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By Bill Lambdin In World War II, Doolittle’s Raiders were a small group of Army Air Force fliers who be-came heroes for making the first attack on Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. President Franklin Roosevelt wanted a quick response to Ja-pan’s attack. Our military’s mo-rale was low, and the American people were in despair. Army Air Force pilot Jimmy Doolittle came up with a daring plan that became one of the most courageous missions in wartime history. We had no bases close enough to Japan from which air-craft could attack, but Lt. Col. Doolittle was an aeronautical en-gineer. He wondered if heavy, long-range bombers could take off from a navy aircraft carrier that could get close enough to Japan to launch an attack. It had never been done. And could he strip down B-25 bombers and make them light enough? He did, and 16 bombers with 80 brave crew members took off from the USS Hornet on April 18, 1942. But they could not return. There was no way to land them on the carrier. The men would have to drop their bombs over Japan and try to land on friendly bases in Chi-na—if they had enough fuel to get there. If not, they would have to crash land or bail out and let their planes fall into the ocean. It was daring and dangerous. The pilots and crew knew how it could end, but they did it—for their country. And they succeeded. Most did crash land in China, and every plane was lost. Miraculously 69 of the 80 men returned to Amer-ica, and Doolittle’s Raiders were

honored every Veterans’ Day thereafter. Their courageous mission had a major impact on Japan, whose people had been led to believe they were invincible in war. It also had a major effect on Ameri-cans. It gave us hope and helped us believe we could win the war.

At one of their annual re-unions, each surviving member of the Raiders received a silver gob-let with his name engraved on it, and there was a goblet for each of those lost in the raid. Every year they toasted their members and

turned a goblet upside down for those who had died. By 2013 the four remaining members were in their 90s. They decided their 2013 reunion would be their last. They made the final toast to their fallen comrades—and to all the brave Americans who have died for our nation’s

freedom. All the goblets were turned up-side down.________________COVER PICTURE: A B-25 bomber. Photo the U.S. Air Force National Museum.

Pilot Jim Doolittle, left, with his crew. Air Force National Museum.

The B-25s on the carrier. Air Force National Museum.

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Insurance ConcernsBy Susan Jaffe - Kaiser Health News

Dorathy Senay’s doctor had some bad news after her last checkup, but it wasn’t about her serious blood disorder. Her Medi-care Advantage plan from United-Healthcare AARP is terminating her doctor’s contract February 1. She is among thousands of UnitedHealthcare Medicare mem-bers in 10 states whose doctors could be cut from their plan net-work. The company is the largest Medicare Advantage insurer in the nation, with nearly 3 million members. More than 14 million older Americans are enrolled in Medi-care Advantage plans, an alternative to traditional Medicare that offers medical and usually drug cover-age—but members have to use the plan’s network of providers. Insurers can drop providers any time with 30 days advance notice to members. Neither Medi-care, which oversees the Advan-tage plans, nor UnitedHealthcare would disclose how many provid-ers will be dropped.

The Ohio State Medical As-sociation estimates that United-Healthcare has canceled contracts with hundreds of Ohio doctors ef-fective January 1. In Connecticut, UnitedHealth-care is terminating about 2,250 physicians, including 810 spe-cialists, said Mark Thompson, executive director of the Fair-field County Medical Associa-tion, prompting the medical asso-ciations in Fairfield and Hartford counties to file a federal lawsuit to stop the cancellations. In New York City, United-Healthcare’s contracts with about 2,100 physicians will be canceled, affecting some 8,000 patients, ac-cording to the Medical Society of New York.________________Editor’s Note: Some judges’ de-cisions recently blocked United-Healthcare’s actions, but the insurer says it will appeal those decisions. Kaiser Health News is an indepen-dent organization not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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Many people who enrolled through HealthCare.gov or a state website think they are insured but might not be. That’s because the websites sent inaccurate information to some insurers, said the New York Times and other sources. The Times said: “Some insurers say they have been deluged with phone calls from people who believe they have signed up for a particular health plan, only to find that the company has no record of the en-rollment. Others say information they received about new enrollees was inaccurate or incomplete.” Some analysts say the problem has affected about one-third of the people who signed up through the websites. “Just because you’ve picked an Obamacare insurance policy doesn’t mean you’ve got coverage,” said CNN. In another development, Obamacare officials announced

December 20 that some people whose health insurance policies were cancelled because the poli-cies did not meet federal require-ments would now be allowed to buy such policies. Those were policies offer-ing catastrophic coverage for low monthly premiums that many younger people could afford. Those people can apply for a “tem-porary exemption” to the Obam-acare law and will not face a tax penalty for next year, said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Some analysts say the move is an attempt to make up for the Obamacare mess but could actu-ally make it worse. “This latest rule change could cause signifi-cant instability in the marketplace and lead to further confusion and disruption for consumers,” said Karen Ignagni, president of the insurance industry’s group Amer-ica’s Health Insurance Plans.


By Lois Hall The plains near Greeley had several historic towns and stage-coach stops. Fremont’s Orchard was east of Greeley near the South Platte

River four miles east of the pres-ent village of Orchard. A stage stop was built there in 1861. It was a large fortress with thick walls for protection from weather and Indian attacks. By

1863, Fremont’s Orchard had one of the first post offices in the re-gion. Years later, some of James Michener’s movie “Centennial” was filmed at Orchard. Explorer John Charles Fre-mont camped there in the 1840s on one of his expeditions to the Rocky Mountains. Some in his party thought the stunted cotton-wood trees there looked like an orchard; so they called the place Fremont’s Orchard. Trappers and mountain men had been there before Fremont and held a rendezvous at this place on the river. Long before that, the plains Indians hunted there. Northeast of Greeley toward Briggsdale, the old town of Cor-nish was established in the late 1800s. Its claim to fame was ar-rowheads and spear points. Early residents found thousands of them and other artifacts left by ancient tribes. Some came from prehis-

toric people who lived in northern Colorado over 12,000 years ago.

Local people found so many they organized a “Stone Age Fair” to display their finds. The first fair in 1934 contained nearly 25,000 exhibit pieces. It was one of the largest collections of such arti-facts in the world at the time.

Word quickly spread, and the next year well known archaeolo-gists and nearly 10,000 people from throughout the U.S. attend-ed the fair.

Cornish suddenly went from an unknown town to a nationally famous place. The Stone Age Fair grew so much in popularity that the little town could no longer handle it. It was moved to Love-land in 1940, where it is still held each year.

Northern Colorado has many historic places like Cornish and Orchard.

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By John Kefalas - Colorado State Senator By some estimates, more than 2 million Coloradans live in Home-owners Associations (HOAs) throughout the state, which repre-sents 39% of our population. HOA laws and responsibilities matter to a lot of people, and the state legis-lature has addressed some issues. The state HOA Information Of-fice and Resource Center provides information on rights of homeown-ers and responsibilities of associa-tions. One of the outstanding issues brought to my attention concerns real estate transfer fees on HOA residential home sales. Such fees can exceed $500, and many home-owners feel that the high fees are not justifiable in relation to records maintenance and administrative costs incurred by property manage-ment companies. Typically, HOAs do not require transfer fees, and the HOA does

not receive the money. It goes in-stead to the property management company to cover costs related to HOA home sales. In 2011, the leg-islature passed a bill that prohibited residential real estate transfer fees. However, HOA home sales were exempted, and so they continue to the consternation of many home-owners. HOA homebuyers and sell-ers would save a lot of money if the transfer fee was removed or capped. What do you think? I would welcome your input because I and other legislators need to dis-cern the details of this problem and consider various options for solv-ing it in the 2014 legislative session that begins January 8. ________________Email Senator John Kefalas at [email protected]. Phone 970.221.1135 in Fort Collins. Write 604 Sycamore Street, Fort Collins, CO 80521.

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is being touted as a stand-alone tool to screen for and diagnose breast cancer as an alternative to mammography.” But it is not, he said.Drugs in Pregnancy Too much Tylenol might cause poor language skills or behavioral problems in a child, said a report in the International Journal of Ep-idemiology by researchers at the University of Oslo, Norway. Also steroid injections given a mother before delivering a premature baby might increase the risk of a child having behavioral problems, said a report in the journal PLOS ONE by researchers at Imperial College in London.Multivitamins They are a waste of money and do nothing to improve your health, said a report in the jour-nal Annals of Internal Medicine by researchers at Johns Hopkins

University. But other researchers disagree.Tinnitus Constant ringing in the ears can be alleviated for some people by combining vagus nerve stimu-lation (VNS) and auditory tones, said a report in journal Technol-ogy at the Neural Interface. VNS uses an electrical pulse genera-tor that is connected to the vagus nerve inside the neck by implant-ed electrodes.Pot Smoking While Pregnant It can increase the risk for still-birth (fetal death after 20 weeks of pregnancy) as do cigarettes, alcohol, and other drugs, said a report in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology by researchers at the University of Utah.Autistic Children Most who could not form sen-tences when very young can learn

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It was 1870 when my father, David Barnes, purchased 320 acres from the railroad compa-ny on the bluff north of the Big Thompson River. We were living in Golden at that time. So in 1873 we moved up here—then a bleak prairie, nothing in sight but prairie dogs, rattlesnakes and hoot owls. We commenced in earnest to farm, plowing and fencing and sowing our 320 acres. In 1873 we had one of the most beautiful fields of wheat, oats and buck-wheat I have ever seen. Then the grasshoppers came from Kansas in such hordes that the air was so full of them that we couldn’t see the sun all day. By that night, our beautiful field was as bare as the road. The grasshoppers laid their eggs, and when the crop came up the next spring, the young hop-pers took that also—so we plant-ed three crops before we realized any profit from the farm. We had to haul our grain to Longmont by team because there was a mill there. In the spring of 1877, the Colorado Central Rail-road decided to put a line through to Fort Collins. We were all very happy. They found their best grade would be through our wheat field.

Father gave the railroad the right of way. They commenced that fall to lay out a town (Love-land), and in the spring of 1878 building commenced in earnest, father giving every other block to the railroad company. Mrs. Blinn built a boarding house south of 4th Street. Mrs. Hopkins built a boarding house, and Dr. Taylor had a drug store next to Mrs. Hopkins. After the town was laid out, father went down on the Platte River and had two car loads of cottonwood trees sent up and set them around each block. Some of them happened to be the cotton-bearing trees, and some people to-day are making a fuss about them, and having them chopped down. If they are considered a nui-sance now, they were a Godsend then. They were all the shade we had.

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By Lauren EitelGreeley Social Security Office This year, more than 60 mil-lion Americans are receiving a 1.5 percent cost of living adjustment (COLA) in their monthly Social Security benefit. The increase for Social Security begins this month; the SSI benefit began in December. The estimated average monthly Social Security payment to a retired worker is $1,294 in 2014, up from $1,275 in 2013. The average monthly Social Security disability payment for an individual is $1,148 in 2014, up from $1,131 in 2013.The basic monthly federal payment for SSI is $721 in 2014, up from $710 in 2013. Some other changes that take effect in January of each year are based on the increase in average wages. For example, the maximum amount of earnings subject to the

Social Security payroll tax (tax-able maximum) will increase to $117,000, up from $113,700. Of the estimated 165 million workers who will pay Social Se-curity taxes in 2014, about 10 million will pay higher taxes as a result of the increase in the tax-able maximum. The amount of earnings needed for one credit of Social Security coverage has gone up as well, but all workers can still earn up to four credits in a year. In 2014, a worker earns a credit after earning $1,200. In 2013, one credit of coverage was $1,160. It takes 40 credits to be fully insured for retirement benefits. Information about Medicare changes for 2014 is available at www.medicare.gov.________________Lauren Eitel is Assistant District Manager of the Greeley Social Se-curity Office.

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ACROSS3. Basketball coach at CU: Boyle5. Don who was the first manager of the Colorado Rockies10. The TV series M.A.S.H. used the War as a backdrop13. Swiss capital15. Matchless product?16. Part of a serial or saga17. Where to tune in the Broncos’ game18. There are 1760 of these in a mile (abbr.)19. Donnie Osmond’s pet name for Marie, perhaps20. Truck stop eye opener21. Homesteader Joel who lent his name to an expansive park in Northern Colorado24. Chicago Bears coach/owner known as Papa Bear26. Joe Paterno coaching gig for many years27. Landlocked republic in West Africa30. Residents of Buckingham Palace31. Weld County town where state Hwy. 14 intersects with U.S. 8533. Larimer County community which hosts a Seventh Day Adventist boarding high school (academy) of the same name35. Ouray County fourteener40. Nickname of former Dallas Cowboy Ed Jones41. Lava or Lifebuoy43. Noted writer of westerns who spent many years on a ranch west of Durango46. Items often found in the possession of # 40 down48. Convincing evidence in a court of law49. Rear of a ship50. Disagreeable character from Norse mythology that lived under a bridge and harassed travelers52. Welker of the Broncos54. Zodiac constellation between Virgo and Cancer55. Cooking vessel found at P.F. Chang’s56. Noted American architect born in China, I.M. .58. Home of Wyoming University61. Writer/poet often considered the father of

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HOA FEE UNFAIR The Colorado Legislature is considering a bill that would end transfer fees charged by manage-ment companies in home owners’ associations (HOAs). If you ever bought or sold a home in an HOA, you would see an HOA Transfer Fee on the clos-ing documents. Most home buy-ers incorrectly assume this is a mandatory legal charge and that the HOA is keeping the money. In fact, the property man-agement company determines the amount and pockets the fee, which can range from $50 to $500 or more. The fee was made illegal on most residential home sales in 2011 through Senate Bill 11-234—except for HOA home sales. The fee is supposedly charged to reimburse management com-panies for extraordinary costs as-sociated with the sale of a home such as changing names on HOA records and issuing a document that indicates the seller’s finan-

cial status with the HOA. This work is neither extraordinary, laborious, or expensive to com-plete. Also the work is already completed and compensated for through the management com-pany’s contract with the HOA. It is routine work and no different from work caused due to a di-vorce, death, marriage, or inqui-ries from third parties. When the exception was in-cluded in the law, the best justi-fication the management com-pany’s trade group could give for retaining it was because they could. A bill will be submitted this legislative session to repeal or limit the transfer fee. Please ask your legislators to support it.Stanley HrincevichColorado HOA Forum, Denverwww.coloradohoaforum.com________________(Editor’s Note: the Colorado HOA Forum is a homeowners’ advocacy group.)

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SELECTED EVENTSGREELEY Civic Center: January 13, Com-bined Leagues Honor Bands. Janu-ary 16, Patriot League Honor Choir. January 25, Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra. January 29, District 6 Honor Bands. University of Northern Colo-rado: January 22-March 12, Art faculty exhibition, Mariani Gal-lery. January 21, music faculty re-cital, Milne Auditorium. February 3, University Symphony Orchestra, Monfort Hall. February 6-16, “Be-yond Therapy,” by Little Theatre of the Rockies. Information email [email protected] COLLINS Lincoln Center: January 15, Grammy Award winners Chick Corea and Bela Fleck, musical per-formances. January 22, Odyssey Dance Theatre. January 25, Fort Collins Symphony. Historical Society programs at Museum of Discovery 7 pm: Janu-ary 7, “Tapping the Poudre” by Bill Miller. March 4, “Opening the

Poudre Canyon Route” by Wayne Sundberg. April 1, “Armchair Tour of Poudre Watershed” by Laurie D’Audney. Email for information: [email protected]. LOVELAND Museum/Gallery: January 3-10, paintings of Joellyn Duesberry. January 10, art demonstrations by Scott and Mollie Freeman. Email [email protected]. Rialto Theater: 10, “Claire de Lune: An Evening with the Clas-sics.” January 17-18 and 24-25, Delval Divas. February 1, “The Love Boat.” Email [email protected] PARK January 1-4, holiday art walk. January 2-5, Fall River Visitor Center free seminars. January 4-5, Read with a Ranger, children’s free events. January 1 to August 3, exhibit of historic Swedish artist Birger Sandzen’s Estes mountain scenes, Estes Park Museum. Email BBurnham@VisitEstesPark.


(Editor’s Note: Years ago, retired CSU professor Howard Evans

wrote a book, “The Natural His-tory of the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1820,” and did the following story for

The Voice.)By Howard E. Evans

Ascending the South Platte River on the morning of June 30, l820, near the present site of Brush, Colorado, the 22 men of the expedition of Major Stephen H. Long detected a whiteness low on the western horizon. Perhaps it was no more than a bank of cumulus clouds, but it did not change; and by noon it was clearly identifiable as snow-capped mountains. One peak towered above the others and may have been the “High Peak” that Zebulon Pike had discovered l4 years earlier. The men had left Council Bluff

on the Missouri, on June 6, and they were tired of flat, empty plains and temperatures often over l00 degrees. The mountains promised cool breezes as well as rich rewards for the expedition’s naturalists, Ed-win James and Thomas Say. On the following day, the men crossed a creek flowing from the south, which Long named for his guide, Joseph Bijeau (now Bijou Creek). On Sunday, July 2, the men remained in camp not far from the present site of the town of Orchard. Here the expedition’s landscape artist, Samuel Seymour, painted “A Distant View of the Rocky Mountains,” which appeared as a frontispiece of the expedition’s final report in l823. The highest peak was toward the center, lower peaks to the sides. Seymour placed a herd of graz-ing bison in the background and several Indians in the left fore-

ground, though the men had not seen Indians in some days. It has been described as “an epic picture,” and was the first illustration of the Rockies ever made. Long’s was the first expedi-tion to have artists; and photogra-phy was not available until many years later. On the next day, the men mount-ed their horses at five in the morn-ing, hoping to reach the mountains by Independence Day. Had they headed straight for the mountains, they might have succeeded. But the Platte turned southward, and they were committed to following its course. That day they passed the mouths of three substantial creeks from the west, now called the Cache la Poudre, the Big Thomp-son and the St. Vrain. The creeks were duly mapped by Long, but he declined to name them. The men camped that night close to the third creek, near where Ceran St. Vrain later built a trading post in the l830s. They were approximately due east of the highest peak, but there was no thought of climbing that precipi-tous landmark. Surely they were already aware that this could not be Pike’s Peak, which was reported to be on the Arkansas drainage, not that of the Platte. It was several days later, on July 9, that Long climbed Dawson Butte, near present-day Larkspur,

and discovered Pike’s Peak well to the south. He made no effort to name the peak that had loomed to his west on Independence Day. The men celebrated the holiday with a meal of roast venison and bison, with “a small portion of whiskey.” The peak they had discovered was new to science, though it was well known to Indians of several tribes and to French-Canadian trappers, who had called it “Las deux Oreilles” (two ears, with ref-erence to the double peak). Long’s naturalists went on to discover many of the Rockies’ most characteristic plants and animals: blue columbine, limber pine, blue grouse, rock wrens and many others. Edwin James, with two others, climbed Pike’s Peak on July l3-l5 and discovered its rich flora of al-pine plants. But it was many years before the much more formidable peak that Long had discovered was first climbed by John Wesley Powell, William Byers and several others in l868. Long’s Peak was given its for-mal name in l823 by Henry S. Tan-ner in his “New American Atlas.” The Front Range has under-gone many changes since l820. But Long’s Peak stands much as it did then, a great white-capped pyramid visible far across the plains, a challenge and an inspira-tion. www.columbinehealth.com

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A new study has found that many people who stopped taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs were also taking an average of three other drugs that interfered with the metabolism of the statins. The other drugs can contribute to a common side effect of tak-ing statins—muscle pain—and often led people to discontinue the use of a medicine that could otherwise help save their life, said Oregon State University research-ers in a report for the Journal of Clinical Lipidology. The research, done as part of a survey of more than 10,000 current and former statin users, found that use of medications that interfere with statin metabolism almost doubles the chance that a person will discontinue statin use due to muscle pain. The issue is of growing im-portance because statin drugs are

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Healthcare CostsBy Lois Hall

Many people think the rise in U.S. healthcare spending is caused by our aging population and doc-tors ordering too many tests. But that’s not correct, said a report in the Journal of the American Med-ical Association by researchers at Johns Hopkins University. The main causes are the in-creasing costs of drugs, hospital care, and procedures. Drug and hospital prices have increased about 4 percent every year since 2000. Patients never see 90 per-cent of those costs; and even hospitals often don’t know how much things cost. Compa-nies that make medical devices, for instance, require hospitals to sign confidentiality agreements that prevent them from sharing price information. Market forces are not at work in the healthcare system; patients cannot compare costs and shop for services. Another contributor to increas-ing costs is the millions in Medi-

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By Lois Hall It was probably the strangest buffalo hunt in the early West. In 1872 the Grand Duke Alexis Romanov of Russia decided to cel-ebrate his 22nd birthday by com-ing to America and hunting buf-falo. Politicians were eager to please the duke and sent him off in the company of the country’s most celebrated figures of the day: Buf-falo Bill Cody, George Armstrong Custer, and General George Sheri-dan. Dressed in splendid royal garb that made him resemble an opera star, the duke and his entourage set up camp about 50 miles south of North Platte, Nebraska. Troops from the Second Cavalry erected 40 tents. No expense was too much to satisfy the duke. He expressed an

interest in seeing some real Indi-ans; so Gen. Sheridan had 100 Sioux brought to the camp. They were given several wagon loads of food and blankets, and allowed to participate in the hunt. Nearby was the Imperial Train that carried the duke to the camp. It consisted of 10 of the most el-egantly appointed railroad cars newspaper reporters in the group had ever seen. Lunch on the first day at camp was supplied by a wagon load of sandwiches and champagne. The Second Cavalry band played “Hail to the Chief.” That evening, the party con-sumed ample champagne to fortify themselves against the stillness of the night. The next morning, the band again serenaded the young duke before he rode out to slay his buf-

falo. Gen. Sheridan did not ac-company him this day because he was “indisposed.” He had fortified himself too well against the night. The duke, Cody, and Custer galloped gallantly off to slay the fearsome beasts dozing nearby on the plains. The duke decided to use a pistol instead of a rifle to make his kill. This meant someone had to maneuver a buffalo to within a few feet. According to Cody, the duke fired six shots at point blank range and missed. Cody then gave him his own pistol, but still the duke failed to slay the hairy beast, which threatened to ruin the fun by running away. Finally Cody handed the duke a rifle, and from ten feet he made his kill. It was a glorious victory. The duke cut off the buffalo’s tail, waved it over his head and let out a manly yell. According to one re-porter, “It sounded like the death song of all the foghorns and cal-liopes ever born.”

Later the group celebrated the duke’s triumph. Champagne corks popped again late into the night, mixing with the howl of coyotes in a strange cacophony on the plains.

Two days later, the group boarded the Imperial Train, rode to Denver and attended a grand ball in honor of the duke. Then it was off to Kit Carson, Colorado, for another day’s hunting on the way back East.

At Kit Carson, Gen. Sheridan decided to view the hunt from a hilltop. Suddenly several wounded buffalo ran toward him, and the

revelers began shooting in his di-rection. Bullets whizzed past his head. Sheridan threw himself on the ground and lay face down, fearing for his life. When it was over, Sheridan was livid. He rushed to the hunters and

delivered a string of expletives that few generals had ever equaled. As one witness described it: “He didn’t spare anybody, not even Custer and the duke, and he included all their kinfolk, direct and collateral. It was a liberal edu-cation in profanity to hear him.” The duke didn’t care. He was having the time of his life. He returned to Russia and was later made commander-in-chief of the Russian navy. In that role, his achievements were described by one of his contemporaries: “He was an outstanding failure.”

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Doctors say some people en-rolling in Obamacare might dis-cover problems that have not re-ceived much attention. Their new insurance policy might require them to change doctors or hospi-tals. Insurance companies have their own “networks” of providers. If a patient chooses a provider outside a network, he pays a lot more of the costs involved. In the confu-sion of Obamacare enrollment, some people might have over-looked that aspect, or their insurer might have received wrong infor-mation from the enrollment web-sites, said representatives of the American College of Physicians. Also if patients change insur-ance in the middle of treatments for cancer or another serious ill-ness, they might find their new insurance company will require them to change providers and medicines.

In New Hampshire, Anthem insurance company excluded more than a third of the state’s hospitals from its network, and state legislators are working on a bill to force Anthem to expand its network. The same thing has happened in other states. In Maine, Anthem is attempting to exclude several of the state’s hospitals. In Washing-ton state, the insurance commis-sioner had to ban several health policies from online enrollment because their networks excluded too many providers. Insurance company officials say limiting their network is a way they can keep the cost of po-lices low for customers. But New Hampshire legislator Bill Nelson said, “Sure that could happen for some people, but other people are going to be losers. Imagine hav-ing to change the doctor you’ve had for years.”

Hospital Ratings How valuable are hospital rat-ings given by groups like U.S. News & World Report that claim to tell us the best and worst hospitals? Not very, said the Healthcare Association of New York State, which studied ten grading orga-nizations and found most of them did not use reliable information. “A subjective perception of hospi-tal reputation is not a scientifically proven measure,” said the “HA-

NYS’ Report on Report Cards.” U.S. News & World Report rat-ings are among the least reliable, said the researchers. So are Con-sumer Reports and Healthgrades’ America’s Best Hospitals. More dependable grades come from the Joint Commission Qual-ity Check and Medicare’s Hospital Compare website. But half of the ten graders studied received very low marks.

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After 30 years of marriage, a husband and wife went to see a marriage counselor. The wife went into a tirade list-ing every problem they ever had: lack of intimacy, emptiness, lone-liness, feeling unloved... Finally the therapist got up, grabbed the wife and kissed her long and passionately. The wom-an sat down in a daze. The therapist turned to the hus-band and said, “This is what your wife needs at least three times a week. Can you manage that?” “Well, I can drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but I play golf on Fridays.” A young boy knocked on his neighbor’s door and said, “Can you open your garage door? My baseball is in there.” The neighbor did and saw a broken window with a hole the

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happiness, and this is the happiest day of her life,” said her mother. The child thought for a mo-ment, then said, “Why is the groom wearing black?” Golf advice: Swing hard in case you hit it. ________________Read The Senior Voice free each month at www.theseniorvoice.net. You can also read back issues there and share them with friends.

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