Higher taxes are unwelcome but not new. Conditions were worse in Jesus’ day when he not only sought out a despised tax collector but also called for paying taxes, even in a corrupt atmosphere.
Nursing homes fight isolation in lockdown with furry robots
MARDI LINK, Traverse City Record-Eagle
April 3, 2021
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EAST JORDAN, Mich. (AP) Mary Ecker is one of about 100 elders who live at Grandvue Medical Care Facility, a county-owned nursing home a few blocks from the south arm of Lake Charlevoix.
Outgoing and naturally optimistic, Ecker has lived at Grandvue for 16 years. She’s happy there, yet said she feels nostalgic for the small farm in Burt, a four-corners near Saginaw, where she grew up.
She especially misses the family’s dogs.
“I’ve had dogs all my life,” Ecker told the Traverse City Record-Eagle. “If you would come in my room right now, you would see nothing but pictures of dogs. I like any kind of dog, but I favor the smaller ones.”
National
April 4, 2021
KARACHI: Phase-III clinical trials of a triple-dose Chinese vaccine against Covid-19 have commenced at the University of Health Sciences (UHS), Lahore, and four other hospitals in Lahore as well as Faisalabad, officials said on Saturday, adding these trials would also commence at health facilities in Islamabad, Karachi and Jamshoro.
“Clinical trials of a three-dose Chinese vaccine, dubbed as ZF-2001 have commenced at the University of Health Sciences (UHS) and four other health facilities in Lahore. So far around 1,000 volunteers have been registered for the trials while the target is to involve 10,000 volunteers from all over the country,” Vice Chancellor, University of Health Sciences (UHS), Lahore Prof Javed Akram told The News on Saturday.
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Planning for round two
Congress is out of session, but that hasn t stopped Democrats from planning their next round of health legislation. Together with President Joe Biden, they are looking at a broad array of possibilities, from allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices to adding more benefits to the program to creating a government-funded public option insurance plan that consumers could choose.
Meanwhile, despite financial incentives for states to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, the Wyoming legislature this week killed a nascent effort to expand the government health program, and Republicans in Missouri are trying to block implementation of an expansion approved by voters in 2020.
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AÂ historic shortage of mental health care providers in the United States has become an even greater concern over the past year as a growing number of people have sought treatment for behavioral health conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Diversus Health, which describes itself as the only community behavioral health care provider in El Paso County, saw 14,121 clients from July 2020 through March 24 alone, according to Elario Rickey, vice president of marketing and communications. Most sessions with clinicians have been taking place remotely since the pandemic began, with patients logging into web conferencing software for treatment. But even as telehealth has kept services available in many cases, Diversus (formerly AspenPointe) has been forced to refer an unusually high number of patients to other providers in the region as its workforce has remained at capacity.