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Paragraph: Gov. Brian Kemp said proposed changes to former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act would give individuals and families less expensive coverage options, a particular benefit for those who don't qualify for federal subsidies to cover premiums. "They're going to work to reduce costs, make health care more accessible and have better quality in our state," Kemp said in a statement. Critics say it would drive up insurance costs for older and sicker people. Kemp also wants to offer subsidized coverage to a fraction of Georgia's uninsured poor if they worked or went to school for 80 or more hours a month. Kemp's administration projects the expansion would cover 50,000 people, far less than the 400,000 uninsured Georgians who might be covered by the Medicaid expansion originally envisioned by the overhaul. This second proposal, aimed at people earning incomes of up to 100% of the federal poverty level, echoes those made by other states. Federal officials have rejected some similar partial expansions. But it's the first plan, under which Georgia would take over the federal insurance marketplace and the associated funding that goes with it, that's drawing national notice. The state would make those federal subsidies available to people who buy health plans that don't provide the full array of benefits that the Affordable Care Act requires. Passed in 2010, Obama's signature health care law extended insurance coverage to millions of Americans by expanding Medicaid and subsidizing premiums for individuals and families who make up to four times the federal poverty level. The law also known as "Obamacare" allows states to seek waivers from the federal government to change certain provisions, but only if they adhere to strict rules. The Trump administration has loosened those rules, and Kemp's plan includes three approaches promoted by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in November 2018. Health policy experts say that change would drive up ACA premiums by drawing healthier people to less expensive, skimpier insurance plans. That would leave the ACA with a sicker patient pool. Under Kemp's plan, Georgia residents would be required to bypass the central HealthCare.gov website to sign up for insurance. Instead, the state would redirect them to a list of approved brokers and insurers where consumers would be able to compare ACA-compliant plans side by side with plans that don't meet ACA requirements. All plans would have to continue covering preexisting conditions. In addition to the current gold, silver and bronze level plans, Georgia would let insurers offer a new lower tier of benefits, called copper level, which would cover only about half the cost of projected expenses. The current lowest level of bronze covers about 60% of costs. The state says copper level premiums are expected to be 17% lower than bronze level premiums, on average. Georgia also would let insurers offer disease management plans aimed at helping patients manage a particular high-cost disease such as diabetes or HIV and AIDS. State officials would set an overall cap on its own subsidies at $255 million. There is no cap under the ACA, although the state doesn't project its spending will come anywhere near the cap, even though it projects enrollment will increase by more than 37,000. The governor's office estimates that the availability of subsidies for pared-down health plans would only increase "Obamacare" premiums by a little more than 1%. State officials say that amount would be more than offset by its intention to pay a portion of insurance companies' costs to treat their sickest patients, a relatively small group that incurs the biggest bills. The so-called reinsurance program would allow the companies to lower monthly premiums for all customers. Twelve other states have received approval for reinsurance programs, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. State officials expect to hear by August whether Georgia has permission to implement its plans. Claim: Georgia's Kemp submits bid to remake health insurance market.
Georgia's Republican governor on Monday submitted twin plans requesting that President Donald Trump's administration allow changes to federal government subsidies for health insurance.

Paragraph: Louise, a black English Labrador, doesn't ask anything of Casteel except to provide a warm lap to sit in or a ball to chase across the room. For Casteel, it's about the best therapy she's ever had. (Louise) calms me down," said Casteel, who lives in the Manhattan area. "She'll play with you, she'll sit with you. She knows when you're sad." Casteel is a client at Veridian Behavioral Health, a multi-disciplinary mental health care center that is part of the behavioral health department of Salina Regional Health Center. Many of Veridian's psychiatrists, counselors and nurse practitioners serve individuals and families struggling with common life problems such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, marital problems, parent-child conflicts or grief and loss. Recently, the center added another tool to help clients in their programs certified therapy dogs. Three dogs specifically, have been introduced to the programs: Louise, a Chesapeake Bay retriever named Phil and a Great Dane named Daisy. These dogs assist adult inpatient and outpatient clients at the hospital, as well as children suffering trauma and other mental health issues at Veridian's east campus, the Salina Journal reported. Angela Koerperich, an advanced nurse practitioner who owns and supervises Daisy, said Veridian received a grant in October 2015 to add three certified therapy dogs into its mental health program. She and two other Veridian nurse practitioners took on a dog: Louise belongs to Jennifer Pekarek and Phil is owned by Marcia Cleavenger. "We've talked about this for years as something that would be great to have in the inpatient unit," Koerperich said. "We worked together to make it happen. We got in contact with CARES, and the pieces just came together." CARES, which stands for Canine Assistance Rehabilitation Education & Services, is Concordia-based specialty service that offers specially trained canine assistants to people with disabilities throughout the U.S., as well as professional therapy dogs for schools, mental health facilities, hospitals and nursing homes. The majority of dogs that CARES trains are produced from their own breeding programs or are donated ex-show dogs, specifically bred puppies and family pets. Dogs are fostered out to volunteer homes and facilities where they are raised for nine to 18 months, learn basic obedience and become socialized to all aspects of public and private life. Louise and Daisy happened to be trained by inmates at the Ellsworth Correctional Facility, Cleavenger said, which has established a dog training program. "It can be nearly a two year process before they're certified," she said. To become a certified therapy animal, a dog has to have the right kind of temperament to interact with subjects who may be going through trauma or other mental or physical issues, Cleavenger said. "A lot of times people come into the clinic, and they'll be highly anxious or depressed," she said. "A therapy dog helps to ease the anxiety and make it easier to converse with that person. I've had a patient with high blood pressure who, once they spent a little time with Phil, their high blood pressure dropped." Koerperich said Daisy, who like the other therapy dogs wears an identifiable vest while at "work," does wonders with children at the Veridian outpatient office. "Sometimes it's hard to get children to engage or take their medicine, and the dogs can help," she said. "When you are talking to kids about trauma, it's nice to have Daisy in the room. Sometimes a child will talk to the dog and not the therapist. They'll take Daisy outside, walk her around. It's nice to have that physical distraction." Pekarek said at Veridian's inpatient unit at the hospital, Louise has been an immense help when it comes to communicating with patients who are virtually disabled as a result of trauma or mental issues. "Louise seems to warm up to people really fast," Pekarek said. "I'll bring Louise into the inpatient units, and she seems to know who needs her the most. She will stay with them, even if that person won't get out of bed. There was 14-year-old girl here who would not talk to me or her mother, but she talked to Louise. It's amazing to watch." For Casteel, having Louise by her side during therapy sessions has given her hope that her life will continue to improve in the future. "I got an animal myself after I met Louise," she said. "I know now that I need an emotional support animal, that without one I'll be more depressed than usual. I got a cat, but he's as gentle as (Louise) is." ___ Information from: The Salina (Kan.) Journal, http://www.salina.com Claim: Salina center's therapy dogs help manage mental health.
Whenever Jackie Casteel has difficulty dealing with her depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, she knows she can rely on the comforting paw of a four-legged therapist named Louise.

Paragraph: The commission released its second report to lawmakers Friday, 10 months after an initial report urged immediate improvements to school safety following killings of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year. Lawmakers responded to the commission's first set of recommendations by enacting a package of school-safety measures, including raising the legal age for gun purchases, requiring armed security officers on every campus and adopting a "red flag" law. "The needle has moved. We're in a better place than we were 20 months ago," Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, who chairs the commission, said in an interview. "But we're still not in the place where we want to be in many places in Florida, and there's more work to be done." The 389-page document released Friday by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission advocates new laws that would allow authorities to act more quickly against threats of violence, including making it a felony to verbally threaten a mass shooting. While the commission's first report, released in January, focused on the suspect, Nikolas Cruz, and some of the specifics that led to the massacre, this one provides a broader analysis of systemic issues that the commission wants addressed. Key among them, according to the commission, is mental health. Among its findings: Florida's mental health system is inadequately funded. The commission, noting Florida's rank among the lowest of any state in per-capita mental health funding, recommended that the Legislature authorize more spending on mental health programs. The commission, however, did not suggest a specific amount and instead recommended an assessment of how mental health resources are being deployed. Gualtieri said the mishmash of mental health services, limited as they currently are, may sometimes prevent children with behavioral problems from getting the help they need. The commission wants better coordination of services, including better information sharing, to help identify trouble before exploding into harmful situations. The commission also wants to empower judges to intervene whenever they identify a child who might benefit from mental health treatment. In his message prefacing the report, Gualtieri said complacency and noncompliance even resistance to the new laws undermine the work being done to make schools safer. "Complacency is driven, at least in part, by the erroneous notion that a school shooting will not 'happen here'," he wrote. "Everyone needs to proceed with a sense of urgency to make Florida's schools as safe as possible because there will be another K-12 active assailant attack in this country," Gualtieri said. "The only questions are when and where." Claim: Parkland commission urges boost in mental health funding.
A commission investigating the Parkland school shooting is calling for improved mental health services, including more funding, to help schoolchildren deal with the stresses in their lives a strategy the commission hopes will help prevent more violence from erupting at other Florida campuses.