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Itâs been a big year for boozing. A survey by sobriety non-profit Hello Sunday Morning released in October found 19 per cent of 1250 respondents were drinking more heavily than usual, with almost a third admitting they were drinking earlier in the day.
And one in five Australians polled have regretted how much they drank in lockdown, according to the Alcohol and Drug Foundation.
Kate Riordan quit drinking shortly after Christmas in 2018.
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But now that weâre off the lockdown leash, is the pressure on to celebrate hard this silly season?
Professor Dan Lubman, the executive clinical director at Turning Point, believes many people will âwant to both commiserate and congratulate each other for the year weâve had, and I think alcoholâs going to be a heavy part of thatâ.
12/16/20
Mark Popolizio, Kate Riordan
In a major development on the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) compliance front, on December 11th, President Trump signed into law the Provide Accurate Information Directly (PAID) Act as part of
H.R 8900 which is a bill that, in part, extends the government s fiscal deadlines to avoid a government shutdown. The PAID Act s provisions are included as part of H.R. 8900 in Title III, Section 1301 entitled “Transparency of Medicare Secondary Payer Reporting Information.”
Before the president signed H.R. 8900 into law, the PAID Act initially passed the House on December 8th as a stand-alone bill (H.R. 1375) and as a provision within the BENES Act (H.R. 2477). It subsequently also passed the House on December 9th as part of the government extension bill, H.R. 8900. It ultimately passed in the Senate on December 11th as part of the financial extension provisions contained in H.R. 8900.
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