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A better solution is now available Hastings Star Gazette

28.04.10

The “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” that President Obama signed includes a provision that could significantly improve health care for our most vulnerable residents and heighten Regina Medical Center’s ability to continue providing high-quality, low-cost health care for our community.

The new federal health care reform law expands the Medicaid health insurance program to allow all single adults earning less than 133 percent of the federal poverty guideline to qualify for the program beginning Oct. 1, 2013.

Also included in the bill is a provision that allows individual states to cover this population, or a portion of this population, in Medicaid before Oct. 1, 2013. Hospital leaders across Minnesota are urging elected officials to enact this early Medicaid enrollment option for individuals earning less than 75 percent of the federal poverty guideline as soon as possible.

This is a better alternative than implementing the new General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) legislation. At the time the GAMC deal was struck, federal health care reform had stalled. Now we have a new and better opportunity to do what’s best for our patients.

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Bring In The Stunt Groom

altSo today was a very busy outside of the house day.  Most of our gardening done and the Junior Logician is off visiting his grandmother so the Logical Husband and I spent most of the day at the farmers market and walking the dogs and taking pictures of the capital area and basically just enjoying an absolutely splendid early summer day in Utah.  As a result, I didn't get to any of my emails until very late today.  One of the daily must reads is my electronic version of the New York Times.  They honestly do have some decent stories....unless they are reporting on President Obama and then the love fest starts.


It was a bit like planning the dream wedding only to have a hurricane rip away the chapel roof as you make your way down the aisle. ABC News and the White House probably thought they had scored a coup in arranging “Questions for the President: Prescription for America,” a prime-time opportunity (with a followup session on “Nightline”) for Barack Obama to explain his health care proposal to the voters and for ABC to monopolize an hour-plus with the most famous man in the world. And then came Iran. And Mark Sanford.

Source: True North

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