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To: tejek who wrote (784931)	5/15/2014 10:33:54 AM
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Insurer: Obamacare Customers Must Break ‘Choice Habit’ 5:06 PM 05/13/2014 Sarah Hurtubise Health insurers are now openly admitting that with Obamacare’s reforms, patient choice can no longer be a priority for Americans. “We have to break people away from the choice habit that everyone has,” Marcus Merz, CEO of Minnesota insurer PreferredOne, told The New York Times Tuesday. “We’re all trying to break away from this fixation on open access and broad networks.” With boatloads of mandatory services provided each and every customer whether they’re wanted or not, health insurers’ costs are going up. If insurance companies are going to keep prices at a manageable level, narrow networks are one of their only options. So far under the health care law, networks are narrowing while premiums are going up. While insurance companies are trying to acclimate their customers to narrow networks, the limited choices were clearly not part of the promise President Barack Obama made when selling his health care law. “It you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period,” Obama promised in 2009 in front of the American Medical Association. “If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away.” Both of those promises have turned out to be false. Keeping your health care plan went out the window long ago — and now health insurance companies are defending their narrowed networks, which exclude many doctors and providers that customers prefer. Narrow networks have essentially made one selling point of the law obsolete. Obamacare supporters constantly warned that health insurance is necessary for everyone because people may get cancer unexpectedly and not be able to get coverage afterward. But cancer centers, with their top-of-the-line physicians and expensive procedures, have been a primary casualty of narrow networks. According to an Associated Press analysis, just four of the 19 top comprehensive cancer centers are covered by all Obamacare exchange plans in their states. (RELATED: Report: Obamacare exchanges not covering best hospitals for cancer care) Instead, as health insurers would say, patients will have to accept that they likely won’t be able to choose the best doctor and hospital to treat their cancer any longer. Even if narrow networks are accepted as the new normal, choosing your narrowed health plan around a certain physician or hospital may still prove impossible. California attempted to put a provider directory on its exchange website, but was forced to pull it several months in, admitting that it was filled with errors. But even if customers can figure out what their plan covers when they purchase it, networks can change. The Georgetown University Center for Health Insurance Reform highlighted the problem of changing networks Monday, warning that networks are still in flux outside of Obamacare’s open enrollment period. Even if a customer buys a certain health plan just because it covers his preferred doctor and hospital, they may be left without access to their choice. In one man’s case, according to health policy expert JoAnn Volk, it wasn’t until after open enrollment had closed that the Georgia resident found out that not only had his doctor withdrawn from the network, but “the community hospital that acquired all the medical practices in the county withdrew from the network.” Volk offered several claims customers may attempt to negotiate with their company, but health insurers’ answer is clear: cost-focused patients shouldn’t expect a wide array of choices for their health care, according to Dr. Sam Ho, United Healthcare’s chief medical officer. “It’s a new era,” Ho told The New York Times. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/13/insurer-obamacare-customers-must-break-choice-habit/#ixzz31mhivk8z

To: tejek who wrote (784931)	5/15/2014 10:35:23 AM
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Gun Used by Muslim Marathon Bombers Linked to Muslim Drug Gang May 14, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield 1 Comment This is an interesting development because it raises questions about the nature of the relationship between the Muslim Tsarnaev bombers and other Muslim gangs. The Tsarnaevs were into the drug business so the relationship may have been purely business. Or it may have been more than that. Two Maine men are named in a newspaper report as the sources of a gun purchased in Maine and used by Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev to kill a campus police officer three days after the bombings in April 2013. Sun told police under questioning at the Cumberland County Jail last year that he gave the gun to Tsegai, an immigrant from the African country of Eritrea who has an extensive criminal history in Maine. It remains unclear how the gun then ended up in Tsarnaev’s possession. Tsegai was targeted in a drug investigation by the FBI from November 2010 to February 2012, and is accused in court documents of being the leader of a drug trafficking ring in Portland. “These wire intercepts, combined with testimony of several cooperating witnesses, would establish that during the dates of the charged conspiracy, Biniam Tsegai (1) received orders for user-level quantities of crack cocaine from Hamadi Hassan’s customers; (2) delivered crack cocaine to Hamadi Hassan’s customers after they had placed orders with Hamadi Hassan; and (3) packaged and prepared crack cocaine for sale and distribution after it had been brought to Maine from Boston,” Conley wrote, naming Tsegai and a man with whom Tsegai is alleged to have worked with in selling drugs. The Los Angeles Times says authorities believe Tsarnaev’s ties to Maine’s drug trade helped him finance a six-month trip to the Russian republics of Chechnya and Dagestan in 2012 that inspired the Boston Marathon bombings, but Maine court records and attorneys for those charged in the case against Tsegai indicate the drug ring that Tsegai is accused of operating had no known connection to Tsarnaev. It’s not clear whether Biniam Yemane Tsegai is Muslim, but he has a history of working with Muslim criminals. And we’re not just talking about Hassan. Police charged Samadi Mohamad Hassan, 29, of Portland with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, criminal threatening, aggravated assault and violating bail conditions.[iframe name="aswift_1" width="300" height="250" id="aswift_1" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" vspace="0" hspace="0" style="left: 0px; top: 0px; position: absolute;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] Police brought charges of disorderly conduct and failure to submit to arrest against Hassan Osman, 24, of Columbus, Ohio; Biniam Tsegai, 24, of Portland; Hassan Akubar, 20, of Portland; Mohamud Said, 24, of Portland; and Samantha Pecoraro, 26, whom they described as a transient. Muslim criminals habitually use Western women and Pecoraro appears to be a local prostitute, but the rest of the gang is obviously Muslim with Somali leanings. That’s significant because Tsegai is reportedly part of a Portland gang. Portland unfortunately had large numbers of Somali Muslim settlers dumped on it resulting in gang activity from such crews as the True Somali Bloods. Somalia is also a hub for Islamic terrorist activities and you often have an overlap between Islamic terrorism and Muslim migrant crime. Based on the records, it would appear that Tsegai has a history of Muslim criminal confederate activities. Abdi Awad, 23, Ismail Awad, 20, and Tsegai Biniam, 22, of Portland were arrested and charged with robbery on June 25th, after a man reported to a passing police officer that he and a woman had just been threatened and robbed by a group of men at 1 AM at Madison and Anderson streets in East Bayside. Awad is a Somali criminal migrant who eventually was sentenced to a long term in jail for a stabbing. Suad Hassan, Awad’s cousin, described Awad to the court as someone who is intelligent, respects his elders and helps relatives with their Koran studies. I bet. While it’s unknown if this is the same Tsegai, there is a man by that name on Twitter who appears to be a big fan of Obama. And not a fan of the Tea Party. biniam tsegai @Tbiniam Follow @GOPLeader You guys need to boot out from office, seek and tired of the tea party- awful biniam tsegai @Tbiniam Follow @ErinBurnett Could ask if Mitt Romney will be eligible for top security clearance?How he could be eligible if he manipulates tax returns http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/gun-used-by-muslim-marathon-bombers-linked-to-muslim-drug-gang/ There you have a criminal who provided a gun to a terrorist sounding just like any other liberal Democrat.