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A wide-ranging lawsuit filed Friday outlines a moneymaking scheme by which large insurance sales agency call centers enrolled people into Affordable Care Act plans or switched their coverage, all without their permission. According to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, two such call centers paid tens of thousands of dollars a day to buy names of people who responded to misleading advertisements touting free government “subsidies” and other rewards. In turn, sales agents used the information to either enroll them in ACA plans or switch their existing...
Kaiser Health News
Washington (AFP) - NASA said Tuesday it was analyzing an object that crashed from the sky into a Florida man's home -- which could well be a piece of debris jettisoned from the International Space Station. Alejandro Otero of Naples, Florida, posted on X that the item "tore through the roof and went (through) 2 floors" of his house, almost striking his son, on the afternoon of March 8. He believes it was a piece of a cargo pallet containing old batteries that NASA ground control teams released from the orbital outpost in 2021. It was supposed to burn up harmlessly over the Earth's atmosphere ...
AFP
Sonne, Strand, Vergnügungsparks: Das dürften die meisten Touristen mit Florida verbinden. Und es stimmt ja: Der Bundesstaat im Südosten der USA lockt mit ewigem Sommer in Miami, mit der bildschönen Golfküste in der Umgebung von Sarasota, mit der Walt Disney World, Seaworld und den Universal Studios in Orlando. Doch es gibt ein Gebiet, das oft vergessen wird: der Panhandle. Noch nie gehört?Dann wird es Zeit, denn der Pfannenstiel (englisch: Panhandle) im Norden des «Sunshine State» an der Grenze zu Georgia und Alabama bietet spannende Einblicke in die erstaunlich wechselhafte Historie des Bunde...
DPA (German)
OCALA, Fla. — Fire Capt. Jesse Blaire steered his SUV through the mobile home park until he spotted the little beige house with white trim and radioed to let dispatchers know he’d arrived. There, Shawnice Slaughter waited on the steps, wiping sleep from her eyes. “Good morning, Shawnice,” Blaire said. “How are you feeling today?” “I’ve been good, I’ve been good,” Slaughter said. “Much better.” Three days earlier, Blaire — a paramedic who leads the fire department’s emergency medical team — met Slaughter at a nearby hospital. She had overdosed on opioids. It took four vials of an overdose rever...
Kaiser Health News
Jupiter (United States) (AFP) - As the northern hemisphere edges toward spring and millions flock to the beach, headlines have dubbed the southeastern US state of Florida the world's most likely place to be bitten by a shark. They're right, but, at the same time, shark bites are exceedingly rare overall -- a fact scientists wish more people knew, especially amid declining shark populations desperately in need of conservation. "When the sharks in the water are targeting the fishes that they normally feed on, once in a while, people get in the way and the sharks make a mistake," said Gavin Naylo...
AFP
Miami (AFP) - Donald Trump was in a Florida courtroom on Thursday as his lawyers argued for the dismissal of charges against the former president for alleged mishandling of classified documents. District Judge Aileen Cannon is holding a day-long hearing in Fort Pierce, north of Miami, to hear a pair of dismissal motions filed by Trump's attorneys. Trump, 77, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, pleaded not guilty in June to federal charges of unlawfully retaining national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements. He kept the classified files -...
AFP
Miami Beach (United States) (AFP) - College students usually turn Miami Beach's main drag into a huge street party at this time of year -- blocking traffic as they drink and dance to thumping reggaeton music. But strict new measures mean the American ritual, known as Spring Break, is a much quieter affair this year. The city in south Florida is enacting rules to stamp out partying which has gotten out of control -- and even violent -- in recent years, with two killed in shootings last March. As the sun went down on the weekend, Ocean Drive -- typically the party hub for the thousands who desc...
AFP
Nach mehreren Stunden Überlebenskampf ist ein vor der Golfküste von Florida gestrandeter Pottwal gestorben. Das berichteten mehrere US-Medien am Montagmorgen (Ortszeit) unter Berufung auf die zuständigen Umweltbehörden des US-Bundesstaats. Der Meeressäuger war am frühen Sonntagmorgen (Ortszeit) im Wasser nahe dem beliebten Touristenort Venice entdeckt worden. Hinzugerufene Meeresbiologen hatten bereits vermutet, dass er nicht gerettet werden könne. Das Vorhaben, ihm von einem Boot aus ein Beruhigungsmittel zu verabreichen, wurde aufgrund der Bedingungen auf dem Wasser als zu gefährlich eingest...
DPA (German)
Margaret Parsons, one of three dermatologists at a 20-person practice in Sacramento, California, is in a bind. Since a Feb. 21 cyberattack on a previously obscure medical payment processing company, Change Healthcare, Parsons said, she and her colleagues haven’t been able to electronically bill for their services. She heard Noridian Healthcare Solutions, California’s Medicare payment processor, was not accepting paper claims as of earlier this week, she said. And paper claims can take 3-6 months to result in payment anyway, she estimated. “We will be in trouble in very short order, and are ver...
Kaiser Health News
Margaret Parsons, one of three dermatologists at a 20-person practice in Sacramento, is in a bind. Since a Feb. 21 cyberattack on a previously obscure medical payment processing company, Change Healthcare, Parsons said, she and her colleagues haven’t been able to electronically bill for their services. She heard Noridian Healthcare Solutions, California’s Medicare payment processor, was not accepting paper claims as of earlier this week, she said. And paper claims can take 3-6 months to result in payment anyway, she estimated. “We will be in trouble in very short order, and are very stressed,”...
California Healthline
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