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Shortage of providers for ‘Obamacare’ here Enrollment set to start Tuesday across Clallam BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — As the national debate over health care reform rages on, North Olympic Peninsula providers are bracing for a new wave of patients who soon will be eligible for Medicaid or subsidized private insurance under the Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare.” Health care officials say Clallam
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County lacks enough providers to handle an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 residents who will become insured when new individual health plans take effect Jan. 1. “We are anticipating shortages of primary care, and it’s possible that people will not immediately be able to find a medical home,” said Dr. Tom Locke, public health officer for Clallam and Jefferson counties. “Even if they can’t find a provider right away, there are still going to be enormous benefits to them.” Jefferson County has a network of pri-
mary care providers in place to treat the estimated 3,200 uninsured residents who will qualify for Medicaid expansion or incomebased subsidies, Jefferson Healthcare officials said. According to curLocke rent estimates, there are 11,000 uninsured in Clallam County and 4,600 people without insurance in Jefferson County. Illegal immigrants are excluded from the Affordable Care Act. Others are projected to remain uninsured for various reasons — this group includes young and single people who don’t believe they require health insurance. TURN
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Q. The enrollment period begins Tuesday. How do I compare plans and sign up for individual insurance? A. Go to the Washington Healthplanfinder at www.wahealthplan finder.org, a one-stop shopping site that will take care of a lot of messy details for you. TURN
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Nonagenarians tie the knot license before hopping into Nilles’ 2007 Chevrolet HHR for a honeymoon drive to Leavenworth. PORT ANGELES –– “Love is Nilles leaned over and kissed patient,” Pastor Mark Weatherhis new bride as the car pulled ford read from 1 Corinthians 13:4 away from fans waving goodbye. in Cock-a-doodle Doughnuts. “You keep romance alive,” Port Boy, howdy. Angeles Mayor Cherie Kidd told In a quick ceremony Friday the couple. morning in the doughnut shop’s They first met in that car two lobby, Weatherford of Eastern years ago, when Nilles was called Hills Community Church in to the lobby of the Vintage senior Carlsborg married 90-year-old apartment complex in Sequim to Gladys Salley and 93-year-old drive Salley to the doctor. Andy Nilles. On Friday, it sat parked out“At our age, minutes count,” side Cock-a-doodle’s front door at Salley, who is keeping her sur105 E. Front St. with a cluster of name, said of the speedy nuptin cans tied to the bumper and tials. newlywed well-wishes scrawled The couple — wearing caps on the windows. emblazoned with the words Cock-a-doodle Doughnut is JOE SMILLIE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS “bride” and “groom” — kissed, fed Salley’s favorite sweet shop. Newlyweds Andy Nilles and Gladys Salley of Sequim embrace at their wedding in Port each other apple fritters and TURN TO MARRIED/A6 Angeles’ Cock-a-doodle Doughnuts shop as Pastor Mark Weatherford looks on. signed their official marriage BY JOE SMILLIE
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Fire district’s tax measure turns contentious Clallam No. 2 asks 31-cent levy boost BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A proposed 51 percent Clallam County Fire District No. 2 levy increase on the Nov. 5 ballot has sparked a war of words and money between ballot measure proponents and Olympic Ambulance. Bill Littlejohn, owner of the Sequim-based emergency services
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provider, said the hike would end up hurting his business, which covers emergency calls in the district. Called a levy lid lift, Proposition 1 would increase the existing Fire District No. 2 levy from 76 cents of property tax for each $1,000 of assessed valuation to $1.15 per $1,000. That’s an increase of, for example, $78 annually on a $200,000 home.
Passage of the measure — it needs a simple majority, with ballots mailed out Oct. 16 — would guarantee continued funding for three of Fire District No. 2’s four firefighter-paramedic positions, Fire Chief Sam Phillips said. It also would establish 24-hour, seven-days-a-week medical and firefighter coverage for the district’s 9,500 residents. Cost of the the fourth paramedic would be covered by not filling an assistant fire chief position. Federal Emergency Management Agency grant funding for the
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four positions runs out next year. “They want to replace our service with their new service,” Littlejohn said. “That is the only area in Clallam County where we are allowed to use paramedics. “It really puts us in a bind trying to keep our paramedics current if they don’t have any field work to do,” Littlejohn said. “I would lose everything in District 2,” he added, saying the loss of revenue to his company “would sting.” Phillips said the district’s
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