Jim Gray, the vice president candidate on the 2012 Libertarian presidential ticket, will speak in Reno and Carson City on Thursday.
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Libertarian White House hopeful in Salt Lake City for town hall
In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 file photo, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson speaks at a news conference during which he announced he is leaving the Republican Party in favor of seeking a presidential nomination as a Libertarian, at the State Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M. (AP Photo/Albuquerque Journal, Eddie Moore)
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson in Salt Lake City for town hall
Politics Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson to appear at Challenger School.
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Libertarian presidential hopeful Gary Johnson will be Salt Lake City on Tuesday to stage an interactive town hall meeting at an appropriately named locale: Challenger School.
The former New Mexico governor, whose campaign is headquartered in Utahs capital, faces a big challenge this November in taking on the two presidential ballot heavyweights: Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Tuesdays town hall is scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Challenger School, 1325 S. Main, according to a news release. Viewers can ask Johnson questions in person or participate online at http://www.garyjohnson2012.com.
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Libertarian White House hopeful in Salt Lake City for town hall
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson in Salt Lake City for town hall
In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 file photo, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson speaks at a news conference during which he announced he is leaving the Republican Party in favor of seeking a presidential nomination as a Libertarian, at the State Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M. (AP Photo/Albuquerque Journal, Eddie Moore)
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson in Salt Lake City for town hall
Politics Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson to appear at Challenger School.
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
Libertarian presidential hopeful Gary Johnson will be Salt Lake City on Tuesday to stage an interactive town hall meeting at an appropriately named locale: Challenger School.
The former New Mexico governor, whose campaign is headquartered in Utahs capital, faces a big challenge this November in taking on the two presidential ballot heavyweights: Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Tuesdays town hall is scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Challenger School, 1325 S. Main, according to a news release. Viewers can ask Johnson questions in person or participate online at http://www.garyjohnson2012.com.
Copyright 2012 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson in Salt Lake City for town hall
Libertarian VP Candidate Visiting Reno
RENO, NV - Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate Judge Jim Gray will visit northern Nevada this Thursday to speak to two groups.
The running mate of former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson will speak on women's issues, eliminating the IRS, and other topics, at a luncheon hosted by the National Association of Professional Women, Reno. That will be 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Siena Hotel Spa Casino, Terraza Room, 1 Lake Street, Reno.
Later Thursday, Judge Gray will attend a Candidates Night hosted by PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) in Carson City. Time is 7-8:30 p.m. at 108 East Proctor Street in Carson City.
The public is invited to both events.
Judge Gray is a former California Superior Court judge and the running mate of Libertarian presidential nominee and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson.
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Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson open to running for president again in 2016
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Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson would run for president again in four years if he's not elected in November, the candidate announced during a town hall meeting Tuesday night.
"As long as I'm relevant, I will continue this through 2016," Johnson said during the meeting, which was simulcast live online.
A former two-term governor of New Mexico, Johnson initially sought the Republican nomination for president in 2011, but he switched to the Libertarian Party in May after struggling to gain traction in state and national polls. Through the Libertarian Party, Johnson's name will be included on ballots in 47 states on Election Day, and a CNN/ORC poll in early September suggested that he could take as much as 3 percent of the vote.
Johnson has been excluded from the upcoming debates and last month filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Commission on Presidential Debates to gain access. The effort failed, but Johnson plans to answer questions online during Wednesday night's debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, much like he did when he wasn't invited to most of the Republican primary debates last year.
During the town hall Tuesday, Johnson joked about people who say that a vote for anyone other than Obama or Romney was a "waste."
"Waste your vote!" he told the crowd. "Vote for me."
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International observers to oversee Falkland Islands vote
STANLEY, Falkland Islands The pending referendum to decide the political future of the Falkland Islands will be done under the scrutiny of a "whole series of international observers" come early 2013, Legislative Assembly member Dr Barry Elsby has said.
Dr Elsby, who has responsibility for oil, the environment, historical buildings, mining and demining, told a group of Caribbean journalists yesterday that "the referendum is to try to send a signal to the world about the wishes of the Falkland Islanders as to what they want and how they wish to determine their own future".
The question of the status of the self-governed British overseas territory has occupied centrestage since the British and Argentine war in 1982 after the Argentines invaded the islands originally discovered by the British. Since then, Argentina, even though it had retreated and surrendered, has argued that the islands were rightly theirs. However, Britain has held that the Falklanders have a right to determine their status.
Yesterday, Dr Elsby said that the all-important question to be put to the voters has not yet been set due to the delicate nature of the issue.
"...That is because we want the referendum to be seen as totally fair, totally above board and not in any way biased. And so it might seem that the question is very easy to ask but what we don't want is for someone to come back and say that question was leading... so we are asking organisations that are experts at setting questions to ....phrase the question. These are going to be world-respected groups," Dr Elsby explained.
"...It's taking a little longer than we thought but we are determined to have this referendum in a totally free and fair way and be validated so that we can stand up in the international forum and say, look this is the wish of the Falkland Islanders, if you believe in a people having the right to determine their own future the Falklands had spoken and that's all we are trying to say to counter the whole barrage of misinformation from the Argentines," he added.
He said the intention is to send a signal to the democratic world of what the islanders want.
"We are not looking for independence at this time. That's an option but I don't think there is any move at the moment to be independent. We are very certain as to who we are now which is a self-governing British Overseas territory," he said.
"We are absolutely not a colony; we are absolutely self-governing," he emphasised further.
The Falkland islands, located in the south Atlantic, is home to some 3,000 persons comprising 30 different citizenship.
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Tiwi Islands seek help as drug use takes hold
Chief Minister Terry Mills says the Northern Territory Government is assessing the need for alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs on the Tiwi Islands.
The Tiwi Shire Council says cannabis use is rampant in the islands' communities.
One Aboriginal elder says cannabis use is contributing to a mental health crisis on the islands.
Tiwi Islands leader Marius Puruntatameri says it's not uncommon to find children as young as 10 smoking cannabis in his community.
He says a lot of young people wander the streets at night looking for drugs and says many have been left psychologically affected
Mr Mills says he's turned his attention to rehabilitation services after hearing similar stories from communities across the Territory.
Tiwi Islands Shire Council chief executive Alan Hudson estimates at least 50 per cent of teenagers on the islands are smoking cannabis and he says it's causing them to be aggressive and paranoid.
"Nine times out of ten, when we have problems on the community, the kids have started a fight," he said.
"We are talking about very early teenage kids ... (who) will start a fight, then the older brothers will get into it and the parents will get into it.
"Next thing, we've got families fighting.
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6 private islands under $100k
Sometimes you just need to get away from it all. Only problem is that once you get there, there'll probably still be people there. Don't get us wrong, people are great! BUT they come with hang-ups and annoyances: They're all like "you can't park there," "will you help me move next week?" and "you didn't respond to my link on Facebook."
Who needs that nonsense?
If only there was a way to have your own private secret place where you made the rules and were the only person allowed. As it turns out, such oases do exist! You, my exasperated friend need your own private island!
And we're not talking about some kumbaya "happy place" private island of the mind. We're talking about an actual, literal, plot of land surrounded by water where you are the sole inhabitant.
Click here for Bundle's ratings of 15 travel agencies near you. Of course, most private islands are prohibitively expensive, costing in the multi-millions. BUT, as with all things, there is a far edge of the bell curve that places the dream of owning your own island into your more realistic grasp.
After searching through the listings of various island real estate brokers, we were able to locate exactly six available islands that you can own for less than US$100k. Not cheap, but not unreasonably costly. Consider that the median price for a home sold in the US in 2010 was $221,800. So, a new island home for under $100k is a pretty good deal.
Note: while you may harbor visions of Fantasy Island, life on these plots will probably be a bit more like Lost. You'll be forced to rough it a little as these are completely undeveloped plots devoid of any infrastructure or amenities. BUT it is all yours to do with as you please. Build a new house of your design. Name the island after yourself. Make your own laws, you are the president now!*
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So, whether you are looking to pick it all up and begin anew in a fantastic new location (or, if you just want to probe through some real estate porn) click through our slideshow of available private islands, all for sale at recession prices.
*You will, of course, be subject to your host nation's laws and regulations
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China and Japan face off: Tiny islands, big dispute (+video)
The China and Japan face off over five islands has sunk relations to a 40-year low - the worst since diplomatic relations began. But the sabre rattling is just for show, say analysts.
The Great Hall of the People, the heart of Beijing's ceremonial political life, should have been ringing last month with toasts and speeches to fete the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Japan.
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But the banquet rooms sat silent, the celebrations canceled.
The two neighbors' ancient enmity had ensnared them again, this time in a territorial dispute over a handful of remote islands.
Hotheads on both sides of the East China Sea were calling for war. Even the coolest heads could not rule that prospect out.
"Relations are worse than they have ever been in 40 years," says Liu Jiangyong, a professor of Japanese politics at Tsinghua University in Beijing. "I don't see much chance of a war; but I think Japan is preparing for one, and we should, too."
The possibility of armed conflict between the world's second- and third-largest economies is enough to scare governments around the globe. It is especially alarming to the United States, whose alliance with Japan would draw it into any fighting.
Beijing and Tokyo both claim sovereignty over five islands in the East China Sea, known as the Diaoyu in China and as the Senkaku in Japan, which administers them.
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Healthcare Up 4.6%; New Star Nutrition Distributor; Munson Adopts EMC’s IT – Health Min 10/1/12 – Video
01-10-2012 22:56 Healthcare spending was up by 4.6 percent in 2011, according to a new report by the Health Care Cost Institute. That's higher than the 3.8 percent increase reported for 2010. The report is based on claims data of more than 40 million insured, about 25 percent of all those with employer-sponsored health insurance, ESI. 2011 healthcare spending for people with ESI averaged $4547 per person for the year. Star Nutrition, a California-based health and wellness industry company, has added Peak Performance Products as the newest Canadian distributor for its Incrediwear brand. Incrediwear products, including socks, insoles, and braces, provide benefits such as additional blood flow, thermal regulation, and wicking moisture to allow users to train harder and longer, and recover faster from workouts while aiding pain relief to injured body parts. Other companies working with Peak include Nogii, Dymatize, BPI Sports, Organique, and other athletic, lifestyle, and beauty products. EMC's IT has been adopted by Munson Healthcare, a regional group of eight hospitals and five clinics in Michigan, to transform the system's IT infrastructure and deliver new IT services. Munson has created a Health Information Exchange to enable providers to facilitate a high level of patient care through a private cloud enabled by EMC and VMware technologies. For more information on these and other stories, go to http://www.csrminute.com. The Health Minute is produced for 3BL Media by Video4Good
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Health 2.0 Advisors Announce 10 Industry Leaders Seeking Health Care Innovation Partnerships
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Health2.0 Advisors announced today the ten leading health care organizations that will be participating in the third series of Matchpointmeetings, October 10th at the Cooley LLP offices in San Francisco. At Matchpoint, leading health care organizations (Matchpoint Hosts) meet face to face with the most promising early-stage companies (Matchpoint Innovators) in 15 minute, focused meetings to discuss potential partnerships, pilots, and acquisitions. The Industry Leaders are Aetna, United Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Medtronic, Cigna, Premera Blue Cross, Cooley LLP, Ziegler, and The Packard Foundation.
"The quality of the companies we met exceeded our expectations and we have initiated follow-up conversations with more companies than we had anticipated. Hosting the Matchpoint sessions was very valuable [to UnitedHealthcare]," said previous Matchpoint Host Vidya Raman-Tangella, Vice President, Product Innovation and Innovation Resource Group at UnitedHealth Group.
Health 2.0 Advisors uses a proprietary database and unique industry insights to identify the best matches between young companies and established industry leaders. In its first year, Matchpoint has already facilitated more than 250 highly curated meetings.
"Health 2.0 Advisors recognizes which potential partnerships have the best chances of success in a rapidly evolving market," said Marco Smit, Senior VP of Health 2.0 and President of Health 2.0 Advisors. "Our ability to make assessments of fit -- based on technology needs, clinical benefits, business objectives, and cultural match -- between established and start-up companies has been a great asset for the Matchpoint participants."
Matchpoint San Francisco marks the first time a series of educational workshops will be offered to participants. Innovators will learn how to broker business partnerships and make their startups both financially and technologically viable.
The next Matchpoint meetings will be in New York on November 28th. Pharmaceutical companies, providers, and payers are expected to be among those taking advantage of this unique opportunity to meet with selected innovators from New York's burgeoning health technology ecosystem.
About Health 2.0 The conference. The media network. The innovation community. The Health 2.0 Conference is the leading showcase of cutting-edge innovation transforming the health care system. Health 2.0 has served as a community resource for search and online tools to help consumers manage their health and connect to providers. Now that the industry has caught up, Health 2.0 covers the entire cloud, web, mobile and unplatforms technology revolution that is shaking up every sector of health care. Health 2.0 Advisors puts its market intelligence and network to work for innovators who want to build tomorrow's winning organizations. For more, visit http://www.health2con.com.
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Things to like about changes to health care
Perhaps like me, you'd like to know whether the Affordable Care Act will make our lives better or rob us of our health-care choices. My family has faced some pretty major health problems.
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National Leaders Share Perspectives on the Election and Future of Health Care
NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
The Nashville Health Care Council hosted an exclusive panel discussion today with nationally-known thought leaders to discuss the upcoming election and its implications for health reform and the broader national economic and political landscape.
Special guests included Judy Feder, Ph.D., former dean and professor of public policy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University and institute fellow, Urban Institute; Senator Bill Frist, M.D., partner, Cressey & Company and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader; Alberto R. Gonzales, Doyle Rogers Distinguished Chair of Law, Belmont University, of counsel, Waller and former United States Attorney General; Jon Meacham, executive editor and executive vice president, Random House, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former editor, Newsweek. The discussion was moderated by John Seigenthaler, Jr., CEO, Seigenthaler Public Relations New York and former anchor, NBC Nightly News.
As the elections approach, its very fitting to have this discussion here in Nashville. The newly-elected President and Congress will have a number of complex issues ahead of them, including the direction of health care reform, said Senator Frist.
Panelists agreed that certain elements of health care reform will move forward no matter who is elected in November, such as insurance companies eliminating exclusions for preexisting conditions and providers moving toward population health management as opposed to the fee-for-service model. However, they were also in agreement that the election results will heavily affect the future of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as a whole.
View panel member interviews on YouTube and event photos on Flickr. Photo credit: (c) 2012, Harry Butler.
Though the polls seem to be breaking President Obamas way, its still quite possible that this election will go late into the night in November. Historically speaking, the 2012 race, like 1980 or 1992, is unfolding in a climate that is largely hostile to incumbents, said Jon Meacham.
No matter who wins, Congress has to address the complex fiscal cliff which is approaching at the end of the year when significant tax cuts expire and spending cuts are triggered.How we address the deficit has enormous implications for the future of Medicare, Medicaid and health reform, on which the two parties, as well as President Obama and Governor Romney, have vastly different positions.The outcome of the election will make a big difference to the future of health care, said Judy Feder.
Health care is a very important and complicated issue in this election. There is still a lot of uncertainty about the future of the Affordable Care Act, which is why health care companies have held off on some of the changes that were outlined in the legislation. The election results will determine how we all move forward, Alberto R. Gonzales said.
Nashville is a natural venue for this discussion, considering the citys impact on the health care industry on both a national and international level. Nashville-based health care companies account for $70 billion in annual revenue and more than 400,000 jobs globally. Nashville-based hospital management companies own or operate more than half of the investor-owned hospitals in the United States.
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Museum hosts health care reform talk
By Sally Voth svoth@nvdaily.com
Three hundred guests dining at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley Business Forum Luncheon on Tuesday had a lot to digest.
Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of the journal Health Affairs, spent more than an hour presenting her reasons why the Affordable Care Act was necessary, and its merits.
"It's hard to conjure up an issue in American politics that has really elicited so much divisiveness among the parties," she said. "What we might be able to agree on, however, are those things inherent in what we call the triple aim."
The triple aim is to strive for better health, better health care and lower costs, Dentzer said.
"That's it," she said. "We just have to pursue that agenda."
Individuals' health is impacted by a variety of factors, according to Dentzer's presentation. These include obesity, lack of exercise, smoking, stress and aging. There are other contributors to early death, such as genetics, social factors and a lack of health insurance.
The latter leads to the premature death of 18,000 Americans annually, Dentzer said. She said that's about half the number of women who die of breast cancer each year.
According to a RAND study from 2003, patients received recommended health care about 55 percent of the time, Dentzer said.
"Basically, it was almost a coin toss whether we get recommended care," she said. "We also have another very troubling issue, which is do we know what works in health care? More than half of the treatments that we deliver in the U.S. health care system do not have clear evidence of effectiveness. That's an awful lot of health care that is being provided without people understanding whether it works or it does not."
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Court ruling takes teeth out of health care amendment
By MARY SHEDDEN | The Tampa Tribune Published: October 03, 2012 Updated: October 03, 2012 - 12:00 AM
It's been surprisingly quiet around the state regarding Amendment 1, a constitutional proposal to block the controversial insurance mandate in the federal health care law.
From the presidential race on down, politicians have been predictably strident about this hot-button issue. But it's hard to find yard signs, advertisements or campaign literature about this amendment, which, as conceived, would prevent Florid-ians or their employers from being required to get health insurance.
Both proponents and critics have decided to put their campaign money and energy elsewhere, since a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June renders the Florida amendment moot.
Instead, groups are quietly urging a yes or no vote in election guides and with a handful of guest columns in Florida media.
"It basically will be on the books, and that's it," Rachel Morgan, senior policy specialist for the national Conference of State Legislatures, said of the Amendment 1 vote.
But the quiet debate doesn't mean the amendment has lost its political urgency, said Laura Goodhue, executive director of Florida CHAIN, a health care advocacy group that is against Amendment 1.
A "yes" vote could be used politically by legislative leaders, Goodhue said. Those vying to repeal the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or file new lawsuits could use it as ammunition, she said.
"We're concerned because the state has really tried everything they can do in their power to see that residents don't see the benefits of the Affordable Care Act," Goodhue said of the ballot issue, which needs a 60 percent "yes" vote to be added to the Florida Constitution.
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Study: Romney health care plan to leave 72M uninsured
A new study released by the private foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, has revealed that 72 million Americans would be uninsured by 2022 if Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney wins the election and has his health care plan enacted. That compares to 27 million uninsured by the same time if President Barack Obama's Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) was kept in place with his reelection.
"There are stark differences between what each candidate has proposed for our health care system, and this report shines a light on how Americans might be affected, based on their age, their income, and where they live," the report's lead author Sara Collins, vice president for affordable health insurance at the Commonwealth Fund said to CNN. "The report finds that repealing the ACA would significantly increase the number of Americans without health insurance, limiting their ability to get the health care they need and exposing them to burdensome medical bills and debt."
The analysis was conducted by economist Jonathan Gruber, who advised the policymakers who wrote the ACA.
Currently, the government says there are more than 48 million Americans -- about 16 percent of the population -- without health insurance.
The percentage of uninsured people with President Barack Obama's Affordable Health Care Act by 2022.
While some of President Barack Obama's ACA has already been implemented -- such as free preventive women's health care, allowing children 26 and younger to be covered by their parent's plans and not allowing insurance companies to deny people with pre-existing conditions -- many of the proposed changes will not be enforced until 2014. These include implementing near-universal health care coverage, with steps like expanding Medicaid health insurance plans to cover more low income people and organizing state-regulated plans that people can choose from.
State plans would all have to fit regulations set by the federal government, which has also set goals of including free annual wellness exams and getting rid of the prescription drug benefit's "donut hole" -- or gap between the initial coverage limit and the upper limit set by the federal government. In general, they are high-deductible insurance plans, which means low premiums but higher deductibles in case of an accident.
The Commonwealth Fund, which has supported the ACA, said that if all the intended changes were made, 23 million more Americans would get insurance.
However, in comparison, The Commonwealth Fund's analysis showed that 12 million fewer Americans would receive health insurance under Romney's plan compared with current rates. Romney has pledged to repeal the ACA and implement his own changes, which he believes will encourage more private insurance incentives (instead of state-decided plans) and give the individual more say in choosing a plan that is right for them. For example, those who wouldn't seek preventive women's health care wouldn't pay for those services under his plan.
The study also found that Romney's plan would cost Americans more money. People who choose to buy health insurance on their own would pay 14 percent of their income, compared to only 9 percent under the ACA, The Commonwealth Fund stated. The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation added that repealing the ACA would cost a federal budget deficit of $109 billion between 2013 and 2022.
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Panel Obamacare won8217t improve costs nor quality
CONCORD The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, will increase access to health care and reduce the number of uninsured, but will do little if anything to control costs or improve quality.
That was the underlying theme from both the keynote speaker and panelists Tuesday at the fourth annual New Hampshire Business Review Health Care Forum, which attracted nearly 300 business leaders, human resources executives and health care professionals to the Grappone Conference Center, all looking for insight into the complex legislation.
The Supreme Court is not going to take away the ACA, nor is November (election) going to take away ACA, said panelist Lucy Hodder, chair of the Health Care Practice Group at the law firm of Rath, Young & Pignatelli. The ACA is here to stay. It may be tinkered with, but if you do away with it, you still have to deal with costs.
Keynote speaker Aaron Carroll, a pediatrician and director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research, based at Indiana University, told the crowd that the impact of the ACA may be overstated when it comes to the scope of changes needed in the health care system.
We have made some strides in terms of access, he said, but cost is a real issue, and we havent even touched on quality.
Carroll said the new health care law is primarily targeted at the uninsured. He said individuals who now get insurance through their employers, Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans Administration or other government programs are not likely to notice much change as major provisions of the law take effect.
Businesses with fewer than 50 employees are exempt from the mandate to provide health insurance or pay a fine, and most companies with more than 50 employees already provide some form of coverage that would be acceptable under the law.
Things arent going to change that dramatically for most businesses, said panelist Chara Stevens, director of the Human Resources Council of New Hampshire. For the most part, its going to be business as usual.
The individual mandate to have health insurance and the expansion of Medicaid will improve access, but the problems of high cost and poor results are not being addressed despite the huge investment, Carroll said in an interview after the event.
The ACA is all about expanding access, he said. It does that with about $1 trillion more in spending over a decade. That investment will do little to improve outcomes or contain costs, he said.
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Experts discuss impact of health care on campaigns
On the eve of the first presidential debate, some of the nations foremost experts on the contested subject of health care policy converged to discuss the nuances and complications of U.S. health care reform.
During Tuesday's event, panelists discussed the trials and tribulations of health care policy in the United States and analyzed the role it has played in the upcoming election. The discussion was the second of two forums hosted by the Ross Office of Tax Policy Research at the Ross School of Business, that are designed to raise awareness of prominent campaign issues.
David Leonhardt, the Washington bureau chief for The New York Times, said during the event that health care reform has been a critical and divisive topic of presidential debate for decades.
(Health care) is a hugely complicated problem, and thats why you see it in the subject of some of the most difficult, toughest political fights we have had in this country really for 80 years, Leonhardt said.
He noted that all former presidents who have tried to reform U.S. health care policy were unsuccessful.
FDR failed to get universal health care, Harry Truman failed, JFK failed, LBJ failed, Richard Nixon failed and Bill Clinton failed, Leonhardt said. Nearly everyone who has tried failed.
Leonhardt noted that the election is becoming increasingly polarized between voters who support the Affordable Care Act and those who believe it should be repealed, even though its legality was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year.
Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the country has two primary choices for the future of health care.
The fight in this country is stuck between two extremes: on the one hand we have the left, which says we should have a single health system like Canada on the right they say the system works fine, Gruber said.
Gruber said of the options, neither is possible or sustainable, and the government must build on the existing system in formulating effective reform policies.
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Cellectis Publishes Results Paving the Way for New Therapeutic Approaches against Cancer and Genetic Diseases
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
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Cellectis (ALCLS.PA), the French genome engineering specialist, announces in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, one of the most respected scientific journals in the world, the publication of a new approach regarding the targeted modification of DNA2. The manuscript unmasks novel perspectives and broadens the scope of TALENsTM technology to new therapeutic approaches to fight against cancer and genetic diseases. Until now, TALENsTM, the molecular scissors created by Cellectis Group, were only able to target certain parts of the genome. A team of the Groups researchers, led by Julien Valton and Philippe Duchateau, was able to overcome this constraint, opening the way to a wider range of applications, especially in the therapeutic field.
This study, the first to be published on TALENsTM, was awarded by the selection committee of the JBC as Paper of the Week.
Since their identification in 2009, TALEs have quickly emerged as the new generation of DNA-binding domain with programmable specificity and have been successfully used to generate the molecular scissors known as TALENsTM. However, their sensitivity to methylation, a ubiquitous modification of DNA, represents a major bottleneck for their widespread utilization in the genome engineering and therapeutic fields. Using a combination of biochemical, structural and cellular approaches, the R&D department of Cellectis was able to identify the basis of such sensitivity and more importantly, to propose an efficient and universal method to overcome it.
These results are proof of the scientific creativity and quality of our research teams, as well as the power of our genome engineering tools. This new publication strengthens the relevance of our investment in TALEstechnology, and confirms our strategy within the therapeutic field, declared Andr Choulika, Chief Executive Officer of Cellectis Group.
2) Overcoming TALE DNA Binding Domain Sensitivity to Cytosine Methylation Julien Valton, Aurelie Dupuy, Fayza Daboussi, Severine Thomas, Alan Marechal, Rachel Macmaster, Kevin Melliand, Alexandre Juillerat and Philippe Duchateau J. Biol. Chem. jbc.C112.408864. First Published on September 26, 2012, doi:10.1074/jbc.C112.408864
About Cellectis
Founded in France in 1999, the Cellectis Group is based on a highly specific DNA engineering technology. Its application sectors are human health, agriculture and bio-energies. Co-created by Andr Choulika, its Chief Executive Officer, Cellectis is today one of the world leading companies in the field of genome engineering. The Group has a workforce of 230 employees working on 5 sites worldwide: Paris & Evry in France, Gothenburg in Sweden, St Paul (Minnesota) & Cambridge (Massachusetts) in the United States. Cellectis achieved in 2011 16M revenues and has signed more than 80 industrial agreements with pharmaceutical laboratories, agrochemical and biotechnology companies since its inception. AFM, Dupont, BASF, Bayer, Total, Limagrain, Novo Nordisk are some of the Groups clients and partners.
Since 2007, Cellectis has been listed on NYSE-Euronext Alternext market (ALCLS.PA) in Paris.
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Nuvilex Subsidiary Austrianova Singapore to Participate in AusBiotech 2012
SILVER SPRING, Md. and SINGAPORE, Oct. 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nuvilex, Inc. (NVLX), an international biotechnology provider of cell and gene therapy solutions, announced today its wholly-owned subsidiary, Austrianova Singapore Pte Ltd (ASPL) will attend this year's AusBiotech event.
The annual AusBiotech event this year will be held from October 30 - November 2 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia. It has earned a reputation as the industry's premier biotechnology conference for the Asia Pacific region and has successfully expanded its relevance to the Australian and International Biotechnology industries by attracting more than 1100 participants from over 20 countries.
Dr Brian Salmons, CEO of ASPL said, "AusBiotech has grown in stature over the past several years. In prior years, we entered agreements with companies and found it to be one of the most valuable events for networking with new contacts. We anticipate meeting with companies with proprietary therapeutic cells, such as stem cells, that can leverage their technology with our Cell-in-a-Box(R) delivery system. We believe the new contacts we make will expand our customer base and increase the use of cell and gene therapy for making therapeutic products and treating diseases. We will also be promoting our Bac-in-a-Box(R) technology for the first time at this meeting and anticipate generating interest around its potential."
The Chief Executive of Nuvilex, Dr. Robert Ryan, stated "Attendance at this important biotech event in Australia and within easy reach of Southeast Asia will enable us to have increased exposure for our Cell-in-a-Box(R) and Bac-in-a-Box(R) live cell encapsulation technology and to showcase its immense versatility, thus providing our companies greater visibility at a time that such capabilities are becoming more important in the marketplace. It is our goal to bring more projects to fruition from this meeting as more companies today are looking to bring cellular-based therapy and product creation from the drawing board to reality and into regular use."
About Nuvilex
Nuvilex, Inc. (NVLX) is an international biotechnology provider of live therapeutically valuable, encapsulated cells and services for research and medicine. A great deal of work is ongoing to move Nuvilex and its Austrianova Singapore subsidiary forward. This was clearly apparent during Dr. Ryan's trip to Singapore and the advent of new developments in the company as a whole. Our company's own offerings will include cancer, diabetes, other treatments and capabilities using the company's cell and gene therapy expertise and live-cell encapsulation technology.
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