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Jeb Bush resigns from board of health care company that reaped profits from Obamacare

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Effective Dec. 31, Bush will no longer be employed by Tenet Healthcare or multinational financial services firm Barclays He has also stopped booking paid speeches, though he will follow through on previous commitments through early next year Bush isdisentangling himself from business interests that could cause conflicts if he declares his candidacy for the Republican nomination He remains a partner in three private equity funds and is still listed as a board member of Rayonier Tenet supports Obamacare and predicts it will make $100 million off of new Obamacare signups this year Bush is against Obamacare yet remained on the hospital chain's board from the beginning of the health care negotiations until now

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Published: 14:39 EST, 26 December 2014 | Updated: 07:01 EST, 27 December 2014

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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is resigning from the board of a health care company that has profited from Obamacare following his decision to 'actively explore' a presidential campaign.

Effective Dec. 31, Bush will no longer be employed by Tenet Healthcare or multinational financial services firm Barclays as disentangles himself from business interests that could cause conflicts if he declares his candidacy, as expected, for the 2016 competition.

He has also stopped booking paid speeches, though he will follow through on previous commitments through early next year.

Bush's spokeswoman Kristy Campbell told the Los Angeles Times that the former chief executive of Florida is 'reviewing all his engagements and his business commitments' as he makes the transition from businessman to politician, again.

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Central Florida Health Care: Dental Clinic Offers Care to Low-Income, Uninsured

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Published: Friday, December 26, 2014 at 12:56 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, December 26, 2014 at 12:56 a.m.

WINTER HAVEN | Central Florida Health Care opened its Winter Haven dental clinic as scheduled this month, another step in Polk County's ongoing effort in 2014 to boost access to dental care.

The clinic isn't limited to the uninsured.

Like Central Florida's Lake Wales and Frostproof dental clinics, people with insurance can be patients there, too.

But reaching people whose income and lack of insurance keep them from routine dental care is why Polk County approved spending $500,000 from the sales-tax-funded indigent care program to let CFHC start a dental program in Winter Haven.

Lance Anastasio, a member of the volunteer Citizens HealthCare Oversight Committee, saw one of those families Dec. 19 when committee members toured the facility.

"There was a mother there with two boys, 12 or 13," he said. "They wanted her to go into the (exam room) with them. They had not seen a dentist before."

The dental clinic is on the same site as the community health center's medical clinic, 1514 First St. N. It has a separate entrance and waiting area, Anastasio said.

"I'm very impressed with what's been accomplished with the funding allocated," he said, praising the modern X-ray equipment and the clinic's electronic-medical record link to other CFHC clinics.

Reaching people whose only recent encounters with dentists were for extractions is vital to their health, Central Florida officials said.

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India Health Budget: Did Lower Tax Receipts And Lack Of Spending Force India To Cut Back?

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Indias public health care system may have a problem. Earlier this week, the governmentslashedits $5 billion annual health care budget by a fifth, almost certainly straining a system that is creaking at the core and on which the country already spends an abysmally low amount.

India spends just 1.3 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on public health care, and even including expenditure on private health care, the figure stands at 4.3 percent.Comparative datashow that in terms of health care expenditure as a percentage of GDP, India significantly lags behind Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa, countries that are typically lumped together in the so-called BRICS bloc.

The Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government facesfiscal constraints,necessitating the cut. The Modi government is facing atax-revenue deficitof as much as one trillion rupees ($15.7 billion), forcing it to cut back on expenditure to meet its fiscal deficit target of 4.1 percent. However, thisis not the first time that this has happened. In the previous fiscal year, the Congress party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime, under the premiership of Manmohan Singh, too hadprunedthe healthbudgetby a similar amount.

But apart from the sagging economy, this cut in health expenditure could be an indicator of problems in financial management in the health ministry. Data from the Indian finance ministrysmid-year analysisshow that until September this year, the countrys health ministry had spent just about 42 percent, or less than half of the funds allocated to it in the annual budget. Proportionally, this is even less than the 48 percent it had spent in the same period last year when the Congress-led regime was in power.

The governments ownrulesprohibit ministries from spending over 33 percent or one-third of their annual allocations in the last quarter of the financial year (January to March). This means that if a ministry wishes to exhaust its allocated funds, it has to spend at least two-thirds of its allocation between April and December of a financial year, failing which its spending would be restricted.

When the government does not spend enough, the citizen must. Typically, personal health care costs involve the cost of medical care (including hospitalization) and the cost of medicines.Government datafrom 2011 to 2012 show that while 80 percent of the non-hospitalization medical expenditure was on medicines in urban areas, the figure for rural India was 75 percent.

The second most important aspect of health care expenditure is research and development. According to a Reuters report, the government has also cut spending on HIV/AIDS programs by a third. And, asthisreport in The Hindu newspaper points out, 2.1 million people in India were HIV-infected by the end of 2013. Further, as UNAIDS, the United Nations agency dealing with the disease,points out, more than half of all AIDS-related deaths in the Asia Pacific region are in India.

Some of the worst sufferers of a dysfunctional health care system are children. According to theCIA World Factbook, India is the 50th worst in terms of infant mortality rate, out of a total of 224 countries, with more than 43 deaths of children below the age of one, for every 1,000 live births.

Earlier this month, The New York Timesreportedthat as many as 58,000 infants die in India every year due to bacterial infections. The report said that the rising toll of resistant infections could soon undo efforts to improve the infant mortality rate in the country. In January 2012, The Atlantic said in areportthat over half of all bacterial infections in Indian hospitals are resistant to common antibiotics.

In fact, in August 2010, medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases hadreportedthe emergence of the New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1), a new enzyme that makes bacteria resistant to antibiotics in India, Pakistan and the U.K. In 2011, Timothy R Walsh, who co-authored the paper published by The Lancet that first spoke of NDM-1, hadsaidthat as many as 100 million Indians could be carrying the superbug.The Indian government, however,rejectedthe findings, stating that there was no evidence to suggest that it was a threat to public health.

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Health Care REIT Series J Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock Goes Ex-Dividend Soon

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On 12/30/14, Health Care REIT Inc.'s 6.50% Series J Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (Symbol: HCN.PRJ) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.4062, payable on 1/15/15. As a percentage of HCN.PRJ's recent share price of $26.32, this dividend works out to approximately 1.54%, so look for shares of HCN.PRJ to trade 1.54% lower - all else being equal - when HCN.PRJ shares open for trading on 12/30/14. On an annualized basis, the current yield is approximately 6.20%, which compares to an average yield of 6.93% in the "Real Estate" preferred stock category, according to Preferred Stock Channel . The chart below shows the one year performance of HCN.PRJ shares, versus HCN:

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NM should cover health care for ex-foster kids

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Entering adulthood can be a precarious time for all teens. While they desire independence, few have the financial stability to make it on their own. Few entry-level jobs pay the kind of wages that help a young person build financial independence and few offer important benefits like health insurance.

Thats why the Affordable Care Act allows young people to stay on their parents insurance until they are 26 years old. Its not only a common-sense solution, but also its one of the ACAs most popular provisions.

If entering adulthood is precarious for kids with supportive families, imagine how much more fraught with difficulties it is for youth in foster care. Teens age out of foster care when they reach 18, meaning they are basically on their own. They lose their home and access to a supportive family environment.

Thanks to the ACA, though, they dont have to lose their health care. Former foster youth in New Mexico may keep their Medicaid coverage until they are 26 years old with one hitch. They must have aged out of foster care in New Mexico.

The ACA makes Medicaid coverage mandatory only in the state where the youth ages out of foster care. If the young person moves to another state, they may or may not be eligible for coverage depending on that states own policies. New Mexico covers foster youth up to age 26 if they were a part of the foster care system in New Mexico before age 18, but refuses to cover those who move here after they age out of foster care in another state.

That makes no sense, financially or otherwise, for several reasons:

Despite these challenges, former foster youth are highly motivated to succeed and take on lifes challenges. We help our own kids with health care up to age 26 and we help our own foster kids up to age 26, so why do we deny those who choose to move here to start a new life?

Their numbers are likely few, so the cost would not be high. On the other hand, the cost to them of remaining uninsured could be enormous, both financially, and in not having access to much-needed physical and mental health care.

Access to health care when former foster youth are just starting to make their way in the world is vitally important to their health and financial success. Its also important to the state and will likely save money in the long run. It is time for the Legislature to require this coverage.

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Health Care Sector Update for 12/26/2014: TPI,GILD,NVS

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Health care stocks were extending their morning advance with the NYSE Health Care Sector Index recently gaining about 0.5% and shares of health care companies in the S&P 500 ahead about 0.9% as a group.

In company news, Tianying Pharmaceutical ( TPI ) was sharply higher Friday afternoon after saying it is in talks with an unnamed pharmaceutical firm to form a strategic alliance and build a nationwide platform for traditional Chinese medicine.

The new alliance would integrate sales network of the two firms in order to reach over 10,000 nationwide hospitals, TPI said. It's current network has around 1,000 member hospitals.

Separately, the company late Wednesday reported lower fiscal Q1 earnings and revenue compared with year-ago levels.

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Prof Krystof Bankiewicz. Overview of AADC Deficiency – AAV2-hAADC Gene Therapy Trials. – Video

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Astronaut Creates Timelapse Video Of Earth As Seen From The ISS

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ESA Astronaut Alexander Gerst spent his time from May to November of 2014 on the International Space Station. One of the projects he worked on while he was up there was taking thousands of photos of the Earths surface using ultra-high definition cameras.

After coming back to Earth, Gerst then took 12,500 of those photos and created a stunning timelapse video of the Earth and other interesting objects as seen from the International Space Station.

In addition to the Earths surface, there are also some incredible shots of the space station in action, including the solar panels in action, the stations robotic arm manipulating a SpaceX Dragon capsule, and an Orbital Sciences Cygnus capsule departing from the station.

And just after the three minute mark, you can also see stunning photos of the Milky Way from the station. To my mind, thats the highlight of the video.

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Up fantasy creek, without a paddle: what 2014's box office tells us

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Biggest film of the year: Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Monkeys, raccoons and lizards clobbered the planet in 2014, helped by aliens, robots and fairies. It was not quite a terrible year for great films, but they just didn't stand a chance against the killer critters coming out of Hollywood or, to be accurate, out of large warehouses full of computers in Bangalore, Bristol, South Korea, Spain, China, Denmark or wherever the major special-effects houses set up their production facilities.

At least in that sense, the work gets shared around: thousands of worker bees around the world are now employed in the business of turning bad scripts into good money.

Cheerful: Australians' favourite film this year was The Lego Movie. Photo: AP

I have just spent an hour perusing the box office figures for 2014 and it is a depressing experience, from any angle. Not one of the top-10 movies at the box office, either worldwide or United States domestic, was a real-world story, in the sense of something that reflects the world we actually live in. Every film, on both indices, was a work of fantasy, if we define it widely.

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Guardians of the Galaxy, an adventure-comedy about space pirates fighting alien criminals, was the top film at the US box office, but only second on the international list. This was the film with the talking raccoon, and that might be why. What do the rest of us know about raccoons?

Worldwide, the biggest film of the year was Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth in a brain-melting series directed by Michael Bay, who brought us Bad Boys, Armageddon and Pain & Gain. What he doesn't know about dumbing down hasn't yet been discovered. Guardians was $US315 million ($387 million) behind, not even close. I realise a lot of children had Transformers toys as kids, but come on you're making us all suffer.

Real world: Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne in Gone Girl.

The next seven films in worldwide box office were Maleficent (with Angelina Jolie as the wicked witch from Cinderella), X-Men: Days of Future Past (a lot of good actors in silly costumes), Captain America: The Winter Soldier(ditto), The Amazing Spiderman 2 (rebooted, recast and regurgitated), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (rebooted and re-energised, with a talking monkey), Interstellar (space explorers, but a good movie), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (funny animation) and The Hunger Games: MockingjayPart 1 (dystopian futurism).

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