Dec. 20— SOAP LAKE, Grant County— For months, McKay Healthcare and Rehab staff kept its elderly residents safe from COVID-19. So McKay's administrator, Erica Gaertner, says she is forced into an economic reckoning, and must reduce hours or pay of some of the employees with whom she joined in the searing struggle to save lives. The virus, in its early days in Washington,…
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Richard G. Korman, chief legal officer and general counsel at Avera Health, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. The comment was written on Dec. 4, 2020, and posted on Dec. 8, 2020:. Avera appreciates the opportunity to…
Dec. 20— BONNY DOON— Two weeks before the fire, Alberta and Peter Young celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary from the one-bedroom house that Alberta built herself, with hammer and handsaw, the year they married. The tiny redwood cottage with the big picture window was one of nearly 1,500 structures destroyed in August by the CZU Fire that swept through the…
Amy Rosenthal, executive director of Health Care For All, Boston, Massachusetts, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. On behalf of Health Care For All, we appreciate the opportunity to provide comments on the Department of Health and…
Deal On Fed Removes Obstacle To Agreement On COVID Relief
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., had been pressing a provision to close down Fed lending facilities that Democrats and the White House said was too broadly worded and would have tied the hands of the incoming Biden administration. The bill, lawmakers and aides say, would establish a temporary $300 per week supplemental jobless benefits and $600 direct stimulus payments.
Janet Varon, executive director, and Emily Brice, senior attorney and policy advisor, at the Northwest Health Law Advocates, Seattle, Washington, have issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. NoHLA is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization…
Kristin M. Kerschensteiner, director for legal and advocacy services at the Disability Rights Wisconsin, Madison, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. We appreciate the opportunity to provide comments on the Department of Health and…
Caroline Chapman, director of policy, advocacy, and strategic innovation at Legal Council for Health Justice, Chicago, Illinois, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. Legal Council for Health Justice writes to oppose the Department of…
Sarah McGee, chief policy and government affairs officer of the Nurse-Family Partnership National Service Office, Denver, Colorado, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments on the…
Lee Goldberg, health policy specialist at the AFL-CIO, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. These comments on the proposed rule, “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”, issued by the Department of Health& Human…
Richard Levy, president, and Montserrat Garibay, secretary-treasurer, at the Texas AFL-CIO, Austin, have issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. On behalf of the Texas AFL-CIO, a federation of public and private-sector labor unions, please…
Randy Runyon, president and CEO of the Ohio Association of Community Health Centers, Columbus, Ohio, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. The Ohio Association of Community Health Centers supports all of Ohio's 56 Federally Qualified…
Linda Katz, director of policy at the Economic Progress Institute, Providence, Rhode Island, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. The Economic Progress Institute is a research, policy and advocacy organization dedicated to increasing…
Suzanne Wikle, project director and senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. I am writing on behalf of the Center for Law and Social Policy. These comments draw on CLASP's deep…
Edward C. Carlson, CEO of the Odyssey House Louisiana, New Orleans, has issued a public comment on the Department of Health and Human Services proposed rule entitled “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely”. The comment was written on Dec. 4, 2020, and posted on Dec. 8, 2020:. As such, we appreciate the opportunity to provide comments on the…
The Employee Benefits Security Administration has issued a rule, published in the Federal Register on Dec. 18, entitled: “Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02, Improving Investment Advice for Workers& Retirees”. The rule was issued by Jeanne Klinefelter Wilson, Acting Assistant Secretary, Employee Benefits Security, Administration, U.S. Department of…
“With one of the longest COVID-19 special enrollment periods in the country, we continue to work to increase healthcare access and affordability in Maryland.” Officials had touted a drop in premiums since the General Assembly passed a reinsurance program that replaced a federal one dropped by the Republican Trump administration that helped insurers offset…
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Kansas, one of the largest health insurance companies in the state, announced Friday it would continue covering the cost of COVID-19 treatment for members. “Extending this coverage is the right decision and shows our continued commitment to the health and wellbeing of our members,” CEO Matt All of BCBSKS said in a statement.“ While we are…
Rose P. Bucher, 98, of Lititz, passed away on Monday, December 14, 2020 at Landis Homes Retirement Community. Rose had worked for several insurance companies over the years including in the offices of Murray Insurance in Lancaster. In addition to her husband, Paul, she is survived by her sons: Craig S. Bucher married to Machelle Bucher of Myerstown, and Eric P. Bucher…
