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Anyone familiar with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) shouldn't be surprised at their recent segment attacking the network of health care sharing ministries (HCSMs). The taxpayer-supported PBS network pushes left-wing themes relentlessly.In this case, they manipulated data and facts to paint a false picture of Health Care Sharing Ministries that fits their ideology.Let's set the record straight.PBS's segment asserts that Health Care Sharing Ministries don't share in the full amount of a patient's medical bill, neglecting to mention that this is also a standard practice with health insurance. Nobody — not insurers, not members of health care sharing ministries, and...

If reports are to be believed, Poland has discussed the idea of sharing nuclear weapons with its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ally the United States. According to a Bloomberg report, Poland President Andrzej Duda talked to the United States and discussed the idea of housing weapons of mass destruction. Duda's comments came amid the continuing Russia-Ukraine war and nuclear sabre-rattling by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his allies

Looking for a photo sharing site other than Shutterfly in which you can create an album and then just email it. Also, I want the site to give me a URL that I can put in my own emails that will let the email recipient see my chosen album. Sites other than Shutterfly require that I have friends and all that stuff. Shutterfly has always irritated me. Recently I uploaded photos some of which I rotated 90 degrees on my computer. It un-rotated them and did funny things when I tried to re-rotate them on the Shutterfly site.

HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is continuing the industry's push to incorporate social factors that influence health—like food insecurity and homelessness—into patient care. The 2020 edition of the ONC's interoperability standards advisory, a collection of agency-recognized interoperability standards and implementation specifications, includes resources to support sharing information on four new categories of data related to social determinants: drug use, food insecurity, housing insecurity and transportation insecurity. "As factors like these can greatly impact one's overall health, ensuring this information is known, and captured in clinical systems and available to providers is important," wrote the ONC's...

Uber set two dubious quarterly records on Thursday as it reported its results: its largest-ever loss, exceeding $5 billion, and its slowest-ever revenue growth. The double whammy immediately renewed questions about the prospects for the company, the world’s biggest ride-hailing business. Uber has been dogged by concerns about sluggish sales and whether it can make money, worries that were compounded by a disappointing initial public offering in May. For the second quarter, Uber said it lost $5.2 billion, the largest loss since it began disclosing limited financial data in 2017. A majority of that — about $3.9 billion — was...

By ALEXIS ZOTOS 6 News Reporter KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Next week is the deadline for most people who qualify to sign up for the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. But alternatives exist to either traditional insurance or the plans offered through the health insurance exchange. Hundreds of thousands of Americans participate in Christian healthcare sharing ministries across the country. Sarah Lewis is self employed and for years paying for health insurance was a financial burden. "My husband and I own our own business and the cost of insurance was so high and they kept raising it. So we...

It's gotten little attention, but it's true: The individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act requires all Americans to have health insurance or face penalties, but members of medical-sharing ministries are exempt from the individual mandate that will be enforced beginning in 2015. It's there because of the work of then-Congressmen Tom Perriello, a Virginia Democrat and Sens. Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, and Republican Charles Grassley of Iowa, who fought to add the exemption to the law. It's the same principle that allowed for the Amish to be exempted from the individual mandate—with the crucial difference that it's a...

FULL TITLE: Netflix customers' ENTIRE movie rental history to be shared with Facebook... including all your guilty pleasures Netflix users will soon be able to share every film they have watched with their Facebook friends - allowing the social networking giant even more lucrative information on its users' leisure time. Up until now the Video Privacy Protection Act prohibited Netflix and other streaming services such as Hulu from sharing their customers' history or allowing them to post it themselves. However, Congress has now passed a bill to the 1988 act that allows users to opt in or out of forthcoming...

My wife and I were at my parents for Thanksgiving, along with my sister. During dinner conversation, we discovered my sister was an enthusiastic Obama supporter. Unfortunately, the conversation ended up in a long political argument. My parents refused to say how they voted, but it was pretty obvious they're drinking the Koolaide too, along with my brother, who wasn't there. As you can imagine, I've been thinking a lot about this since. There's more than a little bit of regret I have from the conversation, but beyond that, I think it was the first time I've actually come face...

Help please. Interested in the good, bad & ugly on family [about 10] photo sharing. Each could put up pics for the rest of the family to see, print copies but only the original poster could modify. Thoughts?

On a conference call this afternoon the FBI announced a reversal of their decision to cut off the intelligence sharing of information from the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC). The FBI shut down reporting to the 77 fusion centers on March 1st, and we reported on the shutdown yesterday. The FBI had announced that they would be resuming the TSC reporting, but without the Personal Information Intelligence (PII) that fusion centers had previously had access to (as I updated on the article yesterday afternoon). Fusion center officials had said yesterday that resuming the TSC reports without the PII would be

Lime Group, whose LimeWire software has allowed people to share songs and other files over the Internet, received a federal injunction Tuesday to disable key parts of its service.(Snip)The injunction, issued by U.S. District Court in New York, compels Lime Group to disable LimeWire's searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and distribution features, effective immediately.

Only days before Ndamakong Suh is drafted into the NFL, the Husker defensive lineman paid back his former school with $2.6 million in donations announced at Saturday’s Red-White Game. Suh, speaking to fans in a taped message on the HuskerVision screens, announced that he would give $2 million to the athletic department in support of the strength and conditioning program. Additionally, Suh will donate $600,000 toward an endowed scholarship for students of [the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's] School of Engineering.

(St. Paul/Minneapolis) – The Citizens' Council on Health Care (CCHC) today releases a new policy brief on Medical Sharing groups, or health care sharing ministries, as they are titled in H.R. 3590, the health insurance reform bill pending in the U.S. Senate. Members of health care sharing ministries, along with several other groups of individuals, are exempt from the individual mandate (H.R. 3590, page 327). The cost for a family can be less than $300 per month.

Health Care Sharing Ministries To Be Rendered Useless By Obama-Democrat Healthcare Travesty. Our Freedoms Stricken! This will adversely affect thousands of pastors, evangelists, and missionaries! November 2, 2009 Please Contact Your U.S. Representative Now! A bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would require all Americans to purchase government approved health insurance. Your sharing through Samaritan Ministries will not be considered adequate to meet the bill’s requirements in its current form. A vote is planned for this week on H.R. 3962 – The Affordable Health Care for America Act. Despite all of our efforts to date,...

Lt. Col. Terry Cook, commander, 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, pins a U.S. Army Achievement Medal to the uniform of an Iraqi Emergency Services Unit Policeman, May 11. The IP were being rewarded for their hard work and dedication in Kirkuk City. Photo by Pfc. Justin Naylor, 1st Cavalry Division. KIRKUK — Partnership is the term used by U.S. military officials to describe the cooperative relationship between Iraqi Police (IP), Army and U.S. Soldiers following the Security Agreement signed between the two countries, January 1. This includes daily missions maintaining security in Kirkuk province, and it also means sharing...

World governments have failed to finalise a deal on sharing vaccines and virus research material in the event of a global flu pandemic. The World Health Organisation says they've reached agreement on most elements at the two-day meeting in Geneva but some key issues are still to be resolved. These include the sharing of data between labs and intellectual property rights on viruses, issues made more important by the swine flu strain that's now infected eight and a half thousand people in 38 countries.

The Little Red Hen A Little Red Hen lived in a barnyard. She spent almost all of her time walking about the barnyard in her picketty-pecketty fashion, scratching everywhere for worms. She dearly loved fat, delicious worms and felt they were absolutely necessary to the health of her children. As often as she found a worm she would call "Chuck-chuck-chuck!" to her chickies. When they were gathered about her, she would distribute choice morsels of her tid-bit. A busy little body was she! A cat usually napped lazily in the barn door, not even bothering herself to scare the rat...

This bullfrog animation will show us how to share and greet each other with kind word no matter what nationality by example. Bullfrogs speak in English and Spanish. Remember when it comes to animation I'm a novice. Revski

New federal legislation says universities must agree to provide not just deterrents but also "alternatives" to peer-to-peer piracy, such as paying monthly subscription fees to the music industry for their students, on penalty of losing all financial aid for their students. The U.S. House of Representatives bill (PDF), which was introduced late Friday by top Democratic politicians, could give the movie and music industries a new revenue stream by pressuring schools into signing up for monthly subscription services such as Ruckus and Napster. Ruckus is advertising-supported, and Napster charges a monthly fee per student. The Motion Picture Association of America...