Insurers use three tricks to deter sick from enrolling
The health care overhaul bars denial based on health but insurers may still steer high cost patients through narrow networks high upfront drug payments and cautious market entry. Advocates warn such tactics could shrink enrollment among the neediest while insurers defend plans as prudent.
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Jerry Flanagan
Consumer Watchdog
Clare Krusing
Trade Association America’s Health Insurance Plans
AHIP
McKinsey & Co
Associated Press
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston Area
Bob Laszewski
Krusing
Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services
Flanagan
Aids Institute
U.S. Health and Human Services Department
Florida
UnitedHealth Group Inc
UnitedHealth
Laszewski
Tyler Mason
UN panel warns warming is human caused and may be irreversible
A draft synthesis report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that global warming is real, human driven, and could be irreversible with continued greenhouse gas emissions. It outlines rising seas, heat waves, droughts, and risks to food supply, urging immediate drastic cuts.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
Pennsylvania State University
Michael Mann
John Christy
University of Alabama, Huntsville
MIT
Kerry Emanuel
Rotherham sexual abuse report sparks outrage across town
A 16 year inquiry reveals 1400 victims as young as 11 suffered exploitation in Rotherham. Authorities failed to act, blamed race amid community tensions, while survivors seek accountability and reforms. The report cites police and council inaction from 1997 to 2013 and calls for broader investigations.
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Rotherham
England
Muhbeen Hussain
Hussain
Britain
Sheffield
Barkat Shah
Alexis Jay
Jay
Labour Party
Home Secretary
BBC
Thg
Europe
Feds list 20 coral species as threatened amid warming
The NOAA added twenty colorful coral types to the threatened species list, citing climate change and ocean warming as main threats. Five species occur off Atlantic Gulf ports including Florida Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, while the remaining fifteen live in Pacific waters near Guam and American Samoa.
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Feds
Washington
Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Pacific Ocean
Guam
American Samoa
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Petition seeks Threatened status for monarch butterfly
Three conservation groups and a butterfly expert petition the U S Fish and Wildlife Service to list the monarch as threatened. They blame farming for milkweed loss, the butterflys feed and breeding source, and say federal action would help populations rebuild without the strict endangerment designation.
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Wilmington, del
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
The
News-Journal of
Wilmington
Del
Tucson
Center For Biological Diversity
Fr Food Safety
Xerces Society
Portland
Oregon
Lincoln Brower
Sweet Briar College
Virginia
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