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 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, August 6th, 2017 was:
TERA WARDRIP
Hardinsburg, KY
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx 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 Gift. Card 
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
7/31/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Shelly LaClear
Dean Bruss
Kelly Jo Francisco
Terri Llexxes
Kristina Rosson
Sherri Kidwell
Tonya Velazquez
Sheila Carvell
Misty Shallcross
Christy Hawkes
Nai Merri
Jennifer Ramlet
Tera Wardrip
Jessica Miller
Amanda Peters
Anna Nichols
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Sheri Boydston
Brandy Williams
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Tina Mimick
Karyn Koehler
Kathleen Hickman
8/1/17
Jenifer Garza
Amanda Rosario
Crystal Young
Deborah Farris
Isis Sample
Dustin N Angela Turner
Dawn Raasch
Kayla Clemons
Jackie Hicks
Kristina Harris
Jennifer Marie
Michelle Rayeski-Jeske
Sarah Bellestri
Tiffany Banks
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Lauren Bradley
Trish Hysell
Kelly Prestenbach
Kelly Jo Francisco
Amber McGrath
Valerie Kuehn
8/2/17
Amanda Rosario
Valerie Kuehn
Paula M Bondy
Michael Ingelido
Alicia Johnson
Alisa Jones
Edward John
Dean Bruss
Dustin N Angela Turner
Deborah Farris
Brandy Williams
Joanie Waterman
Adaria Johnson
Beata Tybor
Tabitha Sinks
Priscilla Shimp
Kristi Cervantes
Mary Pettiford
Karen Bondehagen
Alexis Maureen
8/3/17
Brittany Deaver
Amanda Rosario
Kelly Jo Francisco
Christy Hawkes
Deborah Farris
Karen Rimiller Presley
Adaria Johnson
Paula M Bondy
Dan Maloney
Samantha Brwn
Sarah Harrison
Jazmine Nichole
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Mary Achio
Sheila Carvell
Lisa Puckett
Chris Maxwell
Anne Delos Reyes-Villafuerte
Brittany Marie Thompson
Laurie Griffith
8/4/17
Kimberly Snyder
Brittany Whitley
Jennifer Saavedra
Kelly Jo Francisco
Trish Musgrave
Anggie Marie
Lisa David Carr
Deborah Farris
Teena Sierson
Cheryl Hall
Rebecca Fauteux
Chrissy Kim
Christy Hawkes
Misty Shallcross
Tracy Shafer
Shelley LaClear
Mya Murphy
April Ashcraft
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Priscilla Shimp
Amanda Peters
8/5/17
Christina Domingue
Becca Dotsun
Tiffany Banks
Kelly Jo Francisco
Mike Adamski
Brandi K Chaney
Pam Johnson Rowland
Kimberly Snyder
Stephanie Beckwith
Belinda Haas
Alisa Jones
Amandaa Rosario
April Ashcraft
Trish Musgrave
Dean Bruss
Laurie Griffith
Sean Stover
Misty Dawn Moores
Jennifer Ramlet
Barbie Sundy
8/6/17
Krissy Brislin
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Kayla Hernandez
Shelby Lynn
Kristina Harris
Mya Murphy
Sherri Kidwell
Karen Brunet Moore
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Timothy Simpson
Adaria Johnson
Jodi Stevens
Priscilla Shimp
Jill Nauyokas
Phylicia Phillips
Alisa Jones
Nitasha Shank
Rondi Clark-Conn
Chrissy Kim
Rebecca Honey Graham
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A Stockton,CA teen livestreamed a gruesome video of the fatal car wreck that killed her 14 year old sister Jacqueline Sanchez. Obdulia Sanchez, 18, filmed herself singing along to a song and dancing while at the wheel. Her sister Jacqueline and a pal, 14, can be briefly seen in the back seat.
The video, which was livestreamed to her Instagram, shows Obdulia turning the camera from herself to the roadway a few times before losing control of the car. With the camera still rolling, screams can be heard as the car swerved across both lanes, crashed into a barbed wire fence and overturned in a field just off of Highway 165 in Los Banos, California.
Still filming, Obdulia exited the vehicle where she filmed her sister’s bloodied, fatally injured body. She is seen shaking her sister’s lifeless body, saying: “I killed my sister, but I don’t care…I killed my sister. I know I’m going to prison, but I don’t care. I’m sorry baby. I’m a hold it down.”
Obdulia Sanchez was arrested and booked at the Merced County Jail, charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and causing bodily injury and with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. She is being held on a $300,000 bond.
Sheriff Vern Warnke said Jacqueline Sanchez was not wearing her seat belt at the time and was ejected as the vehicle was rolling over. She died of severe head injuries. Her friend who was also not wearing her seatbelt, suffered severe but non-life threatening injuries.
Officials said they believe the July 21st crash was caused when Obdulia Sanchez over corrected a turn which caused the vehicle to swerve across both lanes, crashing through a wire fence and overturning into a field south of the road. The highway patrol said alcohol is believed to be a factor in the crash.
The girl’s parents, Nicandro and Gloria Sanchez say they believe their 18 year old daughter is still in shock and that they both are numb and unsure of what to feel. Jacqueline Sanchez was heading into her sophomore year of high school and was about to celebrate her Quinceanera. Instead, her parents have to bury one daughter while the other is in jail.
A California Highway Patrol officer told the media that Obdulia became combative at the scene of the accident while screaming that her sister was dead. He was quoted as saying “The video is very disturbing,” “It’s very disturbing to us because of the callous nature of her actions, both leading up to this tragedy and in the immediate aftermath.” The highway patrol said it is still looking into whether Obdulia Sanchez dialed 911 to report the crash.
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A horrific incident of human trafficking was discovered in the parking lot of a Walmart in San Antonio, TX. Eight people were discovered dead inside a tractor-trailer and around three dozen people more were in very bad shape, many of them unconscious and unable to speak. Thirty people were taken to the hospital, 17 were listed in critical condition with one critical patient dying later. Another 13 people were in serious condition. In total, 39 people were in the back of the trailer, two were school age children but most were in their twenties and thirties.
Authorities were alerted when the employees of the San Antonio Walmart saw the tractor-trailer in their parking lot for a long time. When some employees went to check on the trailer, the driver asked for water. While giving him the water, police were alerted who reached the scene within a short time.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said that when police arrived on the scene, they discovered eight people dead and 30 suffering from various injuries. The driver, identified as James M. Bradley Jr., 60, of Clearwater, Florida was arrested at the scene.
The eight people whose bodies were initially found were believed to have died from heat exposure and asphyxiation. San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood told the media “We quickly called a ‘mass casualty incident’ and had about 29 units arrive out there and start transporting people”. “With heat strokes or heat injuries, a lot of them are going to have some irreversible brain damage”.
He added, “Unfortunately, some of them were severely overheated, and that was a refrigerated truck with no refrigeration…So the inside of the truck was just austere condition that nobody was going to survive in it. So we were very fortunate that they were found because if they would have spent another night in that environment, we would have 38 people who would not have survived.”
San Antonio police are investigating what they believe is a massive human trafficking operation. Officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement were helping with the investigation. Surveillance video showed that several vehicles had approached the trailer to pick up people. Some occupants fled into the woods nearby. Authorities are searching the entire area on foot and by air using helicopters to locate those that ran into the woods.
Smugglers often transport large groups of migrants from stash houses near the border in tractor-trailers, or disperse them in smaller vehicles, taking them to cities like Houston or San Antonio. A spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, the parent agency of the Border Patrol, said that the people in the truck were probably migrants who had crossed the Mexican border on foot and been taken to a stash house before being put in the tractor-trailer to be transported farther north.
Just this month in Houston, about a dozen immigrants being smuggled in a cargo truck were rescued after being left in the locked vehicle for about 12 hours in a strip-mall parking lot. A police officer heard the immigrants, including a 16-year-old girl, banging on the walls for help.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has extended the state of emergency for another three months. The extension followed weekend ceremonies to commemorate the first anniversary of the failed military coup in which around 250 people, mostly unarmed civilians, were killed. Anniversary celebrations came a week after the leader of the main opposition, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, ended a nearly 280-mile “March for Justice” from Ankara to Istanbul by holding a rally attended by more than a million people calling for an end to emergency rule and injustice.
President Erdogan vowed to continue the brutal crackdown against activists, journalists, teachers and opposition lawmakers. He also called for the reinstatement of the death penalty in Turkey. Since emergency rule was imposed on July 20 last year, more than 50,000 people have been arrested and 150,000 people have been suspended in a crackdown which Erdogan’s opponents say has pushed Turkey on a path to greater authoritarianism.
Speaking at parliament, Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said the emergency rule had helped created the necessary legal environment to cleanse the state of Gulen’s network. The Turkish government says it is necessary to root out supporters of the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen who is believed to be behind the coup attempt. Gulen has denied any involvement.
Since the failed coup where Turkish military forces tried to overthrow the government, the Turkish government has taken what some say are controversial steps to strengthen its power. In March, the Jurist Report was published by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The report describes a plethora of human rights violations committed by the Turkish government between July 2015 and December 2016.
The same month the report was published, around 330 individuals were put on trial for alleged involvement in an attempted coup. In November Turkey significantly restricted the activities of NGOs like human rights organizations and children’s groups and arrested opposition party leaders alleging they were connected to terror organizations. Earlier this month the Turkish Parliament elected seven new members to the country’s 13-member Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) in an overnight vote.
Ten human rights activists, including Amnesty International Turkey director Idil Eser, were in court to face terrorism related charges. The targeting of human rights defenders and similar earlier crackdowns on lawyers and associations raises the question of who will be left to defend the tens of thousands of people caught up in the post-coup purge.
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The bodies of four young Pennsylvania men who went missing last week have been found. Hours after finding a fourth body buried in a farm here, authorities charged two men with multiple counts of homicide in what authorities said were marijuana deals that turned murderous. Cosmo Dinardo and his cousin Sean Kratz, both 20, were denied bail in preliminary arraignments. Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub announced that the bodies of the young men who went missing last week had been found buried on a farm owned by Dinardo’s parents in Solebury Township.
The victims were identified as 19-year-old Dean Finocchiaro, Mark Sturgis, 22, Tom Meo, 21, who disappeared together and Jimi Tar Patrick, 19. The defense attorney for Cosmo NiNardo, 20, said his client admitted to killing the four in three separate shootings, and told authorities the location of the bodies. DiNardo is ready to plead guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in order to take the death penalty off the table.
Jimi Patrick was the first to go missing and days later- the three other men disappeared. Investigators had focused their search on a property a few miles from the Delaware River, a farm owned by the parents of Cosmo Dinardo, the man who has been identified as a “person of interest” in the case.
Dinardo was initially charged with trying to sell Meo’s car, a 1996 Nissan Maxima and was being held in jail on $5 million cash bail after being deemed a flight risk. Dinardo confessed his involvement in the disappearances, implicated Kratz, and gave information about the location of the fourth victim, police say. Dinardo has a history of unspecified mental illness, and he was previously involuntarily committed to a mental health institution after firing a shotgun, authorities said.
In the arrest affidavit Dinardo told police that on July 5 he agreed to sell four pounds of marijuana for $8,000 to Jimi Patrick. Dinardo picked Patrick up at his home and drove him to the farm but Patrick only had $800, the affidavit states. Dinardo then offered to sell Patrick a shotgun for that amount. Dinardo took Patrick to a remote part of the property and gave him a shotgun. Dinardo then shot and killed Patrick with a .22 caliber rifle and buried his body six feet deep using a backhoe.
Two days later, Dinardo said he and Kratz, decided to rob Dean Finocchiaro during a drug deal. Dinardo told police he gave Kratz his mother’s Smith and Wesson .357 handgun for the robbery. They met at Finocchiaro’s home and went to the farm. Dinardo told police, Kratz shot Finocchiaro near a barn and the put his remains in a metal tank. Kratz’s account of the killing describes Dinardo as the shooter.
Dinardo had a deal in place that same night to sell marijuana to Thomas Meo. Dinardo met Meo and his friend Mark Sturgis and the two followed him to his farm where Kratz was waiting. Dinardo and Kratz described Dinardo shooting Meo in the back and shooting at Sturgis as he tried to flee. According to the police affidavit, Dinardo said after he ran out of ammunition, he drove a backhoe over Meo’s body. Afterwards, they put the bodies in the metal tank, poured gasoline inside and set it on fire. They returned the next day to bury the tank 12 feet deep using a backhoe.
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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 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, July 16th, 2017 was:
KARRON REDFIELD
Manchester, CT
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of 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 Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
7/10/17
Jennifer Marie
Christina Domingue
Amanda Rosario
Jane Peterson
Amanda Peters
Diane Hamric
Sarra Baptist
Judy Custer
Kelly Jo Francisco
Chris Maxwell
Jennifer Mason
Tiffany Bank
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Jill Nauyokas
Misty Shallcross
Tabitha Sinks
Jessica Davis
Christy Hawkes
Anggie Marie
Kayla Hernandez
Sheri Boydston
7/11/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Tabitha Sinks
Isis Sample
Jamie Nash Lewter
Jill Nauyokas
Karen Bondehagen
Cheryl Hall
Jodi Stevens
Amber McGrath
Valerie Kuehn
Sarah Harrison
Dean Bruss
Judy Custer
Teena Sierson
Emily Rice Bowersock
Shameka Barnes
Christy Hawkes
Sheri Boydston
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Kim Avery
7/12/17
Sheri Boydston
Jennifer Mason
Christina Montes
Krissy Brislin
Jane Peterson
Kelly Jo Francisco
Michelle Webb
Kayla Hernandez
Joe Nemeth
Alexandria Fields
Crystal Young
Sherri Kidwell
Jan Lehman
Chrissy Kim
Taschia Miller
Judy Custer
Jennifer Lang
Deborah Farris
Marilyn Wall
Tonya Velazquez
7/13/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Sheri Boydston
Diane Hamric
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Alisa Jones
Crystal Hazelwood
Kristina Harris
Debbie Burke Garretson
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Sherri Kidwell
Kimberly Snyder
Dean Bruss
Morgan Alexandra
Adaria Johnson
Natasha Berry
Marilyn Wall
Brian Fulop
Zack Sudler
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Kim Avery
Amanda Peters
7/14/17
Isis Sample
Khadijah Carter
Judy Custer
Sherri Kidwell
Kendra George
Bea Patrick
Tina Marie
Anna Ashley Pinder
Candy Dyer
Amanda Peters
Kristina Harris
Jessica Davis
Josh Francisco
Katt Keane
April Ashcraft
Tiffany Green Elliott
Misty Shallcross
Sheri Boydston
Beth Mason
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
7/15/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Peggy Burdick Buchanan
Laura Myers
Amanda Rosario
Sheri Boydston
Diane Hamric
Sherry Lilly
Rebecca Fauteux
Cheryl Hall
Karron Redfield
Jill Nauyokas
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Dean Bruss
Anne Delos Reyes-Villafuerte
Eleazar Ruiz
Tonya Velazquez
Misty Dawn Moores
Danielle Muniz
Trish Musgrave
Adaria Johnson
7/16/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Sheri Boydston
Sherry Lilly
Rebecca Fauteux
Cheryl Hall
Peggy Burdick Buchanan
Laura Myers
Karron Redfield
Diane Hamric
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Kayla Clemons
Dean Bruss
Jill Nauyokas
Tonya Velazquez
Anne Delos Reyes-Villafuerte
Eleazar Ruiz
Marilyn Wall
Misty Dawn Moores
Trish Musgrave
Amanda Peters
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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A senior cardinal and top adviser to Pope Francis will return to Australia to face charges of sexual assault. Cardinal George Pell is the third-highest-ranking official in the Roman Catholic Church. Pell was charged in his native Australia with multiple counts of sexual assault from years ago.
The charges against Pell were announced in Melbourne by Victoria State Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton. Pell was ordered to appear in court July 26 to face multiple counts of “historical sexual assault offenses”. Patton said there are multiple complainants against Pell, but he gave no other details.
It is unclear what the criminal charges against Pell involve, but two men, now in their 40s, have said that Pell touched them inappropriately at a swimming pool in the late 1970s, when Pell was a senior priest in Melbourne.
In 2014, the Vatican admitted nearly 850 priests have been dismissed and more than 2,500 have been disciplined in a sprawling sexual abuse scandal dating back decades. Cardinal Pell said Pope Francis granted him a leave of absence to return to Australia to defend himself. The 76-year-old Pell — the highest-ranking Vatican official ever implicated in the scandal and has forcefully denied the accusations.
In a statement read to the press, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said the Vatican respected Australia’s justice system but recalled that the cardinal had “openly and repeatedly condemned as immoral and intolerable” acts of sexual abuse against minors. He noted Pell’s cooperation with Australia’s Royal Commission investigation of sex abuse and that as a bishop in Australia, he worked to protect children and compensate victims.
Pell’s actions as archbishop came under scrutiny in recent years by a government-authorized investigation into how the Catholic Church and other institutions have responded to the sexual abuse of children. The Royal Commission revealed that 7 percent of priests were accused of sexually abusing children in the past several decades.
Last year, Pell testified to the commission that the church had made “enormous mistakes” in allowing thousands of children to be raped and molested by priests. He conceded that he, too, had erred by often believing the priests over victims who alleged abuse. He vowed to help end a rash of suicides that has plagued church abuse victims in his hometown of Ballarat.
It was unclear if Pell would face a church trial stemming from the accusations. The Vatican has clear guidelines about initiating a canonical investigation if there is a semblance of truth to sex abuse accusations against a cleric. In the case of a cardinal, it would fall to Francis himself to judge. Penalties for a guilty verdict in a church trial include defrocking.
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The city of St. Anthony, Minnesota will pay nearly $3 million to the family of Philando Castile to settle a wrongful death lawsuit, less than two weeks after officer Jeronimo Yanez was acquitted on manslaughter charges for killing Castile during a 2016 traffic stop. Castile, a 32-year-old elementary school cafeteria worker, was shot five times by Yanez during a traffic stop after Castile told the officer he was armed.
The settlement is to be paid to Castile’s mother Valerie Castile, who is the family’s trustee. The $2.995 million settlement will be paid by the League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust, which holds the insurance policy for the city of St. Anthony. The plan for distribution of funds requires approval by a state court.
Attorney Robert Bennett, who is representing Valerie Castile, said a decision was made to move expeditiously rather than have the case drawn out in federal court, a process that would “exacerbate and reopen terrible wounds.” The settlement will also allow the family, the city and community to work toward healing, Bennett said.
The settlement will help benefit the Philando Castile Relief Foundation. Bennett said the foundation’s mission is to provide financial support, grief counseling, scholarships and other help to individuals and families affected by gun violence and police violence.
The Philando Castile Relief Foundation hopes to continue to award an annual $5000 scholarship. Through donations and part of the settlement, organizers hope to establish a permanent endowment to fund the annual $5,000 scholarship. In May, 18-year-old Marques Watson was announced as the first recipient.
Watson intends to study mechanical engineering. He’ll take advantage of a tuition-free offer at St. Paul College this fall and hopes to complete his four-year degree at a historically black college or university. Watson has participated in AVID, a school-based program that prepares underrepresented students for college, since seventh grade. He said he’ll be the first in his extended family to attend college.
Castile’s girlfriend Diamond Reynolds, who witnessed the shooting and posted video seconds after, is not part of the settlement. Reynolds has also hired an attorney, but it’s not clear if she is still planning a lawsuit or has any standing for a federal claim.
A claims manager with the League of Minnesota Cities, said St. Anthony’s insurance coverage is $3 million per occurrence. If Reynolds were to file and win a claim, the city’s remaining $5,000 in coverage would be paid to her and St. Anthony would have to cover any additional money awarded.
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The health of people who live in rural areas is being harshly neglected in current national health policy and in healthcare legislation under discussion in Congress, according to Jeff Smedsrud, CEO of Communicating for America (CA), a non-profit rural advocacy group.
“Our government is making a habit of adopting health care legislation that forgets about the health of rural residents,” Smedsrud said.
Smedsrud, a health insurance expert and entrepreneur, said that rural Americans face numerous health disparities compared to their urban counterparts.
“According to the Centers for Disease Control, the 15 percent of the U.S. population classified as rural are more likely to die from heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease and stroke than their urban counterparts,” Smedsrud said.
He called on Congress to adjust proposed legislation to reflect the fact that rural residents tend to be older and sicker than urban residents, and that insurance choices are dwindling, and often cost more. For example, he said, in 2018 no insurers plan to provide coverage in several mostly-rural counties in Missouri, Ohio, Nevada and Washington. The entire state of Nebraska has only a single insurer under the rules of the ‘Affordable’ Care Act.
“This sparsity of coverage is a condition that needs healing right now,” Smedsrud said.
He emphasized that fewer doctors, per capita, serve rural people and quality care is often out of range physically and financially.
Smedsrud outlined a list of ten recommendations for lawmakers and federal regulators to consider as solutions to remedy the health care gap in rural America:
1. Maintain reasonable Medicaid coverage that covers the disproportionate share of poor and elderly that reside in rural areas.
2. Approve virtual, “tele-medicine” services for rural people under federal insurance guidelines. Make it possible for people to see a doctor or mental health provider remotely – on-screen and/or on-line – without driving long distances.
3. Rescue rural hospitals by maintaining federal reimbursement regulations that help them stay financially viable and remain open.
4. Recognize that the horrid national opioid epidemic is most prominent on a per capita basis in rural America, requiring funding for prevention and treatment alternatives.
5. Ensure health insurance options and competition for rural people, so they are not trapped in a one-size-fits-all federally approved insurance plan.
6. Allow for associations comprised of self-employed small businesses to pool their insurance buying power across state lines and negotiate rates.
7. Enact Guaranteed Access Pools, or Unified High-Risk Pools as a safety net so all consumers with pre-existing conditions are given access to health insurance.
8. Strengthen the rural technology infrastructure, enabling tele-medicine technologies that will narrow the rural-urban healthcare divide. Specifically, undertake an urgent program to provide high-speed internet technology to rural areas.
9. Maintain a senior-level Rural Health Advocate in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with responsibility for assuring that all government healthcare decisions reflect the unique needs of rural residents.
10. Encourage doctors to serve in rural areas with loan forgiveness programs and expedited H-1B visa processing.
Smedsrud said, “Rural America grows our food, provides important jobs and houses millions of our fellow citizens. Our country’s leaders should have the vision and courage to provide equity of health care for this population.”
Smedsrud said CA’s Platform for Rural Economic Justice provides additional information about rural health and economic issues.
Fergus Falls, Minn., July 10, 2017 – Communicating for America (CA) advocates for the advancement of all Americans and the promotion of their general health, well-being and education . CA provides clear advice and clear answers concerning health care issues, taxes, and immigration.
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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 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, July 9th, 2017 was:
TRISH MUSGRAVE
Howard City, MI
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of 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 Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
SPECIAL NOTE: This week 16 of the contestants listed below had posted their answers, but had not “liked” one of our business pages. Their names WERE NOT included in the computer drawing for the gift card this week.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
7/3/17
Jennifer Marie
Deborah Farris
Beth Epley Minton
Cheryl Hall
Michelle Abbott
Jakara Jackson
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Mary Achio
Lauren Bradley
Sandra Sue Blanton
Cyndi Jansheski
Tina Mimick
Brittany Whitley
Nancy Scharnhorst
Trish Marks
Chris Maxwell
Shameka Barnes
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
7/4/17
Sherri Kidwell
Sheila Carvell
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Lauren Bradley
Deborah Farris
Joanie Waterman
Katrina Worford
Kayla Clemons
Kristina Rosson
Tonya Velazquez
Trish Marks
Don Redfield Jr.
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Alicia Smith
Amanda Saltsman
Rebecca Honey Graham
Tina Marie
Tera Wardrip
Phylicia Phillips
Mary Achio
Abby Cox
Karen Brunet Moore
Amanda Rosario
7/5/17
Deborah Farris
Nelle Bailey
Kelly Jo Francisco
Diane Hamric
Samantha Brwn
Mary Achio
Nai Merri
Pamela White Brearley
Amanda Rosario
Lauren Bradley
Tina Mimick
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Brandi K Chaney
Joanie Waterman
Melissa White
Mya Murphy
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Dawna McKnight
Mary Pettiford
Megan Rhyne
Kimberly Foster
Candy Dyer
Alicia Smith
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Laurie Griffith
Jade Good
7/6/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Brandi K Chaney
Mal Rivera
Sherri Kidwell
Heather Jacques
Amanda Rosario
Geri Rus
Katrina Worford
Tiffany Becker
Christine McKinnon
Rebecca Fauteux
Joanie Waterman
Cheryl Hall
Amanda Peters
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Beth Cleveland
Laurie Griffith
Sheri Boydston
Meg Tucker
Michelle Rayeske-Jeske
7/7/17
Cheryl Hall
Jennifer Marie
Crystal Young
Amanda Rosario
Brian Fulop
Sheila Carvell
Karen Bondehagen
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Tracy Shafer
Barbie Sundy
Kim Floyd
Kristina Rosson
Jonnalyn Gates
Isis Sample
Nikki Parker
Luis Vazquez
Christy Hawkes
Samantha Brwn
Tera Wardrip
Kimberly Snyder
7/8/17
Danielle Muniz
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Abby Cox
Annette French
Deborah Farris
Tera Wardrip
Nitasha Shank
Chris Maxwell
Jennifer Ramlet
Brooke Scott
Chrissy Kim
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Michelle R. Carlino
Mary Achio
Dale Fish
Samantha Brwn
Joanna Robles
Karen Brunet Moore
Rondi Clark-Conn
Krissy Brislin
7/9/17
Christy Hawkes
Tera Wardrip
Mya Murphy
Deborah Farris
Joanie Waterman
Tonya Velazquez
Holly Cajigas
Brooke Scott
Katrina Worford
Amanda Peters
Abby Cox
Melissa White
Laurie Griffith
Tracy Shafer
Trish Musgrave
Anne Delos Reyes-Villafuerte
Karen Brunet Moore
Melinda Dreier
Eva Biggs
Amanda Rosario
Shaye Van
Kalyani Nam
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Jessica Davis
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!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better. 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!
You may also find that if you “Like” both of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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