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Barclays chairman to quit: reports
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FACT CHECK: Buyer beware in health debate
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama promises nothing will change for people who like their health coverage except it'll become more affordable, but the facts don't back him up. Mitt Romney groundlessly calls the health care law a slayer of jobs certain to deepen the national debt.
Welcome to the health care debate 2.0. As the claims fly, buyer beware.
After the Supreme Court upheld the law last week, Obama stepped forward to tell Americans what good will come from it. Romney was quick to lay out the harm. But some of the evidence they gave to the court of public opinion was suspect.
A look at their claims and how they compare with the facts:
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OBAMA: "If you're one of the more than 250 million Americans who already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance. This law will only make it more secure and more affordable."
ROMNEY: "Obamacare also means that for up to 20 million Americans, they will lose the insurance they currently have, the insurance that they like and they want to keep."
THE FACTS: Nothing in the law ensures that people happy with their policies now can keep them. Employers will continue to have the right to modify coverage or even drop it, and some are expected to do so as more insurance alternatives become available to the population under the law. Nor is there any guarantee that coverage will become cheaper, despite the subsidies many people will get.
Americans may well end up feeling more secure about their ability to obtain and keep coverage once insurance companies can no longer deny, terminate or charge more for coverage for those in poor health. But particular health insurance plans will have no guarantee of ironclad security. Much can change, including the cost.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the number of workers getting employer-based coverage could drop by several million, as some workers choose new plans in the marketplace or as employers drop coverage altogether. Companies with more than 50 workers would have to pay a fine for terminating insurance, but in some cases that would be cost-effective for them.
Obama's soothing words for those who are content with their current coverage have been heard before, rendered with different degrees of accuracy. He's said nothing in the law requires people to change their plans, true enough. But the law does not guarantee the status quo for anyone, either.
So where does Romney come up with 20 million at risk of losing their current plans?
He does so by going with the worst-case scenario in the budget office's analysis. Researchers thought it most likely that employer coverage would decline by 3 to 5 million, but the range of possibilities was broad: It could go up by as much as 3 million or down by as much as 20 million.
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ROMNEY: After saying the new law cuts Medicare by $500 billion and raises taxes by a like amount, adds: "And even with those cuts and tax increases, Obamacare adds trillions to our deficits and to our national debt, and pushes those obligations onto coming generations."
THE FACTS: In its most recent complete estimate, in March 2011, the Congressional Budget Office said the new health care law would actually reduce the federal budget deficit by $210 billion over the next 10 years. In the following decade, the law would continue to reduce deficits by about one-half of one percent of the nation's gross domestic product, the office said.
The congressional budget scorekeepers acknowledged their projections are "quite uncertain" because of the complexity of the issue and the assumptions involved, which include the assumption that all aspects of the law are implemented as written. But the CBO assessment offers no backup for Romney's claim that the law "adds trillions to our deficits."
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OBAMA: "And by this August, nearly 13 million of you will receive a rebate from your insurance company because it spent too much on things like administrative costs and CEO bonuses and not enough on your health care."
THE FACTS: Rebates are coming, but not nearly that many Americans are likely to get those checks and for many of those who do, the amount will be decidedly modest.
The government acknowledges it does not know how many households will see rebates in August from a provision of the law that makes insurance companies give back excess money spent on overhead instead of health care delivery. Altogether, the rebates that go out will benefit nearly 13 million people. But most of the benefit will be indirect, going to employers because they cover most of the cost of insurance provided in the workplace.
Employers can plow all the rebate money, including the workers' share, back into the company's health plan, or pass along part of it.
The government says some 4 million people who are due rebates live in households that purchased coverage directly from an insurance company, not through an employer, and experts say those households are the most likely to get a rebate check directly.
The government says the rebates have an average value of $151 per household. But employers, who typically pay 70 to 80 percent of premiums, are likely to get most of that.
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ROMNEY: "Obamacare raises taxes on the American people by approximately $500 billion."
THE FACTS: The tax increases fall heavily on upper-income people, health insurance companies, drug makers and medical device manufacturers.
People who fail to obtain health insurance as required by the law will face a tax penalty, although that's expected to hit relatively few because the vast majority of Americans have insurance and many who don't will end up getting it. Also, a 10 percent tax has been imposed on tanning bed use as part of the health care law. There are no other across-the-board tax increases in the law, although some tax benefits such as flexible savings accounts are scaled back. Of course, higher taxes on businesses can be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices.
Individuals making over $200,000 and couples making over $250,000 will pay 0.9 percent more in Medicare payroll tax and a 3.8 percent tax on investments. As well, a tax starts in 2018 on high-value insurance plans.
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OBAMA: "Because of the Affordable Care Act, young adults under the age of 26 are able to stay on their parents' health care plans, a provision that's already helped 6 million young Americans."
THE FACTS: Obama is overstating this benefit of his health law, and his own administration knows better. The Department of Health and Human Services, in a June 19 news release, said 3.1 million young adults would be uninsured were it not for the new law. Obama's number comes from a June 8 survey by the Commonwealth Fund, a health policy foundation. It said 6.6 million young adults joined or stayed on their parents' health plans who wouldn't have been able to absent the law. But that number includes some who switched to their parents' plans from other coverage, Commonwealth Fund officials told the Los Angeles Times.
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ROMNEY: "Obamacare is a job-killer."
THE FACTS: The CBO estimated in 2010 that the law would reduce the amount of labor used in the economy by roughly half a percent.
But that's mostly because the law will give many people the opportunity to retire, stay at home with family or switch to part-time work, since they will be able to get health insurance more easily outside of their jobs. That voluntary retreat from the workforce, made possible by the law's benefits, is not the same as employers slashing jobs because of the law's costs, as Romney implies.
The law's penalties on employers who don't provide health insurance might cause some companies to hire fewer low-wage workers or to hire more part-timers instead of full-time employees, the budget office said. But the main consequence would still be from more people choosing not to work.
Apart from the budget office and other disinterested parties that study the law, each side in the debate uses research sponsored by interest groups, often slanted, to buttress its case. Romney cites a Chamber of Commerce online survey in which nearly three-quarters of respondents said the law would dampen their hiring.
The chamber is a strong opponent of the law, having run ads against it. Its poll was conducted unscientifically and is therefore not a valid measure of business opinion.
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Associated Press writers Andrew Taylor and Jim Drinkard contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-buyer-beware-health-debate-162143653--finance.html
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Traffic in Sri Lanka?s Waters Threatens Blue Whales
[unable to retrieve full-text content]A whale population near Sri Lanka is under pressure from commercial shipping and a boom in whale-watching.
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
New spin on old method to develop more efficient electronics
ScienceDaily (July 1, 2012) ? With the advent of semiconductor transistors -- invented in 1947 as a replacement for bulky and inefficient vacuum tubes -- has come the consistent demand for faster, more energy-efficient technologies. To fill this need, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are proposing a new spin on an old method: a switch from the use of silicon electronics back to vacuums as a medium for electron transport -- exhibiting a significant paradigm shift in electronics.
Their findings were published online in Nature Nanotechnology July 1.
For the past 40 years, the number of transistors placed on integrated circuit boards in devices like computers and smartphones has doubled every two years, producing faster and more efficient machines. This doubling effect, commonly known as "Moore's Law," occurred by scientists' ability to continually shrink the transistor size, thus producing computer chips with all-around better performance. However, as transistor sizes have approached lower nanometer scales, it's become increasingly difficult and expensive to extend Moore's Law further.
"Physical barriers are blocking scientists from achieving more efficient electronics," said Hong Koo Kim, principal investigator on the project and Bell of Pennsylvania/Bell Atlantic Professor in the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering. "We worked toward solving that road block by investigating transistors and its predecessor -- the vacuum."
The ultimate limit of transistor speed, says Kim, is determined by the "electron transit time," or the time it takes an electron to travel from one device to the other. Electrons traveling inside a semiconductor device frequently experience collisions or scattering in the solid-state medium. Kim likens this to driving a vehicle on a bumpy road -- cars cannot speed up very much. Likewise, the electron energy needed to produce faster electronics is hindered.
"The best way to avoid this scattering -- or traffic jam -- would be to use no medium at all, like vacuum or the air in a nanometer scale space," said Kim. "Think of it as an airplane in the sky creating an unobstructed journey to its destination."
However, says Kim, conventional vacuum electronic devices require high voltage, and they aren't compatible with many applications. Therefore, his team decided to redesign the structure of the vacuum electronic device altogether. With the assistance of Siwapon Srisonphan, a Pitt PhD candidate, and Yun Suk Jung, a Pitt postdoctoral fellow in electrical and computer engineering, Kim and his team discovered that electrons trapped inside a semiconductor at the interface with an oxide or metal layer can be easily extracted out into the air. The electrons harbored at the interface form a sheet of charges, called two-dimensional electron gas. Kim found that the Coulombic repulsion -- the interaction between electrically charged particles -- in the electron layer enables the easy emission of electrons out of silicon. The team extracted electrons from the silicon structure efficiently by applying a negligible amount of voltage and then placed them in the air, allowing them to travel ballistically in a nanometer-scale channel without any collisions or scattering.
"The emission of this electron system into vacuum channels could enable a new class of low-power, high-speed transistors, and it's also compatible with current silicon electronics, complementing those electronics by adding new functions that are faster and more energy efficient due to the low voltage," said Kim.
With this finding, he says, there is the potential for the vacuum transistor concept to come back, but in a fundamentally different and improved way.
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Court of Nanjing Jianye to hoo
Beijing Jianye Court to rogue crime sentenced Zhao Dameng does not absurd Nanjing Jianye Court recently judgment has together ? rogue crime ? of cases, accused Zhao Dameng in 1996 participation mob Brawl, led to a died a injury, last year Qing network Shi only surrendered surrendered. Court trial Hou believes that, Zhao Dameng of crime acts occurs in 1996, and existing criminal law is 1997 amendment Hou enacted implementation of, in accordance with ? from old and lighter ? of principles, Zhao Dameng's conduct should be in accordance with the 1979 old criminal conviction and sentencing, constitute ? hooliganism ?. (June 29) in public a lot of people don't understand much about such a judgement of the Court, believes that hooliganism with the implementation Sexy match set of the new Penal Code, has been abolished for 15 years, also to apply the crimes, is it too ridiculous? in fact, it is not absurd, this is from the old principles and mitigating problems should have meaning. as the new criminal law
Implementation, old criminal law of effectiveness voting at the repeal, but this only means with since entered into force of day since occurs of acts is no longer applies old criminal law, and does not means with old criminal law in any situation Xia are lost has effectiveness. in processing past of acts Shi, due to only requirements acts people comply with then of legal, and cannot requirements he comply with future of legal, therefore, hold past of acts, General should applies past of criminal law, only Dang new criminal law provides for innocence or punishment more light Shi, Sexy match set only applies new criminal law, this is so-called of ? Replica Fendi Handbags from old and lighter&Rdquo; the principle is the principle of legally on retroactive requirements. Enormous impact in the case in public, it should be said that public emotion of the hooliganism-related. because the era of hooliganism in the old Penal Code, applied in judicial practice too generic to have indiscriminate effects, randomness is too large, making the crime lay in the industry widely criticized, was accused of being the number one ? crime of Pocket ?, &LD
Quo; notorious ? of taste. especially 1983 crackdown Shi, national national people's Congress introduced has a decided, will rogue crime of Supreme Criminal upgrade to has death penalty. so, many social dark, may only Rob several package smoke, and playing several people of acts, placed in now, also on security Replica Fendi Handbags punishment about, in then is was sentenced has capital punishment. took famous of Niu Yuqiang case for cases, Niu Yuqiang of crimes is armed Rob has a items caps, hit has several block glass, and playing has one youth, and theft II to chopper,Were sentenced to suspended death sentence.We look at the new and old to gather together to fight the punishment provisions of criminal law. the 1979 Penal Code provisions on hooliganism, affray, assault, causing disturbances, degrading to women or other rogue activity, disrupting public order, aggravated, and 7 years imprisonment, criminal detention or public surveillance. gang ringleader, 7 to 15 years in prison. Existing criminal law the old Penal Code
Rogue crime decomposition for mob Brawl crime, and picking trouble crime, 5 crime Hou, repeal has rogue crime. new criminal law No. 293 article 1th paragraph provides, General mob Brawl of, on primary molecular and active participate in who Department 3 years following imprisonment, and detention or control; 4 species serious situations Xia mob Brawl of, on primary molecular and active participate in who Department 3 years above 10 years following imprisonment. visible, new criminal law only on mob Brawl of primary molecular and active participate in who hold responsibility, on General participants is does not hold,Maximum is also Department only to 10 and therefore lighter than the old Criminal Code penalties for hooliganism.But existing criminal law article 293 stipulates that gather together to fight serious injury or death caused by, respectively, according to the crime of intentional injury, intentional homicide penalties. and here's to cause serious injury or death, whether intentional or negligent, always according to the crime of intentional injury, intentional homicide penalties. this known as a legal fiction in theory. Zhao Dameng precisely in this case in partnership with
Also three people mob Brawl, induced by a people death, by new criminal law should by deliberately killings crime punishment. and criminal law provides deliberately killings of, Department death penalty, and life imprisonment or 10 years above imprisonment; crimes more light of, also should in 3 years above 10 years following sentenced. therefore, induced by people death type of mob Brawl acts, new obvious heavy Yu old law of rogue crime. by conducive to accused of from old and lighter principles, Nanjing Jianye Court to old criminal law provides of rogue crime sentenced, in conviction Shang is full correct of.
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ICS Merrill Strengthens Sales Organization to Grow Core Business ...
Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) June 26, 2012
ICS Merrill, the Investigative Services Division of EMSI, is strengthening its sales organization to support growth in its core markets and expansion into new markets outside the insurance industry. As part of this growth, ICS Merrill is pleased to announce the appointment of Jim McGee to the role of senior vice president of sales and Jon Nickey to national sales director.
Jim McGee will primarily focus on developing business through new markets and relationships outside the insurance industry. He is a seasoned senior insurance executive with extensive experience in business development, claims management and healthcare management services. As senior vice president of sales, he will be responsible for driving national account sales in the insurance and corporate markets, as well as seeking new product opportunities and markets for ICS Merrill.
Most recently, Mr. McGee was senior vice president, business development at ICA Claims where he led business development, sales and marketing initiatives. Prior, he held senior management positions with providers of claims management solutions, leading large sales organizations, managing business development initiatives and handling new business launches for several insurance organizations. He will report directly to Dave Merrill, ICS Merrill president.
Jon Nickey will be responsible for sales operations in ICS Merrills core markets, while maintaining a focus on the organizations strategic growth goals. He brings over 20 years of sales and leadership experience to ICS Merrill.
Immediately prior to joining ICS Merrill, Mr. Nickey was senior vice president, sales and marketing with Innovative Claims Strategies and has held senior sales team leadership and operations roles with organizations including M Hayes, Subrogation Partners and Crawford and Company. He will report to Stacy Steiner-Hanson, ICS Merrill senior vice president of sales.
The demand for our investigative services is already strong and we project it to increase as companies take a bolder and more involved approach to managing risk for their businesses, commented David Merrill, ICS Merrill president. With the additions of Jim and Jon to our team, ICS Merrill gains proven sales executives with experience in providing risk management and claims services solutions to the issues our customers face. Their in-depth knowledge of the insurance industry will help streamline processes and improve the effectiveness of ICS Merrills sales organization, making customer implementations more efficient and solidifying strong partnerships with clients.
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About ICS Merrill
ICS Merrill is the Investigative Services Division of EMSI, which has a 35-year history as a leading provider of medical information, risk management and investigation services to the insurance, legal, clinical and business communities. Employing one of the largest and most experienced group of employee investigators in the country, ICS Merrill is the preferred provider of investigative services for most large insurers. ICS Merrill services include surveillance and activity checks, corporate investigations, mortgage investigations, dependence reporting, medical and sports facility canvassing, total disability reporting, subrogation services, foreign investigative services, death claim services and claim investigations for all lines of insurance. In addition, their OnePartner vendor management program streamlines the investigative process and creates standards in quality, pricing, time service and results delivery across more than 1,700 investigative vendors in their network. Headquartered in Jacksonville, FL, ICS Merrills support staff, internal investigators and case managers join more than 450 other employees located throughout the United States and abroad to serve over 1,000 clients in over 86 countries.
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