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SNAP Benefits Will Be Cut for All Participants in November 2013

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SNAP Benefits Will Be Cut for All Participants in November 2013

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3899


excerpt: emphasis by jap69


n response to the economic downturn, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) increased Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits across the board as a way of delivering high “bang-for-the-buck” economic stimulus and easing hardship.

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In August 2010, Congress passed and the President signed P.L. 111-226, which accelerated the sunset of the ARRA benefit increase to April 2014 and used the estimated savings for state fiscal relief through additional federal funding for school districts to maintain teachers’ jobs and maintaining a higher federal match for Medicaid costs.  Four months later, the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act (P.L. 111-296), which reauthorized Child Nutrition programs, further accelerated the sunset date of ARRA to October 31, 2013, to offset the cost of the legislation.  As a result, beginning on November 1, 2013, SNAP benefit levels will be based on the cost of the June 2013 TFP, which is lower than the ARRA levels.

Entry #2,994

Obamacare like Cotton Candy - Prettily Spun/Little Substance

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Obamacare like Cotton Candy - Prettily Spun/Little Substance
http://www.correntewire.com/obamacare_like_cotton
_candy_prettily_spunlittle_substance#more

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Some people believe that the ACA is a step towards a Medicare for all health system, but it actually takes us towards greater privatisation of our health system which is the opposite direction. Over a trillion dollars of public funds will go directly to private insurance companies to subsidise the purchase of inadequate health plans.

Entry #2,993

Why Insurers Cancel Policies, And What You Can Do When It Happens

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Why Insurers Cancel Policies, And What You Can Do When It Happens

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2013/October/30/
insurance-policy-cancellations-insurers-consumers.aspx

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Q. Why am I getting this notice?

A. Most likely your plan didn’t meet all the standards of the federal health law.  One type of policy being discontinued by Florida Blue, for example, did not cover hospitalizations or emergency room visits and paid a maximum of $50 toward doctor visits.  It’s possible your plan also had deductibles and other potential expenses – such as copayments for doctors and hospital care -- that exceeded the law’s annual out-of-pocket maximum of $6,350 for individuals or $12,700 for families.

Entry #2,992

"Obamacare" and Jim Crow Laws

“Obamacare” and Jim Crow Laws
http://reinstatealtonmaddox.com/site/?p=173

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If Blacks had known anything about the Commerce Clause, they would have encouraged President Obama to stay away from it.  It would give Chief Justice John Roberts an opportunity to replay the role of Justice Joseph P. Bradley of the U.S. Supreme Court after he engineered the Tilden-Hayes Compromise in 1877.  History is repeating itself.

Entry #2,985

Racial Concordance as a method to decrease healthcare disparities among African Americans

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Racial Concordance as a method to decrease healthcare disparities among African Americans

http://www.cwru.edu/med/epidbio/mphp439/Racial_Concordance.pdf

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What can be done?
The American college of Physicians in 2004 composed a position paper that supports more minority physicians in the US, however there are no clinical trial results that confirm the assumption that more minority physicians will result in a decrease in healthcare disparities. What is known that race concordant visits are more satisfying that discordant physicians visits. One solution ala Oprah Winfrey would be to recruit talented minority students, preferably within the first three years of grade school, and expose these students to study skills, state- of- the -art science and math courses and foster self esteem. Surround these students with positive role models, affirmations that empower and healthy foods and expect excellence. These students will become healthcare professionals and scientists, pass on their toolkit for life and success to their offspring which will again be passed on to where it is viewed as uncommon not to become an educated valuable part of society.

Entry #2,984

Time for a third party

The tight knit Republican party despises the Tea Party just as much as the radical Alinskyite Democrats.

Republicans and Democrats are in lock step with each other.

This country has gone to he!! in a hand basket.

Entry #2,982