield of approximately 16.0 percent.
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Farmer Shoots A Video But He Never Knew He'll End Up Gaining 6 Million People's Attention In No Time.
12 Facebook Statuses You Should Never Ever Post
This Is What A Gallon Of Water Can Do To Your Body If Consumed Daily For 30 Days.
15 Weird Jobs That Pay A Crazy Amount Of Money
Barbie Is Real And She's Here To Amaze You!
Meet The Youngest Parents From Around The World!
17 People Who Have This Whole Parenting Thing Down Pat
Watch As These Chinese Workers Construct A 12 Lane Bridge In Just 43 Hours
This Bull Was Chained Up His Entire Life...Now Watch As He's Set Free
Texts From Family Members That Are Quite Funny
How it's ACTUALLY like to grow up as a super-rich kid.
These 7 People Opted For Some Unusual Body Modification That'll Surely Make You Uneasy.
Watch A Prepper Save His Home With An Aqua Dam
7 Last Wishes That Will Make You Shed A Tear!
She gets Called A 'Monster' For Her Entire Life Due To Her Looks, She's Now Having The Last Laugh
13 Photos So Eye Pleasing That It Would Leave You Spellbound
I Bet You Just Can't Guess The Salary Of These Top 8 Filthy Rich Porn Stars!
It's not for what you think it is!
COMMENT and tell us what you think of her transformation!
Lemons are a real gift of nature; their amazing benefits are endless. Always keep a lemon at hand - they can be a real life-saver in many situations.
Watch this clip of Hope Apple Blossom and her six piglets explore their forever home for the first time!
I want to own all of them! Especially Number 2
The Wife Definitely Takes The Cake On This One.
The way the mother reacts is just too perfect!
Feel the Royalty with Mobile Home
Don't Type 'Amen' on Facebook!
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The Gospel: Is An Eclectic MTV In The Wee Morning Hours Better Than Nothing?
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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- MissViciousThu Apr 02, 12:50:00 AM
MTV is something else. I really don't know how to express the anger that I feel against that channel right now. I agree that MTV has become like every other station a reality slut bag whore but I still believed that one day MTV would go back to videos and they have on and off but MTV is still corrpt with shows like "From G's to Gents"lol. Hopefully they can slowly but surely get back to the music.ReplyDelete
Oh and P.S. the random order of music videos doesn't come as a shock to me. True story about 8 or 9 years ago(i feel really old.lol) when a group called Dream came out they would play their videos at the most random time. It would litterally be Dream then a Red Hot Chilli Peppers video or Dream and Jay-Z video. And Dream would be catogrized as bubblegum pop so if that gives you any implications that they really don't care about the arrangements of videos, then there you go.
I just don't understand why they don't just make a channel soley for all those MTV reality shows...they have two other wasteful channels, they could turn one into "reality" viewing only...I guess they want to be greedy or something, but I think they would benefit if they just had one channel for all the reality crap and another for music ONLYReplyDelete
LOL at slut bag whore, that's a new phrase to use :)
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On July 17 of this year, I journeyed from Charlottesville Virginia, where I live, to Seattle to have my cervical spine rebuilt at Virginia Mason Medical Center, whose Neuroscience Institute has a national reputation for telling patients they don't need surgery. It was my fifth complex surgical episode in 29 months, after more than fifty years of great health. My patient experience has been wrenching, and it made me question yet again the conventional wisdom about doctors and patients that dominates much of our current health policy debate.
None of these interventions was remotely elective: head and neck cancer, nerve grafting surgery to restore use of my right hand and a musculoskeletal trifecta- two hip replacements and cervical spine surgery. All five surgeries were successful, and I have fully recovered and returned to my busy life. The technical quality of the surgical care was flawless. Only three of the people who touched me were over forty, and three of the procedures were performed by women. It was stirring to watch and be helped by the remarkable teams and the teamwork they displayed.
In retrospect, it was dizzying how fast the acute phase of these interventions was over. I walked on my new hips an hour after waking up, and spent only three nights in the hospital after my spine was rebuilt! Most of the actual recovery, and large amount of the clinical risk, actually took place out of the hospital, placing a premium on preparing me and my family for the transition.
No analysis of my prior health history or my genome would have predicted or helped prevent the past 29 months (sorry, Watson!). Absent these procedures, I would either be dead or confined to my back porch in a wheelchair. I shudder to think what would have happened to me if I was seven years younger and, like millions of older Americans pre-Medicare, lacked health insurance
My experience brought me face to face with the uselessness of the twin narratives that have seized control of our national dialog on healthcare. Most health policy in the US over the past forty years has been driven by two warring economic theories that blame our health cost problem on moral failure by patients or by physicians and the care system.
Conservatives blame patients both for their own poor health and a lack of thoughtfulness of healthcare use, resulting in higher costs. Much of the recent failed Republican ObamaCare Repeal and Replace legislation was aimed, rhetorically at least, at "empowering" patients to be more "responsible consumers". Progressives blame physicians and a mercantile care system for driving up costs by doing things to patients that aren't needed to drive up their incomes. This led to an explosion of arcane new payment schemes and an avalanche of new physician and hospital reporting requirements during the Obama years.
As a patient, I found both of the conservative and progressive narratives not only not descriptive of what I experienced, but also demeaning to me and to my care teams. On my part, I did everything conservative policy analysts would have insisted that I do. I am a gym rat who works out five days a week and am in better physical condition than most people twenty years my junior. I also exhausted the complementary medicine and pain control alternatives to surgery and only turned to acute intervention when the pain or threat to my life or functionality became untenable.
Neither did I evade economic responsibility for the cost of my care. When I turned 65, I opted out of the antiquated regular Medicare program and enrolled in an HMO-style Medicare Advantage Plan. I had a whole hide worth of "skin in the game": a $6700 front end out of pocket liability. I also tried to find information on provider, government and consumer websites that would have enabled me to "shop" for care. I knew where to look, and found nothing online or anywhere else that made my decisions easier or more rational. I had to rely on my personal relationships from forty years of working in the health field to find the right people to help me.
As far as the progressive narrative about income maximizing clinicians and hospitals, as far as I could tell, the people I trusted to take care of me did not spend thirty seconds thinking about their incomes or how to pad them. They were focused with laser intensity on helping me, and redeeming my trust in them. It is tragic how much of their time has been diverted from direct care into sitting in front of a computer elaborately documenting what they did to me. Less than half of the time of my nursing staffs was devoted to direct patient care; you could feel the computer beckoning to them virtually non-stop during their shifts and even after.
It is time for policymakers to treat us patients with more respect and our caregivers with greater thoughtfulness. Most public health experts believe that the contribution that patient and physician behavior make to health costs is dwarfed by the health effects of "social determinants" like poverty, homelessness, poor nutrition, food insecurity, broken homes, and crime, and the onslaught of chronic illnesses like arthritis and degenerative diseases of the nervous system which are inevitable correlates of aging.
By failing to confront and effectively manage the declining functionality of our own bodies as we age, we deny the inevitable and unavoidable. And by blaming doctors and patients for our health cost problems, we evade responsibility for the crumbling society that damages our citizens and drives many needlessly into an expensive care system.
This does not mean that there are not mercantile corners of our health system where money matters, and influences care decisions. We can minimize the damage they do with better fraud and abuse enforcement and by repricing (e.g. reducing the fees for) grossly overpriced services to eliminate perverse incentives. It also doesn't mean that people cannot take better care of themselves.
But to pretend that we can fix what ails our health system by finding the perfect economic incentives to animate doctors and patients is not only a waste of scarce policy and political bandwidth. It is fundamentally insulting to those who use the health system and those who help us. We patients are not greedy "consumers" trying to maximize our health benefit; rather we are frightened people seeking to regain control over our lives. Our caregivers are there because they want to help us do that.
Jeff Goldsmith is President of Health Futures, a strategy consultancy and Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia.
The focus must move—and move quickly—from treating people who are sick to helping them get and stay healthy. The only way that's going to happen is by getting patients and populations motivated to do the right things early instead of desperate things late.
The New Consumer World of Tools and Health Models
Health plans, in particular, have shifted responsibility onto consumers.
Kyle Rolfing, President and Co-Founder of Bright Health, and Jackie Auba, Vice President of Cigna's Customer Adoption and Personalization Strategy, will share this shift during the The New Consumer World of Tools and Health Models panel at the 11th Annual Health 2.0 Fall Conference.
At this session you'll also check out a demo from health optimization platform Welltok. Through population health management we are learning more about how to create wellness strategies and to stratify patient populations based on their conditions and adjust for nuances in age, race, diagnostic groups, and the like.
This type of information can inform care management and care coordination program designs that address cultural and educational issues as well as medical issues, showing patients what they need to do and dedicating resources to support them in those efforts.
Meet Consumers Where They Are
Interactions with the healthcare system are complex and critical, but the vast majority of our health is defined by our time away from traditional healthcare settings. As result, the market is booming with new technologies that empower consumers to seamlessly track, understand, and improve their health.
Given that there are 2.6 billion smartphone subscriptions worldwide today, and that by 2020 that number is expected to more than double to 6.1 billion, enabling communication via smartphone can pay multiple dividends.
At the 11th Annual Health 2.0 Fall Conference, we'll take a closer look at Google Play to understand how the company that already knows so much about us is working to help us with our health. We'll also see a demo of Curious from Linda Avey, CEO and Co-Founder of Precise.ly. Curious is not just another app. It helps consumers track data and chart experiences with sleep, autism and ME/CFS.
Register today for the Annual Fall Conference before rates go up after September 4th.]]>
Obamacare repeal and replace is going nowhere, despite seven years of promises by Republican members of Congress. For the foreseeable future, it will remain the law of the land, along with rising insurance premiums and deductibles and fewer plans to choose from. It's worth remembering the next time someone asks you for money to support Republican incumbents.
What if the airline industry could light the runway toward fixing one of the more onerous aspects of Obamacare? United Airlines has done just that. I don't mean dragging patients out of hospitals and doctors' offices as United did earlier this year on an airplane—a physician no less. Instead, United now offers a lower cost option for air travel. Let's apply it to healthcare.
United recently began offering "basic economy" fares, a lower cost option, compared to its "standard economy" fare. Suppose healthcare insurance companies did the same.
Obamacare requires that all insurance plans cover 10 "essential benefits." Some of these are common sense, including outpatient, hospital and emergency care. Others are beneficial to only some people—pregnancy, maternity and newborn care, mental health and substance-abuse treatment, and pediatric services.
A 60-year-old man doesn't need or want pregnancy coverage. A middle-aged couple with adult children can pass on pediatric coverage. A teetotaler won't want alcohol-rehab insurance. But all are forced to purchase this insurance they neither want nor need. That's like making Coloradans purchase hurricane insurance.
United recognized that not all its passengers want the benefits that go along with the higher-standard economy fare. Instead, they offer travelers the option of a lower cost fare with fewer perks. For example, standard fares earn miles toward premier status on United, whereas basic fares do not. For frequent flyers looking to achieve higher premier status, this may be important. Not so for infrequent travelers or those who typically fly another airline. Why make them pay for it?
Another difference is that the basic fare doesn't allow passengers to choose their seats or sit with their travel companions, unlike the standard fare. For a short flight, if you don't care where you sit and are OK with your travel companion sitting in a different row, why not save your money?
The idea is that United is giving passengers a choice, offering an alternative to their more expensive fares, the airline equivalent of "essential benefits." If passengers don't want or need expensive perks, why not let them opt out and pay less?
An amendment along these lines was proposed by Sen. Ted Cruz during the recent Senate debate on Obamacare repeal and replace. His idea was that insurance companies could sell pared-down, less expensive plans, as long as they also sold at least one plan that provided all the benefits.
For United, that would mean they could sell basic economy fares if they still sold standard economy, economy-plus and first-class tickets. Common sense.
How absurd that the government should tell a business what it can and cannot sell, forcing consumers to purchase what the government commands. United, instead, is offering a discounted fare with fewer benefits that is better able to meet the needs and pocketbooks of many of its travelers.
This could be a stand-alone piece of legislation. Perhaps along with a law requiring Congress and their staffs to purchase Obamacare plans. A simple way to ameliorate one of the more bothersome aspects of Obamacare. Not the repeal and replace we were promised, but at least some relief for Americans struggling to afford ever more costly Obamacare insurance.]]>
Is coffee good for you?
A recent headline suggested that people who drink coffee live longer. Sounds great to me. I drink a lot of coffee, so maybe I will be immortal. But, wait, another report links coffee to cancer. Dang.
Estrogens were once touted as a life saving elixir for women of elegant ages, until these hormone supplements were linked to increased cancer risk. Wine will either add to your life expectancy or increase chances of breast cancer. If you are married and have cancer, your outcome is better; you live longer (and can drink more wine). Eggs either kill you (dropping the value of egg futures) or do not hurt you at all, (prompting a financial rebound in chicken-by-product).
Each study and report alluded to above is erroneous.
Indeed, these claims are what I call "fake" medical news. My definition: if a medical report is either wrong or not provable, it is fake.
When Is Medical News Fake?
Fake news is a hotly debated topic regarding national political reporting. There is a reason I am extending this concept to reports of wrong or not provable medical information: it is imperative that you begin to look askance at most of the medical information presented to you in news reports.
If you Google "how to tell fake news" you will find enough reading material for the rest of your life and will also find, likely, that some of those articles are fake. Some say fake news is defined by intent to deceive; but this is not sufficient in my view. Some industry folks will tout a study on coffee or wine, for example, to boost sales of each; their intent is no less reprehensible than bald, bare, bold-face lying. Time to call a spade a spade.
But, how do we know what medical news is fake? That is a crucial question. Those worried about fake political news have offered suggestions for identifying "fakeness." Most of this advice focuses on validating sources, verifying claims, determining if the information actually comes from expert sources, discerning if quotes are legitimate or lifted out of context, and researching origins of any visual images to see if they've been doctored.
These "rules" from the political news world are not helpful, however, if you are reading medical news. Some of the most faulty and not provable information comes from legitimate medical journal sources or academic centers, include quotes from those excited about their wrong and not provable "research" findings, and provide distinctive, original pictures of their data.
Three Rules For Uncovering Fake Medical News
To uncover fake medical news, we need better rules. Here are three:
Let's try out these rules on the issue of whether coffee is good for us or not:
1. Is the item and outcome measurable?
What is "coffee drinking"? Is it drinking coffee black, or with cream and sugar? How is coffee imbibed; at one sitting, over the entire day, gulped or sipped? Is it Folgers in a Can or Starbucks? How much is a lot of drinking? Was the amount of coffee consumed observed by researchers or self-reported?
Science is about measurement, and if you can't define a measure, you don't have science.
2. What additional human traits or actions may cloud or confound the relationship between coffee consumption and life expectancy?
Who is rich enough to drink coffee these days? Is coffee part of a better diet? Was the entire diet/drinking history of each person known, besides their coffee consumption, and recorded? Did the imbibers ride their bikes to the coffee shop, or drink it at home? Are they new to drinking coffee, or have they been drinking all their life?
People vary in many ways; a report isolating one thing from many things about an individual is sure-fire fake medical news.
3. How was the study done?
Coffee consumption was not randomized to users. The study was an observational comparison (people who drank or did not drink were observed and not assigned to being a coffee drinker or not).
Observational comparison studies, rather than randomized studies, are nearly always fake, as observational studies cannot prove an independent contribution of the item being studied to the outcome of interest. In other words, if they happen to be true, we can't prove it. Hence, they are fake.
You can repeat these three steps every time you hear a medical report. Estrogens appeared helpful, for example, because the women who took them were healthier than average (confounded; second rule). The same is true about being married and cancer survival; married people are healthier and in better social-economic conditions. There is no proof that wine or eggs do anything to improve or harm our health, as all information on wine and egg consumption and their health benefits comes from observational comparison studies, not randomized scientific experiments (third rule).
Bottom line: if any of the three rules identifies a problem, you are reading fake medical news. I find that the first rule—is it measurable—busts many medical news reports.
I am being tough on medical news. I don't apologize. Your care is too important to be left to the chance of un-measurable, confounded and poorly studied information (Rules 1, 2 and 3).
If I were forced to offer a recommendation for your medical reading, it would be that you should not read or watch any medical news. Instead, you should partner with your physician when you are ill and focus on knowing the best information for your specific medical choices. That is how you will learn and how you will more likely get the best medical advice.]]>
It was an invitation too intriguing to refuse: fly to LA to participate in a "top-secret mission" related to digital health. Instructions? Bring workout clothes. Don't disclose your location. "We can't say much. Just enough for you to quickly pack your bags, fly to California and participate in an exclusive Apple Watch from Aetna event – all expenses paid." Generally, I'd file this type of message in the junk mail folder, but knowing that Apple takes secrecy seriously, I did some background sleuthing and decided it looked legit.
The mystery unfolded last week as I stepped into a black car at LAX with a secretive driver who joked that I and his other two passengers (who had received similar invites) would have to cover our faces as we drove through town. (Yikes!) When we arrived at a hip "concept" hotel I felt more at ease, and relaxed into enjoying the so-called mission with a glass of wine and some discussion of trends in the digital health industry. Over the course of a couple of days I was fortunate to join a group of new (and some old) friends to exchange ideas, take a challenging hike to the peak of Runyon Canyon Park, interact with Apple and Aetna execs, try out some new technologies, and get a glimpse of what both Aetna and Apple are envisioning for the future of digital health. I was assigned to one of several teams named after famous movies (in keeping with the Tinseltown theme) a personalized agenda, and some critical tools for the modern adventurer, including a bandana, water bottles, a phone charger, and, naturally, a selfie stick.
For about a year Aetna has used the Apple watch as part of an integrated wellness program available to its 50 thousand employees and those of several partner organizations it insures, such as Hartford HealthCare, which was represented among the participants in the mystery mission. Both companies are poised to expand the program.
Why all the secrecy? For Apple, it's par for the course (and mission participants still can't disclose all the details of what Apple shared), but this event was primarily arranged by Aetna for its own employees and a few key partners. Most of the 25 or so participants were staff from divisions throughout Aetna who had contributed to its partnership with Apple to date—some by inspiring others. For example, an Aetna employee named Nora lost more than 100 pounds in a year with support from the program. A handful of Aetna outsiders/digital health insiders were also included in the mission order to provide diverse perspectives and help generate new ideas.
In my opinion (though truthfully it remains a bit of a mystery) the top-secret approach was intended to enhance the fun factor for participants—and it worked. The experience was exciting, playful, and edgy, with a generous sprinkle of Hollywood glitter. If Aetna and Apple can harness that kind of energy to motivate people toward better health, more power to them. While I don't imagine Aetna and its partners will be rewarding large numbers of people with glitzy Californian adventures comparable to this one, the tone and content of the so-called mission shows that they are thinking outside of the proverbial box. Just as the Apple watch takes health and healthcare outside of the hospital and onto your wrist, Aetna is taking traditional workplace wellness programs well beyond the walls of the office.
Stay tuned for further thoughts on the Aetna Apple partnership and its implications for digital health.
Lygeia Ricciardi is President of Clear Voice Consulting, LLC. www.lygeia.com @Lygeia
Author's statement of conflict of interest: I am not employed by Aetna or Apple. While my participation in the event described was paid for by Aetna, I was not required or asked to write about her experience.
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The public comment period for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement will end on August 25, 2017. A version of this post will introduce the specific comments of Patient Privacy Rights. If you care about the promise of digital health and would like make longitudinal health records a reality, please consider submitting your comments as well.
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A bipartisan group of health policy experts has issued a call to action and well-thought-out consensus plan for insurance market stabilization and incremental reform.
The effort adds to the gathering momentum in Washington for urgent fixes to Obamacare, plus additional reforms that might bring conservatives into the fold and appeal across the partisan divide. What's still unclear, however, is whether the Trump administration and Republican leadership in Congress will go along. Outward signs suggest they won't, but this game is still changing by the day.
Trump continues to tweet-shame McConnell and the Senate Republicans for failing to repeal and replace the ACA, and conservatives in the House and Senate continue to insist they'll oppose any "bailout" of the insurance industry. (In no way is stabilizing the insurance marketplaces an insurer bailout, any more than tax support of Medicare Advantage plans are a bailout.)
Most recently, on August 11, the House Freedom Caucus called on House Speaker Paul Ryan to bring a "clean" Obamacare repeal bill to the floor this fall.
While this tense and chaotic game of chicken persists, insurers, state insurance commissioners, exchange administrators, most of the health care industry, and millions of consumers fret, wait for clarity, explore options, ready contingencies, and prepare for the worst for open enrollment 2018.
Hope rests largely on two efforts underway in Congress:
(1) Pledges by a growing number of Democrats and moderate Republican Senators to step in and act, led by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. He's planning hearings in Sept. aimed at quickly crafting bipartisan legislation to shore up the exchanges.
(2) A proposal by a bipartisan coalition of 43 House members dubbed the "Problem Solvers Caucus." The proposal shares a central thrust and actions and ideas with the policy experts' plan, as listed and discussed below.
The problem is time. When Congress returns from summer recess the week of Sept. 4, it has only a few weeks to approve legislation before the Sept. 27 deadline for insurers' to submit final proposals to states and the federal government to sell marketplace plans in 2018. The Trump administration can extend that deadline but that's viewed as unlikely. Open enrollment for 2018 starts Nov. 1 and ends Dec. 15.
Some observers think it's already too late to affect premiums for 2018. Insurers in almost every state have added supplemental premium increases (above those already planned) due to the uncertainty. Some states, like California, plan to telegraph loud and clear to consumers which plans are being hiked the most.
Courtesy of The Washington Post's Paige Cunningham and the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), out of 20 states (plus DC) that have released enough information to analyze, insurers in 15 have proposed rate hikes in the double digits. Insurer participation in the marketplaces is also down but not as much as anticipated a few months ago. An average of 4.6 carriers intend to sell plans in 2018 compared to 5.1 carriers this year and 6.2 in 2016 in those same 20 states and DC.
HHS predicted this month, however, that as many as one third of U.S. counties—and especially those in the rural western states—might have just one insurer in the exchange in 2018.
The policy think-tankers—from organizations as diverse as the Hoover Institute, Families USA, The American Enterprise Institute and Brookings—recommend the following:
* Fund the cost sharing reduction (CSR) payments. These payments to insurers help reduce deductibles and co-payments for low-income exchange enrollees—critical to affordability. The cost: $8 to $10 billion a year in 2018 and 2019. The Trump administration has been paying the CSR bill month-by-month amid litigation over the legality of the payments dating back to the Obama Administration. Trump has personally threatened to cut the CSR payments off unless Congress repeals the ACA. It's mainly these payments that some Republicans call a "bailout."
* Reassess the "3 Rs"—risk adjustment, risk corridors and reinsurance—as tried-and-true ways to stabilize the exchange markets. All were in the ACA and played a key role in holding premium increases down from 2014 to 2016. But the reinsurance and risk-corridor programs terminated at the end of 2016. Risk adjustment is permanent but has been administered poorly. HHS should "give states wider latitude to tailor risk adjustment methodologies for their particular markets," the group advises. HHS secretary Tom Price supports reinsurance, having invited all 50 governors in March to consider it as they sought to restrain premium increases.
* Continue enrollment assistance programs that inform consumers about the ACA benefits, and aid their enrollment.
* Address the needs of consumers in counties with no participating insurers in 2018 by permitting people to enroll in a plan sponsored by the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). FEHBP has a presence in every state because there are federal employees in every state. Insurers could be required, for example, to offer such plans in "bare counties" as a condition of FEHBP participation.
* Permit states to explore alternatives to the individual mandate. A compromise could involve "combining incentives to purchase health insurance with effective sanctions for not enrolling or not maintaining coverage, including financial penalties and waiting periods," the group said. The ACA's Section 1332 currently allows states to propose waivers to explore alternatives to the mandate. The group also recommends that Congress modify Section 1332 to allow states to "integrate federal funds used to cover low income children, adults, and families under Medicaid and CHIP and private insurance to improve coverage and care delivery."
* Permit states, more generally, to experiment with their health insurance markets. "We support enhanced financing flexibility for states that seek to increase access to affordable coverage for their low and moderate-income populations. Though we differ in our views regarding the scope of the guardrails that should be established, we encourage Congress to consult with states and others on how to refine the guardrails to provide enhanced flexibility."
* Extend federal funding through 2019 for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and community health centers.
* Expand, judiciously, health savings accounts (HSAs) and health reimbursement accounts (HRAs), including using HSA funds for premium payments and reforms that make pre-funded HSAs available to lower income people who choose to enroll in high-deductible health plans.]]>
As hospital consolidations sweep the nation, the monopolies being created are having a profound impact on life in small town America. Lee County, in Southern Georgia, is a little place with big dreams; they are resolutely determined to build a 60-bed community hospital and provide local residents with real choices. For years, two competing hospitals served the population of 200,000 spread over six counties: Phoebe-Putney and Palmyra Park. Phoebe-Putney Memorial Hospital put an end to that by securing a 939-bed hospital monopoly and an ample market share.
Their efforts began in 2003, when Phoebe-Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia successfully opposed a bid for a Certificate of Need (CON) to open an outpatient surgery center. Frustrated from a free-market perspective, accountant Charles Rehberg and a local surgeon, John Bagnato, began sending anonymous faxes to local business and political leaders, criticizing the financial activities of the local hospital. These faxes quickly gained notoriety, becoming known as "Phoebe Factoids." Concerned about negative publicity, Phoebe Putney executives hired former FBI agents to intimidate these men.
Undeterred, these two renegades discovered Phoebe-Putney Hospital was charging uninsured patients far more for services than insured patients. This brought widespread attention to the plight facing millions of uninsured Americans. Many began to question what obligation a nonprofit hospital has to provide charity care for those in need. Phoebe-Putney was caught using aggressive collection tactics, such as wage garnishment and the placing of liens on homes of patients unable to keep up with payments. Their experience inspired a documentary called "Do No Harm."
In-depth research uncovered millions hidden in offshore bank accounts disguised under the auspices of a non-profit— not only at Phoebe, but also at other non-profit hospitals across the country. As whistleblowers, Rehberg and Bagnato were subsequently targeted by Phoebe and indicted on fraudulent charges of telephone harassment, aggravated assault and burglary; charges without merit which were dismissed in 2006.
After successfully blocking the surgery center CON, Phoebe-Putney set its sights elsewhere looking to acquire the only other hospital facility in the surrounding six-county area: Palmyra Park. In 2011, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) attempted to block this proposal on the grounds that the combined entity would control in excess of 85% of the market share. Phoebes' CEO insisted hospital consolidation was necessary to deliver cost-effective, high-quality medical care, calling the merger "the right thing for citizens.'' The FTC argued the deal was anti-competitive (which it was) and health costs would increase significantly (which they did.) The FTC secured a preliminary injunction but Phoebe prevailed, arguing Georgia CON laws prohibited the sale of Palmyra Park to an independent entity.
Ultimately, the FTC was obligated to settle with Phoebe, making the dream of a hospital monopoly a reality. However, the settlement had three stipulations: 1) Public acknowledgement the acquisition would substantially lessen competition within the six-county market; 2) Phoebe was required to provide the FTC with prior notice of transactions acquiring any part of a general acute-care hospital, or controlling interest in other facilities; and 3) Phoebe was precluded from opposing CON applications from other entities for five years.
Barring Phoebe from challenging CON applications was an innovative solution to a monopolized region; however, Phoebe already handily dominated the market. The Certificate of Need process is expensive and time-consuming; therefore, legal experts anticipated this limitation alone would be ineffective in enticing new competitors to enter the region. Yet, predictions can sometimes be incorrect.
Enter the little county that could, a.k.a Lee County, Georgia, with its population of 29,000 and land mass of 362 square miles. The community and their steely resolve have yielded unexpectedly positive results. Lee County officials filed a Certificate of Need application for a 60-bed hospital earlier this year. The Lee County Development Authority will own the hospital structure and a separate entity will lease the facility. Services offered will include acute and emergency care, including an ICU, medical/surgical unit, inpatient and outpatient beds, and full radiology capabilities, such as CT and MRI. The hospital will create more than 350 "good-paying jobs" and provide access to health care for all, regardless of their ability to pay.
While Phoebe Putney agreed not to challenge a CON application until 2020, the settlement does not preclude engaging in "sneaky" public relations tactics. Phoebe commissioned a study to calculate the effect the Lee County Medical Center would have on the financial outlook for Phoebe-Putney. DHG Healthcare projected Phoebe will lose more than $250 million in revenue over five years. The firm found by the third year of operation, annual losses will be $30.1 million for inpatient care, $23.7 million in outpatient care, and $6.4 million for emergency care at Phoebe.
Lee County is on their way to achieving something extraordinary; challenging the dominance of a hospital monopoly. On July 21, 2017, the CON application for Lee County was deemed complete by the Georgia Department of Community Health. A decision is anticipated by Nov. 15. If granted, the county plans to break ground on the new structure in early 2018. The CEO of Lee County Medical Center, Mr. G. Edward Alexander, stated "Our goal is to ensure that decisions for the hospital are made locally by people who live and work in Lee County."
Lee County, I salute you. Medically underserved communities everywhere are supporting your efforts to transform the healthcare landscape for the better. May your success inspire a revolution, proving that healthcare can be repaired by patients, physicians, and communities – working together.


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Righty tosses seven shutout innings; second division title in 3 years
ATLANTA -- The Nationals will be playing baseball in October. They won their second National League East title in three seasons by blanking the Braves, 3-0, at Turner Field on Tuesday night.
"We are so proud of this organization," said Ted Lerner, managing principal owner of the Nationals. "Watching them clinch their second NL East division championship in three years means so much to our fans, our city and our family. [General manager] Mike Rizzo and [manager] Matt Williams should be commended for building and leading a championship club.
"Tonight, we celebrate this milestone but realize that there is still work to do and goals to accomplish. We are looking forward to the possibilities that lie ahead."
There was champagne and beer all over the locker room. There was Rizzo crediting his scouts and player-development people for the team's success. There was Bryce Harper wearing a fireman's helmet, spraying champagne and beer all over the locker room. What can one say about Williams? Even during the celebration, he was calm and refused to look ahead to the postseason. He would like to get home-field advantage before the regular season comes to an end.
"It's important," Williams said about home-field advantage."We'll give everybody a breather. We have some guys that are limping around a little bit, so we'll try to give them some breaks here and there. But we still want to compete. We want to stay as sharp as possible. That's a challenge. So we'll work it out starting tomorrow. We'll see where we can go."
In his first year as manager, Williams saw major players such as Harper, Ryan Zimmerman and Wilson Ramos miss significant time because of injuries. But the Nationals are now 12 1/2 games ahead of the Braves entering Wednesday's action.
"I'm not surprised [that we won big], because they played well and they worked hard," Williams said. "They do the things right on the field that allowed us a chance to win every day. For everybody that was lost and everybody that continues to miss time, like Zim, we'll work hard to get him back, we try to compensate for him and everybody that has been out for us this year.
"They have that mindset going in. But they try to win every night. They don't get beyond that. It's about tonight and tonight's game. Tomorrow will be about tomorrow. I'm proud that they have gone about it that way and persevered."
To win the NL East, the Nationals finally showed they can beat the Braves. After losing seven of the first eight games, Washington won seven out of the next 10 games. Clutch hitting was the reason for the turnaround for Washington, and it happened in the sixth inning Tuesday.
Shortstop Ian Desmond, a player drafted by the franchise when it was still the Expos in 2004, helped put the champagne on ice in the sixth. Braves right-hander Aaron Harang was on the mound when Jayson Werth started the inning with a walk. After Adam LaRoche struck out looking, Desmond came to the plate and hit a 2-2 slider over the left-field wall to give Washington a two-run lead.
In his previous two at-bats, Desmond struck out twice.
"I tried to keep my mind focused on the next AB, continue to work hard. I know good things are going to come," Desmond said.
In the eighth inning, it was Desmond who scored the third run on a wild pitch by reliever David Carpenter.
Right-hander Tanner Roark (14-10) knew what was at stake and he said that he was extra nervous. He was outstanding, though. He pitched seven shutout innings, allowed five hits and struck out four batters. The Braves did not have a runner in scoring position against him.
Roark couldn't help but think where he was 15 months ago. He was in the Minor Leagues, pitching for Triple-A Syracuse, trying to make a name for himself as a reliever.
"It's has been amazing road, and now we are the NL East champs," Roark said. "It's nothing I have ever fathomed. We played hard and we won. That's the type of team that we have."
The last two innings proved to be easy for Nationals relievers Tyler Clippard and Drew Storen, who blanked the Braves the rest of the way, with Storen picking up his seventh save of the season.
"You've got to congratulate them on winning the division," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "You've got to tip your hat, they've had a solid year. Good for Matt Williams and his coaching staff and the Washington Nationals. Yeah, you never want anybody celebrating on your field. But they did it professionally, and I didn't expect anything less from that organization."
According to ESPN, Tuesday marked the third time since 1969 that two MLB teams from the same metro area clinched a division title -- the Orioles wrapped up the American League East in Baltimore -- on the same day. The last time it happened was in 2004, when the Angels and Dodgers clinched.
Werth said it was great to bounce back from last season, but he wants that World Series ring.
"This is just one step. We have a long way to go. We still have something to play for during the regular season. We can enjoy the moment and celebrate, set up our rotation for the postseason," Werth said. "Home-field [advantage] is important, but it's not the end-all, be-all. We have a long way to go, whether we have home field or not."
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the time. He also could be found on Twitter @WashingNats. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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MOSCOW, July 24 (Itar-Tass) - U.S. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden cannot leave Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport's transit zone yet as no document allowing him to do so has so far been issued by the Federal Migration Service, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said on Wednesday, July 24.
"The question has not been solved yet… Snowden took it with understanding," he said after a meeting with the man at the airport.
Kucherena said, though, that Snowden wants to find a job in Russia.
The lawyer said he had brought Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" to Snowden. He thinks "he [Snowden] should read it, especially about Raskolnikov."
"I am not talking about the similarity of inner contradictions," Kucherena told Russia 24 television, adding that he had brought Chekhov's works "for dessert."
The lawyer entered the airport's transit zone through the entrance used by personnel only, carrying a large bag, in which he said there were "a pair of jeans and a couple of T-shirts for Snowden."
Snowden arrived at Sheremetyevo Airport from Hong Kong on June 23 and has been staying in its transition zone since then. He has applied for temporary asylum in Russia.
Earlier he had passed to the press information about mass electronic surveillance by the U.S. authorities under the PRISM programme and claimed that American security services watched and recorded people's actions and conversations even if they did nothing wrong.
He said security services were gathering information primarily about the users of popular search servers and social networks.
His stay in Russia has evoked a controversial reaction in the United States. Secretary of State John Kerry called for "calm and reasonableness" in dealing with the Snowden issue.
"We would hope that Russia would not side with someone who is a fugitive from justice. We're not looking for a confrontation. We are not ordering anybody," Kerry said.
The U.S. government keeps insisting on Snowden's extradition. However Most Russians think that Moscow should not extradite Snowden to the United States, according to a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM).
The poll was conducted on July 14 in 43 regions of Russia and involved 1,500 respondents. The margin of error does not exceed 3.6 percent.
"Thirty-nine of respondents believe that Russia should not extradite Snowden to the American authorities," the FOM said on Wednesday, July 17.
At the same time, 18 percent of those polled think that Snowden should be extradited to the United States. Fifty-nine percent are not aware of who Snowden is.
About 27 percent of Russians think that Russia should give political asylum to Snowden, while 23 percent are of the opinion that Moscow should not do this. One in two respondents was undecided.
Commenting on the issue of Snowden's possible extradition to the United States, President Vladimir Putin said earlier: "Mr. Snowden is a free man, and the sooner he chooses his final destination the better it is for us and for him. I hope it will not affect the business-like character of our relations with the U.S. and I hope that our partners will understand that."
Snowden will leave Russia as soon as such an opportunity presents itself but the situation remains unclear, Putin said.
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If it hadnt been for one,I would have still been running towards something..which I really did not want to do..
Im glad..that at that point in my life,I failed..
Even though I am still clueless on what I want to do..I atleast know what I definitely dont' want to do..
That's one hurdle less...
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UNHOLY ALLIANCE: ISIS merges with al Nursa, doubles its power in region
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
6/27/2014 (3 years ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
Thirty thousand men. Thirty thousand battle-tested, hardened combat veterans, religiously motivated, disciplined guerrilla fighters are not under the command of ISIS commanders in Syria and Iraq following an alliance between ISIS and the al-Nursa brigade. The situation has just escalated.
Leaders of the formerly rival factions seal their alliance with a handshake.
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
6/27/2014 (3 years ago)
Published in Middle East
Keywords: ISIS, al Nursa, al Qaeda, Iraq, Assyria, Iran
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Several media sources are now affirming that the al-Qaeda backed al-Nursa brigade of 15,000 fighters has allied with the 15,000 ISIS fighters to aid in the formation of an Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
Previously the two groups were reportedly at opposition as ISIS was disavowed by al-Qaeda for being too extreme. Now, the two groups have allied putting 30,000 battle-tested, fanatical guerrilla warriors in the terrorist camp under a unified command.
Let us pray for peace in this critical region.
Opposing them are possibly hundreds of thousands of poorly equipped, barely trained, Iraqi conscripts and volunteers. In Syria, a beleaguered and exhausted army holds its line against the terrorists. Pushed out of the conflict is the Free Syrian Army, an organization that simply wanted to free Syria from the oppressive rule of Bashir al Assad.
Now the people of the region are most likely to face life under a modern Islamic caliphate with ties to al-Qaeda and a special hatred of Israel and the United States.
Photographs of the leaders of both brigades have emerged, showing the men shaking hands and embracing.
This situation is eminently serious. Iraq no longer has the military capability to oppose a force of 30,000 insurgent fighters. These men are well-equipped, well-financed veterans of the brutal conflict in Syria. The Iraqi army has numbers, but that's about it. The absolute lack of training and equipment means those troops will be largely thrown away in any pitched battle.
Iraqi airpower will be a big help, but airstrikes have limited value against guerrilla fighters who can coalesce and disperse at the sound of approaching aircraft. If they can get their hands on credible surface-to-air equipment, then that calculus could also change for the worse.
The United States will need to have an interest in the region because the members of ISIS and al-Nursa have no interest in peaceful engagement with the rest of the world. These fighters believe in conversion by the sword, and are fighting to spread Islam around the globe. Although they are not invincible, their brutal tactics make up with fear what they lack in numbers. They are powerful out of proportion to their numbers.
It is likely the world will have to fight them man-to-man at some point if we are unwilling to tolerate the formation of a new Islamic state in the ancient lands of Nineveh.
Indeed, over 26 centuries ago the Assyrians formed an empire in that very region and dominated the known world with their military. Their chief weapon was fear. Anyone who opposed them would pay steeply as the Assyrians thought nothing of torturing and murdering opponents, including women and children. They made spectacles of such brutality and boasted about it in their writings and artwork.
It's difficult to avoid seeing the parallels. These terrorists are conquering lands and ruling them by fear, posting videos and pictures reveling in their brutality.
The ancient Assyrians were eventually conquered by a coalition of states, especially the Medes and Chaldean peoples, civilizations which occupied the present-day locations of Iraq and Iran.
Likewise, a similar coalition may be needed to oust these would-be neo-Assyrians from the same region. However, the effort will be both bloody and expensive. The other nations of the world may have to help. As ISIS and al-Nursa enjoy successes, their reputation and power will only grow. The world will have to prepare a way to deal with these people or choose to tolerate their presence and aggression for years to come.
We can rest certain they will not be still, nor will they abide the existence of those different from them, making it only a matter of time before they become a problem for everybody.
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