Top 10 most costly areas for ACA health insurance plans Anyone buying health insurance inside a Colorado resort town may feel as if closing the laptop and schussing the slopes to ease frustration. These areas were just named the foremost expensive for medical coverage beneath the Affordable Care Act (ACA ). Let Insurance. com assist you find affordable health insurance now. Kaiser Health News — which says its findings are depending on recent data coming from the Kaiser Family Foundation, the federal HealthCare. gov website and state exchanges — gives Colorado’s Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin counties (including Aspen and Vail ski getaways ) the very best premiums, at $483 a month. Rural regions of Georgia, Mississippi and Nevada aren‘t far behind, as is really a Connecticut suburb of New York City, all Alaska and the majority of Wyoming. The premiums are driven by lowest price ” silver ” plan, and that is mid-level coverage that almost all consumers are buying with the exchanges. Here will be the 10 most costly areas, depending on monthly premiums, consistent with Kaiser Health News : $483 — Colorado mountain resorts (Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin counties). Also, premiums in Colorado’s Summit County are $462. $461 — Southwest Georgia (Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Crisp, Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Randolph, Schley, Sumter, Terrell and Worth counties). $456 — Rural Nevada (Esmeralda, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Elko, Mineral, Pershing, White Pine and Churchill counties). $445 — Western Wisconsin (Pierce, Polk and St. Croix counties). $423 — Southern Georgia (Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Clinch, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur, Early, Echols, Grady, Irwin, Lanier, Lowndes, Miller, Seminole, Thomas, Tift and Turner counties). $405 — Most of Wyoming, but excluding Natrona and Laramie counties. $399 — Southeast Mississippi (George, Harrison, Jackson and Stone counties). Also, the lowest price plan in Hancock County is $447. $395 — All of Vermont. $383 — Southwest Connecticut (Fairfield County). $381 — All of Alaska. The Kaiser report says the lofty premiums in Colorado could be blamed on high costs for medical care in those areas. In other pricey regions, insurers can inquire about more income because there‘s a limited quantity of hospitals and specialists open to patients. ” High individual insurance rates also reflect the extra costs that come when locals are likely to have poor health and where large numbers of individuals lack employer-sponsored insurance, leaving providers with increased charity cases and lower-reimbursed Medicare patients, ” based on the report. Health insurance options beyond the health insurance exchanges The ACA requires the uninsured have coverage from the March 31 deadline or face a penalty. The fine in 2014 is $95 or 1 percent in an individual’s taxable income, whichever is higher. The penalty climbs to $325 in 2015 and $695 by 2016. Subsidies can be found to assist shoulder costs for people who qualify. Consumers are eligible for any tax credit in the event that they earn as much as 400 percent from the federal poverty level — that is $94, 200 for any family of four in 2013. The tax credits aren‘t available for health insurance purchased outside the exchanges. You are able to shop for insurance with the government-run exchange with your state, but additional options : • Can you get it at work? Most employer-sponsored plans meet minimum standards set from the feds ; your boss should have notified you of the by Oct. 1. Bear in mind, though, that almost all employer-based plans have open enrollment in the autumn. Your workplace can provide you with the specific details, including deadlines. • Does an employer’s plan cover spouses or dependents? Most work-based health plans extend benefits to spouses, albeit they are not legally needed to. Again, check along with your employer. Also, anyone under 26 can remain on the parent’s medical plan, even if they should already get access to health insurance elsewhere, do not live with these or are married. • Do you qualify for a government health insurance plan? The ACA says you are covered when you have Medicare or Medicaid ; your children are covered in the event that they receive benefits beneath the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Medicare is typically eligible to anyone 65 or older, possess a disability or end-stage renal disease. Have the ear of a seven-month period (starting three months before your 65th birthday ) to join Medicare in the government’s Medicare. gov site. In case you do not check in then, you are able to enroll from Jan. 1 to March 31 of each and every year. Medicaid eligibility, which is expanded beneath the ACA, is founded on income and family size. Can you qualify? You are able to fill out a credit card applicatoin at the state’s health insurance exchange to see. You may also find out if your children could be covered with the Children’s Health Insurance Program. • Go directly to a health insurer Some companies that provide medical coverage — – including United Healthcare, Humana, Aetna, Cigna and Coventry — are not participating at many of the exchanges. But, in fact, they are still selling health insurance. You will get relevant information by checking out their websites, speaking with their representatives or dealing with an insurance agent. These companies may provide a bigger sort of plans compared to the exchanges, which offer more standardized coverage.

RI Kembangkan Teknologi Sulap Rawa Jadi Lahan Pertanian


Kementerian Pertanian (Kementan) serius mengembangkan lahan rawa sebagai areal tanam baru. Dengan jumlah luas potensial lahan rawa untuk pertanian yang mencapai mencapai 9,53 juta hektare, Menteri pertanian Andi Amran Sulaiman optimis pengembangan lahan rawa menjadi jawaban untuk ketahanan pangan.
Pengembangan teknologi menjadi syarat mutlat untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut. Sebagaimana diketahui, Pengembangan lahan rawa bahkan menjadi tema sentral pada peringatan Hari Pangan Sedunia (HPS) ke 38 di Kalimantan Selatan (Kalsel) pada 18-21 Oktober 2018 nanti.
Akan ada 4.000 hektare lahan rawa yang dikembangkan di Kalsel, 750 ribu diantaranya sudah diolah lahan dan ditanami, bahkan direncanakan siap dipanen langsung oleh Presiden Joko Widodo.
Kepala Balai Penelitian Lahan Rawa (Balittra) Hendri Sosiawan menyatakan saat ini lahan sawah irigasi hanya seluas 8,1 juta hektare, masih perlu pengembangan areal tanam baru seperti lahan kering 144.5 juta ha, rawa lebak 25.2 juta hektare, dan lahan pasang surut 8.9 juta hektare. Meski masih luas, tidak semua lahan itu cocok untuk dilembangkan untuk pertanian.
"Lahan rawa di Indonesia punya karakteristik ekosistem secara alami bersifat rapuh (fragile). Hal ini disebabkan berbagai cekaman abiotik seperti keracunan zat besi, kadar asam yang rendah, rendaman, salin serta rentan terhadap serangan penyakit blast. Tantangan penanganan lahan rawa yang belum tersentuh teknologi memang bukan pekerjaan mudah, tetapi butuh kesabaran dan kecermatan dalam pengelolaanya," jelas Hendri di Jakarta pada Jumat (12/10/2018).
Karenanya, Hendri menyatakan untuk mengoptimalkan lahan rawa perlu teknologi pengelolaan lahan yang tepat dan terpadu serta penggunaan varietas padi yang adaptif di lingkungan rawa.
Hingga tahun 2017, Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pertanian (Balitbangtan), mendukung pengembangan pertanian di lahan rawa dengan mempersiapkan aneka inovasi termasuk dengan menghasilkan sejumlah varietas unggul padi yang adaptif di lahan pasang surut dan rawa lebak. Sebanyak 35 varietas padi unggul adaptif lahan pasang surut dan lebak dengan berbagai sifat keunggulan.
Kepala Balai Besar Penelitian Tanaman Padi (BB Padi) Priatna Sasmita menyatakan varietas-varietas tersebut dirakit untuk mengatasi permasalahan utama di lahan rawa.
"Pada Gelar Inovasi Teknologi (Geltek) yang menjadi rangkaian HPS, Balitbangtan ingin menunjukkan kepada petani dan masyarakat luas bahwa varietas unggul padi rawa punya potensi untuk dikembangkan dan bahkan bisa ditiru di ekosistem lahan rawa di Provinsi lain," jelasnya.
Sementara itu, Peneliti BPTP Balitbangtan Kalsel Rina Dirgahayu menjelaskan bahwa saat ini demonstration farming (demfarm) padi rawa seluas 60 hektare di Geltek HPS menampilkan 4 (empat) varietas inbrida padi rawa (Inpara) yaitu Inpara 2, Inpara 3, Inpara 8 dan Inpara 9, sedangkan untuk padi sawah irigasi/tadah hujan yang juga ditanam varietas Inpari 32, Inpari 40 dan Inpari 42 Agritan.
“Kondisi tanaman antar varietas saat ini bervariasi, ada yang sedang berbunga hingga fase pengisian biji. Performa tanaman sangat bagus sehingga menjadi daya tarik petani setempat,” jelas Rina.
Sementara itu, pemulia di BB Padi Indrastuti A. Rumanti mengatakan sejauh ini BB Padi bersama dengan peneliti BPTP Balitbangtan Kalsel menyiasati kondisi lahan yang kompleks ini dengan sejumlah modifikasi, yakni dengan penggunaan mikroba (Agrimeth) untuk meningkatkan vigor benih, ameliorant (kapur pertanian) untuk meningkatkan pH tanah, biotara (bahan organik khusus untuk rawa), dan penerapan sistem tanam jajar legowo 2:1 untuk meningkatkan populasi.
Lalu digunakan juga biosilika untuk meningkatkan ketahanan varietas terhadap serangan hama/penyakit, penanaman refugia untuk meningkatkan musuh alami, trap barrier system (TBS), pengomposan dan umpan racun untuk pengendalian tikus, penggunaan insektisida dan fungisida selektif untuk pengendalian hama/penyakit, penerapan tata air mikro menggunakan sistem aliran satu arah untuk mencuci racun mineral, dan pemupukan menggunakan PUTR modified berupa penambahan kalium yang sangat diperlukan di lahan rawa.
“Beberapa kendala yang terakhir tejadi antara lain kekeringan dan pH rendah yang berpengaruh pada keluarnya malai. Namun semua itu bisa diatasi dengan meningkatkan kandungan pH air yang dimasukkan ke petak pertanaman," tambah Indras.
Pengelolaan pertanaman yang optimal dan pemberian treatment-treatment modifikasi telah berhasil mengatasi cekaman-cekaman yang terjadi. Saat ini Inpara 2, Inpari 32, Inpari 40 dan Inpari 42 sudah berumur 90-95 hari HSS (Hari Setelah Semai) dan mulai memasuki fase pengisian, sedangkan Inpara 3, Inpara 8 dan Inpara 9 Agritan masih memasuki fase pembungaan. Pemeliharaan pertanaman saat ini terus dilakukan untuk memastikan bahwa denfarm ini aman dari berbagai cekaman yang kompleks dan bisa panen dengan hasil yang memuaskan.
Pertanaman Padi Varietas Inpara 2 di lahan rawa Desa Jejangkit, Kecamatan Jejangkit, Kabupaten Barito Kuala, Kalimantan Selatan

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