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OCPP says this extra money could disqualify some folks from receiving federal aid like food stamps, then forcing Oregon’s government to pay the difference.

“Because those programs are income-based if you make above a certain amount, you no longer qualify for them. Measure 118 runs the risk of bumping people off those programs,” Ordóñez said. “The authors of this measure anticipated this problem and wrote in a hold harmless provision that would require Oregon to fill in the gap if the federal government says this rebate counts as income. This means a large amount of money the measure raises will actually go toward filling the gaps it’s created.”

What’s markedly different about this technology is that it removes the clinician from the loop, making the child — or their parent or carer — the end user.

“What this tool is going to do is take emergency triage data, make a prediction and have a parent directly approve — yes or no — if the child can be tested,” Singh says. This alleviates the burden on the clinician and accelerates the whole process. But it also creates many unprecedented issues. If something goes wrong with the patient, who is responsible? And if unnecessary tests are done, who will pay for them? “We need to, in an automated way, obtain informed consent from the family,” Singh says. And the consent has to be reliable and authentic. “It can’t be like when you sign up for social media and there are 20 pages of small print and you just hit accept,” Singh says.

To ISPs, Plume promises marketing insights based on deep analysis of your online behaviors. What that means is Plume harvests and hoards a tremendous amount of sensitive data about its users — even tracking when they are present in their homes(new window).

Urban-dwelling species such as ducks, crows, gulls and geese had up to three times as many genetic markers associated with drug resistance as their avian counterparts from more remote places, researchers said.