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Category Archives: ~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture
Insurer promised to pay for their son’s hearing aid
- Petitioning UNITED HEALTH CARE
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UNITED HEALTH CARE
United Healthcare: Cover Brantlee’s hearing aid and care
My son Brantlee failed his initial newborn hearing screen in April. Tricare/United Healthcare referred us off post to an audiologist. While at that appointment, we found out my son has unilateral sensionueral hearing loss with is moderate sloping. It was recommended that we give him a hearing aid so he has a fair shot at speech and quality of life. So that is what we did! United Healthcare said they would cover this. We recieved the aid on 5/8/13 and on 6/26/13 we rieceved a letter from United saying it was denied. On 7/8/13 we recieved an almost $3000 bill from his provider for the hearing aid. When I called UHC, they stated, this was not covered because the provider was inactive…yet they referred us to her! One representative even had the nerve to say “your son isn’t deaf enough.” Now though we are back to where we originally were that the provider is inactive all though they sent us there and we have our slip showing they sent us there and would cover these codes, they refuse to pay.
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Help Make Sarayaku’s Victory a Reality!
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Help Make Sarayaku’s Victory a Reality!
Last July the Kichwa of Sarayaku, an indigenous community from Ecuador’s Amazon, won a landmark legal victory against the Ecuadorian government at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The decision, which the Correa administration said it would respect, establishes new guidelines on the right to consultation of indigenous peoples and has widespread implications not only for governments of Latin American countries but also for multinational companies operating there. Amazon Watch and our allies are doing all we can to support the community’s journey from the Amazon to the National Assembly in Quito, but we need your help to make it a reality. Please support Sarayaku in the culmination of their fight for justice and accountability for indigenous rights in the Amazon and beyond. Join and support the Cause today! For the Amazon,
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$1,500
Compromise Set to Lower Student Loan Interest Rates
Student loan rates for undergraduates doubled on July 1 from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, threatening to further increase college costs for millions of already-strained students.
Fortunately, a bipartisan deal has emerged in the Senate that looks set to lower interest rates before students head back to campus. Here are the main elements of this compromise:
- It immediately and significantly lowers interest rates, giving students the certainty they need to make borrowing decisions.
- It ties student loan interest rates to the market, allowing students to immediately take advantage of today’s low rates.
- It caps overall rates to help protect students from interest rate increases in the years to come.
- It sets the interest rate at a fixed rate for the entire life of the loan in contrast to a GOP proposal that would’ve allowed the rate to change every single year the loan remained outstanding.
You can find out more details about this plan and why it matters HERE.
This can all be a little confusing, but the immediate impact is pretty simple. Here’s what will happen as soon as this compromise becomes law:
BOTTOM LINE: 11 MILLION students will save an average of $1,500 as a result of the student loan compromise the Senate is going to vote on tomorrow. Young people need Congress to act right away to pass this deal.
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A deal reached
Hi, everyone —
We’ve got some good news to share! Senators from both parties have come up with a plan to reduce the interest rates on student loans. Once it becomes law, rates on every single new college loan will come down before the start of the school year.
Because of this agreement, 11 million borrowers will save money, and we need help to make sure that everyone gets the details. The graphic below breaks down all the facts, and gives parents, undergrads, and grad students the information they need to know what they can expect in the years ahead.
Check it out, then share it to help spread the message.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/big-news-student-loans
Cecilia
Cecilia Muñoz Director, Domestic Policy Council The White House @Cecilia44
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