September 12, 2013
MIAMI (AP) — The Florida Department of Health has issued a memo telling county health departments to keep Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) navigators out of their offices.
Local health departments can accept public exchange brochures and other exchange outreach material, but they can distribute the materials only if consumers ask for information.
Agency officials said they sent the memo earlier this week to provide clarity for local departments about the exchange navigators because the navigators aren't acting on behalf of the state.
PPACA calls for the new public exchange system to open Oct. 1.
Florida bans navigators from county health offices | LifeHealthPro
Thursday, September 12, 2013
PPACA may pack bigger punch than RomneyCare | LifeHealthPro
September 4, 2013
A University of Colorado economist says new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requirements could hit employers about 12 times as hard as its Massachusetts predecessor. Some PPACA defenders have pointed to the relatively modest effects of the RomneyCare employer and individual mandates as evidence that it would only be a bump in the national economy.
But the economist, Casey Mulligan, concludes in a working paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research that RomneyCare imposed the equivalent of an increase of just $20 per month, or 0.4 percent of median earnings potential, on the typical Massachusetts labor income tax rate.The RomneyCare increase amounts to a big implicit tax on a small fraction of the Massachusetts population plus a small employer penalty, Mulligan writes.
PPACA could lead to the equivalent of a 4.9 percent increase in the typical labor income tax rate at the national level, Mulligan estimates. Read More...PPACA may pack bigger punch than RomneyCare | LifeHealthPro
New Roles for “Employers of Choice” | BenefitsPro
By Sponsor: Ameritas, Michael Scheetz, Vice President - Group Marketing, Ameritas Group Division
Admit it. Some days it would be nice if someone else made your difficult decisions, or if a problem would disappear simply by ignoring it. But unfortunately, decisions and problems are not resolved by wishful thinking. This describes the situation for many Americans regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
According to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 52 percent of respondents did not know the ACA was a law. Of this group, 12 percent thought Congress eliminated it, 7 percent believed the U.S. Supreme Court got rid of it, and 23 percent did not know whether or not the law existed.
Other recent surveys report that at least 65 percent of employee respondents want to choose their health insurance company, but three out of four expect their employers to help them understand their choices. Read more...New Roles for “Employers of Choice” | BenefitsPro
Admit it. Some days it would be nice if someone else made your difficult decisions, or if a problem would disappear simply by ignoring it. But unfortunately, decisions and problems are not resolved by wishful thinking. This describes the situation for many Americans regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
According to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 52 percent of respondents did not know the ACA was a law. Of this group, 12 percent thought Congress eliminated it, 7 percent believed the U.S. Supreme Court got rid of it, and 23 percent did not know whether or not the law existed.
Other recent surveys report that at least 65 percent of employee respondents want to choose their health insurance company, but three out of four expect their employers to help them understand their choices. Read more...New Roles for “Employers of Choice” | BenefitsPro
Workers Nudged to Health Exchanges Seen Costing U.S. Taxpayers
by: Alex Wayne September 12, 2013
About $6.7 billion in taxpayer money may be at risk if companies raise premiums by as little as $100 a month. That may spur as many as 2.25 million people to drop company coverage and enroll in plans under the Affordable Care Act, Stanford University researchers say.
International Business Machines Corp. and Time Warner Inc. say that they’ll give retirees a stipend to move to coverage in private health exchanges. Rising health care costs and the availability of new government coverage options may spur companies to similarly shift active workers out of employer-sponsored insurance.
The cost of the ACA “is much more sensitive than people previously appreciated” to employers’ decisions to drop coverage, says Jay Bhattacharya, an economist and Stanford associate professor of medicine. He published a study in the journal Health Affairs this week that shows about 37 million workers would get a better deal in the taxpayer-subsided exchanges next year than through their companies as employers raise or redistribute health costs.
Health Insurance Exchange
About $6.7 billion in taxpayer money may be at risk if companies raise premiums by as little as $100 a month. That may spur as many as 2.25 million people to drop company coverage and enroll in plans under the Affordable Care Act, Stanford University researchers say.
International Business Machines Corp. and Time Warner Inc. say that they’ll give retirees a stipend to move to coverage in private health exchanges. Rising health care costs and the availability of new government coverage options may spur companies to similarly shift active workers out of employer-sponsored insurance.
The cost of the ACA “is much more sensitive than people previously appreciated” to employers’ decisions to drop coverage, says Jay Bhattacharya, an economist and Stanford associate professor of medicine. He published a study in the journal Health Affairs this week that shows about 37 million workers would get a better deal in the taxpayer-subsided exchanges next year than through their companies as employers raise or redistribute health costs.
Health Insurance Exchange
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Al-Assad Calls Out Obama: ‘You’re Weak!’
Uh-Oh, he went there.
In an interview with a French publication, Syrian Dictator Bashar Al-Assad called out President Obama, calling him weak in the face of pressure within his country.“If Obama was strong, he would have said publicly: ‘We have no evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian state.’ He would have said publicly: ‘The only way to proceed is through UN investigations. We therefore refer everything to the Security Council.’ But Obama is weak because he is facing pressure from within the United States,”
As Obama delays, Al-Assad gets in his pot shot…but does he have a point? Is Obama weak? Let us know.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad called President Barack Obama “weak” in a new interview with a French publication on Monday, saying he is facing pressure from within the country.
Uh-Oh, he went there. In an interview with a French publication, Syrian Dictator Bashar Al-Assad called out President Obama, calling him weak in the face of pressure within his country.
“If Obama was strong, he would have said publicly: ‘We have no evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian state.’ He would have said publicly: ‘The only way to proceed is through UN investigations. We therefore refer everything to the Security Council.’ But Obama is weak because he is facing pressure from within the United States,”
As Obama delays, Al-Assad gets in his pot shot…but does he have a point? Is Obama weak? Let us know.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad called President Barack Obama “weak” in a new interview with a French publication on Monday, saying he is facing pressure from within the country.
- See more at: http://americanmilitarynews.com/2013/09/al-assad-calls-out-obama-youre-weak/#sthash.yMx9k5YT.5nd4JoAh.dpuf
“If Obama was strong, he would have said publicly: ‘We have no evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian state.’ He would have said publicly: ‘The only way to proceed is through UN investigations. We therefore refer everything to the Security Council.’ But Obama is weak because he is facing pressure from within the United States,”
As Obama delays, Al-Assad gets in his pot shot…but does he have a point? Is Obama weak? Let us know.
____________
Syrian President Bashar Assad called President Barack Obama “weak” in a new interview with a French publication on Monday, saying he is facing pressure from within the country.
- See more at: http://americanmilitarynews.com/2013/09/al-assad-calls-out-obama-youre-weak/#sthash.yMx9k5YT.5nd4JoAh.dpuf
In an interview with a French publication, Syrian Dictator Bashar Al-Assad called out President Obama, calling him weak in the face of pressure within his country.
“If Obama was strong, he would have said publicly: ‘We have no evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian state.’ He would have said publicly: ‘The only way to proceed is through UN investigations. We therefore refer everything to the Security Council.’ But Obama is weak because he is facing pressure from within the United States,”
As Obama delays, Al-Assad gets in his pot shot…but does he have a point? Is Obama weak? Let us know.
- See more at: http://americanmilitarynews.com/2013/09/al-assad-calls-out-obama-youre-weak/#sthash.yMx9k5YT.5nd4JoAh.dpuf
“If Obama was strong, he would have said publicly: ‘We have no evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian state.’ He would have said publicly: ‘The only way to proceed is through UN investigations. We therefore refer everything to the Security Council.’ But Obama is weak because he is facing pressure from within the United States,”
As Obama delays, Al-Assad gets in his pot shot…but does he have a point? Is Obama weak? Let us know.
- See more at: http://americanmilitarynews.com/2013/09/al-assad-calls-out-obama-youre-weak/#sthash.yMx9k5YT.5nd4JoAh.dpuf
In an interview with a French publication, Syrian Dictator Bashar Al-Assad called out President Obama, calling him weak in the face of pressure within his country.
“If Obama was strong, he would have said publicly: ‘We have no evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian state.’ He would have said publicly: ‘The only way to proceed is through UN investigations. We therefore refer everything to the Security Council.’ But Obama is weak because he is facing pressure from within the United States,”
As Obama delays, Al-Assad gets in his pot shot…but does he have a point? Is Obama weak? Let us know.
- See more at: http://americanmilitarynews.com/2013/09/al-assad-calls-out-obama-youre-weak/#sthash.yMx9k5YT.5nd4JoAh.dpuf
“If Obama was strong, he would have said publicly: ‘We have no evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian state.’ He would have said publicly: ‘The only way to proceed is through UN investigations. We therefore refer everything to the Security Council.’ But Obama is weak because he is facing pressure from within the United States,”
As Obama delays, Al-Assad gets in his pot shot…but does he have a point? Is Obama weak? Let us know.
- See more at: http://americanmilitarynews.com/2013/09/al-assad-calls-out-obama-youre-weak/#sthash.yMx9k5YT.5nd4JoAh.dpuf
In an interview with a French publication, Syrian Dictator Bashar Al-Assad called out President Obama, calling him weak in the face of pressure within his country.
“If Obama was strong, he would have said publicly: ‘We have no evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian state.’ He would have said publicly: ‘The only way to proceed is through UN investigations. We therefore refer everything to the Security Council.’ But Obama is weak because he is facing pressure from within the United States,”
As Obama delays, Al-Assad gets in his pot shot…but does he have a point? Is Obama weak? Let us know.
- See more at: http://americanmilitarynews.com/2013/09/al-assad-calls-out-obama-youre-weak/#sthash.yMx9k5YT.5nd4JoAh.dpuf
“If Obama was strong, he would have said publicly: ‘We have no evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian state.’ He would have said publicly: ‘The only way to proceed is through UN investigations. We therefore refer everything to the Security Council.’ But Obama is weak because he is facing pressure from within the United States,”
As Obama delays, Al-Assad gets in his pot shot…but does he have a point? Is Obama weak? Let us know.
- See more at: http://americanmilitarynews.com/2013/09/al-assad-calls-out-obama-youre-weak/#sthash.yMx9k5YT.5nd4JoAh.dpuf
In an interview with a French publication, Syrian Dictator Bashar Al-Assad called out President Obama, calling him weak in the face of pressure within his country.
“If Obama was strong, he would have said publicly: ‘We have no evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian state.’ He would have said publicly: ‘The only way to proceed is through UN investigations. We therefore refer everything to the Security Council.’ But Obama is weak because he is facing pressure from within the United States,”
As Obama delays, Al-Assad gets in his pot shot…but does he have a point? Is Obama weak? Let us know.
- See more at: http://americanmilitarynews.com/2013/09/al-assad-calls-out-obama-youre-weak/#sthash.yMx9k5YT.5nd4JoAh.dpuf
Al-Assad Calls Out Obama: ‘You’re Weak!’
“If Obama was strong, he would have said publicly: ‘We have no evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian state.’ He would have said publicly: ‘The only way to proceed is through UN investigations. We therefore refer everything to the Security Council.’ But Obama is weak because he is facing pressure from within the United States,”
As Obama delays, Al-Assad gets in his pot shot…but does he have a point? Is Obama weak? Let us know.
- See more at: http://americanmilitarynews.com/2013/09/al-assad-calls-out-obama-youre-weak/#sthash.yMx9k5YT.5nd4JoAh.dpuf
3 things business must do to save American jobs
The Great Recession has masked the fact that employers and employees are headed for a “jobs cliff” at breakneck speed. In these excerpts from his new book, “Future Jobs,” workforce development expert Edward Gordon describes the danger of the coming talent train wreck and how to prevent it.
3 things business must do to save American jobsMonday, August 26, 2013
Our Surgeon General needs to slap a warning label on Facebook
The data now exist for Acting Surgeon General Rear Admiral Boris D. Lushniak
, M.D., MPH to place a warning label on the Facebook homepage, not unlike that which exists on packages of tobacco cigarettes.
Facebook has been linked, in numerous clinical trials both here and around the world, to feelings of intense envy, dissatisfaction with life, insomnia, major depression, disrupted friendships and feelings of isolation -- especially in young people.
Facebook may well be addictive, as well—just like tobacco.
, M.D., MPH to place a warning label on the Facebook homepage, not unlike that which exists on packages of tobacco cigarettes.Facebook has been linked, in numerous clinical trials both here and around the world, to feelings of intense envy, dissatisfaction with life, insomnia, major depression, disrupted friendships and feelings of isolation -- especially in young people.
Facebook may well be addictive, as well—just like tobacco.
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