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To: slowmo who wrote (13173)	1/5/2015 6:56:41 PM
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ICantBreathe Black Teens Beat 7 Yr-Old White Kid With Cement Block – Nearly Killing Him (Video) ............................................................................ by Jim Hoft on Friday, January 2, 2015 thegatewaypundit.com A seven year-old “Hispanic looking Caucasian” boy was critically injured when a group of teens threw a cement block at him while he was sitting alone in a car. The boy has already undergone several surgeries. He will need reconstruction of his left eye. FOX 32 News Chicago The police believe the attack was gang related. Illinois Review reported: A seven year old Chicago boy was nearly killed when a group of “teens” hurled a cement block at him for the fun of it. The boy was sitting in a car alone while his parents were running an errand. The boy appears to be a fair-skinned Latino. Media outlet are refusing to report the race of the suspects. They are only saying that it was “three teens” or “three teens aged 13 to 18.”

To: slowmo who wrote (13173)	1/5/2015 10:29:31 PM
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Harvard Faculty Revolts Over Obamacare Cost Increases ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. National Review ^ \| 01/05/2015 \| Brendan Bordelon Harvard faculty members are apoplectic over changes to their university-provided health-care plans related to Obamacare — after Harvard researchers spent years promoting the Affordable Care Act. The New York Times reports that faculty members voted unanimously in November to oppose a slight increase in out-of-pocket costs Harvard proposed for the plans. The university administration cited the need to confront the “added costs” caused by Obamacare provisions. Despite the protests, the university enacted the increase in January. That hasn’t stopped faculty from waxing apocalyptic about the change. “Deplorable, deeply regressive, a sign of the corporatization of the university” is how classics professor Richard Thomas described it. “It’s equivalent to taxing the sick,” said economics professor Jerry Green. “I don’t think there’s any government in the world that would tax the sick.” “It seems that Harvard is trying to save money shifting costs to sick people,” said sociology professor Mary Waters. “I don’t understand why a university with Harvard’s incredible resources would do this. What is the crisis?” The relatively minor changes to the plan would see Harvard faculty paying a slightly larger, but still small deductible, along with around 10 percent of service costs, up to an out-of-pocket limit of $1,500 per individual and $4,500 for family. Paying both a deductible and a small amount in what’s called coinsurance is quite common across employer-provided health plans, but the idea was vilified by in an op-ed penned by eleven Harvard professors for the school paper. Administrators cited a famous health-insurance study to defend increasing out-of-pocket contributions, but the eleven professors contend the evidence is outdated and not applicable to the lifestyle choices of Harvard faculty. Not only is cost-sharing a common and growing part of most employer plans, it’s also a key part of plans offered on the Obamacare exchanges. So-called “bronze” health-care plans provided through the exchanges see co-insurance costs of 20 percent or more, along with deductibles reaching into the thousands of dollars. The deductible for a Harvard professor’s family will still be no more than $750. To their credit, Harvard’s health-care researchers, some of whom were involved in the design of various health-care reforms, aren’t buying their colleagues’ complaints. “Harvard is a microcosm of what’s happening in health care in the country,” Harvard health economist David Cutler told the times, noting that the university’s professors have long avoided the cost increases plaguing most other American workers. “Harvard was and remains a very generous employer.”