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- UnitedHealth still optimistic about PPACA exchanges (Allison Bell, Life Health Pro) One of the nation’s largest insurers expects to see strong growth at the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) public exchange system in 2015. UnitedHealthGroup (NYSE:UHC) will sell qualified health plans in nearly two dozen states in 2015 after selling in only four this year. Another thing noted by UHC is the persistence of small group health plans. They see little erosion in that traditional insurance market.
- How will the U.S. pay for the Ebola response? (Allison Bell, Life Health Pro) This will first on our list of ridiculous questions for 2014. And a candidate for top of the list for the decade.
- Articles about conflicts and disease around the world
Ebola
In battling Ebola, fighting panic is as critical as containing virus (Al Jazeera)
Health Officials on Congressional Hot Seat Over Ebola (The New York Times)
Just How Contagious Is Ebola? (LinkedIn)
CDC sees low Ebola risk in passengers pulled from Dubai flight (Reuters)
U.N.’s New Ebola Trust Fund Running Out of Money (The New York Times)
Quarantines among legal tools available if Ebola outbreak widens (Personal Liberty)
Syria
Kurdish official appeals for weapons for Kobani (Associated Press, MSN News)
Iraq
Training day for Peshmerga fighters. (Reuters, MSN) Video
Ukraine
Nuclear Fusion Won’t Save Ukraine (Bloomberg)
Russia
Putin Threatens EU Gas Squeeze Raising Stakes for Ukraine (Bloomberg)
Putin’s Reaction To Sanctions Is Destroying The Economy And China Won’t Help (Forbes)
Putin Leaves Private Businesses in the Cold (Bloomberg)
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Protests Swell After Video Shows Police Beating (Bloomberg)
Mexico
Mexico universities call strike in solidarity with missing students (Al Jazeera)
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