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As per recent reports, it has been revealed that life expectancy across Australia is on rise. Women have more chances to live longer then and senior citizen above 65 years can expect to live two decades more. however, it has not been said that quality of life will also improve, which means that more number of people will be getting diagnosed with chronic illnesses.

This has led experts to think that Australia has already been facing a lot of staff shortage and if the pattern continues then it will become a grave problem in eth coming time. Nurses have a key role to play in the health care, as they are the ones, who will have to take care of patients.

It has lead experts to reach at a conclusion that they need to recruit more nurses, and also to train more people for the nursing profession. some of the things, which need to be understood by the nurses, are principles of palliative care and its application among elderly.

Stress needs to be given at old age care. by 2041, more than one-fifth of the Australian population will be aged over 65 and before that it has to be made sure that there is enough nursing pool with the country to take care of them.

Prima Health Care to extend hours

Prima Health Care will be extending its hours at two local locations.

Boardman Express Care at 7629 Market St. will be open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Prima Salem, 564 E. second St., has new hours of 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The locations provide treatment for common illnesses and injuries.

For more information, go to www.primacareexpress.com.

Another PlayDate plans grand opening

A resale and consignment shop for children’s clothes called another PlayDate will have its grand opening at 10 a.m. Friday at 2332 Cadwallader Sonk Road.

The store is in the “little log cabin” just off of state Route 46. The grand opening is open to the public.

Business hours will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

Contact the shop via email at anotherplaydate@yahoo.com or by phone at 234-244-4231.

Dominion rates down 20 percent

East Dominion Ohio customers will continue to see much lower rates for natural gas heading into May.

The company has set the standard choice rate at $2.636, which is 5.5 percent lower than the April rate of $2.791 per mcf. last May, the standard choice rate was more than twice as high at $5.377 per mcf.

For more information about available rates with East Dominion, go online to www.dominiongaschoice.com.

Moody & Associates opens Canton office

Moody & Associates inc. is expanding into the Utica Shale region in eastern Ohio.

The company has opened an office in Canton to provide hydrogeological consulting services to support the development of the oil and gas industry.

Moody has been retained for projects in Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Guernsey, Jefferson, Mahoning, Portage, Stark, Summit, Trumbull and Tuscarawas counties.

Moody’s will mostly offer stray gas migration investigations, groundwater feasibility studies, pre- drilling water-supply surveys, water-management plans and post-drilling water- complaint resolutions.

Group gives gift to renovate stadium

The Niles Area Business Council of the Regional Chamber announced a monetary gift to the Renovating Excellence in Niles Committee for renovations to Niles McKinley High School’s Bo Rein Stadium.

The announcement and check presentation were Thursday at the Bo Rein Stadium Band Shell.

Vindicator staff reports

Selected local stocks

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Aqua America, .66, 22.52 +0.16

Avalon Holdings,5.51—0.17

Clear Channel, .77 69.20 —0.27

Cortland Bancorp, 9.000.00

Farmers Nat., .126.28 +0.05

First Energy, 2.20, 46.97+0.17

FirstMerit Corp., .64,16.43 —0.40

First Niles Financial, .32,8.050.00

First Place Fin., 0.41—0.15

FNB Corp., .48,10.97—0.26

General Motors,22.36—0.01

General Electric, .68,19.34—0.27

Motors Liquidation, 0.04220.00

Huntington Bank, .16, 6.49—0.16

JP Morgan Chase, 1.20,41.75—1.26

Key Corp, .12,7.82—0.17

LaFarge, 9.61 —0.23

Macy’s, .80, 41.11—0.44

Parker Hannifin, 1.56, 85.14—1.62

PNC, 1.60,65.26—1.01

RTI Intl. Metals,25.45—0.40

Simon Prop. Grp.,3.80,154.19—1.32

Stoneridge 8.96 —0.38

United Community Fin. 1.700.00

Selected prices at 4 p.m. Friday. Provided by Stifel Nicolaus. Not to be construed as an offer or recommendation to buy or sell any security.

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The nation’s big insurers are spending millions to carry out President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul even though there’s a chance the wide-reaching law won’t survive Supreme Court scrutiny.

It’s not that health insurers want to bet big that the court will uphold the Affordable Care Act. It’s that they can’t afford not to. it will take at least several months and lots of resources to prepare to implement key elements of the law, which includes a requirement that most Americans have health insurance by 2014.

WellPoint inc., the nation’s second-largest health insurer with 34 million members, has said it will spend $100 million this year on technology upgrades to meet the law’s requirements. Aetna inc., third-largest U.S. health insurer with more than 18 million members, says it expects to spend $50 million this year in part to upgrade software and computers.

Even smaller insurers like Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, a private company with 4million members, are spending big. This year, the company, which employs 7,000 people, plans to add about 100 employees and spend nearly $20 million.

The law calls for big changes in the number of people receiving coverage, what must be covered and who pays for it, so insurers that don’t prepare until after the court’s ruling, expected in late June, will run short on time, said Kirk Roy, vice president of national health reform with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

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President Obama said, “The package we've put together” will “start bending the cost curve on health care” and “cut the deficit by a trillion dollars.” Even a sympathetic Congressional Budget Office has finally put the nail in the coffin of that howler.

At the time Obama made the claim, we all knew it was specious, and study after study came out showing just how fraudulent it was. There was the double counting on Medicare, the “Doc Fix” scam and a host of others. When Rep. Paul Ryan asked the CBO to rescore Obamacare with more accurate assumptions, it didn't quite make the grade — by hundreds of billions of dollars, which, of course, are but rounding errors for the federal spending virtuoso in the White House.

Many of us knew at the time that Obama's drive for socialized medicine had nothing to do with reducing spending — the last thing that is ever on his mind. we knew that it wasn't about increasing access to care — because socialized medicine schemes always ultimately reduce people's access to quality care.

Looked at in a light most favorable to Obama's intentions, it was but another utopian scheme to put everyone on a level playing field. Looked at honestly and realistically, it was a Trojan horse to expand government control over our private lives that would result in less, worse and more expensive care.

No one who has watched Obama and the titanic leftist juggernaut he has unleashed on our beloved America thought he was promoting Obamacare to bend the health care curve down. If that had been the case, he wouldn't have had to go to such lengths to make it appear as though this budget buster was actually a plan for cost containment.

Indeed, we knew he would go to any lengths to pass this bill, even if it ended up costing two or three times more than he falsely projected. and what do you know? just a few years later, as this legislative Frankenstein awaits the verdict of the Supreme Court, the CBO released a report this week admitting it will cost about twice as much as Obama twisted its arm into calculating a few years ago.

The legislation will not cost $940 billion as originally advertised. it will cost $1.76 trillion, and that is a conservative estimate.

In a word, folks, this is outrageous. If cost were Obama's concern, wouldn't he come before the American people now, admit his error and urge Congress to repeal this ill-conceived monster? How about for the sake of truth in advertising he at least change the name of the law from the “Affordable Care Act” to the “We Can't Afford This Act”?

Betsy McCaughey, a health care expert and a vigorous opponent of Obamacare from the beginning, said that the original cost projections of the plan were “a shell game” and that the CBO's revised report “inches closer to the truth.”

This perennially defiant and Alinskyite administration didn't back up at all with these new figures. Jeanne Lambrew, deputy director of the White House Office of Health Reform, said on the White House blog, “The bottom line is clear: the Affordable Care Act will reduce our deficit, control health costs, and make health care more affordable.” Lambrew quoted a pair of consulting firms that said Obamacare would not result in employers dropping their insurance coverage, which is not only untrue but brings us to another major blow Obamacare suffered this week.

The recently released Health Care Reform Survey 2011-2012 of the Willis Group reports, “Survey respondents indicate that into the second year of Health Care Reform implementation, less than 30 percent of employers were able to maintain grandfathered status of their health care plans.”

Did you hear that? It's not quite what the White House propaganda blog is telling us. according to Willis, the “rapid loss of grandfathered status far outpaces The Department of Health & Human Services' expectations.” The department projected that 78 percent of employers would retain their grandfathered status by the end of 2011, that 62 percent would by the end of 2012 and that 49 percent would by the end of 2013.

Opponents warned this would happen, and disingenuous supporters of the bill ridiculed their warnings as partisan fear-mongering. but the facts are sometimes a disturbing inconvenience. Willis says that the accelerated loss of grandfathered status “suggests that employers have had to make many plan changes to offset cost increases,” and employers have likely chosen to forfeit their grandfathered status to control costs.

These are purely scandalous developments, and as one of my friends remarked, in saner times this would spell Obama's political end. Indeed, it would guarantee a Democratic primary challenge.

It would have been bad enough had Obama told us he was hellbent on establishing socialized medicine, even if it would cost the country more and result in people's losing their choice of plans. but he didn't, and he ought to be held to account — politically — for his duplicity.

Examiner Columnist David Limbaugh is syndicated by Creators.

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