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WEATHER
East Oregonian
REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
SUNDAY
MONDAY
A shower this
afternoon
Nice with more
clouds than sun
An afternoon
shower in places
71° 55°
68° 53°
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny
Partly sunny and
pleasant
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
65° 48°
65° 41°
69° 40°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
71° 56°
72° 55°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
71°
64°
83° (1916)
41°
40°
24° (1897)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.04"
0.52"
5.86"
8.65"
9.46"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
Yesterday
Normals
Records
Corvallis
66/53
0.00"
0.21"
0.28"
3.69"
5.14"
6.84"
SUN AND MOON
Oct 27
Bend
62/42
Burns
67/40
7:14 a.m.
6:07 p.m.
11:34 a.m.
9:19 p.m.
Last
New
Nov 3
Caldwell
75/52
Today
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Rather cloudy today; a
shower in the north, across the south and in
central sections.
Cascades: Cloudy and cooler today with a
shower or two.
Northern California: Mostly cloudy today
with a little rain; cooler.
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By JONATHAN J. COOPER
Associated Press
3O57L$1' ² +ealth
Republic Insurance, one
of two nonpro¿t insurers
created in Oregon under
President Barack Obama’s
health care law, announced
Friday that it is shutting
down.
+ealth Republic will
continue to pay claims
through the rest of the year
but won’t sell policies for
2016, the company said. 7he
15,000 indiYiduals and 800
small businesses that get
insurance through +ealth
Republic will haYe to turn to
another insurer.
7he company blamed
a reduction in federal
payments that are supposed
to help insurers smooth out
the risk of taking on newly
insured patients under
the $ffordable Care $ct.
CEO 'awn Bonder said
the company assumed it
would get those payments
when it set premiums, but
due to a change made last
year by Congress, insurers
are receiYing less than 1
percent of the money they’d
expected.
For +ealth Republic,
that represented a hit of $20
million for 2014 and 2015.
Co-ops
like
+ealth
Republic were created as
part of a compromise in
the $ffordable Care $ct
to compete with for-pro¿t
Join Us!
insurance companies.
$t least seYen other
co-ops around the country
haYe shut down, many
of them citing the same
formula change that tripped
up +ealth Republic.
“I think it’s sad that
we won’t get to be part of
trying to change the health
are dynamic in Oregon and
bring some new and creatiYe
ideas to the table,” Bonder
said. “OYerall, that’s a loss
for all Oregonians.”
Oregon’s +ealth Co-op,
the state’s other nonpro¿t
insurer,
will
continue
operating next year, CEO
Phil -ackson said. 7he orga-
nization was less affected
by the federal risk formula
change because it had fewer
members ² and therefore
less money at risk. It also
built its budget around an
assumption that it would get
just 20 percent of the risk
payments, he said.
“We’re in Yery good
shape heading into next
year,” Jackson said.
Enrollment begins 1oY.
1 for insurance subsidized
under Obama’s health care
law.
Oregon
Insurance
Commissioner Laura Cali
said in a statement that
+ealth
Republic
must
submit a plan to wind
down operations. She said
regulators will work with
the company to ensure its
customers are protected.
Kadlec Regional
Medical Center
invites you to join our
2015 Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit
Reunion honoring
Dr. Anthony Hadeed
Carousel of Dreams
2901 Southridge Boulevard, Ste F
Kennewick WA, 99336
Sunday, October 25
11 am - 2 pm
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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Nov 11
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Today
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
64/38
Eastern and Central Oregon: A shower
today; cooler in central parts and near the
Cascades.
Western Washington: Cloudy today with
a little rain.
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WORLD CITIES
(in mph)
Coastal Oregon: Cloudy today with spotty
showers.
Hi
64
72
62
62
67
74
66
69
71
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64
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67
61
62
74
71
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67
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68
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74
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
WINDS
Medford
67/49
PRECIPITATION
Oct 20
John Day
72/51
Ontario
74/50
38°
38°
21° (1999)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
Albany
65/55
Eugene
66/52
LOW
72°
65°
83° (1963)
69° 41°
Spokane
Wenatchee
70/51
72/55
Tacoma
Moses
66/52
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 71/51
72/48
63/56
66/52
74/50
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
67/57
70/55 Lewiston
73/55
Astoria
74/54
64/53
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
67/57
Pendleton 74/47
The Dalles 71/56
71/55
70/54
La Grande
Salem
72/50
67/54
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
69° 40°
Seattle
65/56
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
70° 46°
Saturday, October 17, 2015
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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-0s
showers t-storms
0s
10s
rain
20s
30s
flurries
40s
snow
ice
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warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Scattered snow showers will develop across the Northeast as a cold
air mass settles in to the region today. The West will remain wet with thunderstorms in the
Four Corners and rain in the Pacific Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 97° in Hammond, La.
Low 15° in Hettinger, N.D.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
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