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DeathList 10-12-2020 TO 10-16-2020

EPD DAILY ACTIVITY REPORT

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“Left Jab” and “Middle Jab” and “Right Jab” October 17, 2020

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“Right Jab And Middle Jab And Left Jab” was created because we have a couple of commenters that post on a daily basis either in our “IS IT TRUE” or “Readers Forum” columns concerning National or International issues.

The majority of our “IS IT TRUE” columns are about local or state issues, so we have decided to give our more opinionated readers exclusive access to our newly created “LEFT JAB and Middle Jab and RIGHT JAB”  column. They now have this post to exclusively discuss national or world issues that they feel passionate about.
We shall be posting the “LEFT JAB” AND “MIDDLE JAB” AND “RIGHT JAB” several times a week.  Oh, “LEFT JAB” is a liberal view, “MIDDLE JAB” is the libertarian view and the “RIGHT JAB is representative of the more conservative views. Also, any reader who would like to react to the written comments in this column is free to do so.

HOT JOBS IN EVANSVILLE

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Data Processor – Part Time
MetroNet 3.6/5 rating 156 reviews – Evansville, IN
Telecommunication experienced desired, but not required. MetroNet has an immediate opening for an energetic; Part-time Data Processor in Evansville, IN.
Oct 5
Medical Office Assistant
Deaconess Health System 3.7/5 rating 473 reviews – Evansville, IN
We are looking for compassionate, caring people to join our talented staff of health care professionals as we continue to grow to be the preferred, regional…
Oct 12
Office Assistant – Pulmonology
St. Vincent, IN 3.7/5 rating 5,325 reviews – Evansville, IN
Vincent operates 24 hospitals in addition to a comprehensive network of affiliated joint ventures, medical practices, and clinics.
Oct 9
Office Support – Temporary (4:30 a.m. – 8 a.m. Shift)
Columbia Healthcare Center 3.1/5 rating 895 reviews – Evansville, IN
Compassion, Accountability, Relationships and Excellence are the core values for American Senior Communities. These words not only form an acronym for C.A.R.E.,…
Oct 13
Office Support – Temporary (4:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. Shift)
Columbia Healthcare Center 3.1/5 rating 895 reviews – Evansville, IN
Compassion, Accountability, Relationships and Excellence are the core values for American Senior Communities. These words not only form an acronym for C.A.R.E.,…
Oct 13
Office Support (Temporary)
Cypress Grove Rehabilitation Center 3.1/5 rating 895 reviews – Newburgh, IN
Compassion, Accountability, Relationships and Excellence are the core values for American Senior Communities. These words not only form an acronym for C.A.R.E.,…
Oct 9
Lead Medical Office Assistant
Deaconess Health System 3.7/5 rating 473 reviews – Newburgh, IN
Front desk position coordinating daily functions and providing positive experience for patients through phone calls and in person.
Oct 9
Switchboard Operator/File Clerk
Confidential – Evansville, IN
$11 – $13 an hour
Local insurance agency seeking a dependable and enthusiastic switchboard operator/file clerk to join our team. Handles, on average, 150 in-coming calls per day.
Easily apply
Oct 13
Accounting Clerk/Administrative Assistant
Arc Construction Co., Inc. – Evansville, IN
$16 – $18 an hour
Assist Controller and Accountant in other administration task. We are looking for a skilled Accounting Clerk to perform a variety of accounting and…
Easily apply
Oct 6
Office Administrator
Ace & Sons Fence Company – Evansville, IN
$13 – $15 an hour
We are seeking a reliable, organized office staff employee to join our growing company. In this position, you will assist in daily operations and clerical tasks…
Easily apply
Oct 14

Indiana Department of Health novel coronavirus Update

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https://www.in.gov/isdh/28470.htm

Accident 2600 Mt. Vernon Avenue

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 On October 15 around 7:30 p.m., Evansville Police Officers were dispatched to the 2600 block of Mt. Vernon Avenue for a motor vehicle accident with injury involving a vehicle and a pedestrian.

   When officers arrived the pedestrian was still in the street and was unconscious. Witnesses advised the pedestrian had left Leroy’s Tavern and had walked into the street.

   She was believed to have been struck by a westbound vehicle, bounced off of that vehicle and then made contact with an eastbound vehicle. 

  The pedestrian was transported to the hospital, where the extent of her injuries are unknown at this time. She is expected to survive her injuries. 

 The Evansville Police Department’s Detective Office, Crime Scene and Accident Reconstructionist were called to the scene and are still investigating. 

 If anyone might have witnessed this accident they are asked to contact the Evansville Police Department. 

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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https://www.vanderburghsheriff.com/jail-recent-booking-records.aspx

COMMENTARY: The Fair Care Act Is A Conservative Health Care Solution For All Americans

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The Fair Care Act is a conservative health care solution for all Americans 

By Senator Mike Braun and Representative Bruce Westerman
Democrats and many media outlets are claiming that Republicans do not have a health care plan. This is unequivocally false. We have a solution, a bill with more than 500 pages of legislative text introduced in both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. The Fair Care Act of 2020 (FCA) is based on years of research and provides answers to some of the most pressing health care concerns facing the nation.
At its core, the bill is simple. It would expand affordable coverage options for Americans and protect those who are most vulnerable, including those with preexisting conditions. The FCA would also redirect the enormous amount of resources currently flowing through insurance companies, employers, and the government to instead run through the patient, giving Americans the power to regain their sovereignty as health care consumers. Finally, the FCA would infuse the health care system with transparency, competition, and innovation so individuals can shape a health care system that meets their needs.
You don’t have to look far to see the way Congress approaches health care reform is broken. Fixing the system requires bipartisan action. The previous administration left us with a failed and broken Affordable Care Act (ACA) — highlighted by its complex mandates, dysfunctional economic incentives, and administrative bureaucracy — leaving most Americans crushed by rising premiums and reduced benefits. During his tenure, President Donald Trump has delivered a series of significant health reforms intended to fix the dysfunctional and expensive system.
Now it’s time for Congress to act. Here’s how.
First, the FCA provides more protections for those with preexisting conditions than the ACA while simultaneously expanding affordable coverage options. We recognize the importance of the guaranteed issue, essential health benefits, dependent child coverage, and a ban on annual or lifetime benefit limits. However, requiring that insurers offer coverage at the same rate to all individuals regardless of their health status (as currently dictated by the ACA) hasn’t worked and has instead priced millions of Americans out of the health care system. The Fair Care Act reintroduces all the ACA’s protections, extends guaranteed issue to Medigap plans, and establishes a national invisible high-risk pool reinsurance program that directly subsidizes coverage for those with preexisting conditions. This guaranteed coverage risk pool would also increase subsidy assistance from current ACA levels (400 percent Federal Poverty Level) to 600 percent of the Federal Poverty Level and implement more low-cost coverage options. These combined policies will increase individual market enrollment, promote insurer competition, and lower premiums for all.
In addition to strengthening the individual marketplace, the FCA reforms our employer-based health care system by giving employers and employees more options to pay for and purchase coverage. For example, employers could still offer coverage under the FCA, but they could also fund tax-advantaged individual accounts for their employees. This would give employees the resources to pay for coverage that’s not tied to their employment in an affordable individual marketplace.
Too many Americans have lost their power to be health care consumers because they lack adequate health savings. How can this be when the average American spends more than $11,000 a year on health care? It’s because about 90 percent of every health care dollar is spent by a third party, not actual consumers. We need to put more of this money into the hands of individuals and families instead of funneling it through insurance companies, employers, and the government. The FCA does just that, eliminating the employer mandate to offer health insurance but allowing those with employer coverage to opt-out and still receive premium assistance in the marketplace. It also consolidates tax-advantaged health expense savings accounts into one simple Medisave account.
These accounts would be available to those with private insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid, which are owned by the individual and can be used towards the purchase of health plan premiums and any qualified medical expense. These patient-driven changes will result in a health care industry that meets the needs of consumers by competing on price, quality, and service, just like any other industry.
Finally, the FCA will promote transparency and competition throughout our health care system. Our health care system will never function properly unless it is accountable to consumers and their needs. The only way to do this is to empower consumers and ensure a system with real prices and quality signals. Making pricing and quality information easily available to health care consumers will drive innovation, promote competition, and ultimately lower the cost of health care for everyone.
The U.S. spends more than twice as much as other countries on health services. The FCA addresses this problem by codifying the Trump administration’s rules on health care transparency, establishing a national all-payer claims database (APCD), and discouraging hospital competition in non-rural areas. Our bill also builds on bipartisan drug reform policy to modernize the approval process, bring safe and effective medicine to patients faster, promote generic drug approval, and provide more oversight on cost-increasing middlemen like Pharmacy Benefit Managers.
Democrats who say we need to protect those who are most vulnerable and enable them to easily obtain affordable health coverage are right. We should have a system that ensures coverage is affordable, and no one goes broke as a result of a bad accident or diagnosis. Republicans who say that we need a health care system that is driven by market forces are also correct. These ideas are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they support each other and must happen at the same time to fix our current health care system. Both political parties can agree that our health care system is in desperate need of repair. FCA is the proactive, creative solution we need. We designed each of these provisions with one group in mind: the patient. Health care has too long been a politically charged issue, but FCA builds on bipartisan, bicameral reforms to put us all on the same team. Let’s get started.
FOOTNOTE: Sen. Mike Braun (R) is the junior United States senator from Indiana. Rep. Bruce Westerman (R) represents Arkansas’s 4th congressional district.

Indiana Remains At Stage 5 As COVID-19 Cases Rise

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Indiana Remains At Stage 5 As COVID-19 Cases Rise And Health Commissioner Tests Positive

October 15, 2020    
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By Taylor Wooten
TheStatehouseFile.com

INDIANAPOLIS —Gov. Eric Holcomb said Wednesday that he’s keeping Indiana at Stage 5 of his reopening plan even as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to climb and his own health commissioner, Dr. Kristina Box, announced she and her family tested positive for the disease.

At a technically challenged virtual press conference, a masked Holcomb appealed to Hoosiers who are “showing a disregard for the health of their fellow citizens” and acting “as if this current situation and this coronavirus doesn’t exist” to wear masks and maintain a safe distance from others in public.

Gov. Eric Holcomb said he is keeping Indiana in Stage 5 of his reopening plan even though the number of people infected by COVID-19 continues to rise. TheStatehouseFile.com

“Those decisions can directly and indirectly — even not intentionally — again, cost lives,” Holcomb said of people who are behaving as if the pandemic has ended. “More than 3,609 to be exact, as of today.” He was referring to the number of Hoosiers who have died of the highly contagious novel coronavirus.

Holcomb, who extended the mask mandate for another month, elaborated on the consequences of COVID-19 as it spreads through the community by citing increased healthcare costs, lost wages and business failures.

“Don’t kid yourself,” Holcomb said. “We’re all paying this bill and the bill’s coming due. And throwing caution to the wind ultimately ends up costing us all.”

Speaking at the press conference by phone, Box said that she, her daughter, and her grandson tested positive for coronavirus after an outbreak at her grandson’s daycare. Initial tests that are processed quickly came up negative, but they were followed with another test where they got positive results.

Box is asymptomatic and said she would keep the public updated on her condition as she quarantines and works from home.

“Listen to Dr. Weaver and what they’re saying, because our numbers are not good, they’re very concerning,” Box said. “It’s especially concerning to see what’s happening in our hospitals in several areas around the state, so please be careful.”

Indiana had 1,172 new cases of COVID-19 and 14 additional deaths Wednesday for a total of 139,269 cases and 3,609 deaths.

“As of yesterday, a total of 1,357 Hoosiers were hospitalized with COVID or symptoms of COVID,” said Dr. Lindsay Weaver, chief medical officer of the Indiana State Department of Health. “That is the highest number we have seen since May 13 and it underscores the importance of not letting our guard down.”

Dr. Lindsay Weaver, chief medical officer of the Indiana State Department of Health, said hospitals in some parts of the state are feeling the stress of an increase in COVID-19 patients. TheStatehouseFile.com

Weaver referred to the color-coded ISDH map that shows community spread in Indiana counties. Last week there were 39 counties in blue, eight counties in orange and one in red. This week, there are 24 counties in blue, 21 in orange and one in red. Local governments in orange and red counties are urged to consider implementing stricter restrictions on social gatherings and events.

Weaver also said that some hospitals are near capacity because of the rising number of COVID-19 cases and they may need reinforcements from medical personnel, especially nurses, from other areas.

As a result of Box’s positive test, Weaver, Holcomb and other staff were tested after the press conference. Results are expected Thursday. Each individual at the press conference appeared electronically from a separate room and wore a mask.

In spite of the rising numbers, Holcomb said that he would not roll back to an earlier stage of the reopening plan. Capacity limits, like the ones in place in Stage 4 that limited crowd sizes in restaurants and other venues, do not prevent the spread of coronavirus in states that are still enforcing strict ones, he said.

State health department data show the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases from last week, left, to this week. Blue indicates a low number of cases.

But Holcomb did leave open the possibility of enforcing stricter guidelines in areas with the highest spread of the virus, but maintained that a one size fits all approach won’t work for the state.

His position drew sharp criticism from two sides of the political spectrum. State Democratic Party Chair John Zody said Holcomb’s approach to the pandemic has resulted in a record spread of COVID-19 while Senate Minority Leader Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, was critical of the governor’s failure to include a penalty with the mask mandate.

“Gov. Holcomb emphasizes social distancing and wearing masks, but there is absolutely no enforcement,” Lanane said in a news release. “He encourages Hoosiers to not attend large gatherings, but yet he has placed no restrictions on such events.”

On the other side, Donald Rainwater, Libertarian candidate for governor, challenged the effectiveness of the mask and social distancing mandates.

“If the Indiana State Health Commissioner, Dr. Box, can practice the highest level of risk mitigation and still test positive, this indicates that the precautionary measures are not 100% effective,” Rainwater said in a press release.

Holcomb’s next COVID-19 press conference will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21.

FOOTNOTE: Taylor Wooten is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

AG Curtis Hill: Federal Court Ruling Upholding Multiple Abortion Laws Represents Huge Win For Indiana

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Attorney General Curtis Hill today applauded a federal court ruling that upheld against a due process challenge many critical abortion laws enacted by the Indiana General Assembly.
Last week, in response to a lawsuit filed by abortion provider Whole Woman’s Health challenging Indiana’s most significant abortion regulations, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana upheld many statutes and regulations under the Due Process Clause. The laws the judge upheld include those:
  • requiring abortion clinics to be licensed;
  • requiring abortion providers to report abortions;
  • requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals (or to have a back-up physician who does);
  • requiring women seeking abortion to have an ultrasound;
  • requiring abortion providers to make some mandatory disclosures to women as part of the abortion informed-consent process, and;
  • requiring women seeking abortion to wait 18 hours after an informed-consent consultation before having the abortion.
The judge also upheld under the Due Process Clause restrictions on the dosage and administration of the abortion drug mifepristone, as well as specifications for abortion clinic facilities. And finally, the judge affirmed under the Due Process Clause Indiana’s law requiring parental consent or a judicial bypass order before a minor can have an abortion.
“This ruling represents an important victory in Indiana’s efforts to defend life and promote the health of women seeking abortions,” Attorney General Hill said. “Our legislature has enacted common-sense abortion regulations that courts have long deemed constitutional, and this ruling affirms its prerogative to do so as a matter of constitutional due-process rights.”
A bench trial regarding the plaintiffs’ surviving due process and equal protection claims begins March 15, 2021. In addition to equal protection claims against the above-mentioned statutes, the plaintiffs are challenging Indiana laws that require, among other things:
  • that abortions be conducted by physicians;
  • that second-trimester abortions be conducted in hospitals or ambulatory surgical centers;
  • that women seeking abortions have an in-person examination and in-person informed-consent counseling before undergoing the abortion;
  • that women seeking abortions be told that human physical life begins when a human ovum is fertilized by a human sperm, that a fetus can feel pain from abortion, and that abortion entails both physical and mental health risks for the mother.
“We will continue to defend Indiana’s common-sense abortion laws from the meritless, self-interested attacks of abortion providers,” Attorney General Hill said.
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