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Golden Valley News
May 31, 2018
Thinking
About Heal th
By Trudy Lieberman
Rural Health News
Service
David
WIBAUX, Mont. - Funeral serv-
ices for David Moring, 62, of
Wibaux, Mont were held at 2 p.m
Sunday, May 27, 2018, at Calvary
Temple Assembly of God, 514 West
Orgain Ave, Wibaux. Burial fol-
lowed in the Wibaux Cemetery.
Visitation for David occurred one
hour prior to the service at the
church.
David Timothy Moring passed
away early in the morning of May
21, 2018, in his home outside of
Wibaux. Dave is missed by his wife,
Kimberlee; son Daniel (Vera) Mor-
ing, daughters Allison Lewis and
Karalee (Kevin) Kem; his brother
Tom (MeriEsther) Moring, his sis-
ters Rebecca (Michael) Shafer and
Julie (Ken) Wang; his mother Betty
(Backstrom) Knight; his grandchil-
dren Shayn and Hailee (Daniel and
Vera) and Brittany (Karalee and
Kevin); brothers-in-law Kory (Lynn)
Scammon and Kyle (Beth) Scam-
mon; and numerous nieces,
nephews, and grandnieces and
grandnephews. Dave is preceded in
death by his father Albert Moring,
step-father David Knight, nephews
Jeffrey and Evan Moring, and
mother-in-law Violet (Meidinger)
Scammon.
Dave was born in Fairbanks,
Alaska, on May 23, 1955. He grad-
uated from Kelly Walsh High
Moring
School in Casper, Wyo in 1973.
From there he went on to Montana
Institute of the Bible and graduated
with a degree in Bible in 1976. MIB
is also where he met Kimberlee Jean
Scammon. Dave and Kim were
married on June 18, 1977, in
Wibaux.
With the exception of a stint with
Glidewell Insurance and Invest-
ments, Dave's career was within the
heavy equipment parts industry. He
began working for Wyoming Ma-
chinery in high school and then with
Long Machinery for years. Most re-
cently, after moving back to Wibaux
to be near his ailing mother-in-law,
he worked as "parts guy" at Dakota
Farm Equipment in Beach.
Remembrances and condolences
may be shared with the family at
www.stevensonfuneralhome.com.
Woman killed near Williston identified
WILLISTON - The identity of a rear of the semi's trailer. The Silver-
29-year-old Tioga woman who was ado spun clockwise after the impact,
killed Friday morning, May 18, left the road, entered the median and
when her vehicle ran into a disabled overturned, coming to rest on the
semi-truck along U.S. Highway 2 passenger side in the median. Mon-
is Jeff Lynn Monette, the N.D. High- ette was ejected and died at the
way Patrol said. scene.
Monette was driving westbound The truck driver, 31-year-old
in a 2016 Chevrolet Silverado when David M. Caudill of New Brockton,
the front passenger side of her vehi- Ala was taken to Tioga Medical
cle collided with the driver's side Center as a precaution.
Construction begins on Hwy:85bridges
AMIDON - Construction has Motorists should be prepared
begun on three bridges on U.S. to stop at signals or flaggers
Highway 85 from approximately 12 - foot width restriction will
the North Dakota/South Dakota be in place
border to Amidon. The project con- The projects are expected to be
sists of bridge deck overlays along completed late summer or early
with railing replacements, fall.
During construction: For more information about con-
- Signaled lane closures will in- struction projects and road condi-
termittently take place on the tions throughout North Dakota, call
bridges during various times 511 from any type of phone or visit
throughout the project the Travel Information Map on the
Speeds will be reduced NDDOT website.
Construction to begin
next
k on 1-94 in area
Construction began Tuesday,
May 29, on the eastbound lane of 1-
94 near Beach and Sentinel Butte.
Construction consists of bridge
deck overlays at each site. Motorists
should be advised to use caution
through the work zone as some of
the construction may take place dur-
ing the evening hours.
During construction:
Traffic speeds will be reduced to
25 mph
A 12-foot width restriction will
be in place at each bridge construc-
tion site during phase two of project
Flaggers will be on site direct-
ing traffic through the construction
zone
Construction zones will be well
lit during nighttime construction
The project is expected to be
completed this fall.
Rent this space for only
a few dollars a week.
Call 872-3755 for
more details today/
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Plan for drug pricing preserves big-pictu
The headline in the Wall Street
Journal seemed to sum up the presi-
dent's plans for dealing with Amer-
ica's high drug prices. "Drug
Industry Relieved By Price Pro-
posal," it read and then described the
president's blueprint as falling short
of "more far-reaching ideas." Since
the plan contained no major threat to
the status quo, it's no wonder it
boosted pharmaceutical stocks.
In other words, the plan continued
the current system under which the
government does not negotiate the
prices it pays for medicines under the
Medicare program, a far-reaching so-
lution that I've discussed before in
this space. The 2003 law that gave
seniors a drug benefit under
Medicare prohibited such negotia-
tions, which pharmaceutical manu-
facturers loudly and forcefully
opposed. They feared that allowing
the government to use its muscle to
bargain over drug prices might slow
their escalating increases.
Drug makers weren't about to let
that happen, and the supporters of the
law were so eager for a guaranteed
benefit, they had little-bargaining
power to push back.
For a few years after the law was
passed, pharmaceutical prices didn't
increase very much. In recent years,
however, that has changed as prices
for new drugs like Sovaldi and Har-
voni to treat hepatitis C hit new
highs. Sovaldi cost $84,000 for a
three-month course of treatment
when it was introduced in 2013.
Harv0ni cost $94,500 for three
months when it made its market
debut a year later.
Consumers are also complaining
about rising prices for more common
medicines like insulin. Typical is this
complaint from a diabetic who said
the price of an insulin pen increased
nearly 68 percent from $73 in July
2014 to $123 in March this year.
"This is not exactly a new drug," he
told me.
The pricing practices of all the
players in the drug distribution sys-
tem are responsible for the confusing
pricing system we have. Pharma-
ceutical manufacturers and PBMs or
pharmacy benefit managers - third-
party administrators brought in to Trudy Lieberman
help insurers manage their drug costs
- bear responsibility. So do the phar- in this practice with pharmaceutical
macies themselves when they offer companies, but cost savings are un-
coupons to consumers to lower their clear.
out-of-pocket costs, easing some in- The administration also wants to
dividual burdens but doing nothing to consider listing the price of pharma-
solve the larger problem, ceuticals, but it's not clear that affects
What's more, their actions are consumer behavior or brings market
hardly transparent, pressure to bear.
The odds are that the president's Another idea the president threw
blueprint will do little to bring clar- out was to pressure other countries
ity and lower prices. "Overall this is into raising the prices of drugs their
quite underwhelming in scope," citizens buy. Although he said high
Craig Garthwaite, director of the drug prices in the U.S. are subsidiz-
health care program at Northwestern ing innovation that benefits the world
University's Kellogg School of Man- and noted that "America will not be
agement, told the Journal. "The pro- cheated any longer by foreign coun-
posal is vague on details and filled tries," details for this proposal were
with more slogans than actual sound vague.
economic policies." In many nations prices are deter-
For example, the blueprint calls mined through negotiations between
for examining whether to allow the government and the pharmaceu-
Medicare drug plans to pay different tical industry. Would other countries
amounts for the same drug depend- raise their prices to please the U.S.?
ing on the illness involved. And the Would American drug makers lower
government wants to explore money- theirs?
back guarantees in which a drug Nothing in this vague blueprint
manufacturer promises to give back surprises me.
money if a medication does not
work. Insurers are already engaging
History Alive programs
planned at Chateau de Mores
MEDORA - Chateau de Mores pretive Center.
State Historic Site will prese~lt its The Madame de Mores (Medora)
popular History Alive programs will appear at the Chateau June 16-
again this summer. 17. Portrayed by Karen Nelson, this
Tht~ year's lineup'includes por- prbgrarn Will cenier on Madame de
trayals of the Marquis de Mores' return to Medora in
Mores, Madame de Mores, A.T. 1903 after spending summers at the
Packard, and a Civilian Conserva- Chateau from 1883 to 1886. Visi-
tion Corps worker. Presentations tors will meet Madame in a brief
will be held on the Chateau veranda retrospective on her time in western
on Saturdays and Sundays at 10:30 Dakota as well as her life following
a.m 1:30 p.m and 3:30 p.m. His- her return to France.
tory Alive programs are free and A.T. Packard, the editor of the
open to the public. Bad Lands Cow Boy, will appear
The French aristocrat and cattle the weekend of June 23-24. Por-
baron the Marquis de Mores will trayed by Donald Ehli, Packard will
appear at the Chateau the weekend discuss his life as the editor of the
of June 2-3. Portrayed by Lance Ru- newspaper from 1884-86.
stand, the Marquis will share his The free History Alive programs
dreams ofabeefempireinthefron- explore the lives and times of
tier Medora of the 1880s. decades gone by, combining theater
A 98-year-old veteran of the arts with history. The 20-minute
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) monologues are based on original
portrayed by Ed Sahlstrom will ap- letters, diaries, and other docu-
pear on June 9-10 and June 30-July ments, many from the archives of
1. Sahlstrom will relate experiences the State Historical Society of
of the CCC as it restored the Mar- North Dakota.
quis de Mores' Chateau from 1939 The Chateau de Mores is a state
to 1941. Visitors can also visit a historic site managed by the State
temporary CCC exhibit at the Inter- Historical Society of North Dakota.
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status quo
Until my recent illness - an infec-
tion that caused my system to shut
down and resulted in a four-month
hospitalization - I was following a
campaign by the drug industry to re-
habilitate itself and seize control of
the public narrative over drug prices,
as Politico described it. One way the
drug industry did that was to retool
its lobbying machine, try to drive a
broader discussion on health costs,
and emphasize that other players had
a role to play in keeping down costs.
Almost daily, a drug company or a
related business sponsored content in
several online health newsletters that
are read by Washington lobbyists,
health experts, Congressional staff
members, and journalists. Sometimes
the sponsored messages looked like
the regular content of the newsletter.
Even though they were flagged as
paid content, the format often made
me think I was reading a legitimate
news story. One "story" sponsored
by the pharmacy benefit manage-
ment industry said they were not the
ones to blame for higher prices.
With clout like this, is it any won-
d~r the industry has managed to keep
drug price negotiation out of the pic-
ture?
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NOTICE OF INTENT TO
AMEND
ADMINISTRATIVE
RULES
relating to the State Trauma System
North Dakota
Department of
Health
will hold a public hearing to
address proposed changes to the N.D.
Admin. Code
ND Dept. of Health
Judicial Wing
Room 210
600 East Boulevard Avenue
Bismarck, ND 58505-0200
Monday, July 9, 2018
1:00 p.m.
A copy of the proposed amendments
may be obtained by calling the Healtl~
Department at 701-328-2388. Also,
written comments may be submitted
to the Health Department at the above
address until July 20, 2018. If you plan
to attend the public hearing and will need
special facilities or assistance relating
to a disability, please contact the Health
Department at the above telephone
number or address at least three days
prior to the public hearing.
Dated this 22nd day of May 2018
Mylynn K. Tufte
State Health Officer
ABBREVIATED NOTICE
OF INTENT TO AMEND
ADMINISTRATIVE RULES
relating to
N.D.A.C. Chapter 75-02-01.3
Child Care Assistance
North Dakota
Department
of Human Services
will hold a public hearing to
address proposed changes to
the N.D. Admin. Code.
Room 210
Second Floor
Judicial Wing
State Capitol
Bismarck, ND
Wed June 27, 2018
9:30 a.m.
Copies of the proposed rules
are available for review at county
social services offices and at
human service centers. Copies
of. the proposed rules and the
regul~ltory analysis relating to
these rules may be requested
by telephoning (701) 328-2311.
Written or oral data, views, or
arguments may be entered at
the hearing or sent to: Rules
Administrator, North Dakota
Department of Human Services,
State Capitol - Judicial Wing, 600
E. Boulevard Ave Dept. 325,
Bismarck, ND 58505-0250. Written
data, views, or arguments must be
received no later than 5:00 p.m. on
Monday, July 9, 2018.
ATTENTION PERSONS WITH
DISABILITIES: If you plan to attend
the headng and will need special
facilities or assistance relating
to a disability, please contact the
Department of Human Services
at the above telephone number or
address at least two weeks pdor to
the headng.
Dated this 23rd day of May, 2018.
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