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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Health care co-op closings narrow consumers’ choices

About a third of alternative health insurers created under President Barack Obama’s health care law to spur competition and make coverage less expensive for consumers are shutting down. Only 14 of the so-called cooperatives are still standing, some precariously.
CA: California fire prevention fee may undermine local efforts

sacbee.com

California levies a fee on properties in rural, fire-prone areas to help pay for wildfire mitigation. Local officials contend the fee has undermined local agencies' ability to raise their own money for fire protection and prevention efforts.
PA: Juvenile offenders in Pennsylvania given psychiatric drugs at high rates

publicsource.org

An analysis of Pennsylvania’s youth correctional facilities found that during a seven-year period enough antipsychotic medications were ordered to treat a third of the state’s confined youth.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This was the plan from the beginning. We are headed to the single payer system that will ration care. I have already witnessed an increase in denials for medical care for older adults on medicare and medical assistance. Care that would have been provided 2 years ago is now much harder to secure.

Anonymous said...

All the dumb white people who voted for PRESIDENT OF SH $$ got what's coming to them.

Anonymous said...

That's exactly right 2:31. Wait until they hear they have 6 weeks left to live because the cancer screening ages have been upped. You can still get tested but unless you are of a certain age you will have to pay for it out of your own pocket. Yep when these obamacare supporters are told to get their house in order and to start planning their funeral because their bodies are eaten up with cancer they will learn. Experience is the best teacher for fools.