U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani sentenced actress Felicity Huffman to two weeks in prison for paying $15,000 to get her daughter into college by having someone correct her answers on the SATs. Huffman also received a $30,000 fine and 250 hours of community service. She had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. Her lawyers asked for no jail time, one year of probation, 250 hours of community service and a $20,000 fine. Her sentence likely means other parents who’ve pleaded guilty in the nation’s college admissions scandal will spend time behind bars. It could also mean that others who made significantly larger payments will end up with more lenient prison terms than prosecutors say are fair.
During Huffman’s sentence she told the courtroom she was deeply ashamed. Judge Indira Talwani said, “Ultimately, you knew it was fraud, it was not an impulsive act. Trying to be a good mother doesn’t excuse this.” Talwani added that the sentence she handed down was “the right sentence here,” but also told Huffman “You can rebuild your life after this,” the judge said. “You’ve paid your dues.” Huffman will report to prison in six weeks, on October 25. Where she’ll serve her sentence has not been announced and will ultimately be decided by the Bureau of Prisons.
Fifty-two people have been charged as part of the college admissions bribery scandal known as “Varsity Blues.” Of the 52 people charged in the scandal, 35 are parents. Fifteen, including Huffman, have pleaded guilty in deals with prosecutors, while 19, including actress Lori Loughlin, have pleaded not guilty and are preparing for trial. Rick Singer, the mastermind of the nationwide college admissions scandal, was paid to have cheat on their children’s SAT or ACT while others paid substantially more to get their children falsely tagged as athletic recruits as a way into prestigious schools. Huffman is the first parent to be sentenced and prosecutors sought one month prison time for Huffman. Prosecutors are pushing for longer sentences for other defendants — more than three years in some cases.
The next parent to be sentenced in Boston federal court is Devin Sloane, CEO of Los Angeles-based waterTALENT. He pleaded guilty to paying $250,000 to Singer’s sham nonprofit to falsely designate his son as a water polo player to gain acceptance into the University of Southern California. Prosecutors are seeking one year in prison for Sloane. Sloane’s hearing is scheduling for September 24th. Two days later, Stephen Semprevivo, a former executive at Cydcor, also based in Los Angeles, will be sentenced. He pleaded guilty to paying $400,000 to Singer to get his son admitted into Georgetown University as a fake tennis recruit. Prosecutors have asked that Semprevio receive 15 months in prison.
Both upcoming cases will reveal whether the judge treats the recruiting scheme the same as the testing scam, and whether she comes down harder on parents who paid more to Singer. Longer sentences could be in store for parents who participated in the recruitment scheme because it had a more “direct effect” on the admissions process than test tampering. Such parents, including Loughlin, accused of paying $500,000 to Singer, have argued they made “legitimate donations” to Singer’s nonprofit, which they said had a history of donating to colleges.
Prosecutors have argued parents who paid more money to Singer should receive longer prison terms. An order by the judge released hours before Huffman’s sentencing could cap sentences at six months for parents regardless of their how much they paid. Judge Talwani ruled against the government’s request to sentence defendants under the federal commercial bribery statute, which allows more severe sentences depending on the amount of money paid. Instead, all sentences will be based on fraud statute guidelines, which recommend six months or less in prison for the offense.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, September 22nd, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, September 22nd, 2019 was:
LEIGH READER
Lake Murray Shores SC
Winner Of A $25.00 VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
The trivia drawing entries 9/16/19 thru 9/22/19 are:
9/16/19
Amber Critchley
Cheryl Reagin Burns
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Alicia Johnson
Rushell Tuggle
Meg Marshall
April Ashcraft
Amber Chandler
Sheila Carvell
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Christina Radcliff
Alicia Dansby
Nacole Patrick
Diane Hamric
Melinda Poullion
Jo Bhagavatula
Wendi Black
Annette Broxton
Shelley Ann Peoples
Jill Nauyokas
Brandi K Chaney
9/17/19
Kristina Rosson
MarcyLynn Coull
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Tracy Heyer
Alisa Jones
Amber Chandler
Meg Marshall
Tina Casto-Shafer
ShannonSchleif
Brooke Scott
Jill Nagel
Sandy Nevels
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Nai Merri
Amanda Rosario
Tonya Velazquez
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Kim Avery
9/18/19
Debbie Gremlin
Kristina Rosson
Christy Hawkes
Jeannine Scavo
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Jenifer Garza
Dale Fish
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Nai Merri
Emily Rice Bowersock
Missy Nicole Adams
Lisa Jimenez
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Michael Ingelido
April Walrath
Nicole Blaha
Lisa Bloomberg Wahl
Meg Marshall
Tabitha Sinks
Be Schwerin
Maria Bouchard
9/19/19
Lori Capobianco
LaKishia Wagers
Alicia Johnson
Trish Marks
Ambreen Javed
Marilyn Wall
Karen Brunet Moore
Melinda Dreier
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Becca Neuenschwander Long
Kim Avery
Jennifer Lang
Be Schwerin
Rhonda Grisham
Amanda Rosario
Rosanne Clark
Kimberly Snyder
Phylicia Phillips
Shannon Schleif
9/20/19
Brooke Scott
Nicole Blaha
Annette French
Jennifer Ramlet
Melinda Poullion
Josephine Casey
Amanda Rosario
Rushell Tuggle
Jill Nauyokas
Nacole Patrick
Nelle Bailey
Shannon Rush
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Bea Patrick
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Paula M Bondy
Angela McCabe
Paula Johnson
Leigh Reader
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Brandi K Chaney
9/21/19
Jennifer Ramlet
Mike Adamski
Brooke Scott
Jenny Merritt
Marilyn Wall
Kevin Cusack
Steph Mitchell
Eva Biggs
LaKishia Wagers
Melinda Poullion
Shannon Rush
Diane Hamric
Amber Chandler
Kim Avery
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Maria Bouchard
Paula Johnson
Leigh Reader
Mary Pettiford
Tracy Heyer
Lisa Bourlier
Dawn Raasch
9/22/19
Alisa Jones
Misty Dawn Moores
Brandi K Chaney
Shaz Sh
Barbara Austin
Jill Nauyokas
Heather Marocco
Tracy Heyer
Wayne Gallas
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Dean Bruss
Pam Johnson Rowland
Kimberly Snyder
Alicia Dansby
Lori Sexton Leal
Tera Lee Culverwell
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Hurricane Dorian ravaged the Bahamas, killing at least 50 people. As the clean-up operation continues, the death toll is expected to rise. About 1,300 people are missing after Dorian, while at least 15,000 are in need of shelter, food and medical care. Compounding the Bahamas’ misery is a massive oil spill that’s begun to spread into the ocean off the southern coast of Grand Bahama island after Hurricane Dorian blew the lids off six giant crude oil tanks.
Dorian was packing Category 5 winds with speeds of 185mph when it made landfall at Elbow Cay on the Abacos on September 1st. It is the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Atlantic basin since 1935. Rescue efforts were hampered as Dorian stalled, grinding in place for hours instead of moving back over open ocean. It equaled the highest winds ever recorded for a hurricane at landfall when it struck the Abaco Islands.
On the Abaco island chain, which is less developed than the tourist areas of the country and populated by fishermen and Haitian migrants — thousands of homes are expected to have been damaged or destroyed. A Redcross spokesman said it is believed that 13,000 houses — nearly half of all the homes on Grand Bahama and Abaco — suffered severe damage or were entirely destroyed. During the storm, images showed profound levels of flooding and rainfall, with as much as 30 inches falling in some areas. The Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport, the archipelago’s second-largest city, was five feet underwater.
United Nations officials say that over 60,000 people on the two islands need emergency food access, and that around 62,000 need access to clean water. The main hospital on Grand Bahama is reportedly unusable, while the hospital on Abaco desperately requires food, water, and medical supplies. The U.N. estimated that at least 70,000 people are homeless on Abaco and Grand Bahama. More than 5,000 people have been evacuated from those islands to New Providence, where the country’s capital Nassau is located. The Minister of Health, Dr. Duane Sands, said 80 people with injuries were evacuated from the island of Abaco and five or six from Grand Bahama island. He said injuries ranged from broken bones to head injuries to “maternity-based issues.” Sands said some among the dead succumbed to their injuries after being evacuated. The Prime Minister encouraged parents to send their kids to school when they are evacuated to Nassau, and said the government would continue to provide food and healthcare.
The devastation wrought by Dorian after its day-and-a-half mauling of the Bahamas, left ravaged infrastructure that has impeded search and recovery efforts. The islands remain a mess of splintered buildings, torn-off roofs, snapped power poles and scattered vehicles. The hurricane destroyed the island’s power grid and severed most communications, although occasional text messages were getting through in Marsh Harbor, the biggest town. Risk modeler Karen Clark & Co. estimates that devastation from the storm could cost the country $7 billion in insured and uninsured losses. The preliminary estimate combines damage to commercial, residential and industrial properties as well as business-interruption expenses, the company said in a report. The figure doesn’t include vehicle losses or damage to infrastructure.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, September 15th, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, September 15th, 2019 was:
PAULA M BONDY
Mich.
Winner Of A $25.00 VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Trivia Winners and Drawing Entries 9/9/19 thru 9/15/19
9/9/19
Lena Perry
Amber Chandler
Phylicia Phillips
Jessica Steiner
Becky Hartman
MarcyLynn Coull
Melissa Barnes Walker
Paula Johnson
Teena Sierson
Sheila Carvell
Josephine Casey
Marilyn Wall
Leigh Reader
Emily Rice Bowersock
Dean Bruss
Paula M Bondy
Eleazar Ruiz
Sandra Robb
Alana Dimambro
Joanna Hacker
Debbie Garretson
9/10/19
April Ashcraft
Darlene Whyte
Amber Chandler
Kimberly Snyder
Jo Bhagavathula
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Sonali Jain Modi
Amanda Rosario
Brooke Scott
Sherry Lilly
Tom Cavalli
Sheila Carvell
Jessica Steiner
Rhonda Grisham
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Debbie Bloxom
Anna Nichols
Christina Domingue
Dave Miller
Brandi K Chaney
Kim Avery
9/11/19
Brooke Scott
Josephine Casey
Barbara Austin
Tracy Heyer
Margaret Primos
Sherry Killy
Karen Brunet Moore
Janice McKay Donahue
Leigh Reader
Mama Teaches
Shannon Rush
Paula Johnson
Trish Marks
Christy Hawkes
Dawn Raasch
Nacole Patrick
Ellen Ciambrelli Ferrari
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Eleazar Ruiz
Lori Sexton Leal
Nai Merri
Jenifer Garza
Traci Anderson
9/12/19
Robins Griffitts Pratt
Kimberly Snyder
Dean Bruss
Derek Michelle Polk
Trish Hysell
Kim Avery
Lenis Abshire
Wendi Black
Becky VanGinkel
Meg Marshall
April Ashcraft
Jill Nagel
Barbara Austin
Marilyn Wall
Amanda Rosario
Amanda Brewer
Paula M Bondy
Jill Nauyokas
Sherri Kidwell
Russell Tuggle
Michelle Small
9/13/19
Amber Critchley
Ang Richards
Christina Radcliff
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Tabitha Sinks
Brooke Scott
Brittany Light
Abby Noelle
Joanie Waterman
Alicia Johnson
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Paula Gillespie
Steph Lesliebonton
Gricelda Castro
Tracy Heyer
Penny Fisher
Brittany Seiler
Shona Ort
Sheila Carvell
Alana Dimambro
Jenifer Garza
Ruthie Helen Boilard
9/14/19
Jill Nauyokas
Eleazar Ruiz
Jennifer Vega
Amanda Rosario
Alicia Dansby
Be Schwerin
Carol Jean
Jenifer Garza
Melissa White
Kacie Rogers
Anna Nichols
Diane Hamric
Rosanne Clark
LaKishia Wagers
Tonya Velazquez
Marilyn Wall
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Josephine Casey
Leigh Reader
9/15/19
Lisa Bourlier
Kimberly Snyder
Brooke Scott
Thomas Ryan Gan
Alicia Dansby
Annette French
Christina Radcliff
Derek Michelle Polk
Debbie Bloxom
Kristina Rosson
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Alicia Carpenter
Wendi Black
Be Schwerin
Alexis Maureen
Karron Redfield
Angel Shearl
Alexis Maureen
Eleazar Ruiz
Kathi Taylor
Shannon Rush
Jane Peterson
Dawn Raasch
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
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The U.S. Coast Guard has recovered all but one body after a commercial diving boat named the Conception, caught fire in the early hours of Monday morning off the coast of Santa Cruz Island in Southern California. The only survivors were five crew members of the 75-foot vessel who were sleeping on or above deck. All 33 passengers and one crew member sleeping below deck at the time of the fire were killed in horrific disaster. Authorities have yet to determine the cause of the fire.
The boat and company, Truth Aquatics Inc., are well-known in the tight-knit Southern California diving community, which is now reeling from the horrific maritime tragedy that killed teenagers, families, veteran divers, and one crew member, who were wrapping up a three-day scuba diving trip. Divers were inspecting the ship’s wreckage with plans to raise it from the ocean floor, but that process may be complicated by forecast high winds in the coming days.
The surviving crew members told a harrowing story of their frantic attempts to save the passengers trapped below deck in a bunk room already engulfed in flames. One member of the crew told of hearing a noise from his bunk on the wheelhouse deck of the Conception and that when he opened the door of the wheelhouse, he saw flames erupting from the galley area but never heard smoke alarms. He told investigators he tried to get down a ladder but flames had engulfed the ladder.
Scrambling, the other crew members jumped from the bridge of the boat to the main deck. One person broke their leg doing so. They then rushed to the galley’s double doors to try and reach the passengers below, but the fire was already too intense.
At around 3:15 a.m., the captain made a frantic mayday call to authorities, telling them that the boat was engulfed, 33 people couldn’t escape, and “there’s no escape hatch for any of the people on board.” At that point, due to heat, flames, and smoke, the crew had to jump from the boat. Two crew members swam to the back of the Conception to get the inflatable skiff, then collected the others and made it to a nearby fishing boat, the Grape Escape.
Shirley Hansen, owner of the Grape Escape, said that she and her husband awoke at 3:30 a.m. to “horrific pounding” and a group of distraught, wet men, some injured and just in their underwear. Once on the Hansen’s boat, the men tried to call 911 for rescue and two crew members then took the dinghy boat back to the Conception to try and rescue any survivors but there were none. The Hansen’s said you could hear explosions from the engulfed diving boat every couple of minutes.
Officials have been looking at the dive boat’s maintenance and inspection records, which the Coast Guard said were up to date, and trying to understand if the 34 victims who had been sleeping in rows of narrow bunks even had a chance to escape. Officials are using advanced DNA technology to identify the victims. None of the names of the dead, who ranged in age from 17 to 60, have been publicly released by authorities but friends and family have confirmed who was on the boat. Among the victims were a family of five, a teacher and his daughter, and a diving instructor and marine biologist.
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Five deaths in the US have been linked to vaping as health officials continue to grapple with the dangers of e-cigarette use and the exact cause of the deaths. All five died after developing a severe lung illness that is believed to be linked to vaping. The exact cause of the deaths and the dangers of vaping still remain unclear but are being investigated on both the federal and state level.
More than 450 possible cases of respiratory illnesses have been reported in 33 states after use of e-cigarette products, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The average age of those with the illness is 19, which is not surprising considering of the almost 10 million vapers in the US, nearly half of those are under 35, with 18-24-year-olds the most regular users.
Those who have suffered from the lung illness reported experiencing coughing, chest pain or shortness of breath before their health deteriorated to the point of respiratory failure and they needed to be hospitalized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Respiratory failure is where your body either can’t break down oxygen, produce carbon dioxide, or both. The result is that your lungs stop working and breathing becomes difficult. Other reported symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, fever and weight loss. Many victims have ended up with acute respiratory distress syndrome, a life-threatening condition in which fluid builds up in the lungs and prevents the oxygen people’s bodies need to function from circulating in the bloodstream.
Those affected used a number of different devices from vaporizers to smaller e-cigarettes and a variety of different brands of liquids and cartridges. Health officials recently said many cases involved products that contained THC, the mind-altering substance in marijuana. The FDA has now collected over 120 samples to test for different chemicals, including nicotine, cannabinoids, additives and pesticides.
They also recently identified a common contaminant in some of the cannabis products used by patients across the country — an oil derived from vitamin E. It remains unclear whether this is the cause or one of the causes of the illnesses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a statement that advised against using electronic cigarettes while it investigates the issue. The agency also said people should stop buying vaporizers, cartridges and liquids off the street or modifying vaping products bought legally.
New York Health officials have focusing their investigation on Vitamin E acetate after they found high levels of it in nearly all of the cannabis-containing vapes tested. At least one vape containing both cannabis and vitamin E has been linked to every patient who submitted products for testing, the New York health department said. Vitamin E isn’t known to be harmful if ingested as a vitamin supplement, but it could be dangerous if inhaled because of its “oil-like” properties. It has not been approved as an additive for New York’s medical marijuana program.
Federal health officials are warning that vitamin E is likely only one piece of the puzzle. The CDC is running its own tests on more than 100 samples for vitamin E, pesticides, opioids, poisons and other toxins. “No one substance or compound, including vitamin E acetate, has been identified in all the samples tested,” Zeller said. “The samples we’re continuing to evaluate show a mix of results.”
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, September 8th, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, September 8th, 2019 was:
TERA WARDRIP
Hardinsburg, KY
Winner Of A $25.00 VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Trivia Winners & Drawing Entries From 9/2/19 thru 9/8/19 were:
9/2/19
Brittany Light
Shannon Rush
Lori Capobianco
Dale Fish
Tina Marie
Karen Brunet Moore
Jessica Steiner
Helen Williams
Paula Johnson
Josephine Casey
Leigh Reader
Eric Sanders
Derelys Peterson
Angela Janisse
Lisa Puckett
Amanda Rosario
Marilyn Wall
Tera Wardrip
Tina Marie
MarcyLynn Coull
Bea Patrick
Amanda Justice
Be Schwerin
Carl Buddy Mizell
Tracy Heyer
Nacole Patrick
Debbie Gremlin
9/3/19
Dan Maloney
Rhonda Grisham
Tonya Velazquez
Kelsey Polacek
Mya Murphy
Nelle Bailey
Jessica Steiner
April Ashcraft
Angela Janisse
Jill Nauyokas
Jill Nagel
Melissa White
Becky VanGinkel
Karyn Koehler
Adaria Johnson
Tracy Heyer
Karen Brunet Moore
Be Schwerin
Betty Young
Kiki Roberson
9/4/19
Jill Nauyokas
Somali Jain Modi
Joanie Waterman
Lena Perry
Cassandra L Penley
Alisa Jones
Holly Cajigas
Jessica Steine
Alexis Maureen
George Pownall
Wendi Black
Sherri Kidwell
Christy Hawkes
Anna Nichols
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Shona Ort
Jenifer Garza
April Ashcraft
Laura Ondoua
Leigh Reader
Rhonda Grisham
9/5/19
Brooke Scott
Jill Nauyokas
Sandra Robb
Samantha Brwn
Eva Biggs
Jennifer Freeland
Isis Sample
Nicole Blaha
Rhonda Grisham
Jillian Dollarhide
Tina Marie
Missy Nicole Adams
Andrew W Sauer
Amanda Quill
Tabitha Sinks
Robert Robb
Angela Janisse
Sarah Harrison
Debbie Gremlin
Shannon Schleif
9/6/19
Helen Williams
Kim Avery
Jill Nagel
Sarah Harrison
Kathi Taylor
Nikki Hunsaker
Ashley Richmond
Christy Hawkes
Trish Marks
Brittany Deaver
Derek Michelle Polk
Ruthie Helen Boilard
Sarah Harrison
Karen Brunet Moore
Mary Pettiford
Jennifer Ramlet
Rhonda Grisham
Georgiann D’Angelo
Be Schwerin
Sherri Kidwell
Adaria Johnson
Andrew W Sauer
9/7/19
Brittany Light
Mike Adamski
Rhonda Grisham
Sean Stover
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Keith Ruff
Jessica Steiner
Lisa Bloomberg Wahl
Carla Williams
Janice McKay Donahue
Dave Miller
Kathleen Hickman
Mary Pettiford
Amanda Quill
Jeremy Mclaughlin
Jennifer Vega
Amanda Rosario
Kim Avery
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Andrew W Sauer
Eva Biggs
9/8/19
Dale Fish
Eleazar Ruiz
Kelsey Mcknight
Jo Bhagavathula
John McKnight
Beth Cleveland
Dawna McKnight
Shannon Rush
Christina Radcliff
Leigh Reader
Shona Ort
Edward John
Josephine Casey
Jillian Dollarhide
Carol Jean
Tracy Heyer
Melissa White
Kassie Lynn DiFazio
Sean Stover
Alana Dimambro
Jenifer Garza
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
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Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
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A patient in Illinois is believed to be the first death linked to vaping. Health officials said the patient died after contracting a severe respiratory illness, but did not give details about what the patient was vaping or which device was used. They did not provide details about the patient’s identity, saying only that the person was an adult who had vaped recently and then succumbed to a severe respiratory illness.
This comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified nearly 200 possible cases of lung disease linked to vaping in at least 22 states, including 22 cases in Illinois. The Illinois patients range in age from 17 to 38. Illinois state officials are working with local health departments to investigate another 12 individuals. Officials said earlier this week that many patients, most of whom were adolescents or young adults, had described difficulty breathing, chest pain, vomiting and fatigue. The most seriously ill patients have had extensive lung damage that required treatment with oxygen and days on a ventilator. Some are expected to have permanent lung damage.
Many patients have acknowledged vaping of tetrahydrocannabinol, or (T.H.C.), the high-inducing chemical in marijuana, according to statements from federal and state health agencies. Officials still don’t know whether the ailments have been caused by marijuana-type products, e-cigarettes, or some type of street concoction that was vaped, or whether a contaminant or defective device may have been involved.
The F.D.A. does not regulate what ingredients are used in vaping devices. The e-cigarette market has broadened to counterfeiters and a range of devices that can be packed with different substances, including marijuana, but also various flavors and concoctions that may be mixed inexpertly. Some speculate that people are emptying out commercial nicotine pods and filling them up with a combination of T.H.C. oil and other chemicals. Cannabis liquids and oils have become more widely available online and in many stores. The ingredients may not be disclosed at all so unsuspecting consumers may be exposed to a cocktail of hazardous chemicals.
State health departments are handling most investigations into the respiratory illnesses. So far, public health officials have declined to say if they are seeing a pattern that would make clear whether the problematic products are made by mass-market companies or counterfeiters, or whether the inhalants involved are standard to many vaping products or made or mixed by consumers themselves. Even though cases appear similar, it is not clear whether all these cases have a common cause or whether they are different diseases with similar symptoms.
Dozens of young people with an unidentified lung illness have been hospitalized around the country in recent weeks. It’s unclear if the condition is linked to the vaping devices or what the patients were smoking before they became sick. A recent study says that e-cigarettes impact people’s blood vessels after a single use. Officials said they don’t know why a surge of illnesses is surfacing now since various forms of the battery-powered e-cigarette devices have existed for more than a decade. E-cigarettes have grown in popularity over the past decade despite little research on their long-term effects. Millions of Americans use e-cigarettes, with the greatest use among young adults. Lat year, more than 3.6 million U.S. middle and high school students said they had used e-cigarettes in the past 30 days, according to the CDC.
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Oklahoma Judge Thad Balkman has found that Johnson & Johnson helped fuel the state’s opioid crisis, and ordered the pharma giant to pay over half a billion dollars — $572 million. It’s the first major ruling against a drug company as part of the opioid epidemic, which has led to hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths around the country. The decision is the first to hold a drugmaker culpable for the fallout of the liberal opioid dispensing that began in the late 1990s which led to a nationwide epidemic of overdose deaths and addiction.
More than 400,000 people in the US have died of overdoses from painkillers, heroin and illegal fentanyl since 1999. In Oklahoma, more than 6,000 people have died of painkiller overdoses since 2000, the state charged in court papers, as the number of opioid prescriptions dispensed by pharmacies reached 479 every hour in 2017. Johnson & Johnson’s products — a prescription opioid pill and a fentanyl skin patch sold by its subsidiary, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, were a small part of the painkillers consumed in Oklahoma. Two other companies it owned had grown, processed and supplied 60 percent of the ingredients in painkillers sold by most drug companies in the US.
The decision has been hailed as a victory but the damages are much lower than the $17 billion Oklahoma had sought in the case. Balkman did not give the state everything it sought, the state attorneys asked for $17.5 billion over 30 years for treatment, emergency care, law enforcement, social services and other addiction-related needs. Judge Balkman concluded it would cost $572 million to address the crisis in the first year based on the state’s plan. He said the state did not provide “sufficient evidence” of the time and money needed to respond after that.
There are about 2,000 lawsuits in 40 other states against opioid manufacturers and distributors that are pending around the country. A massive federal lawsuit brought by almost 2,000 cities, counties and Native American tribes is scheduled to begin in October. The ruling in the first state case to go to trial could influence both sides’ strategies in the months and years to come.
Moments after the judge ruled, Johnson & Johnson, which has denied wrongdoing, said it would appeal. Company attorney Sabrina Strong said at a news conference, “We are disappointed and disagree with the judge’s decision. We believe it is flawed. We have sympathy for those who suffer from opioid use disorder but Johnson & Johnson did not cause the opioid abuse crisis here in Oklahoma or anywhere in this country.”
Oklahoma settled in March with Purdue Pharma, manufacturer of OxyContin, accepting $270 million from the company and its owners, the Sackler family, who were not named as defendants in the lawsuit. Most of that will go to a treatment and research center at Oklahoma State University, although the federal government is seeking a portion of the money. In May, two days before the trial began, the state settled with Teva Pharmaceuticals, an Israeli-based manufacturer of generic drugs, for $85 million. The Sackler family has also offered to settle the more than 2,000 lawsuits against them for their role in the opioid crisis for $10 billion to $12 billion which includes $3 billion from the Sackler family fortune. The deal was reportedly discussed last week by Purdue’s lawyers and includes a plan for Purdue to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy before restructuring into a for-profit “public benefit trust” that would allegedly serve the many plaintiffs suing the company. The Sackler family would also relinquish ownership of Purdue under the deal.
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Statistics On U.S. Adults & Households Lacking Life Insurance
SEPTEMBER is “Life Insurance Awareness Month“, an educational initiative to remind consumers about the importance of life insurance. The program is sponsored by the non-profit organization LIFE, the Foundation for Life Insurance Education, and is supported by our offices throughout the U.S. from Health & Life Solutions, LLC.
Why Life Insurance Awareness Month? There is a growing crisis of too many Americans not having adequate life insurance protection. Even more alarming, according to the industry association LIMRA* some 41% of U.S. adults have no life insurance, and 51% of households in the United States do not own any life insurance.
For those who do have coverage, most are concerned that the amount of protection they have is not enough. Your loved ones count on you to care for them and make sound financial decisions to protect them and your legacy. A properly structured life insurance program will help ensure your loved one’s financial security and protect what you value the most. 
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* 2011 life insurance ownership study by LIMRA, a life insurance and financial services consulting and research organization.
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