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Insurance rates under Affordable Care Act set to spike in 2017 http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/391614191.html CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) – Iowa’s Insurance Division approved big rate hikes Monday for companies offering insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The largest hike was for Wellmark, which will raise rates an average of 42.6%. This will […]

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Exclusive investigation: Your prescriptions aren’t private http://www.wcpo.com/longform/so-you-think-prescriptions-are-private Legislators in 31 states have left your PHI (Private Health Information) as described by HIPAA … OPEN for law enforcement to rummage thru at their discretion and come to conclusion of your legal/illegal prescription records and take actions on their OPINION on YOUR FACTS. The prescriptions you have […]

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Health Insurers’ Pullback Threatens to Create Monopolies Analysis suggests ACA exchanges are likely to offer just one coverage option in 31% of U.S. counties http://www.wsj.com/articles/health-insurers-pullback-threatens-to-create-monopolies-1472408338?mod=e2fb By Anna Wilde Mathews and Stephanie Armour Aug. 28, 2016 2:18 p.m. ET 253 COMMENTS Nearly a third of the nation’s counties look likely to have just a single insurer […]

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The surgeon general just sent a worrisome letter to every doctor in America In case you have been living under a rock , the batteries in your hearing aide are dead, both your computer and TV/cable are not working.. The Surgeon General of the US .. just attempted to turn the “opiate guidelines” of the […]

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Observers offer tips on how to survive your doctor or hospital http://www.northjersey.com/news/health-news/observers-offer-tips-on-how-to-survive-your-doctor-or-hospital-1.1650967 Former radiologist and now Glen Rock medical malpractice lawyer Armand Leone doesn’t want to scare anybody. But, he admits, he does have a few horror stories from working all those years for a Hastings law firm in Houston. Or maybe the better way […]

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Government Forced To Return 55 lbs of Marijuana, Firearms, Bulletproof Vests and Truck After Verdict   countercurrentnews.com/2016/08/government-returns-55-lbs-verdict/ Michael Cindrich won a “Not Guilty” verdict from a Los Angeles, California jury in just a ten minute deliberation. That is what you can do if you know the law. Jeff Caldwell of LibertyViral reports that Cindrich’s client has a […]

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When John Kennedy took office Jan, 1961 our country was a total of 300 billion in debt. A debt that had been accumulated over the previous 185 yrs of the USA’s existence.. including the fighting of TWO WORLD WARS, a CIVIL WAR ,the WAR of 1812 and the Korean War This fiscal year’s budget short […]

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Opioid Epidemic Greatly Exaggerated? Why is there such media hysteria about a heroin crisis? Because the numbers have not gotten higher so much as whiter. http://www.alternet.org/drugs/opioid-epidemic-greatly-exaggerated Brian C. Bennett Drug Charts  This link takes you to dozens of charts that demonstrates that in the “larger picture” the abuse of various substances has been greatly exaggerated […]

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