“Right then, fall showed up.”
The days are shorter. The nights are cooler. The leaves are cluttering the ground. The last tiny bits of summer are hanging on for another round or two, but they’ll be on the ropes soon enough. All the signs are there. But give autumn this, it is a season of wondrous light.
If only it lasted longer.
Things to read … because everything goes so fast.
And as we get philosophical, we near the end of this round of Ebola coverage, Ebola And Mandatory Quarantines: A Delicate Balance Between Personal Liberty And Public Safety:
The U.S. Government responded to the debate by implementing a program that will screen arrivals for initials signs of a fever at each of the five airports that they will be routed to, but many people have called for something more. Most recently, that “something more” has consisted of mandatory quarantines of people arriving from that area who are deemed “high risk,” a policy that has been adopted in New York and New Jersey, Illinois, Minnesota, and Florida to date. Yesterday, New Jersey and New York modified their policy to allow for in-home detention but are insisting on keeping the program mandatory, which C.D.C. and other officials insisting that a less draconian voluntary program would be sufficient and would not have the unintended consequences of dissuading health care workers from volunteering to go help fight Ebola where it needs to be defeated.
Overriding the policy debate, though, is a debate about the legality and morality of mandatory quarantines that goes back long before we even knew Ebola existed.
Even if you can’t get care, at least you have coverage! Some doctors wary of taking insurance exchange patients:
Now that many people finally have health insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges, some are running into a new problem: They can’t find a doctor who will take them as patients.
Because these exchange plans often have lower reimbursement rates, some doctors are limiting how many new patients they take with these policies, physician groups and other experts say.
“The exchanges have become very much like Medicaid,” says Andrew Kleinman, a plastic surgeon and president of the Medical Society of the State of New York. “Physicians who are in solo practices have to be careful to not take too many patients reimbursed at lower rates or they’re not going to be in business very long.”
Media stories:
Virtual Reality Storytelling Is Trending in Hollywood
The Feds Want to Redefine TV, and That Has Cable Giants Nervous
Did you see the terrible news in Seattle? Here’s a nice gesture that followed, Rival offers division title to Pilchuck:
The Oak Harbor Wildcats, who were scheduled to host Marysville Pilchuck High on Friday night for the Wesco 3A North division title in Washington, have offered to instead accept second place following Friday’s fatal shooting at Pilchuck, a Seattle-area school.
Oak Harbor coach Jay Turner and Marysville superintendent Becky Berg confirmed the offer, according to The Herald of Everett, Washington, and The Seattle Times.
The gesture came just hours after a student recently crowned freshman class homecoming prince walked into the Marysville Pilchuck cafeteria and opened fire, killing one person and shooting several others in the head before turning the gun on himself, officials and witnesses said.
High quality.
