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Christina Allen: I woke up from Balloon Sinuplasty, and I could breathe. – Video

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Effects of health care compensation in Lincoln County

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The number of claims being submitted for indigent health care by providers outside of the Lincoln County Medical Center is declining as more people become eligible and sign up for Medicaid in New Mexico, the county indigent health care director told Lincoln County commissioners.

During Scott Annala's monthly report, Commissioner Mark Doth said he understood that beginning July 1, the first day of the new fiscal year, Annala will be shifting terminology and the county is going to lose 1/12th of its gross receipts tax.

"We will lose a (the equivalent of) 1/12th gross receipts tax wherever you decide to take that from, Annala said. "It could my indigent budget. It could be the mill levy. It can be whatever tax base you want to pull that from," Annala said. "You will have to enact an ordinance effective July 1. The new (state Senate) bill states counties shall enact an ordinance to dedicate one-twelfth of the gross receipts tax. It doesn't say from where, gross receipts or tax base, in my opinion. I will have to do some correcting of terminology as far as the Sole Community Provider program, which is gone. Any claims basically after January, will be the Safety Net Care Pool."

The changes are tied to the state's agreement with the federal government under the Affordable Health Care Act.

Lincoln County voters several years ago approved a 1/8th of a cent GRT to help pay for health care by independent providers and every seven years, voters are asked to reinstate a 3 mill property tax for the Lincoln County Medical Center's portion of the Sole Community Provider program. The tax often was used to pay the county hospital's portion of the program, which returned up to $4 at one point for every $1 spent on uncompensated care. One mill equates to $1 for each $1,000 of taxable property value. The Lincoln County Medical Center in Ruidoso is the only hospital in the county, therefore a sole community provider.

Annala told commissioners that Senate Bill 268, which pledges 1/12th of a cent GRT to the state from each county to offset uncompensated care, was signed by the governor, but she was not pleased with the county portion. State officials wanted a 1/8th of a cent GRT.

Commissioner Dallas Draper asked if the governor vetoed any portion of the bill.

Annala said vetoes usually are limited to funding issues, but Gov. Susana Martinez struck out language in the bill.

"She struck out the sunset clause," he said. "We wanted to continue this for three years, but she struck that out. She wanted it permanent. We wanted to revisit it in three years and come up with something a little better, instead of this rush job we pushed through. If this is going to be permanent, our taxing authorization does allow taxing an additional 1/12th of a cent, but that goes away in three years. If this is a permanent thing and we're only authorized to tax for three years, what are we going to be doing in three years? Where is the county going to be pull it from?"

The legality of the entire bill is being questioned by the New Mexico Association of Counties, he said.

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Cokie Roberts takes on health topics with gusto

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Physicians, health care executives and students filled historic Wallenberg Hall at Augustana College in Rock Island on Thursdayto hear Cokie Roberts take a no-holds-barred approach to the politics of health care.

Roberts, 70, is a contributing senior news analyst for National Public Radio, of which WVIK-FM at Augustana is an affiliate. She also is a roundtable analyst for the ABC-TV Sunday morning news show "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

Despite fighting a cold, her address at "Current Events and Health Care" was nonetheless energetic, delivered in language the audience easily understood.

Roberts said the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, is huge, complex and not well-understood by most Americans.

An estimated 70 percent of Americans are not affected by Obamacare because they have health insurance in the first place. But that does not prevent many from "fearing what might come from it," she said.

Roberts was introduced to the crowd by Rick Seidler, the president and CEO of UnityPoint Health-Trinity.

Seidler pointed out that the health care system's counselors have signed up thousands of Illinois and Iowa residents for health insurance in the past few months.

Stories of people who have gained coverage, often for the first time, are "very heartening," he said.

Some of the other topics Roberts addressed were:

Roberts spoke Thursday night at a sold-out fundraising dinner for WVIK at the Hotel Blackhawk in Davenport and will make an appearance from 10 to 11:30 a.m. today at Christ the King Chapel on the campus of St. Ambrose University in Davenport at an event celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Congregation of the Humility of Mary.

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Chilliwack Hospital and Health Care Foundation narrows mandate

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When the Chilliwack Hospital and Health Care Foundation (CHHCF) launched in May 2012, it cast itself as a whole new kind of health-care foundation, one that would work to improve the health of local residents by focusing on local community-based projects instead of hospital equipment and bricks and mortar alone.

We want to facilitate new programs or ones that are existing that are preventive, that keep people out of hospitals, then-executive director Donna Dixson told the Times two years ago.

The organization set out four pillars in its mandate to improve local health: children and youth, seniors, hospital initiatives and community health.

Despite enthusiasm and local buy-in for that mandate from a wide range of community partners, however, the foundation announced this month it had decided to get back to focusing its fundraising efforts on the hospital.

At the recent strategic planning session, the CHHCF reconfirmed that Chilliwack General Hospital is a vital part of our community, and must remain the primary mandate of the CHHCF, a March 5 press release stated. A natural outcome of this decision was to restructure the CHHCFs focus on fundraising to provide increased support of our hospital.

As part of the restructuring, the CHHCF announced it had offloaded its Healthy Kids Initiative to the Chilliwack Division of Family Practice, a non-profit society that represents local family doctors.

Dixson was at a loss to explain what prompted the move, which also eliminated her position.

I really cant answer that question. I dont know, she said. We had achieved amazing things in a very short period of time. We were the envy of many organizations, and the partnerships we established were just nothing short of amazing, and anyone that worked with us couldnt believe what we were able to do. But perhaps it wasnt the right organization to be doing it. I think thats what we have to keep in mind. Thats why Im so excited that the Chilliwack Division of Family Practice is willing to take on the health promotion.

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Genetically modified crops are often viewed with suspicion by the people, and hence there is a greater responsibility on the companies developing these transgenic crops to follow the laid down protocols in letter and spirit, former co-chairman of Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), Arjula R. Reddy, said.

To ensure the safety of the transgenic crops and compliance of guidelines by companies there is an urgent requirement to appoint independent, fulltime regulators in the bodies like GEAC, he said.

Each crop has a potential to yield more than what it produces in a farm, and to feed the burgeoning population it is necessary to reduce the gap between potential yield and the farm yield. Genetic modification plays a crucial part in this process of increasing the yield, he explained.

Prof. Reddy was delivering the keynote lecture at an awareness workshop on Biosafety procedures for recombinants and genetically modified crops held here on Wednesday.

Rice crops yield just 25 percent of their potential and wheat varieties produce just 18 percent of their potential. When compared to these, the latest maize varieties have a yield of about 75 percent of their potential. This indicates that farm output can be increased to a great extent, he said.

If transgenic crops are dangerous for human consumption, the American population would have been affected by now as that country has been consuming high yielding transgenic varieties for many years, he pointed out.

Terming the questions being posed by few people on the safety of genetically modified crop varieties as mainly philosophic, Prof. Reddy said that the scientists should instead ensure that the newly developed molecule is what it is supposed to be.

It is imperative for us to develop safe, but high yielding, genetically modified crop varieties. To ensure this we need a robust Biosafety testing setup and stringent regulatory framework, Prof Reddy added. To ensure that a better regulatory setup is created, academics should start training some of their students in regulatory procedures, he suggested.

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Understanding exponentiality in a digital society: Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard explains – Video

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