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Published Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Frank John DeFillipes Jr. Frank John DeFillipes Jr., of Corning, died Tuesday, Oct. 1 at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff. He was 58. Arrangements are under the direction of Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary. Published Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Stella M. Patrick Stella M. Patrick, of Red Bluff, died Monday, Sept. 30 at Brentwood Skilled Nursing. She was 82. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Alfonso Quintana Jr Alfonso Quintana Jr died Friday, Sept. 27 at his Cottonwood home. He was 78. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Hester M. Vanderpool Hester M. Vanderpool, of Shasta Lake, died Sunday, Sept. 29 in Boise, Idaho. She was 87. Arrangements are under the direction of McDonald's Chapel. Published Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Setting it straight –––––––– It is the policy of the Daily News to correct as quickly as possible all errors in fact that have been published in the newspaper. If you feel a factual error has been made in a news story, call the news department at 527-2153. HEALTH Continued from page 1A director of the Rancho Cordova service center. ''We are getting a huge, huge volume of calls,'' she said. Lee was joined at the Rancho Cordova call center Tuesday by state Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Diana Dooley, lawmakers who support the federal Affordable Care Act and the president of the state's largest public employee union, which represents the call center workers. ''This is absolutely the most important piece of health care legislation that this nation has ever seen,'' said state Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-Covina, an optometrist who attended the opening. ''I am ecstatic. Last night, I didn't sleep very well just thinking about this.'' The Affordable Care Act will dramatically change the way many Americans get health insurance and marks the most extensive change to the nation's health care system since Medicare and Medicaid became law in 1965. Under the law, consumers who have previously been rejected for private insurance because of a pre-existing condition will be able to enroll, and those who cannot afford to buy their own insurance can receive government-subsidized premiums. Annual out-of-pocket expenses will be capped, and insurance companies cannot impose a maximum lifetime benefit. California is being seen as a laboratory for the nation's health care overhaul, and call center workers have been training for months to answer questions. The three call centers — in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area city of Concord, Fresno and Rancho Cordova — were flooded with calls even before Tuesday's opening. Latinos, who make up nearly half of the 5.3 million uninsured Californians who are eligible to apply, have been expressing particular interest, said Santiago Lucero, a spokesman for Covered California. Information is available in 13 languages, but those who are in the country illegally are not eligible for coverage. Actual coverage through insurance purchased on the exchanges will start Jan. 1. Beginning in 2014, virtually all Americans will be required to have health insurance or pay an annual penalty to the government. The penalty for an individual starts at $95 in 2014 but rises to a minimum of $695 by 2016. Californians who have health coverage through an employer will be largely unaffected by Tuesday's opening of the exchange, which is primarily for the poor, lowincome earners, and individuals and families who already buy their own health insurance. BLAME Continued from page 1A Among those workers were some at the National Institute of Health's famed hospital of last resort, where officials said no new patients would be admitted for the duration of the shutdown. Dr. Francis Collins, agency director, estimated that each week the shutdown lasts will force the facility to turn away about 200 patients, 30 of them children, who want to enroll in studies of experimental treatments. Patients already at the hospital are permitted to stay. Late Tuesday, House Republicans sought swift passage of legislation aimed at reopening small slices of the federal establishment. The bills covered the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Park Service and a portion of the Washington, D.C., government funded with local tax revenue. Democrats in Congress announced their opposition and the White House threatened to veto the measures, saying Republicans shouldn't be permitted to choose which agencies should open and which remain shut. That drew a jab from Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner, who said Obama ''can't continue to complain about the impact of the government shutdown on veterans, visitors at National Parks, and D.C. while vetoing bills to help them.'' Several House Democrats used the occasion to seek a vote on a standalone spending bill, a measure that Rep. Elizabeth Esty of Connecticut said would ''end the tea party shutdown.'' The requests were ruled out of order. Ironically, a major expansion of the health care law — the very event Republicans had hoped to prevent — was unaffected as consumers flocked for the first time Tuesday to websites to shop for coverage sold by private companies. The talk of joining the current fight — the Republicans are trying to sidetrack the health care law by holding up funding for the fiscal year that began at midnight Monday — to a dispute involving the national debt limit suggested the shutdown could go on for some time. The administration says the ceiling must be raised by mid-month, and Republicans have long vowed to seek cuts in spending at the same time, a condition Obama has rejected. In Washington, some Republicans conceded privately they might bear the brunt of any public anger over the shutdown — and seemed resigned to an eventual surrender in their latest bruising struggle with Obama. Democrats have ''all the leverage and we've got none,'' said Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia. Rep. Devin Nunes, RCalif., said sardonically his party was following a ''Ted Cruz-lemmings strategy'' — a reference to the senator who is a prime proponent of action against the health care overhaul — and Rep. Scott LASSEN Continued from page 1A department's day-to-day operations. However he did say some grant processes may be slowed down. That sentiment was shared by Acting Mental Health Director Val Lucero. She said the county had received confirmation Monday that it had received a more than $1 million grant to fund its drug court program and the departments would continue to comply with requirements despite uncertainty dealing with the federal government. CASE Continued from page 1A be delivered to CDCR for the diagnostic, which can entail speaking with a counselor, psychiatrist and a warden, and he was handcuffed and led away from the courtroom. Sentencing will take place sometime after the diagnostic report is filed. District Attorney Gregg Cohen said in an interview that he is fine with Garaventa's decision to push back Hedrick's sentencing pending the CDCR report, adding that he understands that it's wise for the judge RULES Continued from page 1A relations, consulting and other services, although some restrictions from public disclosure remain in place for contracts with large health plans. ''This measure is important to guarantee transparency,'' Republican Sen. Bill Emmerson, a bill sponsor, said in a statement. ''It is imperative that Covered California is properly subject to the Public Records Act just like other state agencies.'' In August 2010, when California was sprinting to become the first state to embrace the most extensive Lassen Park Superintendent Darlene M. Koontz said in a press release that park visitors in all overnight campgrounds and lodges will be given until 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 3 to make travel arrangements and leave the park. In addition, all park programs and special events have been canceled, including: school group programs, youth camping programs, and ranger-led talks at Kohm Yah-mah nee Visitor Center. Lassen Volcanic National Park hosts 1,100 visitors on average each day in October. The park will lose an estimated $1,600 of entrance and camping fees to get as much information about the case as possible. "Quite honestly I thought that's what he might do today," Cohen said. He added: "From my humble perspective I believe state prison is in order in this matter. With the 90-day diagnostic (Hedrick) goes to state prison. That's where it's done." Hedrick had been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor child molestation charge in Butte County that involved one of the victims in the Tehama County case. The Butte County case stemmed from health care changes since Medicare, state lawmakers gave the new agency the authority to keep all contracts private for a year and the amounts paid secret indefinitely. An AP review of the 16 other states that have opted for state-run marketplaces showed the California agency was given powers that are the most restrictive in what information is required to be made public. In Massachusetts, the state that served as the model for Obama's health overhaul, the Health Connector program is specifically covered by open-records laws. 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Gone is the Republican demand for a full defunding of the health care law as the price for essential federal funding. Gone, too, are the demands for a one-year delay in the law, a permanent repeal of a medical device tax and a provision making it harder for women to obtain contraceptive coverage. In place of those items, Republicans now seek a one-year-delay in the requirement for individuals to purchase insurance, and they want a separate provision that would dramatically raise the cost of health care for the president, vice president, members of Congress and thousands of aides. Boehner has declined to say whether he would permit a vote on a stand-alone spending bill to reopen the government, stripped of health care provisions, though Democrats and Obama continued to call on 7A him to do so. ''He's afraid it will pass,'' said Durbin. Sen. Cruz, R-Texas, the most prominent advocate of the ''Defund Obamacare'' movement, said the Senate should follow the House's lead and quickly reopen programs for veterans and the parks. Asked why it was appropriate to do so without demanding changes in the health care law, he offered no answer. ''None of us want to be in a shutdown. And we're here to say to the Senate Democrats, 'Come and talk to us,''' said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., as GOP lawmakers called for negotiations with the Senate on a compromise. It was an offer that Senate Democrats chose to refuse, saying there was nothing to negotiate until Republicans agreed to reopen the federal establishment. ''The government is closed because of the irrationality of what's going on on the other side of the Capitol,'' said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In addition to ''closed'' signs and barricades springing up at the Lincoln Memorial and other tourist attractions, NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency were virtually shuttered, and Obama said veterans centers would be shut down. Government workers classified as essential, such as air traffic controllers, Border Patrol agents and most food inspectors, remained on the job. each day of the shutdown and the park concessioner will lose an estimated $125,000 in revenue. In Lassen Volcanic National Park, 115 employees are on furlough because of the shutdown and another 25 concessions employees are similarly affected. A limited number of employees remain on duty, providing security and emergency services. Because it will not be maintained, the National Park Service website will be down for the duration of the shutdown. NPS.gov has more than 750,000 pages and 91 million unique visitors each year. an incident that occurred in May 2012 at Camp Lassen Scout Camp in Butte Meadows. Hedrick's Tehama County sentencing had previously been pushed back to Oct. 16 to allow him to complete the remainder of his jail time, but Hedrick was released early by the Butte County Sheriff's Office and Tuesday was the first day Hedrick and his attorney had available. ——— Andre Byik can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 111. THE PASSING PARADE (From Dave Minch's I Say column circa 1942) I have always believed that prices should be regulated solely by supply and demand. It is a system that has never failed since records were kept. If there is too much of any product grown or produced, more demand has to be built up or the price of the product reduced. Reduced prices tend to weed out inefficient producers or cause lower production costs as the result of more efficiency. When there is not enough of any item produced to meet the demand for it, prices are advanced until the demand is slowed down. Since 1932, the United States has experimented with artificial price fixing paying farmers for not producing hogs and grain and buying grain at above market prices and storing it and many other methods none of which have been very successful. Now they are trying to fool supply and demand by putting ceiling prices on certain items while still letting labor, and many other costs that enter into the manufacture of the item, to go sky high. When we started our By-Products Corporation 3 years ago, we had to create a market for our new product, meat scraps. It was difficult to accomplish. We had to buck established brands and had to lower our prices until they reached a level at which they would sell. Finally we got down to $6.00 a ton under the market in San Francisco, lost money on every ton we sold and finished the year in the red. But we stayed with it, improved our product, gave discounts and allowances and free delivery to Chico and Redding feed mills. Gradually we began to get ahead, farmers asked at the stores for feed mixed with our meat scraps, and as demand grew and we were able to fill all our orders, we advanced our prices until we received as much as producers in San Francisco. As the demand increased we could not produce enough to fill all our orders and had to limit our customers to the 5 mills that had helped us through tough times: The Flour Mill, Macys, Valley Feed, Fine & Son and Northern Star Mills. Last year we ended in the black even after paying corporate taxes. This year we cannot fill all our orders, so as of last week, we sent out notices that we were raising our prices to $5.00 per ton. The next day we got a Federal notice that instead of raising our prices we would be lowering them $5.00 a ton less than we were selling for during the first week of March. My point is this: our government was not interested in our price or our deficit a couple of years ago…but now that the plant is profitable, are they right in using someone's judgment, who knows nothing of our costs, to set a ceiling price instead of relying on supply and demand to set the price? Dave Minch 1900-196 The Passing Parade is brought to you by by Minch Property Management, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514