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Ebola Airport Checks Expand As Health Care Workers Get Training – Video

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Under the rule going into effect Wednesday, air travelers from the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea must enter the United States through one of five airports doing special...

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Friday 10/24: Breaking Health News; Doc on a Dime; Solving a 30-Year Skin Mystery – Show Promo – Video

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Health care worker monitored for Ebola in New Jersey

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NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A health care worker who treated Ebola patients in West Africa was put in quarantine at a New Jersey hospital after developing a fever.

The female health care worker, whose name wasn't reported, didn't have any symptoms of the Ebola virus Friday when she arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport.

But that changed.

"This evening, the health care worker developed a fever and is now in isolation and being evaluated at University Hospital in Newark," New Jersey health department spokeswoman Donna Leusner told CNN.

The woman, who does not live in New Jersey, has not tested positive for Ebola. She has been isolated at University Hospital in Newark.

Earlier in the day, the governors of New Jersey and New York institute a new quarantine policy, under which any passenger who had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa would be placed in quarantine for 21 days. This policy goes into effect regardless of if the traveler appears healthy.

The health care worker was the first person to be quarantined under the new measures.

The new policy came on the heels of a positive Ebola diagnosis of a Doctors Without Borders physician Dr. Craig Spencer who tested positive for Ebola Thursday.

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McHenry County Board's rejection of health care grant could flood ERs, agencies say

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WOODSTOCK McHenry County Board members are rethinking a controversial vote that stripped grant funding that covered Affordable Care Act counselors, as local health service agencies thrashed the original decision Friday.

Acting board Chairman James Heisler, R-Crystal Lake, said he and several others will meet at noon Monday to discuss how to revisit the grant, and whether it can wait until Nov. 6 or whether a special meeting is needed.

Member Donna Kurtz, R-Crystal Lake, also said a re-vote likely will happen after talking to other board members. She said an Illinois Department of Public Health grant coordinator agreed to temporarily hold off on distributing a $584,791 state grant elsewhere to allow for a re-vote.

"A lot of County Board members are now recognizing that we need to reassess this whole situation," Kurtz said.

On Tuesday, the County Board voted 10-10 to turn down the $584,791 grant from the state health department that would have covered the counselors, who help enroll people through the state health care exchange. Kurtz voted for the grant funding while Heisler voted against it.

The proposal needed 16 votes to pass. Some members, who voted for the grant, said the 10 other members voted against it to protest Obamacare.

Numerous health service agencies warned Friday that their clients will turn to the emergency room for primary care without health care counselors assisting clients through the complicated Affordable Care Act application process.

In a newsletter released Friday, Suzanne Hoban, executive director of the Family Health Partnership Clinic, said the local health care group already laid-off its navigator, who the agency paid through the grant.

"We immediately had to lay off our trained navigator and will no longer be able to assist people through this complex process," Hoban said in the newsletter.

"Without assistance to get people private insurance or public aid, we expect the number of patients we serve to increase, and many more to use the emergency room as their primary care clinic, wasting precious local health resources," she added.

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A Retiree Health-Care Fix That Isnt

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Since the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010, supporters and opponents have argued about whether the measure would lead employers to drop health coverage for workers. This issue has returned to the news; Wal-Mart recently decided to drop coverage for some of its part-time workers, and The Wall Street Journalreportedthis week that some firms, seeking to avoid employer penalties under the law,have encouraged employees to enroll in Medicaid.

While their private-sector counterparts have received more attention, public-sector employeesparticularly retireescould face similar problems with dropped coverage. The Atlantic reported last weekon the trend of cities in financial distress, from Detroit to Chicago to Sheboygan, Wis., reducing or eliminating coverage and seeking to use the insurance exchanges to get out of their health-care obligations to retirees. As one pension expert quoted in the Atlantic noted, every public-sector employer is looking at the exchanges as a potential way to get out of the unfunded liabilities that the public sector is bearing.

But transferring state and municipal retirees to insurance plans on the exchanges doesnt reduce the amount of unfunded liabilities; it shifts the cost from state and local governments to Washington. Many of the retirees in question could qualify for federal premium and cost-sharing subsidies for their exchange insurance policies. Even by Washington standards, the magnitude of the problem is daunting: A 2012 Pew study found that state governments held $627 billion in unfunded retiree health obligations; adding local government health plans could push those obligations toward $1 trillion.

State governments are grappling with a difficult revenue environment, while the federal government faces long-term fiscal challenges caused by demographic shifts. Given these dynamics, what looks to some mayors like a quick fix to their budget woesshifting retirees to the federal exchangescould, in the broader fiscal sense, amount to shifting deck chairs on the Titanic. If efforts by cities and states ultimately encourage private-sector firms to drop health coverage for their workers and retirees, they will add to our nations collective entitlement obligationsand could end up sinking our federal fiscal ship.

Chris Jacobs is policy director ofAmerica Next, a conservative think tank. He is onTwitter:@chrisjacobshc.

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Skin Storyteller Niki talks about the role health care professionals played in her recovery – Video

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Niki has experienced a 4 inch scar to her face in addition to a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction. She shares her insight on living with scars and the advice she received from health...

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