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Alison’s story: How $750,000 in drug ‘treatment’ destroyed her life

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The 23-year-old was recruited from one sober home to another as drug treatment facilities systematically overcharged her mother’s health insurance for unnecessary, expensive tests. Part 1 of 2. Reported by Christian Science Monitor 19 hours ago.

Giving your staff wearable tech? Stay on the right side of the law

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Giving your staff wearable tech? Stay on the right side of the law Wearable technology, such as fitness tracking devices, is increasingly being introduced into the workplace as part of “corporate wellness” schemes.

It is believed that around 202m wearable devices were given out by employers in 2016 to assist their employees with managing personal health.

*Corporate what?*

These schemes can be a useful tool for tackling absenteeism costs and increasing engagement. It encourages employees to monitor and improve health through day-to-day activity, while also providing an attractive job perk.

Private health insurance schemes sometimes offer incentives to employees for particular levels of activity, while some employers operate schemes in exchange for flexible and remote working benefits.

*How will you use my data?*

Recent surveys indicate that employees are increasingly keen for their workplace to take an active role in their health and wellbeing.

However, through these devices, employers may be able to track significant data, including information such as location, working hours, rest breaks, and even activity levels.

Some employees may not be aware of, or may inadvertently overlook, possible data and security issues, taking advantage of free kit without appreciating that they may be giving up personal information for others to see.

The data from the devices, including water consumption and number of steps are, in some workplace schemes, recorded on a tally available for others to see, to encourage records of achievement.

Others will be more cautious, concerned about who sees their data and whether what they get up to will be used against them.

*What should employers consider?*

First, consider why you are offering the device. Is it a benefit for personal employee use, which is not linked to your systems, so all data captured is private to the employee? If so, make this clear. Also, ensure that you clarify that data linked to the device will be deleted upon return (for example on termination of employment), if the employee wishes to keep the information private.

Second, is it a benefit offered as part of a wider workforce scheme, in which data will be viewed by others?

If the devices are provided because you want the benefit of a wellness scheme to address overall health, then you will need to ensure that you are operating the scheme lawfully in terms of monitoring, data protection, and privacy. You will need to consider the use of the data, and who will be able to view it.Winning the trust of your employees will be essential to running an effective scheme.

*Overcoming trust issues*

Overcoming inherent distrust will probably be the biggest hurdle. Keep your ultimate aims in mind and provide reassurance that data will only be stored for specific purposes, and will not be used against employees.

If you want to be able to use such data in disciplinary proceedings, then it is likely that employees will not want to be part of the scheme. Perhaps offer linked benefits in return, such as flexible working.

*How can you lawfully process the information?*

·  Formulate clear policies on how information from devices may be processed, stored and used.
· Update existing policies on monitoring and use of IT systems, equipment and communication, and data protection.
· Be transparent about the probable purposes for which the data may be used.
· Communicate the schemes clearly so that employees appreciate the potential implications of how the data will be used.
· Don’t store data which is not accurate or up to date.
· Keep data secure.
· Set limits on and guidelines for employees who deal with the data collected, making clear that misuse of such data is a disciplinary offence.
· Explicit individual consent is required to process sensitive personal data – which includes information about physical health or condition. Reported by City A.M. 13 hours ago.

China Chuanglian proposes to change the Company name to “Chuanglian Education Financial Group Limited”

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HONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach - 19 May 2017 - *China Chuanglian Education Group Limited* ("the Company" or "China Chuanglian Education", HKSE: 2371) is pleased to announce that, the Board proposes to change the name of the Company from "China Chuanglian Education Group Limited (中國創聯教育集團有限公司)" to "China Chuanglian Education Financial Group Limited (中國創聯教育金融集團有限公司)", pending the approval by shareholders at the EGM and the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands.

China Chuanglian has participated to establish the first mutual life insurance agency, Xinmei Mutual Life Insurance Agency, in the PRC since December 2015, which has recently obtained all the relevant approvals for commencement of insurance business in the PRC.

Xinmei Mutual Life is the first mutual life insurance agency established in China. The initial working capital is RMB1 billion. The scope of business includes: ordinary type of insurance, such as life insurance and annuity insurance; health insurance; accidental injury insurance; the reinsurance business of the above mentioned businesses; insurance fund application businesses as permitted by national laws and regulations; other businesses as approved by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission.

*Mr. Lu Xing, Chairman of the Group*, said "Mutual insurance gradually shows its unique strategic value through its characteristics of being capable of cover those insurance fields where commercial insurance and social insurance are not likely to cover. By jointly promoting the establishment of Xinmei Mutual Life Insurance Agency to form a strategic layout of the internet finance and mutual insurance fields in the PRC, the Company has attempted to leverage on the intensive penetration of its "Internet+" service model to provide mutual insurance products to the users. Not only it will further enhance the brand loyalty, it can also accelerate the Group's growth in its existing online vocational training and education service scale, which in turn improves the Group's business ecosystem and facilitates the diversification of its operating structure."

"We believe that the proposed change of company name will reflect the Group's overall business development more accurately. The new name of the Company will create a new corporate image and is in the best of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole."

In addition, the Group acquired an insurance brokerage company, Beijing Zhongjin Insurance Brokerage Limited, in the PRC in April 2017, business scope of which includes formulating insurance proposals for insured person and operating a reinsurance brokering business. The Group believes that it can coordinate with Xinmei Mutual Life Insurance Agency on potential business development.

*About China Chuanglian Education*

The Group is principally engaged in the online education business and internet advertisement industry in the PRC. The Group owns cross-media platform that facilitates online training, smart management of online education and exchange of education resources with the capacity of supporting large-scale online users and mobile users using online education simultaneously. Currently, the platform provides online education and training service to two types of users: 1) those who require on-the-job training and further education due to career development; 2) those who prepare for professional qualification examinations to obtain relative qualification certificates. By the end of December 2016, the Group is operating over 200 online education platforms cover provinces and cities across China and among different industries, with 4 million users and accumulated over 60 million service hours. The registered users of the mobile terminal learning platform, Rongxue App* (融學App), has exceeded 1 million. These are expected to have sustainable growth in the future. Reported by Media OutReach 9 hours ago.

Dedicated Alumni Honored by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health

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Seven Pitt Public Health alumni are recognized for their outstanding service to the field of public health.

Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) May 19, 2017

Seven University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health alumni will be recognized for their outstanding service to the field of public health during a special ceremony today at the University Club.

“Recognizing the dedicated work of some of our distinguished alumni is always a pleasure,” said Donald S. Burke, M.D., Pitt Public Health dean and UPMC-Jonas Salk chair of global health. “In the case of this year’s awardees, it’s remarkable that most are recent graduates, and yet they are already highly influential in their fields.”· Eric Hulsey, Dr.P.H., M.A., Class of 2008, and Michael Walsh Jr., M.H.A., Class of 2004, will each receive the Distinguished Alumni Award for Practice in recognition of their extensive contributions to improving the application of research to public health practice. Hulsey is manager of behavioral health analytics at the Allegheny County Department of Human Services, where he is responsible for evaluating behavioral health services administered by the department and finding practical applications for research, among other responsibilities. Walsh is founder and principal of 25 Strategies, a consulting firm focused on creating impact strategy for foundations, health systems, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and social impact ventures that address public health challenges. He also is interim chief of strategy and programs for the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Cancer Prevention and Control Platform.

· Mary Ganguli, M.D., M.P.H., Class of 1981, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award for Research in recognition of her work focusing on the epidemiology of late-life mental disorders, particularly the neurocognitive disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease. She is a professor of psychiatry and neurology at Pitt’s School of Medicine, and professor of epidemiology at Pitt Public Health. She is the principal investigator of several National Institute on Aging-funded population-based investigations of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in western Pennsylvania and India.

· Tammy Haley, Ph.D., M.S.N., M.P.H., R.N., Class of 2013, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award for Teaching and Dissemination in recognition of her work using research as a means to engage students, enhance her teaching, add to the body of knowledge in her field and provide service to the global community. She is director of nursing and radiological sciences, associate professor of nursing, and coordinator of the R.N.-B.S.N. Program in the Division of Biological and Health Sciences at Pitt-Bradford, where she has been a member of the nursing faculty since 2003. She teaches Physical Examination & Health Promotion and Community Health Nursing, in both the classroom and clinic.

· Annette Fetchko, M.P.H., Class of 1984, will receive the Margaret F. Gloninger Service Award for her significant service to her community. From 2010 until earlier this year, she served as administrator of the Catholic Charities Free Health Care Center in downtown Pittsburgh. Dubbed the “Miracle on Ninth Street,” the center provides free medical and dental care to income-eligible people who do not have health insurance. She participates in numerous fundraising events in her personal time and volunteers as a nurse at the center, having earned her R.N. degree in 2013.

· Laura B. Gieraltowski, Ph.D., M.P.H., Class of 2009, will receive the Early Career Excellence Award for her work leading teams of public health professionals in large, complex outbreak investigations of foodborne disease that often extend through multiple states and involve pathogens that are responsible for 48 million U.S. cases each year. She is lieutenant commander with the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Services, for which she is a senior research scientist officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Emerging and Infectious Zoonotic Diseases Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases Outbreak Response and Prevention Branch.

· Diane Howard, Ph.D., M.P.H., Class of 1979, will receive a Special Recognition of Service for her extensive work in educating and leading future public health professionals and for her service for many public health-centric organizations. She is associate professor and director of student development in the Department of Health Systems Management at Rush University Medical Center, where she teaches courses in managed care, health care in America and professionalism. She is chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration and a board member-at-large of the National Association of Health Services Executives Chicago Midwest chapter.

Four alumni—Nancy W. Glynn, Ph.D., Class of 1994; Leah M. Lamonte, M.S., Class of 2006; Natalie A. Solomon-Brimage, M.P.H., Class of 2006; and Christopher A. Taylor, Ph.D., Class of 2010—will be inducted into Delta Omega, an honorary society that recognizes merit and encourages further excellence in, and devotion to, public health work. Reported by PRWeb 6 hours ago.

A.M. Best Briefing: Impact of American Health Care Act Positive for Carriers Participating in Individual Markets

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A.M. Best Briefing: Impact of American Health Care Act Positive for Carriers Participating in Individual Markets OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A.M. Best thinks some provisions within the American Health Care Act (AHCA) hold the potential to aid health insurance companies in alleviating the profitability issues associated with the current individual markets. A new Best’s Briefing, titled, “Impact of American Health Care Act Is Positive for Carriers Participating in Individual Markets,” reviews the potential impact the AHCA, which was recently passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, and if adopted as Reported by Business Wire 5 hours ago.

Obamacare Repeal Law Would Give Montana Republican $800,000 Tax Cut

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Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate for Montana’s open House seat, stands to get tax cuts worth nearly $800,000 a year if the House health care bill becomes law, according to a new analysis.

The American Health Care Act, as the Republican bill that passed the House of Representatives is known, repeals the two tax hikes on higher earners that the Affordable Care Act used to fund expansion of insurance coverage: a 3.8 percent tax on net investment income and a 0.9 percent increase in the Medicare Hospital Insurance tax. Both taxes apply to individuals making $200,000 a year or more, and married couples making $250,000 a year or more.

Based on Gianforte’s average yearly investment and wage income from 2005 to 2014, his annual tax bill would go down $785,413 if the AHCA passed, according to an analysis released Friday by the Center for American Progress Action Fund and Tax March, an organization backed by labor unions and progressive groups.

CAP Action Fund senior fellow Seth Hanlon, a tax attorney who worked for former President Barack Obama, conducted the report. 

Hanlon calculated the size of the tax cuts based on the income reported in Gianforte and his wife Susan’s tax returns from 2005 to 2014. Gianforte released them as part of his failed bid for governor of Montana in 2016.

Gianforte, 56, founded two successful software companies, including RightNow Technologies, which he sold to Oracle for $1.5 billion in 2011.

He and his wife made, on average, over $20 million a year in investment income and $1.6 million a year in ordinary wages over the ten-year period for which Gianforte disclosed his earnings. Assuming he continued to maintain this average going forward, he would get a $772,981 annual tax break from repeal of the net investment income tax and another $12,432 from elimination of the Medicare Hospital Insurance surtax.

Shane Scanlon, a spokesman for Gianforte’s campaign, did not respond to a request for comment on the law’s financial benefits for the GOP candidate.Gianforte is hoping to fill a seat that Ryan Zinke vacated when Trump picked him to become his interior secretary.

He is locked in an increasingly close race with Democrat Rob Quist, 69, a folk music sensation in the state who is running on a populist platform of protecting public lands and making health care more affordable. The special election is this coming Thursday.

In the past two weeks, Quist has made an issue out of Gianforte’s murky stance on the Republican health care law, which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated would deny at least 24 million Americans health insurance. The law would have a significant impact in Montana, where the state’s uninsured rate dropped from 20 percent in 2012 to 7.4 percent in 2016 thanks to Obamacare.

Gianforte told Republican-leaning lobbyists in a private call on May 5 that he was “thankful” that the House had passed the AHCA, according to The New York Times. He has since walked back the comment, telling Montana Public Radio that he would not have voted for the law, because “we don’t have enough data yet” to determine if it would bring down premiums, protect people with preexisting conditions and maintain access to coverage in rural communities.

The latter comments have not deterred Quist in his efforts to paint Gianforte as an unreliable defender of Montanans’ health care. Quist raised $550,000 in the four days following the Times report ― part of a more than $5-million haul that has come from over 200,000 individual donors.


In the past two weeks, Quist has made an issue out of Gianforte’s murky stance on the Republican health care law.

Quist’s campaign has plowed some of that cash into ads hitting Gianforte for voicing support for the law.

The campaign’s two closing ads focus on the AHCA’s rollback of federal protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions. The law would allow states to opt out of community rating regulations in Obamacare that require insurers to provide coverage at regional rates for people in the individual insurance market, rather than charge much higher premiums for people with past illness or other health histories the insurance industry has called “pre-existing conditions.” Those states that choose to opt out would have to create high-risk pools to cover those people, but conservative and liberal experts alike believe the federal funding for those pools would be woefully inadequate.

In the ads, Quist discusses his own preexisting condition from gallbladder surgery, claiming he is one of an estimated half of Montanans who have what would be considered a preexisting condition.

Quist struggled with medical debt for years after the surgery, which was botched and left him unable to afford* *insurance for a time* *due to a preexisting condition. He has said that he supports single-payer health insurance because he does not want people to have to go bankrupt trying to pay for health care.

Polling in the race has been sparse, but the figures that are available suggest Quist has gained ground against Gianforte.

A May poll that a Democratic super PAC commissioned has Quist trailing Gianforte by 6 points, compared with an April survey showing him down some 15 points. After initially ignoring the race, the national Democratic Party has taken a greater interest in the past few weeks, with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tripling its investment to $600,000 this month.

The Republican Party is apparently also taking Quist seriously. President Donald Trump’s eldest child, Donald Trump Jr., returned to Montana last week to campaign for Gianforte a second time, and Vice President Mike Pence stumped for him last Friday. 

Apparently the high-profile visits were not enough to stem Quist’s momentum. On Tuesday, influential conservative writer Erick Erickson tweeted that internal Republican polls show Quist made gains in the race over the weekend.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who Quist backed in the 2016 presidential primary, is speaking at events for Quist in Missoula, Butte and Billings on Saturday, and in Bozeman on Sunday. Quist’s campaign had to move the Missoula rally to the 7,500-capacity Adams Center arena because of the high level of interest in attending.

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States attempt to bypass Trump and take on the fight to make sure Obamacare doesn't 'explode'

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States attempt to bypass Trump and take on the fight to make sure Obamacare doesn't 'explode' A group of 15 states, along with Washington, DC, is stepping into the fight to save Obamacare's insurance exchanges.

The states have filed a motion to intervene in a court case that could decide whether or not critical payments, called cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments, are made to insurers in the Affordable Care Act's individual insurance exchanges.

In 2015, the House of Representative filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration to prevent the White House from funding the CSR payments in their current fashion. The GOP-led House argued that since the payments were not appropriated by Congress as part of the ACA, they were unconstitutional.

*(Check out a full explanation of the CSR payments »)*

In 2016, a federal judge ruled in favor of the House, putting CSR payments in jeopardy. The Obama administration filed an appeal. Now, President Donald Trump's administration must decide whether to continue or drop the appeal.

Trump has repeatedly threatened to drop the case and end the payments, which experts say would cause premiums to skyrocket and likely lead to even more insurers ditching the Obamacare exchanges. The states say his threats are why they decided to step in by filing a motion to intervene, allowing them to continue the appeal even if Trump drops it.

"If successful, the suit could — to use the President’s expression — 'explode' the entire Act," the filing says. "Until recently, States and their residents could rely on the Executive Branch to respond to this attack. Now, events and statements, including from the President himself, have made clear that any such reliance is misplaced."

The states argued that pulling the payments would endanger the health insurance of millions of people on the exchanges.

From the filing (emphasis added):

"The loss of funds and financial uncertainty threatened by this case would lead at least to higher health insurance costs for consumers, and more likely to many insurers abandoning the individual health insurance market. The number of uninsured Americans would go back up, hurting vulnerable individuals and directly burdening the States. *The wrong decision could trigger the very system-wide 'death spirals' that central ACA features, such as stable financing, were designed to avoid.*"

The states also argued that the rise in the uninsured population would put a financial burden on state budgets, since they would have to cover more hospital costs when uninsured get care. Thus, they argued they should be able to carry on the case even if the Trump administration drops the appeal.

The filing says the need to step in is urgent, since insurance companies are already leaving the exchanges due to uncertainty. States including Virginia, Iowa, and Nebraska have all seen insurers ditch their exchanges over the past month.

"Meanwhile, the President has increasingly made clear that he views decisions about providing access to health insurance for millions of Americans—including the decision whether to continue defending this appeal—as little more than political bargaining chips," the filings said. "The States and their residents cannot continue to rely on the Executive Branch to represent them in this appeal."

The intervention must be approved by the court in order for the states to become part of the case.

Here's a rundown of the states (and DC) on the filing:

· California
· New York
· Connecticut
· Delaware
· Hawaii
· Illinois
· Iowa
· Kentucky
· Maryland
· Massachusetts
· Minnesota
· New Mexico
· Pennsylvania
· Vermont
· Washington
· The District of Columbia

*SEE ALSO: The House may have to vote on the GOP healthcare bill again because of a procedural mistake*

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NOW WATCH: Watch Hasan Minhaj roast Trump at the White House correspondents' dinner Reported by Business Insider 4 hours ago.

For Women’s Health Week, Moms Are Fighting Back Against The AHCA

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As we commemorate National Women’s Health Week, women and moms across the country are stepping up and fighting back against Republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with the American Health Care Act.

The reason is simple - the bill passed by the House of Representatives would take away health care coverage from 24 million people, decimate our nation’s cherished Medicaid program, and gut protections for those with pre-existing conditions. The American Health Care Act would make health insurance less affordable, less accessible and less comprehensive for the millions of American families that need it most. This legislation is nothing short of an assault on our health - and a cheap shortcut to unfairly charge women, mothers and their families more for health insurance - all to give massive tax breaks to insurance companies and the wealthiest Americans.

The current version of the bill would allow states to opt out of requiring insurance providers to cover essential health benefits and offer coverage to people with pre-existing conditions at a reasonable price. In addition, about half of the country—including those on employer plans—could lose protections that limit out-of-pocket costs for catastrophic illnesses. This will bring us back to the pre-ACA days when people went bankrupt because of medical bills, insurance companies didn’t have to cover the care people need most, and women and people with pre-existing conditions could be charged more for coverage.

One doesn’t have to look far to understand how devastating the Republican Healthcare plan would be for America’s families:

We can’t allow our nation to go back to these pre-ACA days. Our family budget was stretched to the max to pay the premiums for “catastrophic coverage” and a $13,000 deductible. This meant that when it was clear my mom needed to go to the doctor, she didn’t go because we couldn’t afford the copay and she feared that her premiums would skyrocket if she actually used her insurance. When she eventually visited a doctor, she was diagnosed with cancer that could have been easily prevented if she had received medical care at the first signs she needed it. When she needed cancer treatment, her extremely poor health coverage presented endless barriers to obtaining high-quality treatment, from the high deductible, high co-insurance rates, and caps on hospital stays – to the repeated denial of the “medical necessity” of cancer treatments. It was infuriating and devastating and meant that her cancer returned three times, each time harder to treat and survive. *― Sara., Idaho*

Every member of my family has what insurance companies consider pre-existing conditions, which means without the ACA we would likely be denied health insurance or be subject to exclusions & delays. My twin daughters were micropreemies with lengthy stays in the NICU (one of them for almost a year!). They’ve had countless medical procedures and multiple surgeries. Both have costly lifelong chronic medical conditions. Just the NICU stay for one of them alone was well over $1 million. It costs well over $100K each year for her medical care, therapy, & supplies, even without counting the cost of in-home care through our state’s Medicaid waiver program. She is medically fragile. Without the ACA, we would be destitute very quickly due to insurance’s lifetime max.* ―E., North Carolina*

The American Health Care Act would bring women back to pre-ACA days when insurance companies did not have to provide essential health benefits like pediatric care and maternity care - and would result in women and people with pre-existing conditions being charged more money for their health insurance.

I hadn’t seen a doctor - not counting expensive visits to walk-in clinics when I couldn’t stand something anymore ―since about 1976. For three years now, I’ve had actual health insurance that I can afford thanks to my ACA supplement. I’ve had a couple of physicals and some tests and mammograms and everything is good. If we can keep up this system, I have a chance of knowing in advance if anything serious is about to go wrong. That sort of preventative care can save money and lives. *― Teresa., Tennessee*

Make no mistake - the American Health Care Act would be an absolute catastrophe for mothers and children. From family planning and preventive services to the nearly half of pregnant women who rely on Medicaid to pay for their children’s births to the millions of older women who rely on Medicaid to pay for their long-term care - the legislation is a wholesale attack on women’s health care.

And slashing Medicaid funding by $880 billion, the Republican health care plan would take away Medicaid expansion coverage from millions of Americans and radically restructure federal funding for basic Medicaid programs - forcing eligibility and benefit cuts in all fifty states. Cuts to Medicaid would force a rationing of care to some of the communities who are lifted by it the most: Black, Latinx, Asian, Native American, LGBTQ+, and middle to low-income families; as well as pregnant women, people with disabilities, rural communities, and the elderly. In short, these cuts would hurt our economy and families alike.

I am a self-employed, single parent who works 7 days a week. I am very healthy, but without insurance coverage, my asthma medication costs $300 per month. My child is completely dependent on my income, and she is a childhood cancer survivor able to have access to Medicaid under the current ACA plan. There are many families like mine who will revert to medical bankruptcies or go uninsured if we need to in order to keep shelter and food for our families. *― Erin., Washington.*

Preventing the American Health Care Act from becoming law is one of the top priorities for women, moms and their families. For the past several months, thousands and thousands of MomsRising members have testified, signed petitions, made phone calls and written letters to Congress asking them to do what’s best for this country, and for women’s health, by protecting and improving the Affordable Care Act, rather than repealing it and replacing it with a fundamentally flawed bill.

So this week, National Women’s Health Week, join us in opposing the Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The health of American women ― and their families ― depend on it.

-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. Reported by Huffington Post 38 minutes ago.

Trump's On The Verge Of Exploding The Health Insurance Market

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President Donald Trump has had his finger on the detonator of the bomb to blow up Obamacare for months. Now he may be about to press it.

Trump told advisers earlier this week that he wants to cut off billions of dollars in payments to health insurance companies that serve the poorest enrollees in the Affordable Care Act exchanges, Politico reported Friday. 

If Trump follows through on this threat, he could wreak havoc on the health insurance system. Insurance companies are likely to hike premiums or to stop selling to people who buy coverage via the exchanges, like HealthCare.gov and Covered California, or directly (rather than obtaining coverage through their employers or government programs like Medicare and Medicaid).

The results would be higher prices and fewer, if any, choices for consumers, and the effects could be felt quickly because many states would allow insurers to drop their customers right away in the absence of these payments. In short, this part of the health insurance market could fall apart under Trump’s watch if he doesn’t pay the money the federal government owes.

At issue are what’s called cost-sharing reduction payments ― these are essentially reimbursements to health insurance companies, which are required to reduce out-of-pocket costs like deductibles and copayments for low-income customers. A pending lawsuit brought by House Republicans against the Obama administration in 2014 has challenged the legality of these CSR payments.

“The White House has told Congress that it will make the May CSR, but has not made any commitment on further payments. No final decisions have been made at this time, and all options are on the table,” a White House official wrote Friday in an email to HuffPost.

The White House’s caginess about these payments has driven health care and business groups to seek relief from the legislative branch.

“We urge Congress to take action now to guarantee a steady stream of CSR funding through 2018. Such action would represent a strong, positive step for all consumers who buy their own insurance by eliminating the single most destabilizing factor causing double-digit premium increases for 2018,” reads a letter sent to Senate leaders on Friday from a coalition including the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, America’s Health Insurance Plans, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other health care, business and patient advocacy groups. “At this point, only Congressional action can help consumers.”

Health insurance companies, state regulators, governors and congressional Democrats have been on edge about the exchange markets since Trump said during a pre-inauguration press conference in January that “the easiest thing would be to let it implode in ’17 and believe me, we’d get pretty much whatever we wanted.”

Trump has made similar comments many times since becoming president, including during an interview with the Economist this month. “We’re subsidizing it and we don’t have to subsidize it. You know if I ever stop wanting to pay the subsidies, which I will,” he told the Economist. Trump has also inaccurately referred to this money as a “bailout” of the insurance industry, rather than as a reimbursement of money the government owes insurers.

According to the Los Angeles Times, a senior Trump health official told insurers that the administration would promise to make these payments if the industry backed the health care bill the House passed last month ― a quid pro quo offer that the administration denies.


No final decisions have been made at this time, and all options are on the table.
A White House official
To Trump’s thinking, dealing this major blow to Obamacare could force Democrats to the negotiating table over repeal of the entire Affordable Care Act. Congressional Democrats have loudly rejected that idea.

What’s more, 60 percent of Americans don’t approve of negotiating tactics that disrupt insurance markets, according to an April survey by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Nearly three-fourths think Trump should work to keep the Affordable Care Act running while Congress considers a new health care law, and almost two-thirds ― including a majority of Republicans ― believe Trump and the GOP are responsible for any future problems with Obamacare.

Yet Trump, against the advice of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and others, still favors cutting off the cost-sharing payments, Politico reported.

And the Trump administration could make its intentions known in mere days.

The Obama administration had appealed a trial court judge’s ruling in favor of House Republicans’ claims that the federal government is unlawfully making those payments without an explicit congressional appropriation. In the meantime, the judge allowed the Obama and then Trump administrations to continue reimbursing insurers.

The appeals court has granted delays in the case this year as the Trump administration pondered what to do. But now the two parties face a deadline of Monday to update the court on their plans.

Congress could resolve the issue at any time by simply appropriating the funding, but it hasn’t.


The time to act is now.
Wisconsin insurance commissioner Theodore Nickel and Tennessee insurance commissioner Julie Mix McPeak
Exchange enrollees earning up to 250 percent of the federal poverty level ― which amounts to $30,015 for a single person ― are eligible for cost reductions, which can transform deductibles of thousands of dollars into just hundreds of dollars for the consumer. The Affordable Care Act mandates that insurers pay the cost difference to medical providers and subsequently get paid back by the federal government themselves. More than 7 million people ― 58 percent of exchange enrollees ― received the subsidies this year.

The cost-sharing reduction payments are crucial to the finances of insurance companies. Without this money, insurers would raise premiums by an average of 19 percent next year, on top of whatever the increases otherwise would have been, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated. Early rate filings in several states are consistent with those projections, which some insurers citing uncertainty about the cost-sharing reduction payments as a reason they’re asking for higher premiums next year.

During his early months in office, Trump has gone out of his way to raise insurance companies’ concerns about whether they would ever get their money. The consequence has been heightened confusion and worry in the health insurance industry, as state officials complain they can’t get straight answers from the Trump administration.

The White House threatened to cut off the money during negotiations with Congress over a spending bill in April, but relented. Still, Trump has never stopped talking about it, to the consternation of the health care industry and state officials.

In letters delivered Wednesday, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which represents state officials from both political parties, urged Senate leaders and the White House Office of Management and Budget to make sure the money doesn’t stop flowing. The bipartisan National Governors Association asked Congress to address the cost-sharing reduction payments last month.

“The time to act is now,” Wisconsin insurance commissioner Theodore Nickel and Tennessee insurance commissioner Julie Mix McPeak wrote Wednesday on behalf of the insurance commissioners group to OMB Director Mick Mulvaney. It was Mulvaney who issued the April threat to halt the payments.

“Carriers are currently developing their rates for 2018 and making the decision whether to participate on the exchanges, or even off the exchanges, in 2018. Assurances from the administration that the cost-sharing reduction payments will continue under current law will go a long way toward stabilizing the individual markets in our states while legislative replacement and reform options are debated in Congress,” Nickel and McPeak wrote.

Trump, as the Politico report indicates, doesn’t seem inclined to provide those assurances or to take any steps to manage the insurance markets that his government is responsible for overseeing.

Sam Stein contributed reporting.

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Policybazaar.com Launches a New Campaign for Cancer Insurance Awareness

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Policybazaar.com Launches a New Campaign for Cancer Insurance Awareness Policybazaar.com (twitter handle: @policybazaar_in), India’s largest insurance website and comparison portal, has launched a new advertising campaign with the tagline “*Cancer se ladai main insurance kaam aega*” (insurance will come handy in fight against cancer) The campaign aims to highlight that cancer insurance is very affordable and great help in fighting the dreaded disease.

  
*Policybazaar.com - Cancer Insurance*

 

Despite significant advancement in quality of cancer care in India, about 10 lakh people fall prey to the deadly disease every year. What makes the scenario more worrying is that the incidence is increasing as well as the cancer care cost. With this campaign, Policybazaar.com intends to create awareness that insurance is necessary, it is affordable and besides saving a life, it protects your life-time savings. This campaign is designed by the in-house team of Policybazaar.com and executed by *K Silent Productions*. The commercial is released on digital media channels on 19th May 2017 and will go on air on 20th May 2017.

 

Speaking on the new campaign, *Naveen Kukreja - Group CMO, Policybazaar.com and CEO, PaisaBazaar.com*, said, “One of our core priorities for future is to promote and increase awareness for low-cost risk covers which cover specific diseases and ailments. Keeping in mind those priorities, the campaign is in line with our strategic goals for the coming years. These products have an innate consumer demand given rising medical costs and are good for increasing health insurance penetration in the country.”

 

*Sai Narayan, Group VP and Head of Marketing, Policybazaar.com,* added that, “Let’s face it: cancer is a modern day reality. Anyone, any day can fall prey to it. And since cancer treatment is just too expensive, why not get insurance cover which is easily available at a nominal cost. That’s what we have tried to convey through the campaign which, we hope, will make people sit up and think about cancer insurance.”

 

The commercial starts with a doctor telling a patient that he had been successfully treated for cancer. The patient, instead of being happy, appears to be remorseful and says, regrettably, that he should have bought a cancer insurance policy on Policybazaar.com where Rs. 20 lakh cover was available for a premium of only Rs. 95 per month.  He is annoyed because he had to spend over Rs. 17 lakhs on the treatment which was his lifetime saving.

 

                        

 

 *You Tube Link:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCek6X127yQ

 

*Creative Credits: *Policybazaar.com Marketing Team

Group CMO, Policybazaar.com and CEO, PaisaBazaar.com: Naveen Kukreja

Group VP and Head of Marketing: Sai Narayan

Manager -- Marketing: Samir Sethi

 

*Production House:* K Silent Productions

*Writer/ Creative Director:* Riazat Khan

*Director: *Ankit Mehrotra

*Executive Producer:* KC Pandey and Riazat Khan

 

*About PolicyBazaar.com*

PolicyBazaar is India's largest insurance marketplace and is an InfoEdge (Naukri.com), Inventus Capital, Tiger Global Management, Steadview Capital, Premji Invest, Temasek and Ribbit Capital Investee Company. The portal started with a purpose to educate people on insurance products and has had a significant influence on how insurance is bought in India. It has helped in driving penetration of pure life insurance, health insurance and such products which were barely bought earlier.

 

From receiving traffic of 180,000 visitors in 2008, PolicyBazaar.com has come a long way and today hosts over 60 million visitors yearly and records sale of nearly 1,20,000 transactions a month. Currently, PolicyBazaar.com accounts for nearly 20% of India’s life cover, and over 7% of India’s retail health business. It accounts for roughly half of all internet based insurance purchase in the country, and is more than doubling annually.

 

The company has received several accolades in India and globally. The most noteworthy being recognized as India’s top and world’s leading “*Fin Tech Innovator*” by the Global consultancy firm, KPMG and venture capital fund, H2 Ventures for 2015 & 2016. It has won a range of awards, including The Financial Express “*Best Fintech Marketplace*”, The Economic Times “*Best Corporate Brand*”, Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) “*Best Financial Website*” for two years, Exchange4Media “*E-commerce Marketing Campaign*” and BML Munjal Award for “*Excellence in Learning & Development*” among the most notable ones in the last couple of years.  Reported by NewsVoir 16 hours ago.

2 U.N. Experts Killed in Congo Had Little Preparation and No Protection

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With little training and no safety equipment — or even health insurance — the pair headed into a remote area teeming with militia fighters to find the culprits behind a massacre. Reported by NYTimes.com 3 hours ago.

For 2 Experts Killed in Congo, U.N. Provided Little Training and No Protection

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With little training and no safety equipment — or even health insurance — the pair headed into a remote area teeming with militia fighters to find the culprits behind a massacre. Reported by NYTimes.com 7 hours ago.

Corporate healthcare revenue to grow 15 pc this fiscal: Report

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The corporate healthcare sector is expected to clock a stable revenue growth of about 15 per cent this fiscal on account of rise in health insurance coverage and completion of new facilities, a report said. Reported by DNA 16 hours ago.

Health savings accounts can supercharge retirement funds, but not for this guy

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Dear Liz: Prior to retiring in 2015, I contributed to a health savings account. At the time my spouse and I were enrolled in my employer-provided high deductible health insurance plan. After I retired, I enrolled in an HMO plan my employer provided, which is not high deductible, and my wife enrolled... Reported by L.A. Times 13 hours ago.

NHIA to clear 2 months debt arrears, Monday

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The National Health Insurance Authority is set to pay two months of outstanding arrears owed service providers by the authority. Reported by Myjoyonline 10 hours ago.

A Clarion Call For Democracy

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The conservative columnist Peggy Noonan wrote last week: “The president needs to be told: Democracy is not your plaything.” She is so right. Donald Trump has warmly welcomed despots to the White House, suggested that reporters who publish classified information should be jailed, and may have obstructed justice by firing the man leading the investigation into possible collusion between Trump and the government of Russia. The first four months of this presidency underscore the necessity of the checks and balances the Founders wrote into our Constitution and the importance of the institutions of democracy that have evolved over time.

Those checks have shifted into overdrive. Trump’s Muslim ban has been stopped while the courts consider its legality. The media are investigating and reporting matters of urgent public interest, in spite of Trump’s almost daily diatribes against the press. And the most important check—the will of the public—is evident in the activism Americans are displaying in protests, town halls and other forums from coast to coast.

But one check on the executive branch has been notably lacking: the Republican leadership in Congress. Their response to everything from controversial tweets to a potential constitutional crisis? It ranges from sticking their heads in the sand to this anemic statement from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: “We could use a little less drama from the White House.”

That’s not to say congressional Republicans haven’t been busy. While Trump’s pyrotechnics dominate news cycles, GOP lawmakers are pushing hard for legislation that hurts working families, such as their proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

After the House of Representatives narrowly passed the American Health Care Act, or Trumpcare, House Republicans headed to the White House, where the Rose Garden provided a picturesque backdrop for a perverse celebration. The president, vice president and a phalanx of GOP lawmakers beamed as they congratulated each other on passing a bill that will take health security away from millions of people in the United States. No wonder the public’s trust in political leaders is at a new low. Only 21 percent of Americans approve of the Republicans’ health care plan, and voters are much less likely to support representatives who voted for it.

It’s hard to know which is worse—what Trumpcare contains, or the way it was passed.

Under Trumpcare, 24 million people would lose health insurance in the coming decade. People like the patients Toria Harris sees as an oncology nurse in Ohio—patients whose advanced cancer could be cured with access to healthcare. Millions of people with pre-existing conditions may be one reoccurrence away from bankruptcy or death. Reduced funding for Medicaid would be devastating for students like Evan, a 6-year-old from Souderton, Pa., with Down syndrome. Medicaid enables Evan to receive occupational, physical and speech therapy and other services that are vital to his growth and independence. Trumpcare would also strip $117 billion from Medicare for seniors. All of this to pay for a tax cut for the top 2 percent of earners.

And the way the House Republicans rammed the AHCA through steamrolled the government mechanisms intended to create trust and transparency. No time for the Congressional Budget Office to score the bill’s impact and cost, no time for House members to read it, no amendments, and less than three hours of debate. Enormous changes to the healthcare Americans rely on and a law affecting one-fifth of the economy require a scintilla of transparency so Americans know what their representatives are doing.

The president is displaying increasingly unbalanced, dangerous and authoritarian behaviors. Every member of Congress takes an oath of office—not to party or president, but to uphold the Constitution. That sworn oath is mere words unless exercised.

In On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Yale historian Timothy Snyder takes readers through three times when Europeans confronted authoritarian regimes: the end of World War I, the end of World War II and the fall of communism. Until recently, most Americans had only been spectators to assaults on democracy. “We might be tempted to think that our democratic heritage automatically protects us from such threats,” Snyder writes. “This is a misguided reflex.”

This is no time to lower our defenses or sit on the sidelines. With an increasingly erratic president and members of his party who refuse to act as a check on his power, it is we, the people, who must serve that function to protect democracy—at town halls, rallies and, ultimately, at the ballot box.

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Report: Big Cuts To Medicaid Coming In Trump Budget This Week

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s budget proposal, set to be unveiled on Tuesday, will include cuts to Medicaid and propose changes to other assistance programs for low-income citizens, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump’s proposal follows on a Republican healthcare bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives in early May that seeks to overhaul the national healthcare system and cut more than $800 billion over the next 10 years from Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor and disabled.

The healthcare bill faces a difficult time in the Senate, where Democrats and some Republicans worry about its impact on costs for low-income Americans, among other issues.

The report said the White House will also give individual U.S. states more autonomy over a variety of anti-poverty poverty programs including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the largest U.S. anti-hunger program which was formerly called the food stamp program.

More than 44 million Americans received benefits from the SNAP program in February according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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It Takes A Bullshitter To Know A Bullshitter

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It Takes A Bullshitter To Know A Bullshitter Authored by Duane Norman via Free Market Shooter blog,

 

On Wednesday, PEOPLE Magazine released a preview of an upcoming issue, titled “The Obamas; Their Lives Now”, which includes commentary on Obama’s “relationship” with President Trump:



*“He’s nothing but a bullsh–ter.”*



Tell us how you really feel, Obama, because *after your oval office meeting with Trump, we never would have guessed that you two hated each other.*

*But isn’t this a major case of hypocrisy on Obama’s part, with a track record of lies and “bullshit” miles long?*

So let’s take a minute and recap all of the bullshit former President Obama told the American public during his tenure.  It’s the only fitting rebuttal, isn’t it?

But first, let’s start with the biggest hunk of bullshit out there – the fact that Barack and Michelle, after eight years as President and First Lady, actually did a photo shoot and cover spread for PEOPLE magazine.  It isn’t difficult to believe they did it, but seeing it is another thing altogether:

*After eight years, George W. Bush remained completely quiet through the entire Obama presidency;* in fact, he spent a great deal of his time painting, of all things. * Bill Clinton racked up millions of dollars of speaking fees and got his wife a Senate seat, but never criticized or mentioned Bush at all during his term.*

Meanwhile, it appears* Obama misses being the celebrity-in-chief*, as this magazine spread indicates, but how about PEOPLE’s claim and citation of David Axelrod in regards to the unspoken rule that ex-Presidents don’t criticize the current commander in chief?



But the former president has been meticulous since the election about *not publicly violating* that unwritten code of conduct among ex-presidents that bars criticizing whoever’s currently in the Oval Office.

 

*“He’s very respectful of the appropriate role of a former president and that ex-presidents should not be looking over the shoulder of their successors and commenting on every decision,”* says Obama’s long-time friend and political strategist David Axelrod, now director of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, noting how George W. Bush refrained from criticizing Obama.



In what world is Axelrod (and conversely PEOPLE magazine, for publishing his commentary) living in, in which Obama has not criticized President Trump?  Less than ten days after Trump took office, Obama did just that:



*Through his spokesman, Mr. Obama said he was “heartened” by all of the anti-Trump protests that have erupted throughout the nation.*



If you think Barack was the only Obama who criticized Trump, you’d be wrong as well:



*Michelle Obama on Friday criticized a Trump administration decision to delay federal rules aimed at making school lunch healthier, saying kids will end up “eating crap” instead.*

 

“You have to stop and think, ‘Why don’t you want our kids to have good food at school? What is wrong with you and why is that a partisan issue?” Mrs. Obama said. “Why would that be political?”



So much for that “unwritten code” Axelrod said Obama was upholding.

Of course, it hardly tops Obama’s biggest bullshit quote(s) of all:



“That means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.”

 

“And if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it.  No one will be able to take that away from you.  It hasn’t happened yet.  It won’t happen in the future.”



Even The Washington Post, of all places, was completely unable to defend Obama’s multiple quoted assurances; as The Daily Caller indicated on Jan 1, 2014, when the law took effect, 4.7 million Americans lost their health insurance because of Obamacare, with reports of far more cancellations at later dates.

Of course, as Free Market Shooter previously covered, *Obama’s bullshit initially blamed insurers, not his healthcare monstrosity, for the cancellations:*



“One of the things health reform was designed to do was to help not only the uninsured but also the underinsured. And there are a number of Americans, fewer than 5 percent of Americans, who’ve got cut-rate plans that don’t offer real financial protection in the event of a serious illness or an accident.

 

Remember, before the Affordable Care Act, *these bad apple insurers* had free rein every single year to limit the care that you received or used minor pre-existing conditions to jack up your premiums or bill you into bankruptcy. So a lot of people thought they were buying coverage, and it turned out not to be so good.”



As one of the lucky ones who managed to purchase coverage after the law was signed but before the exchanges took effect, I can unequivocally state that my policy would be at least double were I to repurchase similar coverage in the exchange today… and could be as high as triple.  How many of those cancelled policies faced monster health insurance hikes?  Was Obama’s greatest bullshit claim, the blame that he assigned to “bad apple” insurers before he was forced to backtrack?

*How about another Obama quote, regarding “scandal” in his administration?*



“We have not had a major scandal in my administration.”



As The Blaze pointed out, Obama’s administration could be just as easily defined by the word “scandal” as it is by the word “bullshit”:



Obama sidestepped the comprehensive list of scandals that plagued his tenure as president. These scandals include but are not limited to: the Operation Fast and Furious gun walking scandal, the IRS scandal involving IRS workers intentionally targeting Tea Party organizations, and his own Secretary of State Hillary Clinton using a private email server.



The Blaze also pointed out another fiction of Obama’s, which again reference the same Washington Post that goes out of its way to defend him:



*“The day after Benghazi happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism”*

 

Obama did refer to an “act of terror” in the immediate aftermath of the 2012 Benghazi attacks, but in vague terms, wrapped in a patriotic fervor. He never affirmatively stated that the American ambassador died because of an “act of terror.” Then, over a period of two weeks, given three opportunities in interviews to affirmatively agree that the Benghazi attack was a terrorist attack, the president obfuscated or ducked the question. So this was a case of taking revisionist history too far for political reasons.



When it comes to Obama’s Presidency, and the comparison to bullshit, nobody summed it up better than Constitution.com:



*The two constants of the Obama era has been the president’s willingness to lie to the American people, and the media’s willingness to allow the president’s lies to slide by uncondemned. The Obama years have been nothing more than a series of thinly veiled (and sometimes blatantly naked) lies, uttered to placate the citizens of the United States while the federal government ballooned beyond meaningful control. Barack Obama’s legacy is one of unadulterated hubris, his efforts all focused on rending power from the people and handing it to bureaucrats, and America is fortunate to have survived this historically catastrophic presidency.*



Just take Obama’s (and PEOPLE Magazine’s) word for it though:



*“He’s nothing but a bullsh–ter.”*



But first ask yourself; is Obama referring to Trump, or just describing himself? Reported by Zero Hedge 22 hours ago.

Chubb's CargoAdvantage wins Asia-Pacific Insurance Innovation Award

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SINGAPORE, May 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Chubb announced today that it has received the "Asia-Pacific Insurance Innovation Award" for its *CargoAdvantage^®* system at the inaugural Asia-Pacific Risk Management Awards.

Organized by StrategicRISK, the industry awards recognize and reward organizations and individuals who demonstrate that they have gone the extra mile with measurable results to introduce or improve their risk management strategies.

The "Asia-Pacific Insurance Innovation Award" recognizes insurers that can demonstrate that they have developed an innovative risk and/or insurance product, solution or initiative that has significantly benefited one or more of their Asia-Pacific clients. The awards were independently and rigorously judged by a panel of risk experts from across the region.

Chubb's CargoAdvantage is a proprietary and market-leading web-based marine insurance quoting and issuing system. It allows freight forwarders to reduce liability by offering a cargo insurance quote and cover for a shipment within four minutes. This user-friendly system has multiple benefits for transport companies, including:

· Certificates issued on the spot to support transportation and trade documentation
· The system is accessible anywhere, anytime via computer with Internet access
· The certificates are automatically archived and can easily be referenced in the event of a claim
· Streamlined operations process of automated monthly invoicing and billing
· CargoAdvantage also provides logistics companies with access to Incoterms® 2010, a glossary of common Marine terms and claims forms for ease of reference and convenience

Commenting on the win, Jason Keen, Chubb's Head of Property & Casualty for Asia Pacific, said, "We are very proud to receive this award for innovation. As craftsmen of insurance, we meticulously conceive, craft and deliver extraordinary coverage and service for our customers and their agents and brokers. In this case, our CargoAdvantage provides the transport and shipping community in the region with a reliable solution which can reduce business risks via a simple web-based platform."

"Marine insurers have been mostly transacting business in a traditional manner," added Anthony O'Brien, Chubb's Head of Marine for Asia Pacific.  "Chubb is forging closer relationships with the transport and shipping communities to support and add value to them with products as well as risk management and e-commerce solutions. This award is testament to our work in developing a truly ground-breaking solution to benefit our clients in the region."

Click here to learn more about Chubb's award-winning CargoAdvantage platform.

*About Chubb*

Chubb is the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. As an underwriting company, we assess, assume and manage risk with insight and discipline.  We service and pay our claims fairly and promptly. The company is also defined by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength and local operations globally. Parent company Chubb Limited is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CB) and is a component of the S&P 500 index. Chubb maintains executive offices in Zurich, New York, London and other locations, and employs approximately 31,000 people worldwide. Additional information can be found at: new.chubb.com.

SOURCE Chubb Reported by PR Newswire Asia 19 hours ago.

Say a Prayer for the Homeless, Trump's People Will Not

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The epidemic that is the increase in homeless persons, young and old, should frighten every American. They remind most of the "lucky us" with mortgages and debt (used for cheap goods and services, not extravagance) that we are only a half dozen missed paychecks and loss of health insurance away from living in a tent Reported by PRAVDA 12 hours ago.
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