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Since its launch in the Acadiana region in late 2011, the Louisiana Health Information Exchange has grown to include signed participation agreements more than 180 health care providers, hospitals,...
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Mayor de Blasio and UFT Reach Preliminary Agreement on 9-year Contract
Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced the City of New York and the United Federation of Teachers have reached a preliminary contract agreement. The 9-year agreement will implement a number...
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Some Democrats are optimistic that the new health-care law is shifting from a political liability to more neutral ground in this years U.S. elections.
With enrollments in insurance plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act rising and polls showing that most Americans want to keep the law, Democrats are increasingly encouraged that they have defused some of the criticism over the botched rollout of Obamacare last year.
The American people fundamentally reject the Republican argument that we should repeal the Affordable Care Act, White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said yesterday on a conference call. We feel good about how well transact that argument.
The number of people signing up for private insurance under the law has surged, with 910,000 in the last month alone. In total, 8 million people bought coverage on federal marketplaces through April 19, the government said on May 1.
Republicans have repeatedly tried to repeal the law and have made it a central issue in the midterm elections. While the increased enrollments have failed to build a wave of support for Obamacare and many Democrats are avoiding the issue, the public wants to keep it largely intact.
Just 21 percent of Americans want Obamacare totally eliminated, while 40 percent said it needs minor modifications, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll conducted April 23-27. At the same time, 46 percent said the law was a bad idea, compared with 49 percent the previous month. Thirty-six percent said it was a good idea.
In this years congressional elections, Democrats in at least four states are cautiously embracing the new law by highlighting the negative consequences if Republicans were to follow through on their promise to repeal it.
In Alaska, a spot by an outside group backing Democratic Senator Mark Begich features a breast cancer survivor running on frozen trails.
I now have health insurance again because of Mark Begich, says the woman in the commercial.
Representative Allyson Schwartz, a Pennsylvania Democrat running for governor, ran an ad highlighting her work on the health-care bill.
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The number of patients visiting Riverside Countys safety-net hospital and its network of 10 clinics dropped about 11 percent after the Affordable Care Act kicked into full gear Jan. 1.
County officials believe people who previously relied on Riverside County Regional Medical Center for health care are exploring other options, and they hope theyll come back once they see the quality of care the Moreno Valley hospital provides.
In an email, county spokesman Ray Smith wrote that patient numbers have stabilized. Even with a severe December flu season behind us (meaning higher patient loads), the hospital is beginning to see an uptick in our volumes as some patients return and new patients come in, he wrote.
Still, the drop is bad news for the county hospital, which is struggling to make ends meet. The medical center has been projected to end the fiscal year June 30 with a $36 million shortfall.
If the hospital cant sustain itself, the county Board of Supervisors will be forced to make up the difference. That could mean less money for other needs, including new jail beds to prevent the early release of inmates.
The board already has taken steps to fix the hospitals finances. The management team was replaced and an interim CEO was brought in at a cost of $46,000 a month. Lowell Johnsons specialty is turning around troubled hospitals.
In addition, supervisors approved a contract worth up to $26 million last November with Huron Healthcare, a Chicago-based health care consulting firm. Huron experts are at the hospital exploring ways to raise revenue and cut costs.
About 9.3 million people nationwide have gotten health insurance since Sept. 2013, according to a report from the RAND Corp. In California, officials report 3.3 million now have private insurance or Medi-Cal, a state/federal insurance program for the poor.
The county hospital has traditionally been the only place indigent residents could go for treatment; patients are seen regardless of ability to pay. But that will change, senior county staff said, with Obamacare giving coverage to the previously uninsured.
To ensure the hospital continues to bring in patients and revenue, officials have said it needs to compete for health care dollars. Part of the strategy is to forge agreements with private insurers to steer their policy-holders to the hospital.
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MINOCQUA - You can now grab one of the most famous donuts in the Northwoods.
Paul Bunyan's Cook Shanty in Minocqua opened its doors Friday morning.
The line for donuts had already started by 7 a.m. The manager tells us the most important part of opening is preparing its employees.
"It's a lot of work. We have to look at employment of course. We get a lot of returns and we get some new, fresh faces. [We have to] make sure they're all trained and ready to go," said Mike Tonne, Paul Bunyan's Cook Shanty Manager.
If you're stopping by the 53 year-old business, you can expect to see new items in the gift shop.
After a long winter, Tonne believes business will be strong.
"We're seasonal so we do see a switch from people gearing up from winter and then having an opportunity to come in. They do come back in the summer and spend time with us," said Tonne. "I think it's going to be a good year. I really think that the tourism is [picking] up, the economy is turning around and I think it'll be good."
As for those famous donuts, Tonne shared the secret ingredient.
"They're made with a lot of love."
Breakfast at Paul Bunyan's starts at 7 a.m. with lunch following at noon. There is a second location in Wisconsin Dells.
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Gene therapy for haemophilia - Professor Amit Nathwani
A Medicine for Members talk given on 22 April 2014 at the Royal Free Hospital by Professor Amit Nathwani.
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Cochlear Implant Gets an Upgrade with Gene Therapy
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The Internet as we know it is over: Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard ITU Telecom World
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Today, the New York Times asked seven entrepreneurs and tech executives about what's in store for the future. It's a fascinating snapshot of futurist thinking in 2014. But these aren't just the dreams of tomorrow most of them are the dreams of yesterday's tomorrows as well.
This isn't to say that all of these predictions are doomed to fail. In fact, most of them seem quite plausible. But it's important to put them in a historical context anytime we're prognosticating. Nobody can predict the future with absolute certainty, and that's actually what makes futurism so fun.
Below I've taken a small sample of the 2014 predictions published at the New York Times and dropped in a few similar predictions from history. Honestly, this list doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. But it's a reminder that we've been promised many of these things before.
2014: "Personalized medicine. Imagine a unique drug that's printed for you and your condition based on your individual gene sequencing." [Reid Hoffman]
1997: "Around 2012, a gene therapy for cancer is perfected. Five years later, almost one-third of the 4,000 known genetic diseases can be avoided through genetic manipulation." [July 1997 issue of Wired magazine]
1996: "In fact, it could be possible within 10 yearsand certainly within 20for you to carry around a smart card containing your complete genetic makeup. You would bring it with you when visiting your doctor, and the doctor would use it to prescribe medications or other treatments to meet your own specific needs. This is one example of the overarching trend of technology becoming more personalized in the decade ahead." [July-August 1996 The Futurist magazine]
2014: "Higher education." [Ev Williams]
1935: "We will undoubtedly have lectures of every conceivable kind present to us right in our homes, when practical television arrives, possibly a year or two off. Mathematics, geometry, and dozens of other subjects will be 'apple pie' so far as broadcasting them through the air by radio is concerned, when television is available for the purpose, compared to the present situation when it is quite impractical to attempt giving lectures on geometry or other subjects, which really require diagrams or pictures to make them clear to the uninitiated." [April 1935 Short Wave Craft magazine]
2014: "Keys." [Sebastian Thrun]
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When we think about futurism, often we imagine cutting-edge technologies like bionic arms or weather machines for colonizing Mars. But if we really want to make it for another few centuries, we're going to need something that Iran has already got.
To understand Iran's breakthrough, we need to go back in time to 1993, when President Obama's science adviser John Holdren was trying to figure out how big the world's population could get before there was a major energy crisis. A respected environmental scientist, Holdren offered up a famous scenario based on the world's population at that time.
At that time, Earth held 5.5 billion people (compared to today's 7 billion), who consumed 13 terawatts of energy annually. Of course, they were not consumed equally: people in the developing world consumed on average 1 kilowatt per person, while people in the developed world consumed 7.5. Holdren suggested that given current population growth rates, the world would need 8 times more energy to fuel its 14 billion people by the end of the twenty-first century. Which would mean total collapse of the ecosystem, peak oil, and likely both.
That sounded crazily horrific, so Holdren asked what would happen if the population only boomed to 10 billion, and everybody had equal access to energy. Even if everybody only used on average 3 kilowatts, the world would still require 30 terawatts of energy annually by the end of the twenty-first century.
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Following up on Holdren's research, population biologists Paul Ehrlich, Ann Ehrlich and environmental scientist Gretchen Daily decided to reverse engineer the scenario. They wanted to figure out what the ideal population size would be, if we wanted people to have access to 3 kilowatts, without destroying the environment. In their calculations, they assumed a twenty-first century where people would adopt more carbon-neutral sources of energy, like solar. They also assumed that some animals would go extinct, but that enough would be brought back from the edge of extinction that our ecosystems would remain stable.
The result? The Ehrlichs and Daily found that the most the planet could bear at that level of energy use would be 2 billion people, roughly the world's population in the 1930s.
Confronted with numbers like that, it's tempting to throw up your hands and give up on humanity's future. How could we ever get the world's population back down to 2 billion from its current 7 billion? Actually, it can be done and it's been done before, on a smaller scale.
A few years before Holdren described his population scenario, there was already one country in the world whose leaders were deeply worried about the economic and environmental costs of rising population. In Iran, during the 1980s conflict with Iraq, the Ayatollah Khomeini instituted new government regulations that encouraged women to have as many children as they could to build a "Twenty Million Man Army." As a result, Iran's population grew from 37 million people in 1979, to 50 million in 1986. This was, according to journalist Alan Weisman, "the highest rate of population increase the world had ever seen."
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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite - Online Quests -- Part 7: Seafood Skirmish
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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite | Episode 162 | G Rank | Hunter #39;s Funeral | Khezu, Plesioth, Diablos
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New Earth Future Freedom Music: Transition(432 Hz) Present Time History Age Shift
This freedom music is about the present time in history (2014) and the age shift for the new earth #39;s future. The title of the tune is: Transition (recorded with 432 Hz tuning), it is a kind...
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Monster Hunter Freedom Unite - Online Quests -- Part 8: Objective Cleared?
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You Can Help Defend Religious Freedom - TV Special
Watch inspiring stories of ordinary Americans who stood up for religious freedom. Kirk Cameron is your host. You can Help Now. https://www.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/religious-freedom-tv.
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Lucy #39;s Debt Freedom Story - A Total Debt Freedom Review
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