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4 — Gainesville, Texas DAILY REGISTER Wednesday, April 20, 2016
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Police say ‘inebriated’ man
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used flatulence spray
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B. Ryan Willoughby, exec-
utive director of Habitat for
home appraisals, initially told
Habitat officials that they did-
n’t have to worry about the
requirement.
The bureau later reiterated
in a letter that it did not think
the rule applied to volunteers.
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To RSVP to the Volunteer
Appreciation and Auxiliary
Membership Luncheon call
Cathy Kinsella at 940-665-
9891 or e-mail her at
cathy.kinsella@homehos-
pice.org by Friday. Seating is
limited.
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that heavy losses were push- UnitedHealth's move as the
ing it to limit exchange par- start of a mass exodus,
ticipation to only a handful
areas. their exchange business.
"I think there's reason to Their initial wave of cus-
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far greater than just having
your name on the member-
ship roll,” stated Nita
Boardman, president of the
Home Hospice Auxiliary.
“It’s not for money and fame.
It’s for the feeling deep
inside. That’s what volun-
teering for the auxiliary is all
about. Take time in your life
to help others. You won’t be
p
2017 coverage.
The nation's
fundraising activities. Funds
raised help care for those
without benefit of insurance
or financial resources at end-
of -life. A member of the aux-
iliary may support the organ-
ization through as few or as
many activities as the mem-
ber chooses. After paying
their dues of $10 annually, a
member attends regular
Ernest R. Martin,
D.D.S.
By Kery Murakami law that requires home
CNHI Washington Reporter appraisers to be paid “custom-
ary and reasonable” fees.
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That wasn’t good enough
to assure the group and its vol-
unteers.
“This is yet another exam-
ple of the unintended conse-
quences of runaway regula-
tions," Perdue said in a state-
ment. He is co-sponsoring a
bill filed last year by Sen. Rob
Portman, R-Ohio, which clari-
Appraisals in Indiana cost Humanity of Georgia, said the ®es that appraisals donated to
passed in response to the about $350 per home. In group there has tacked the cost Habitat and other housing
recession. Georgia, they cost $400 to onto sale prices, which means groups are not affected by the
The problem is part of the $1,000. higher monthly mortgage fees. law.
UnitedHealth to trim ACA exchanges
TOM MURPHY, public exchanges, ping for 2017 coverage. So HHS says 39 health insur-
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meetings for informational
and social benefit, sits at the
Tree of Lights during the hol-
iday season to receive dona-
tions, helps with the HUGS
for Home Hospice
Dinner/Auctions event, or
works the Christmas
Rummage sale.
“The reward of helping
others in their time of need is
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inside, and then told police
Police in Georgia have that Zengo was the culprit,
arrested a man for allegedly The police report
causing a stink at a bar. described Zengo as "very
The Athens Banner- inebriated" and said a bottle
Herald reported a woman of spray designed to cause an
told officers Blake Leland offensive odor was found in
Zengo, 20, of Bogart, his pants pocket. Zengo
sprayed her in the face with a denied spraying anything,
product designed to smell He was arrested and
like flatulence. charged with disorderly con-
An Athens-Clarke duct, public intoxication and
County police report says underage consumption of
several people left the bar alcohol. He was released
Saturday, citing a foul smell from jail on $1,500 bond.
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“It wasn’t aimed at us, but Leckron said the
it’s really a huge problem," Consumer Financial
Leckron said. Multiplying the Protection Bureau, one of the
The idea was to deal with appraisal fees by the 200 agencies with jurisdiction over
Houchin worries that it’s hard allegations that appraisers homes the group builds in the
enough for low-income fami- were unduly influenced by state a year, she said, "is
lies around Terre Haute, lenders who cut rates and pres- almost enough to pay for two
Indiana, to come up with the sured them to appraise homes more houses.”
$2,000 necessary to get into a at higher values. Congress
home built by Habitat for wanted to ensure that apprais- out how to deal with the prob-
Humanity. ers made enough money to lem. Houchin said the Wabash
But a provision in the refuse if asked to act unethi- Valley chapter may have to
Dodd-Frank Act financial cally. start adding appraisal costs to But it said its opinion was
reforms means low-income The problem for Habitat the closing costs. "informal" and that five other
people will have to come up for Humanity is that it relies In Indiana, a family of four agencies are responsible for
with even more, said Houchin, on volunteers not only to build has to make roughly $ 17,000 enforcing the regulations,
executive director of the houses but also to appraise to $34,0000 per year to quali-
group’s Wabash Valley chap- them for sale. Now, its fy for a Habitat home.
appraisers can be fined for not It already takes most a year
charging the going rate, said to come up with the money
nical fix to the law, said sena- Gina Leckron, Habitat for necessary for closing costs. To
tors including Joe Donnelly, Humanity’s Indiana director.
D-Indiana, and David Perdue, In Indiana, Georgia and because of a law that wasn’t
R-Georgia, who are pushing elsewhere, Habitat officials even directed at the program,
for the change. But Congress said they may have to start Houchin said, "just isn’t fair."
hasn’t acted because the issue charging people more money -
is wrapped up in broader or build fewer houses,
debate over the reforms
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public exchanges, ping for 2017 coverage. So
UnitedHealth's announce- far, UnitedHealth has decided ers left a marketplace for
ment comes after nonprofit to stay in exchanges in 2016 coverage while 40
UnitedHealth's decision health insurance coopera- Virginia and Nevada but entered one.
to slash its participation in fives created by the ACA leave Arkansas, Georgia,
the Affordable Care Act's reported deep 2015 losses Louisiana, Michigan, and said the government expected
insurance exchanges shows and as other major insurers Oklahoma. Other insurers insurers to enter and leave
how these still-new market- like Aetna have questioned may move into those market- exchanges in their early
places remain unsettled the viability of the places to replace it. years, and they have confi-
heading toward their fourth exchanges, which are a key Generally, the number of dence that the new market-
year. element behind the ACA's choices a consumer has will place "will continue to thrive
But customers in many push to expand insurance depend on where the shopper for years ahead.'
markets, especially cities and coverage. lives, with insurers gravitat- Health insurers have faced
Industry watchers say they ing toward more populated several challenges in building
still have several options expect other companies to
when they start shopping for also adjust their exchange
participation as they put believe we'll still have quite a tomers generated higher-
biggest together their coverage plans few competitors in a lot of the than-normal claims in part
health insurer said Tuesday for 2017. But they don't see areas where we had them last because some of the unin-
year," said Gary Claxton, a sured had not used the health
vice president with the Kaiser care system for years and
"I think insurers will have Family Foundation, which were waiting for coverage to
of states in 2017 after to become more selective in studies health care issues,
expanding to 34 for this year, terms of which exchanges
A company spokesman and how they participate, but had coverage in 2015 had a
declined to be more specific by far and away I think the choice of three or more insur-
on 2017 participation. United move will be the ers when they shopped for
UnitedHealth covered biggest one this year," said 2016 plans on a federally run
795,000 people through the Mizuho Securities Managing exchange, according to the
exchanges as of the end of Director Sheryl Skolnick.
It's still too early to get a and Human Services, which
of the 12.7 million total peo- definite feel for how many noted that the exchanges saw
pie who signed up for 2016 choices consumers will have plenty of insurer turnover for
coverage through the ACA's next fall when they start shop- 2016 too.
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