58,000 Californians to lose current insurance under Obamacare

The nation’s largest health insurance company has decided to stop covering individuals in the nation’s largest state.
UnitedHealth Group Inc. said that it will not participate in California’s individual health insurance market beginning Jan. 1, 2014, when Obamacare regulations will take effect, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Last month,  insurance giant Aetna also announced that it will no longer cover individual Californians. Together, the companies’ decision to stop providing individual coverage will affect 58,000 existing customers in California.
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The move is a result of new Affordable Care Act requirements for insurance companies to accept all applicants for individual coverage, including those with preexisting conditions. The law also requires insurers provide a bevy of new benefits for their customers.
Problems with implementing the health care law have plagued the Obama administration, despite the president’s oft-repeated assurance that “if you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.”
UnitedHealth’s announcement last month that it will participate in only twelve state exchanges beginning in January has sparked concerns about whether the insurance markets will be competitive enough for the health care law to work. Both companies will continue to offer health insurance in California through employers, but this may not be a relief to everyone.
Employer insurance coverage has been a sticky issue during the planning stages of Obamacare. The health care law includes an employer mandate that requires companies with 50 or more full time employees to provide health insurance or to pay a penalty — but defines “full-time” as 30 hours per week. Many companies have introduced plans to reduce employees’ maximum hours to 29 per week in response.
Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the Obama administration is delaying enforcement of the employer mandate until 2015.
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On Monday, House Republicans introduced the Save American Workers Act — a bill that would repeal the health care act’s redefinition of a full-time work week, instead applying the employer mandate to employees that work 40 hours per week.
Indiana Republican Rep. Todd Young, who introduced the bill, made the case that “Americans are seeing their hours cut and their paychecks reduced as a result of the employer mandate.”
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Administration gives employers until 2015 on health insurance mandate

Patient Joan West (R) receives a check up from Dr. Lisa Vinci at University of Chicago Medicine Primary Care Clinic in Chicago June 28, 2012. (Photo by Jim Young/Reuters)
Patient Joan West (R) receives a check up from Dr. Lisa Vinci at University of Chicago Medicine Primary Care Clinic in Chicago June 28, 2012. (Photo by Jim Young/Reuters)
The Obama administration unexpectedly announced that it has decided to give employers an extra year to comply with a key provision of the health care reform law. In a statement released Tuesday, a Treasury Department official said the administration would give employers until 2015 to start reporting on the insurance coverage they offer to workers.
The Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature legislative achievement, requires businesses with more than 50 employees to offer health care coverage that meets basic standards of coverage and affordability. Employers were supposed to start filing annual reports on their compliance next year, and those failing to meet the new standards were facing fines.
Business groups have complained that the reporting mandate is too complicated to enact so quickly, so the administration is extending the deadline—effectively lifting the insurance mandate as well.
“We have heard concerns about the complexity of the requirements and the need for more time to implement them effectively,” Assistant Treasury Secretary Mark Mazur said in the announcement. “We recognize that the vast majority of businesses that will need to do this reporting already provide health insurance to their workers, and we want to make sure it is easy for others to do so.”
Mazur urged businesses to file voluntary reports in 2014 as a “real world test of [the] reporting system,” but he said they wouldn’t be fined for noncompliance next year. The new policy will be published as a regulation later this week.
Because most large employers already sponsor health insurance plans, the effect on consumers won’t be dramatic. And workers living below 400% of the federal poverty level will still be eligible for subsidies next year.
Republicans reacted predictably. Senator McConnell released a statement:
“Obamacare costs too much and it isn’t working the way the administration promised. And while the White House seems to slowly be admitting what Americans already know, and what I hear consistently in my travels around Kentucky regarding the regulatory burden on employers, the fact remains that Obamacare needs to be repealed and replaced with common-sense reforms that actually lower costs for Americans.”
And GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor tweeted:
James Klein, president of the American Benefits Council, said the group applauded the decision to delay. “This provides vital breathing room to implement the law in a more thoughtful and administrable way,” he said.
Josh Barro wrote on Business Insider that if the reason for the delay is that the Obama administration couldn’t “get its act together on the reporting requirements,” that would be an embarrassment–but that “the reporting issue may just be a pretext for the delay.” Calling the employer mandate “a bad policy that will discourage job creation,” Barro speculated that the administration “may be looking for a way to avoid imposing it ever.”
At any rate, the new extension will delay the imposition of any penalties until after the 2014 midterm elections.
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Administration gives employers until 2015 on health insurance mandate

Patient Joan West (R) receives a check up from Dr. Lisa Vinci at University of Chicago Medicine Primary Care Clinic in Chicago June 28, 2012. (Photo by Jim Young/Reuters)
Patient Joan West (R) receives a check up from Dr. Lisa Vinci at University of Chicago Medicine Primary Care Clinic in Chicago June 28, 2012. (Photo by Jim Young/Reuters)
The Obama administration unexpectedly announced that it has decided to give employers an extra year to comply with a key provision of the health care reform law. In a statement released Tuesday, a Treasury Department official said the administration would give employers until 2015 to start reporting on the insurance coverage they offer to workers.
The Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature legislative achievement, requires businesses with more than 50 employees to offer health care coverage that meets basic standards of coverage and affordability. Employers were supposed to start filing annual reports on their compliance next year, and those failing to meet the new standards were facing fines.
Business groups have complained that the reporting mandate is too complicated to enact so quickly, so the administration is extending the deadline—effectively lifting the insurance mandate as well.
“We have heard concerns about the complexity of the requirements and the need for more time to implement them effectively,” Assistant Treasury Secretary Mark Mazur said in the announcement. “We recognize that the vast majority of businesses that will need to do this reporting already provide health insurance to their workers, and we want to make sure it is easy for others to do so.”
Mazur urged businesses to file voluntary reports in 2014 as a “real world test of [the] reporting system,” but he said they wouldn’t be fined for noncompliance next year. The new policy will be published as a regulation later this week.
Because most large employers already sponsor health insurance plans, the effect on consumers won’t be dramatic. And workers living below 400% of the federal poverty level will still be eligible for subsidies next year.
Republicans reacted predictably. Senator McConnell released a statement:
“Obamacare costs too much and it isn’t working the way the administration promised. And while the White House seems to slowly be admitting what Americans already know, and what I hear consistently in my travels around Kentucky regarding the regulatory burden on employers, the fact remains that Obamacare needs to be repealed and replaced with common-sense reforms that actually lower costs for Americans.”
And GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor tweeted:
James Klein, president of the American Benefits Council, said the group applauded the decision to delay. “This provides vital breathing room to implement the law in a more thoughtful and administrable way,” he said.
Josh Barro wrote on Business Insider that if the reason for the delay is that the Obama administration couldn’t “get its act together on the reporting requirements,” that would be an embarrassment–but that “the reporting issue may just be a pretext for the delay.” Calling the employer mandate “a bad policy that will discourage job creation,” Barro speculated that the administration “may be looking for a way to avoid imposing it ever.”
At any rate, the new extension will delay the imposition of any penalties until after the 2014 midterm elections.
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Obama’s Insurance Delay Won’t Affect Many

On Tuesday, the White House announced that it would delay for another year one provision of the 2010 health care reform act. Larger employers will now have until 2015 before they will have to provide insurance or face penalties. The administration’s explanation is that it is listening to businesses’ concerns about getting their coverage ready in time, and trying to be flexible. But what people are really concerned about is whether this will make a difference in health care coverage and the progress of reform.
The short answer is no.
The employer mandate was included in the Affordable Care Act — which I helped design as an adviser to the Obama administration — in order to ensure the continuation of employer-sponsored insurance after the creation of state-sponsored health care exchanges. We didn’t want every employer to simply drop its coverage and send all its workers to the exchanges.
But complying is proving to be more difficult than expected for employers. The act requires businesses with more than 50 employees to provide coverage to their full-time workers or face a penalty of $2,000 per employee. A full-time worker is defined as someone who is paid for 30 or more hours of service a week or 130 hours a month. It sounds simple, but determining who should be counted turned out to be a nightmare.
Hours of service include paid vacation and sick time, as well as things like jury duty. And how do seasonal workers fit in, or people who work just one semester at an academic institution? Employers rightly complained about the complications, and the administration was right to listen.
Delaying enforcement of the mandate won’t hurt the progress of health care reform because, the fact is, the requirement affects very few employers.
There are around six million employers in the United States. The vast majority — 96 percent — are small, employing fewer than 50 workers. Many don’t offer health insurance. For instance, among employers with fewer than 10 workers, half don’t offer insurance. But the employer mandate does not affect them, and they don’t pay a penalty.
Only about 200,000 employers have more than 50 workers. And the vast majority of them — 94 percent or more, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust — already offer health insurance. Thus, fewer than an estimated 12,000 employers fail to offer health insurance and would be subject to the penalty. That means we’re talking about only maybe 1 or 1.5 million workers.
Certainly, for these workers, having health insurance would be a great benefit. And covering more Americans was a central rationale for the Affordable Care Act.
But not having their employers provide insurance doesn’t mean they have to wait much longer for coverage. In October, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, they will be able to buy insurance on the exchanges. They won’t have to worry about having a pre-existing condition, and they will receive an income-based subsidy to help defray the costs.
It is also highly unlikely that the administration’s announcement will encourage any of the other 94 percent of large employers to drop their health insurance. They provide it now with no mandate. No law requires General Electric or Verizon to provide its workers health insurance today. They do it because it makes business sense in terms of attracting and retaining good workers.
Perhaps, after the exchanges go into effect and prove themselves reliable, some employers will be tempted to drop their coverage. But by the time any of them can make the change, it will be 2015, and by then the penalty will be in place.
The employer mandate is overly complicated. Representatives in the House had what was probably a better idea: to make employers devote a certain percentage of their payroll to health insurance, instead of doing it by the number of full-time workers. That would have been a far simpler determination. It was one of those points that was supposed to be resolved in conference committee. But alas, the election of Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican, lost the Democrats their supermajority in the Senate, and we had to move forward with the version of the act that had already passed. The good ideas from the House never made it in.
But whatever the merits or demerits of the employer mandate, and despite the headlines this week, postponing the mandate’s enforcement by one year isn’t particularly noteworthy.
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The peace process of the pusillanimous rulers has become another threat to the national security apart from what Pakistan poses to us. What peace process? With whom? And at what cost?

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Who were the two soldiers, beheaded by the savage Pakistani Movies Online Without Downloading Prize Bond army and whom did they belong to? Does this government feel any affinity with those who die for the nation? This political state apparatus shows feelings for or fears only the media reports and their impact on its public image. Those leaders who run to pay homage to even an octogenarian politician, who might have been thoroughly corrupt and died due to illness, never found time to pay homage to the martyred soldiers at the time of their last rites.  It was only when the media reported their absence with scathingly harsh comments and the family members of Lance Naik Hemraj sat on hunger strike, the chief minister of the state rushed to the spot and met the bereaved family. And well, the union govt. announced bravery awards to be given on the Republic Day.

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Such politicians would have received harshest possible reprimand from the people in any country, but alas, we have been tolerating such small people at top positions far too long.  When we see how President Obama salutes and pays homage to the dead soldiers, often reproducing finest words from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and saying the martyrdom of the soldiers would give "A New Birth of Freedom", the Indian leaders talk to the media in a lackadaisical, ‘matter of fact’ manner that lacks commitment. Movies Online Without Downloading Prize Bond

We have leaders who lead us in just pettiness and failures often demoralizing the warriors. They don’t find just the right words to boost the morale of the soldiers because they never speak from their hearts when they are speaking to the warriors. For them they are just another class of employees, who serve for a salary. Movies Online Without Downloading Prize Bond

Then why do we observe Army Day every year with such fanfare, gaiety and somberness?

Isn’t this is the day to remind the warriors that the entire nation stands with them, they are our most honoured defenders of Motherland and their honour and dignity is the foremost in the eyes of the people and the State? This day in 1948 Lieutenant General K. M. Cariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief . hence the observance of 15th January every year to salute the valiant soldiers . Movies Online Without Downloading Prize Bond

Is this the way we should be doing it?

The soldiers who have shown extraordinary courage and perseverance in the oddest of all situations, who stand guard at -80 degree Celsius at Siachin, who have fought to the last bullet and the last man, in 1962, 1965, 1971 and the Kargil wars, who have a family tradition preserved for the last many generations, in some cases 10 to 15 generations, to join the forces and fight for the Matribhumi, the holy Motherland, deserve much better. Movies Online Without Downloading Prize Bond schedule

They live as a soldier and die as a soldier. Still they, the warriors of the nation, the protectors of our lives and land, do not find a voice from the government who would swear to the nation to take revenge on the unrepentant wicked and the savage. Surely a government that oscillates to build a war Memorial to the martyrs even after six decades of a great legacy of the warriors,  is capable of showing such a defeatist attitude. And to rub salt on the wound, when the army chief says something that he should be saying, the minister contradicts him publicly and issues a self-defeating statement on the day when soldiers celebrate Army Day. Movies Online Without Downloading Prize Bond guess papers

Nobody in India wants a war or provokes the neighbor to get wild. It is the sham secular Anglicized brown sahibs who use insultingly the word’ jingoistic’ for the voices of patriotism.  Since we got our truncated freedom, we have been relentlessly trying to be more than reasonable and make peace with the neighbors. But immediately after we saw the day of ,‘tryst with destiny’, Pakistan attacked in September 1947. Then the Kutch skirmish, followed by 1965, 1971, Kargil, supporting and encouraging Khalistani terrorism under their ‘thousand cut’ policy, Kashmir separatism and terrorism infiltration into our territory, continuing with terrorist training camps, ISI’s operations in South and the NE, fake currency attacks, inviting Chinese PLA to POK, a territory claimed by us… what is left anymore that needs us to say- come what may we shall continue with our peace initiative? Movies Online Without Downloading Prize Bond formula

Pakistan government has proved hundreds of times that it is dishonest, liar, and a unreliable dialogue partner. India gave them Most Favored Nation status way back, 16 years before. They are still mulling to return the favor. We took bus to Lahore, welcomed the butcher of Kargil at Agra, give invitations enveloped in fat packets of dollars to them to come and participate in our conclaves in Delhi, still they refuse to help in our probe against terror, remain blind to our substantial evidences, keep the terror kingpins safe in their lap and behead our soldiers. Movies Online Without Downloading Prize Bond sana fafinaz lawn

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We do not celebrate Dusshera for the last thousands of years because Ram didn’t punish an unrepentant wicked Ravana. Each of our gods has punished the bad, the ugly and the savage. Each of our heroes, whether Vikramaditya,  Guru Govind Singh, or Shivaji or the Chola kings have shown that they can fight and annihilate the agents of barbarism. Movies Online Without Downloading Prize Bond

NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel said Sanjay Kapoor, CEO (India and South Asia) has resigned from the company and Gopal Vittal will take over as the head of its Indian operations with effect from March 1, 2013. Movies Online Without Downloading Prize Bond

"After almost 15 years of illustrious innings at Bharti Group, Sanjay Kapoor, CEO (India and South Asia), Bharti Airtel, has decided to pursue his future aspirations outside of Bharti," the company said in a statement, announcing some top level changes. Movies Online Without Downloading Prize Bond

Gopal Vittal, who rejoined Airtel in April 2012 as Group Director (Special Projects) will take over as CEO - India, Bharti Airtel, it added.

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Kapoor will, however, continue to be on the Board of Indus Towers and Bharti Global, the statement said.

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In his new role as the CEO - India, Gopal - who will report to Mittal - will be responsible for defining and delivering the business strategy and providing overall leadership for Airtel's India operations.

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However, various business leaders and functions from Airtel India would continue to support South Asia operations in this revised arrangement.


MUMBAI: Budget carrier SpiceJet's bet to stimulate demand through sale of cheap fares for a limited period for the upcoming lean season has paid rich dividends. The airline is said to have raked in over Rs 160 crore through sale of discounted fares within a period of just three days, which is about 40 per cent of its monthly revenue of Rs 400 crore through ticket sales. Movies Online Without Downloading Prize Bond

On Friday, the airline surprised the market by its announcement to sell a million tickets across its network for Rs 2,013 each. The offer was for a limited period of three days.

The sales of tickets were for travel between February 1 and April 30, a period when airlines struggle to get loads on domestic flights. SpiceJetBSE 4.09 % was able to sell over seven lakh seats out of the total 10 lakh that were on offer. "The upcoming quarter has inherent weakness. We are usually able to sell about 70-75 per cent of our seats in the quarter which means about 25-30 per cent of our seats are unsold during this period. The entire focus was to sell these unoccupied seats. The thought behind the move was to stimulate the market and we have now reserved those unsold seats. The idea was to benefit both the passengers and the airline," said SpiceJet CEO Neil Mills. Movies Online Without Downloading Prize Bond

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The total number of seats available during the period is about 50 lakh, out of which it has managed to sell 10 lakh seats. Denying reports that the airline's server crashed during the past three days due to the heavy traffic, Mills said: "We regulated the flow and we booked about 10,000-15,000 seats every hour during the weekend," he said.

"The idea was to get a direct connect with the passenger and we achieved that," he said. He, however, did agree that not all flights were available on these slashed rates and admitted there have been complaints on that issue from passengers. People in the know in the airline say the strategy was well thought of and has been in the works for about a month.

The negative industry growth that dipped too low in December and January were the reasons why the airline wanted to secure some seats per flight across its network in the lean month of March.

The airline through this sale wanted to first stir the market up as the sentiment currently for travel is very negative and second they wanted to see if the hits are on the website of the airline or the loads will go to the travel agents.

Equity analysts said the move by SpiceJet seems to have paid off as the airline does not have idle capacity for the coming quarter and will have loads of more than 80 per cent.
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 DELHI: I might have passed this over as a routine risk that women in Delhi live with. But now I think the story should be told, especially after Nirbhaya's friend has revealed that none of the 50-odd auto-rickshaws at the Saket malls agreed to take Nirbhaya and him to their destination. If one of them had, they wouldn't have taken that deadly bus and Nirbhaya might have been alive. all prize bond results, prize bond formula, prize bond list

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After 30 minutes, I got a call from a PCR van. The policeman asked me, "Madamji, could you please tell me in which direction the auto-wallah went?" "How will I know," I said. "We left Badli Mor 30 minutes ago." I told him that my complaint should be registered, but the policeman said only after the driver is challaned, would I be able file an FIR against him.

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I made another call to 181. This is the response I got: "Go to the Delhi Police website, to the transport section, and first file a complaint there." The person who answered the call didn't bother to ask me any further details, let alone ask for the registration number of the auto-rickshaw.

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CHENNAI: Chemical castration to reduce the male libido isn't an idea that came after the death of the rape victim in Delhi. For several years, women from all walks of life across the country have walked into doctors' clinics with requests to bring down their men's sexual urge. The reasons, in most cases, have been incest and violent sexual behaviour, say leading sexologists.

Last year, Radhika*, a homemaker in Chennai told sexologist Dr D Narayana Reddy that she wanted her husband to take drugs that would reduce his libido so he would stop raping their daughter. But the man refused to go to the clinic. "I told her that it was important for her husband to undergo an evaluation. She agreed, but never brought him to the clinic. She came to me twice later asking for help. I told her I could do nothing without the patient's consent," says Dr Reddy.

Mumbai-based sexologist Dr Prakash Kothari says he has received similar requests from several women for reasons including marital rape. "Libido can increase in men following some chronic ailments. Some of my patients who had epilepsy or cancer of the frontal lobe of the brain have had such complaints," he says.

In most cases men did not cooperate, as they knew it would lower the testosterone to pre-puberty levels, but a few have volunteered. Delhi-based sexologist Dr Ajit Saxena recalls the case of a 31-year-old professional, married for five years, who sought treatment that could help him keep off women. "He said that sex was all the time on his mind. He could not focus on work or let his wife be in peace at home. I gave him the drugs after counselling with the help of a psychiatrist. It worked," he says.

Sexologists and andrologists say that chemical castration can dramatically lower sexual drive, but there is disagreement about whether it is an ideal solution to prevent rape. The process would require daily oral drugs or frequent injections to keep the hormone levels low. "Once the effect of the medicine fades away, the hormone levels increase. There is no way to ensure a periodic follow up," says Dr Saxena. Since most of the prescription drugs can be bought over the counter, such men can afford to buy drugs that nullify the effect of chemical castration.

But they don't believe even physical castration would stop sexual assaults on women. "For most rapists, the pleasure is not just in the sexual act. The man gets a high by showing his dominance and making the woman submissive. It's more in the mind," says Dr Reddy, pulling out the case sheet of a woman who suffered a vaginal tear after a drunk inserted a foreign object into her vagina.

"What they need is psychiatric counselling and therapy to wean away from sexual addiction and perversion. I don't mean to say their punishment term should be reduced as they suffer from a psychiatric problem. The punishment order should mandate them to attend therapy sessions," he says.

Several countries like the US have behaviour rehabilitation and sex offender treatment centres for rapists and those who repeatedly molest women. No such centres are available in India. Dr Kothari recommends a solution could be better sex education for boys in schools. "It's not to teach them what they should do during an intercourse, but to teach them what they should not. They should be taught to respect women."
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