For Everyone Health Insurance May Not Be Affordable

 A new study suggest in United states the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, but it doesn't make health insurance affordable for everyone.

Researcher showed Older adults who earn just a little bit too much to qualify for federal premium subsidies are particularly vulnerable.

This group of adults faces "the biggest gap in affordability by far," said Ilana Graetz, assistant professor in the department of preventive medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and the study's lead author.

Young adults face another quirk of the health-reform law, also known as Obamacare. Even after subsidies, young people often pay higher premiums than older adults, the study found.

Graetz said "The fact that they actually have to pay more with the subsidies is a little bit concerning and surprising,".

The study, published in the Sept. 9 online edition of Annals of Internal Medicine, after subside examines premium variations by age, income and region and the affordability of premiums .

Toronto pharmacist, cop save heart attack victim on trans-Pacific flight

An airline passenger is lucky to be alive after he suffered a mid-air heart attack during a long-haul flight and was saved by three fellow travellers.

The man was midway through a flight from Canada to Hong Kong when he complained of chest pains and his heart suddenly stopped beating.

Luckily, a doctor, a pharmacist and a policeman trained in first aid were all on board and, with the help of crew, kept him alive.

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He has now made a full recovery in a case which is being used as an example of why portable defibrillators should be carried on all flights.

The dramatic incident, which happened last month, came to light after the doctor involved reported it to the British Medical Journal, which called the episode 'a remarkable story of survival against all the odds'.

Dr Dave Monks, an anaesthesiologist who has worked at the Royal Free Hospital in London, said the man was taken ill hundreds of miles from the nearest airport in some of the most remote airspace on earth.