Affordable Care Act Numbers, College Football Numbers and In an Overabundance of Caution

Nicholas Nehamas of the Miami Herald reports that 35,000 in Florida will be losing their health care coverage from the ACA because they have not provided proof of citizenship or residence status in the country. They are almost 30% of the 115,000 that are losing their coverage nation wide.

Hopefully people who are eligible will persevere and submit the needed documentation and get their coverage reinstated.

The Sports Page lists 37 college football games that will be on TV from 12:00 noon to 12:00 midnight on broadcast and cable channels in South Florida.  The UM has the weekend off before it plays Virginia Tech this Thursday.  FSU/Notre Dame will be the most hyped, hopefully it will live to the hype.  Baseball resumes Tuesday 8:07pm.

Carnival Cruise Line had a passenger who might(?) have handled lab samples from an Ebola patient was kept in isolation in her cabin and the ship was delayed from docking so long that the ship left to return to Galveston, Texas.

I wonder how the passenger in question will be handled when the ship docks in Texas and meanwhile how many folks will skip their flu shots and if MDs from Cuba sent to Sierra Leone will be allowed to return to Cuba, as reported by local Spanish media in Miami.

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