Iowa Faces Health Exchange Delays as 10400 Iowa Care Applicants Await
Iowa and federal officials scramble to process 7400 applications for Medicaid Hawk and related programs, with 10 400 Iowans affected. Some applicants fear January gaps in coverage as the Iowa Department of Human Services works to receive complete data from healthcare.gov and transmit determinations. If eligible, coverage could start retroactively to January 1 but interim period care may not be guaranteed. The delays come as Iowa shifts from IowaCare to the Iowa Health and Wellness Plan and Marketplace Choice Plan, with enrollment of tens of thousands already underway.
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Healthcare.gov
Percy Smith
Des Moines
Smith
Iowa Department of Human Services
Iowa
DHS
Amy Lorentzen McCoy
Lorentzen McCoy
The
Register
Teachers wary as iPad rollout stalls in large districts
The Hechinger Report notes low teacher enthusiasm and insufficient training as Los Angeles Unified and other districts pause or modify large scale iPad programs. Miami Dade halted seventh and ninth grade deployments while districts weigh goals and home use policies amid 21st century learning aims.
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Debbie Karcher
Florida
Miami-Dade County
Karcher
Los Angeles Unified School
Leslie Wilson
Oneto-One Institute
Wilson
Los Angeles
Guilford County
North Carolina
U.S Department of Education
Houston
Crop insurance subsidy cuts urged by researchers
A report led by Babcock calls for cutting taxpayer subsidies for crop insurance by more than 60 percent of premium payments and resisting expansion. It argues payouts and drought price spikes fed by insurance led farmers to earn more revenue than expected, wasting taxpayer funds. The study also proposes a 30 percent cut in subsidies to private insurers and notes underwriting gains for insurers from 2002 to 2012.
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Babcock
Agriculture Committees
Congress
Craig Cox
Environmental Working Group
Agriculture and Natural Resources
EWG
Scott Faber
Target data breach prompts watchful policy for cardholders
Security experts urge watching card activity daily after a Target breach affecting about 40 million cards. Small charges may signal theft, so monitor accounts, report fraud, and consider issuing new cards or changing PINs. Debit cards carry immediate funds risk. seek guidance via Target support line.
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Target
Brooklyn
N.Y
U.S
Yaron Samid
BillGuard
Samid
McCurley
Molly Snyder
Target.com
Snyder
Target breach affects most US stores over Nov to Dec period
Target reported a major security alert stating criminals stole customer names payment card numbers expiration dates and CVV codes from almost all of its 1797 U S stores between late November and mid December Krebs on Security notes the breach involved point of sale software and is under investigation by the Secret Service.
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Target
Sue
Molly Snyder
Krebs
United States
Snyder
Secret Service
MasterCard
Visa
American Express
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