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Veterans Services offices are prepared to assist in filing claims forreimbursement to the Veterans Affairs medical center. Homeless veteranswho may have lost essential living items, such as sleeping gear, mayseek replacement of these items through Volusia County Veterans Servicesoffices. Veterans who may have been rendered homeless due to a temporaryor permanent loss of structure are also encouraged to seek assistancethrough Volusia County Veterans Services or any Veterans Affairshealthcare facility. For more information, please call 3. COUNTY PARK CLOSURESThe following county- maintained parks remain closed. With. 2. 3 acres of riverfront and three of the oldest buildings on beachside(dating back to 1. Volunteers are asked to bringrakes and gloves, and to use the 1. S. Peninsula entrance in Daytona. Beach. Free hamburgers and hotdogs will be provided starting at noon on. Saturday for all volunteers. For more information, please call. Lillian Place is managed by the all- volunteer nonprofit. Heritage Preservation Trust and is funded in part by the County of. Volusia ECHO grant program. DAMAGE ASSESSMENT / FEMA ASSISTANCEVolusia County Emergency Management is working with the state and FEMAto determine if assistance for residents in Volusia County will beavailable. At this time, Volusia County has not been declared for. Individual Assistance from FEMA. In addition, Disaster Recovery Centershave NOT been opened. Volusia County Emergency Management is coordinating with FEMA and thestate for joint Preliminary Damage Assessments (PDAs) to begin in thecounty Saturday according to Volusia County Emergency Management. Director Jim Judge. Teams comprised of representatives from local emergencymanagement, the State of Florida, Small Business Administration and FEMAwill work together to gather damage information. It does not guaranteefederal assistance. Residents andbusinesses do not have to wait to find out if federal assistance will beavailable for individuals before beginning their clean up – but theyshould keep repair receipts and document damages whenever possible,including with photos. CITIZENS INFORMATION CENTERVolusia County’s Citizens Information Center is open today from 8a. Saturday and Sunday, as well as next week. The phonenumber is 8. RED CROSSRed Cross volunteers are providing meals today in the following areas. Atlantic Ave., San Jose Drive. Ridgewood Ave., 6. S. Ridgewood Ave., 5. S. Peninsula Avenue. TIPS FOR CLEANING UP AFTER THE STORM. Residentsshould also be on the lookout for price gouging by gas stations, hotelsand other businesses serving disaster survivors in Florida. Residents are reminded to be especially vigilant for these commonpost- disaster fraud practices: Fraudulent building contractors. To find out if a contractor islocally licensed or state certified – or to report unlicensedcontracting in unincorporated areas of the county – call Volusia. County’s Contractor Licensing Office at 3. Youcan also visit the county’s Connect Live site atconnectlivepermits. Verify alicense tab” at www. You can also reportunlicensed activity at that link. The most up- to- date storm information can be found on Volusia. County’s Emergency Management Facebook page. We also encourageresidents to follow us on Twitter at VCEmergency. Info and check. Volusia. PIN for updates. SAFETYResidents are reminded to continue to use caution when cleaning uparound their homes and businesses. POWERFPL has more than 3. Volusia County areaworking to restore service to the remaining customers who do not havepower. They have one major staging site and two support sites in the. Volusia County area. They will remain open until all customers who canreceive power are restored today. SHELTERA shelter has been opened at the Ocean Center, 1. N. Atlantic Ave.,Daytona Beach. As of 8 a. m. Thursday, there were 2. SALVATION ARMYThe Salvation Army is sending food boxes to locations they servedearlier this week to include the Community Center in Pierson, 1. W. Washington Ave. Thursday until further notice. The phone number is 8. The most up- to- date storm information can be found on Volusia. County’s Emergency Management Facebook page. We also encourageresidents to follow us on Twitter at VCEmergency. Info and check. Volusia. PIN for updates. FIRE RESCUE OPEN HOUSES CANCELEDDue to Hurricane Matthew and its impact to the community, Volusia. County Fire Rescue has canceled its open houses planned for Oct. A1. A DETOUR IN NORTH VOLUSIA COUNTYAccording to the Florida Department of Transportation, there is adetour in the Ormond by the Sea area due to damage from Hurricane. Matthew. For more information on debris, call thecity’s debris pickup hotline at 8. For hurricane- related questions, call the city hotline at 3. The City of De. Land is waiving all permitting fees associated withrepairs due to damage from Hurricane Matthew. Emergency repair work maybegin prior to the issuance of a building permit as long as it isobtained within 4. Additionally, make sureto take photographs of damage for insurance claim purposes. The Building. Division may be contacted at 3. Additionally, tree removal and replacement will be temporarilysuspended due to the state of emergency. The removal of severelywind- damaged trees may be completed without the need for a permit orreplacement. For all other removals, contact Forestry Superintendent. Mariellen Calabro at 3. Building Division at. The public is cautioned to hire only Florida- licensed contractors toundertake any repair of damaged homes. The City of De. Land anticipatesunlicensed contractors may attempt to perform work in our area, whichmay result in work being done that does not meet Florida Business Codestandards. Edgewater- The city has set up a Resident Assistance Center at Whistle Stop Park,6. Roberts Road. The Red Cross will provide a hot meal beginning at 5p. Tarps will be given out atthis location (near the FPL tent) while supplies last. FPL will provide updates on power restoration, Wi- Fi access and a phonecharging station. FPL will also distribute bottled water. Publix has donated ice, which will be distributed from the FPL tent. The first shipment of ice is available now and the second shipment willarrive at approximately 5 p. To eliminate traffic hazards, residents must enter from 3. Street/Roberts Road and exit on to 2. Street (one- way traffic only). Resident assistance resource numbers: Salvation Army: 8. Red Cross: 8. 63- 2. FPL: 8. 00- 4. 68- 8. Holly Hill- The boil water notice for Center Lane has been rescinded. The onlyoutstanding boil water notice is on Peacock Drive. New Smyrna Beach- New Smyrna Beach employees are answering calls locally on theirhotline, 3. City officials share cautionary information when working withcontractors. AOB is commonly used when a homeowner experiences awater loss – such as a leaky pipe, an overflow from a sink, or adamaged appliance – and contacts a contractor or water remediationcompany for assistance. Most AOB agreements presented to the homeownerallow the contractor to stand in the shoes of the homeowner forinsurance collection purposes. Some argue that this legal arrangementallows unscrupulous contractors to inflate or submit improper claims,causing legal battles between the contractor and the insurance company,with the consumer left out of the picture. Crews are outtoday restoring individual locations. The goal is to have everyone backon by the end of today. The Meter Division staff is escortingout- of- town crews to addresses they may not be familiar with. Let the commission know when your home’s weather head and/or meter canare repaired, so crews can be dispatched to reconnect your electricservice as soon as possible. There may be sporadic outages even after restoration is completedbecause of equipment issues (fuses, etc.) and dangling tree limbs thatfall on lines. Call the commission if this is the case with yourelectric service, and it will dispatch a truck to repair it as soon aspossible. The Sports Complex opening is delayed due to hurricane damage; theopening date is pending. The New Smyrna Beach Golf Course is now open. Palm Coast- The City of Palm Coast’s wastewater collection system made goodprogress Tuesday as power was restored to more homes in Palm Coast andutility teams worked to pump out PEP tanks (Pretreatment Effluent. Pumping System). Additionally, power was restored to all but one of thecity’s wastewater system pump stations. Many homes in the L, Z, E, LL, B, W, R, P and S sections of Palm Coasthave PEP tanks, and Florida Power & Light restored power to many ofthose areas Tuesday. Weir operation. All weirs (also knowan as dams) in the city have had electricityrestored and have returned to normal operation and water levels. The city’s telephones are back up. Citizens can call customer serviceat 3. Citizens can call the Building Division at. The Palm Coast Tennis Center and Frieda Zamba Swimming Pool will opentoday, as well as Indian Trails Sports Complex and Ralph Carter Park forteam practices. All programs at the Palm Coast Community Center are up and running. Palm Harbor Golf Club and all other City of Palm Coast parks and trailswill be closed until cleanup can be completed. Cleanup is under way by. Public Works crews. If you have property damage, hire a licensed contractor. Allcontractors other than for debris removal and landscaping/tree removalare required to have a license. Ask to see the license. Call the Palm. Coast Building Division at 3. Also, get a written contract before the work starts. If you have any questions related to the hurricane recovery, call the. Palm Coast Customer Service at 3. Port Orange- More than 1. Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight. The Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) is charged with helping implement many reforms of the Affordable Care Act, the historic health reform bill that was signed into law March 2. CCIIO oversees the implementation of the provisions related to private health insurance. In particular, CCIIO is working with states to establish new Health Insurance Marketplaces. CCIIO works closely with state regulators, consumers, and other stakeholders to ensure the Affordable Care Act best serves the American people. Marketplace Resources. MAGAcare 1. 0 — The Make America Great (and Healthy) Again National Insurance System – Daily Stormer. Dr. Patrick Slattery. Daily Stormer. March 2. Introduction: Why Obamacare was a failure. Seven years ago there was a broad consensus in America that the our healthcare system was broken. Tens of millions of people were uninsured, countless millions more were underinsured, having insurance that they could hardly use because of high deductibles and other out of pocket expenses. Furthermore, health insurance premiums were rising at much higher than the rate of inflation, and policies were leaving more out of pocket expenses for consumers to pick up. The situation was obviously unsustainable. While it is true that under Obamacare some people have benefited greatly, and the number of people without insurance has decreased. On the other hand, the ranks of the underinsured has skyrocketed as middle class people have seen their costs increase and are foregoing appointments and procedures in order to avoid hefty out of pocket costs. And the taxpayer is picking up a bill that grows with every year as the system had inadequate cost containment mechanisms. Meanwhile, premiums and deductibles are skyrocketing. A collapse is imminent. All Obamacare did was redistribute the winners and losers in the healthcare game while postponing any real solution by at least seven years. It therefore must be considered a complete failure. The debate over Obamacare, both before and since it’s passage, has been largely partisan and ideological, with serious policy analysis taking a back seat. During the election campaign, President Trump voiced its determination to repeal and replace Obamacare, although he was short on specifics. He stated that he wants a system that will cover everyone while bringing down costs. House Speaker Paul Ryan revealed a replacement plan that does neither, but will leave President Trump on the hook when the system collapses, which is only a matter of time without a real solution. But a real solution that meets the President. Having formerly worked for a major insurance company and having conducted a major study of the Obamacare system, I have gained a rare perspective and expertise on the nuts and bolts of the Obamacare system. What I will do in this policy proposal is to utilize that experience to analyze the economic and social shortcomings of the present Obamacare system, explain why the ideologically driven market- based alternatives are not the answer, and then finally outline a proposal for a new national system that will optimize economic rationality, social fairness, and political logic. The economic and social shortcomings of the present Obamacare system. Failure to contain costs. Obamacare was bound to fail first and foremost because it did not include adequate cost containment mechanisms. Costs have been rising in the healthcare sector for a variety of reasons, some of which could be contained better and some which are difficult to contain. Some of the major reasons for rising costs include the aging of the population and advances in medical technology. Older people are statistically more expensive to care for, and new and improved technology tends to add costs, although prices for many inputs like semiconductors have been falling over time and technologies that improve efficiency can also lower costs. Still, many things that have become common place over the past decades, like MRIs and radiation therapy, have added costs that did not used to exist. Failure to discourage unhealthy behavior. In order to rein in rising costs, a number of things must be done. First is to discourage unhealthy behavior. There has been a deterioration of public health as evidenced by rising rates of obesity and the spread of lifestyle- linked diseases like diabetes. Poor diet and lifestyle choices as well as greater social acceptance of drug use, promiscuity, and male homosexuality add to public health challenges. These factors have contributed significantly to healthcare spending, and while they could be reversed it would take much more than the passage of a new health insurance law to do so. Still, taxing these behaviors where ever possible and earmarking the revenue towards offsetting the resulting health care costs would be a good first step. Failure to negotiate with big pharma or reign in malpractice abuse. However, there are certain factors in the rise in health care costs that could have been addressed by the ACA but were not. These include prices for prescription drugs that are higher than prices for the same drugs in countries like Canada. Also, there has been abuse of the medical malpractice legal system, and some tort reform is necessary. Failure to consolidate risk pools. The biggest savings would come from placing as many people as possible in one big risk pool. Currently, there is a plethora of plans that chop of the risk pool into small parts that cannot capitalize on economies of scale, have poor bargaining power vis- a- vis providers, and require great redundancies in administrative expenses by insurance companies and regulatory costs by government. Failure to get Wall Street out of the picture. The burden of advertising and high executive compensation may be exaggerated by opponents of the private insurance system, but what burden they do inflict certainly outweighs any benefits they might be imagined to provide. Also, given that the United States is spending 1/6 of its GDP on healthcare, the notion that we can afford to have for- profit insurance companies that need to set aside 5% or so of premium revenue for investor dividends is makes no sense. Obamacare actually allows for for- profit insurers to pay out 5% less of their premium revenues than non- profit insurers like the Blues, which must pay 8. We cannot afford to let Wall Street take its pound of flesh. Why the ideologically driven market- based or “Medicare for all” alternatives are not the answer. Market- based solutions. Obamacare has been routinely condemned by Republicans and others on the right as being a “government take- over” of the healthcare system and “socialized medicine.” Neither of these charges are on the mark. Obamacare does not even represent “socialized insurance,” as the insurance obtained through the Health Insurance Marketplace is from private companies, not government entities. In fact, progressive opponents of the ACA back in 2. ACA as a give- away to the insurance industry and called instead for a single payer “Medicare for all” system, or at least a public option whereby consumers could chose a policy offered by a government entity. Competition in insurance leads to LESS efficiency, not more. The problem with market- based solutions based on competition in the health insurance industry is that competition does not work the same way in insurance as it does in manufacturing or service industries. In other industries, competition fuels innovations and continual improvements in the production of the product. While the health insurance industry has taken on the aspect of a protection racket in that it negotiates prices with providers who will otherwise charge uninsured consumers ridiculous bills with no basis in the cost of providing the service, the core function of insurance is the spreading of risk throughout a risk pool. This is done through statistical probability. No amount of competition can change the mathematical laws of probability. Massive redundancies, less bargaining power. Ironically, especially before Obamacare, competition in the health insurance industry is more likely to lead to LESS efficiency and higher costs. Without being capable of improving the spread of risk, which is entirely a matter of statistical probability, the insurers instead strive to manipulate the risk pool itself. This can be done through dividing it up geographically, and before Obamacare to a great extent it was done via the exclusion of people with various pre- existing conditions. The result has been massive and costly redundancy in administration and regulation as each insurer in each state issues countless policies in various parts of the state with different designs for individuals, small groups, and large groups and marketed to emphasize lower premiums, richer benefits, stronger networks, and what not. In addition to unnecessarily inflating premiums, consumers are faced with far more choices than they can possibly wrap their heads around, and are thus LESS likely to wind up with a policy that makes sense for them than if they had just a few choices. Markets cannot function without price information. Furthermore, there can be no functioning market for health care services because the prices for these services are unknown at the time of purchase. Typically it is only when the bill arrives from the provider that the consumer has any idea of the cost for a particular service. No one could shop for a car without knowing how much the car will cost until a month after it is purchased. Likewise, a rational health insurance market is hard to develop because the value of different policy designs are impossible for the typical consumer to assess. Even when actuarial values (a measure of what percentage of services received by enrollees are paid by the insurer, on average) are known, they are based on standard populations, and for a given individual who may not conform to the population average, policies with the same actuarial value may be completely unequal in their ability to pay for that person. For instance, for a person who consumers a great deal of healthcare, a policy with a higher deductible but a lower out of pocket maximum would be better than a policy with a low deductible but a high out of pocket maximum, even if their actuarial values are identical. Few consumers have the ability to make a meaning assessment of their policy options. Medicare for all. This is not to say that Medicare for all is the answer, although it does have a great deal of economic logic.
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