The Military Health System will continue to provide health care to its beneficiaries during a government shutdown. While we can’t predict the exact consequences of a shutdown on every part of our MHS, we may see some impacts on the delivery of health care services within our military hospitals and clinics. Inpatient, acute and emergency outpatient care in our medical and dental facilities will continue, as will private sector care under TRICARE. We anticipate most medical and dental providers, along with most retail pharmacies, will honor TRICARE copays and cost shares. If for some reason a TRICARE network provider or pharmacy requires you to pay up front for care, call your regional contractor to discuss it with the provider. If the contractor can't immediately resolve the issue, you can still choose to get care with that provider and save your receipts to file for reimbursement.
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With the U.S. government closed for business for the 19th time since 1976 and a lot of blame going back and forth, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on the States Most & Least Affected by the 2018 Government Shutdown to add some hard data to all the rhetoric.
WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia in terms of six key metrics, ranging from each state’s share of federal jobs and contracts to the percentage of kids covered by CHIP. You can check out some of the main findings below.
States Most Affected by the Gov. Shutdown
States Least Affected by the Gov. Shutdown
1
District of Columbia
42
North Dakota
2
Maryland
43
North Carolina
3
Virginia
44
Illinois
4
Alaska
45
Iowa
5
Hawaii
46
Tennessee
6
New Mexico
47
Ohio
7
Montana
48
Delaware
8
Oklahoma
49
Indiana
9
California
50
Michigan
10
Alabama
51
Minnesota
Key Stats
To view the full report, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/government-shutdown-report/1111/
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3 Ways The Rust Belt Can Re-Invent Itself
New technology and dying industries once made the Rust Belt yesterday’s news, draining some of its Northeast and Midwest states of population and hope.
There are signs that some cities and other pockets of the long-struggling region are rebounding, though. And some credit for renewed optimism goes underground – to the valuable natural resources beneath the Rust Belt’s surface, which relatively new technology helped unearth and unleash as big economic factors.
“Natural gas is a game-changer for this region,” says Greg Kozera, director of marketing for Shale Crescent USA (www.shalecrescentusa.com), a non-profit, non-political group of business and community leaders from Ohio and West Virginia. “Why is the Rust Belt coming back? Cheap natural gas and natural gas liquids, and what makes it all come together is transportation accessibility; the area is close to market. This region is within a day’s drive to over half the U.S. markets. Right here, you can drill the wells and produce the liquids that make the products.
Kozera details three ways the Rust Belt can be impacted economically through the value and potential of its natural resources:
“If you took eastern Ohio, southwest Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia and drew a circle around that whole area and made that a country, we would be the third largest natural gas producer in the world,” Kozera says. “That’s a big game-changer for the region.”
About Greg Kozera
Greg Kozera, director of marketing for Shale Crescent USA (www.shalecrescentusa.com), is a professional engineer and an environmentalist with more than 35 years of experience in the natural gas and oil industry. He also is the author of the books Just the Fracks Ma’am and Learned Leadership. Kozera is a past president of the Virginia Oil & Gas Association (an all-volunteer organization)