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I'm trying a new format and would like your input. 
The best newsletters have pix, but my audience has firewalls. So I'm cutting down on pix and hoping we will have less bounces. I'd appreciate your response, please, to cyndyn@me.com
 
I've also been hard at work on many of the suggestions for my company--stay tuned!
 
 
 
Health Insurance Marketplace Home and Wellness Rulings

The Health Insurance Marketplace for information has launched within the CMS.gov website.  This is the place where those of us data wonks can find information on who, what, where, when and why.  But there's more:  HealthCare.gov has also launched as the consumer-focused  information exchange for learning, comparing, and entering the new health insurance exchanges, which by now we all know as Health Insurance Marketplace.  more
 
New Videos 
New Videos and Podcast Explain the Concepts

We've been hard at work creating meaningful and very short videos that tell my innovation story of health engagement.  If you want to understand carrots, Kermit, and my commitment to helping employers, health plans, health systems, physicians, and communities in their search for the health-wealth pot of gold, this may speed your learning.  There are many more to come. We are putting them in the Digital Media Room, a category under "Cyndy's Voice." Find them HERE
REPEATING:  IRS Rules, Calculator, KFF Calculator
we had lots of comments on these

IRS publishes forms and calculator for small business insurance tax credits.
Forms and calculator helps small business anticipate their potential tax credit for 2014. 

Kaiser Foundation posts new calculator for individual subsidies.
Individuals are also wondering if there's a subsidy when marketplaces go live.  They can estimate their final costs here.
The question:  does the Obama Administration wellness uling affect the IRS ruling?  
IRS Rules on Wellness: only Tobacco Cessation counts
New Posts at CyndyNayer.com
Find these in Cyndy's Voice:
A Response to Friedman and Obama Innovation Surprise (NYT)

Find these in News Room:
WSJ: One Strategy for Health-Law Costs:  Self Insure (for business as small as 10 workers)
How Much Money Is Lost to Medicare Fraud?
State-by-State Snapshots of Poverty in the Elderly (removing health care costs shows real poverty)
A Tale of Two...Wellness Outcomes (Exercise good -from Pennington, Wellness bad-- from Rand)
Clock Ticking on Full Medicaid Expansion Funds
Businesses Share Obamacare Wellness Program Worries with the White House
New Policies are Offered to Individuals to Earn Reductions in Deductibles (very cool concept)
Adults Go Online to Diagnose and Manage Conditions (Pew) 
Support the Recovery Efforts in OKLAHOMA
Unfortunately, we have been hit again, only this time by Mother Nature.  If you can, please support the efforts of Oklahoma Strong, the recovery and rebuilding name for the recent Oklahoma tornadoes. Donations for the OK Strong Fund can be made at http://www.ok.gov/okstrong/or by mailing a check to the United Way of Central Oklahoma, P.O. Box 837, Oklahoma City, 73101. The check must be designated for the OK Strong Fund. 
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