Analisti Lirim Mehmetaj ka thėnė se kjo Qeveria Kurti ėshtė anti-UĒK. ?Unė mendoj qė kjo qeveri ėshtė anti-UĒK, e ka tė domosdoshme tė shlyejė dhe tė ndotė krejt ēfarė ka bėrė UĒK-ja?, ka thėnė Mehmetaj. Sipas tij, kjo qeveri nuk do tė paraqesė UĒK-nė tė […]
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Analisti Lirim Mehmetaj ka thėnė se kjo Qeveria Kurti ėshtė anti-UĒK.
?Unė mendoj qė kjo qeveri ėshtė anti-UĒK, e ka tė domosdoshme tė shlyejė dhe tė ndotė krejt ēfarė ka bėrė UĒK-ja?, ka thėnė Mehmetaj.
Sipas tij, kjo qeveri nuk do tė paraqesė UĒK-nė tė lavdishme por si ?tė rastėsishme? dhe se po mos t?a kishte mbėshtetjen ndėrkombėtare ?nuk do tė bėnte asgjė?, raporton dukagjini.
?Kjo ėshtė tendenca imagjinare, Don-Kishotiane e qeverisė?, ka thėnė Mehmetaj.
Analisti Lirim Mehmetaj ka thėnė se kjo Qeveria Kurti ėshtė anti-UĒK. ?Unė mendoj qė kjo qeveri ėshtė anti-UĒK, e ka tė domosdoshme tė shlyejė dhe tė ndotė krejt ēfarė ka bėrė UĒK-ja?, ka thėnė Mehmetaj. Sipas tij, kjo qeveri nuk do tė paraqesė UĒK-nė tė […]
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Analisti Lirim Mehmetaj ka thėnė se kjo Qeveria Kurti ėshtė anti-UĒK.
?Unė mendoj qė kjo qeveri ėshtė anti-UĒK, e ka tė domosdoshme tė shlyejė dhe tė ndotė krejt ēfarė ka bėrė UĒK-ja?, ka thėnė Mehmetaj.
Sipas tij, kjo qeveri nuk do tė paraqesė UĒK-nė tė lavdishme por si ?tė rastėsishme? dhe se po mos t?a kishte mbėshtetjen ndėrkombėtare ?nuk do tė bėnte asgjė?, raporton dukagjini.
?Kjo ėshtė tendenca imagjinare, Don-Kishotiane e qeverisė?, ka thėnė Mehmetaj.
Kryetari i AAK-sė, Ramush Haradinaj ka folur pėr kohėn e luftės dhe rolin qė e ka pasur ish-drejtori politik i UĒK-sė, Hashim Thaēi gjatė asaj kohė. Haradinaj ka thėnė se ish-presidenti Thaēi dhe ish-komandanti i Zonės Operative tė Llapit, Rrustem Mustafa-Remi kanė qenė ?turistė? nė […]
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Kryetari i AAK-sė, Ramush Haradinaj ka folur pėr kohėn e luftės dhe rolin qė e ka pasur ish-drejtori politik i UĒK-sė, Hashim Thaēi gjatė asaj kohė.
Haradinaj ka thėnė se ish-presidenti Thaēi dhe ish-komandanti i Zonės Operative tė Llapit, Rrustem Mustafa-Remi kanė qenė ?turistė? nė UĒK.
?Zoti Thaēi turist ėshtė, mė falni nė shprehje. Turist ėshtė, ai ka qėndru nė Drenicė, ai ka qėndru nė Rogner, ka qėndru diku tjetėr. Zoti Rrustem Mustafa turist ėshtė. Ka luftuar tre javė Remi nė Llap. Ose tjetri ose tjetri, turista janė nė UĒK, o djem. E kanė bėrė tė pėrkohshėm, pėrkohėsisht hin e dil. Nuk jam duke ju fol pahiri, por po ju fol dikush i cili qė nga data 24 mars 1998, shkoni le t?i marrin hetuesit e Kosovės, prokurorėt, le t?i hijnė rend Dukagjinit, le t?i pyesin katun pėr katun: A jeni kanė nė luftė, sa vet jeni kanė, kur ja keni nis, ēka ka ndodhė me ju??, ka thėnė Haradinaj.
?Po tė flet dikush qė nga 24 marsi 1998 nė shpi tė vet ka luftuar me krejt familjen dhe jemi kanė bukur profesionistė. Po tė flet dikush qė vėllau i parė ju ka vra nė 1997, nė 6 maj 1997. Nga 24 mars 1998 deri nė 12-13 qershor s?e kam lėshuar Kosovėn asnjė ditė kur janė largu serbėt, se kam lėshuar njė ditė Kosovėn. E kush po mė tregon mua sa janė kanė?, ka shtuar ai.
Haradinaj shton se ka pasur tė tillė qė janė munduar qė vetėm njė formacion i caktuar tė marrė pjesė nė luftė, teksa shton se ka shumė persona nė rajonin e Dukagjinit qė janė veteranė tė luftės, por nuk e kanė marrė statusin.
?Shiko, do janė mundu mos me kanė shumė se kanė pasė qejf me kanė ose veē LPK-ja, ose veē LDK-ja ose veē LKĒK-ja. Jo, unė kam luftuar me shqiptarė. Kush ka dashtė e ka kapė pushkėn, kanė ardh prej krejt botės, kanė luftu. Tė gjithė janė UĒK. Ka plot nė Dukagjin qė ende s?e kanė marrė statusin e veteranit dhe janė veteranė?, ka shtuar ai./teve1
Kryetari i AAK-sė, Ramush Haradinaj ka folur pėr kohėn e luftės dhe rolin qė e ka pasur ish-drejtori politik i UĒK-sė, Hashim Thaēi gjatė asaj kohė. Haradinaj ka thėnė se ish-presidenti Thaēi dhe ish-komandanti i Zonės Operative tė Llapit, Rrustem Mustafa-Remi kanė qenė ?turistė? nė […]
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Kryetari i AAK-sė, Ramush Haradinaj ka folur pėr kohėn e luftės dhe rolin qė e ka pasur ish-drejtori politik i UĒK-sė, Hashim Thaēi gjatė asaj kohė.
Haradinaj ka thėnė se ish-presidenti Thaēi dhe ish-komandanti i Zonės Operative tė Llapit, Rrustem Mustafa-Remi kanė qenė ?turistė? nė UĒK.
?Zoti Thaēi turist ėshtė, mė falni nė shprehje. Turist ėshtė, ai ka qėndru nė Drenicė, ai ka qėndru nė Rogner, ka qėndru diku tjetėr. Zoti Rrustem Mustafa turist ėshtė. Ka luftuar tre javė Remi nė Llap. Ose tjetri ose tjetri, turista janė nė UĒK, o djem. E kanė bėrė tė pėrkohshėm, pėrkohėsisht hin e dil. Nuk jam duke ju fol pahiri, por po ju fol dikush i cili qė nga data 24 mars 1998, shkoni le t?i marrin hetuesit e Kosovės, prokurorėt, le t?i hijnė rend Dukagjinit, le t?i pyesin katun pėr katun: A jeni kanė nė luftė, sa vet jeni kanė, kur ja keni nis, ēka ka ndodhė me ju??, ka thėnė Haradinaj.
?Po tė flet dikush qė nga 24 marsi 1998 nė shpi tė vet ka luftuar me krejt familjen dhe jemi kanė bukur profesionistė. Po tė flet dikush qė vėllau i parė ju ka vra nė 1997, nė 6 maj 1997. Nga 24 mars 1998 deri nė 12-13 qershor s?e kam lėshuar Kosovėn asnjė ditė kur janė largu serbėt, se kam lėshuar njė ditė Kosovėn. E kush po mė tregon mua sa janė kanė?, ka shtuar ai.
Haradinaj shton se ka pasur tė tillė qė janė munduar qė vetėm njė formacion i caktuar tė marrė pjesė nė luftė, teksa shton se ka shumė persona nė rajonin e Dukagjinit qė janė veteranė tė luftės, por nuk e kanė marrė statusin.
?Shiko, do janė mundu mos me kanė shumė se kanė pasė qejf me kanė ose veē LPK-ja, ose veē LDK-ja ose veē LKĒK-ja. Jo, unė kam luftuar me shqiptarė. Kush ka dashtė e ka kapė pushkėn, kanė ardh prej krejt botės, kanė luftu. Tė gjithė janė UĒK. Ka plot nė Dukagjin qė ende s?e kanė marrė statusin e veteranit dhe janė veteranė?, ka shtuar ai./teve1
Kryeshefi Ekzekutiv i ?Prishtina Parking?, Sokol Havolli njofton se nesėr do tė operohet me kapacitete tė kufizuara. Ky vendim ėshtė pėr tė ruajtur shėndetin e punonjėsve tė ndėrmarrjes pėrgjatė orėve tė cilat karakterizohen me temperatura tejet tė larta. Njoftimi i plotė: Ndėrmarrja Prishtina Parking i njofton tė gjithė klientėt se operimet nė terren pėrgjatė ditės […]
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Ky vendim ėshtė pėr tė ruajtur shėndetin e punonjėsve tė ndėrmarrjes pėrgjatė orėve tė cilat karakterizohen me temperatura tejet tė larta.
Njoftimi i plotė:
Ndėrmarrja Prishtina Parking i njofton tė gjithė klientėt se operimet nė terren pėrgjatė ditės sė nesėrme janė tė kufizuara.
Ky vendim ėshtė pėr tė ruajtur shėndetin e punonjėsve tė ndėrmarrjes pėrgjatė orėve tė cilat karakterizohen me temperatura tejet tė larta.
Megjithatė nė parkingjet me laura si dhe nė zyrat qėndrore tė ndėrmarrjes operimet do tė vazhdojnė pa kufizime.
N.P.L. Prishtina Parking iu bėnė thirrje tė gjithė qytetarėve tė realizojnė pagesat me SMS, Aplikacion ose bileta fizike sepse pėrkundėr kufizimeve nė operime, kontrolla do tė ketė pėrgjatė ditės.
The post Prishtina Parking me mė pak kontrolla nė terren, shkaku temperaturave tė larta dhe ruajtjes sė shėndetit tė kontrollorėve first appeared on Kosovo Now. ) [summary] =>Kryeshefi Ekzekutiv i ?Prishtina Parking?, Sokol Havolli njofton se nesėr do tė operohet me kapacitete tė kufizuara. Ky vendim ėshtė pėr tė ruajtur shėndetin e punonjėsve tė ndėrmarrjes pėrgjatė orėve tė cilat karakterizohen me temperatura tejet tė larta. Njoftimi i plotė: Ndėrmarrja Prishtina Parking i njofton tė gjithė klientėt se operimet nė terren pėrgjatė ditės […]
The post Prishtina Parking me mė pak kontrolla nė terren, shkaku temperaturave tė larta dhe ruajtjes sė shėndetit tė kontrollorėve first appeared on Kosovo Now. [atom_content] =>Kryeshefi Ekzekutiv i ?Prishtina Parking?, Sokol Havolli njofton se nesėr do tė operohet me kapacitete tė kufizuara.
Ky vendim ėshtė pėr tė ruajtur shėndetin e punonjėsve tė ndėrmarrjes pėrgjatė orėve tė cilat karakterizohen me temperatura tejet tė larta.
Njoftimi i plotė:
Ndėrmarrja Prishtina Parking i njofton tė gjithė klientėt se operimet nė terren pėrgjatė ditės sė nesėrme janė tė kufizuara.
Ky vendim ėshtė pėr tė ruajtur shėndetin e punonjėsve tė ndėrmarrjes pėrgjatė orėve tė cilat karakterizohen me temperatura tejet tė larta.
Megjithatė nė parkingjet me laura si dhe nė zyrat qėndrore tė ndėrmarrjes operimet do tė vazhdojnė pa kufizime.
N.P.L. Prishtina Parking iu bėnė thirrje tė gjithė qytetarėve tė realizojnė pagesat me SMS, Aplikacion ose bileta fizike sepse pėrkundėr kufizimeve nė operime, kontrolla do tė ketė pėrgjatė ditės.
The post Prishtina Parking me mė pak kontrolla nė terren, shkaku temperaturave tė larta dhe ruajtjes sė shėndetit tė kontrollorėve first appeared on Kosovo Now. [date_timestamp] => 1690238571 ) [3] => Array ( [title] => Zbulohet njė strukturė e vjetėr arkeologjike nė Kaēanik ? Lajmet e fundit [link] => https://kosovonow.com/zbulohet-nje-strukture-e-vjeter-arkeologjike-ne-kacanik-lajmet-e-fundit/ [dc] => Array ( [creator] => Stan Harris ) [pubdate] => Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:56:41 +0000 [category] => SportarkeologjikefunditKaēanikLajmetnėnjėstrukturėvjetėrZbulohet [guid] => https://kosovonow.com/?p=33678 [description] =>Nė oborrin e Komunės sė Kaēanikut, ėshtė hasur njė strukturė e vjetėr arkeologjike, e cila mendohet tė jetė e mesjetės. Kjo u vėrejt pas nisjes sė punimeve nė oborrin e komunės, ku ishte planifikuar ndėrtimi i njė parkingu nėntokėsor. Inspektorati i Trashėgimisė Kulturore ka kėrkuar ndėrprerjen e […]
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Nė oborrin e Komunės sė Kaēanikut, ėshtė hasur njė strukturė e vjetėr arkeologjike, e cila mendohet tė jetė e mesjetės. Kjo u vėrejt pas nisjes sė punimeve nė oborrin e komunės, ku ishte planifikuar ndėrtimi i njė parkingu nėntokėsor. Inspektorati i Trashėgimisė Kulturore ka kėrkuar ndėrprerjen e punimeve deri nė shqyrtimin dhe vendimmarrjen e institucioneve kompetente.
?Kemi dalė nė vendin e ngjarjes dhe vėrtet kemi hasur nė njė strukturė tė vjetėr arkeologjike bėhet fjalė diku rreth viti 1560 qė ėshtė bėrė edhe ky ndėrtim edhe sot i kemi njoftuar edhe institucionet pėrgjegjėse pėrkatėsisht inspektoratin dhe instituti arkeologjik tė cilėt i kanė ndaluar pėrkohėsisht punimet pėr ta bėrė njė analizė mbi rendėsin dhe pėr ta vėrtetuar tė vėrtetėn lidhur me kėtė lokalitet arkeologjik?, tha Nexhat Shahini, drejtor i Qendrės Rajonale pėr Trashėgimi kulturore, nė Ferizaj
Por opozita nė Kaēanik ka reaguar pėr nisjen e punimeve tė kėtij parkingu, pasi, sipas tyre, pushteti ka pasur njohuri se aty mund tė ketė mure tė vjetra mesjetare dhe po mundohet t?i rrėnojė.
?Aty edhe mė herėt ka qenė muri qė dyshohet se ėshtė muri i Hanit tė vjetėr dhe janė shkartuar atėherė pėr ndėrtimin e njė parku. Tash ėshtė shkatėrruar parku dhe fillon ndėrtimi i parkingut kėto argumente kėto fakte tė qojnė nė njė konkluzion tė tillė?, tha Jeton Raka, kryetar i degės sė LVV nė Kaēanik.
Kėto pretendime tė opozitės janė hedhur poshtė nga kryetari i komunės Besim Ilazi, i cili tha se do tė veprojė sipas rekomandimeve qė vijnė nga niveli qendror.
?Nė fakt jemi nė mes tė qytetit mu nė qendėr tė qytetit ėshtė e pamundur tė bėhet diēka ose nuk ėshtė element i vogėl qė mund tė humbė brenda minutės ose brenda dite. Fakt qė gjatė punimeve janė vėrejtur kėto artefakte qė po dyshohen qė janė artefakte tė kohės mesjetare por me gjithat do tė shohim kurse sa i pėr ketė asaj unė besojė se njė gjė e tillė nuk mund tė bėhet nė Kaēanik?, tha Besim Ilazi, kryetar i Kaēanikut.
Lidhur me gjetjen e kėtyre mbetjeve, tė cilat po konsiderohen se datojnė qė nga mesjeta, RTK ka kėrkuar njė sqarim nga Ministria e Kulturės, por tė njėjtit nuk janė pėrgjigjur gjatė ditės.
Nė oborrin e Komunės sė Kaēanikut, ėshtė hasur njė strukturė e vjetėr arkeologjike, e cila mendohet tė jetė e mesjetės. Kjo u vėrejt pas nisjes sė punimeve nė oborrin e komunės, ku ishte planifikuar ndėrtimi i njė parkingu nėntokėsor. Inspektorati i Trashėgimisė Kulturore ka kėrkuar ndėrprerjen e […]
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Nė oborrin e Komunės sė Kaēanikut, ėshtė hasur njė strukturė e vjetėr arkeologjike, e cila mendohet tė jetė e mesjetės. Kjo u vėrejt pas nisjes sė punimeve nė oborrin e komunės, ku ishte planifikuar ndėrtimi i njė parkingu nėntokėsor. Inspektorati i Trashėgimisė Kulturore ka kėrkuar ndėrprerjen e punimeve deri nė shqyrtimin dhe vendimmarrjen e institucioneve kompetente.
?Kemi dalė nė vendin e ngjarjes dhe vėrtet kemi hasur nė njė strukturė tė vjetėr arkeologjike bėhet fjalė diku rreth viti 1560 qė ėshtė bėrė edhe ky ndėrtim edhe sot i kemi njoftuar edhe institucionet pėrgjegjėse pėrkatėsisht inspektoratin dhe instituti arkeologjik tė cilėt i kanė ndaluar pėrkohėsisht punimet pėr ta bėrė njė analizė mbi rendėsin dhe pėr ta vėrtetuar tė vėrtetėn lidhur me kėtė lokalitet arkeologjik?, tha Nexhat Shahini, drejtor i Qendrės Rajonale pėr Trashėgimi kulturore, nė Ferizaj
Por opozita nė Kaēanik ka reaguar pėr nisjen e punimeve tė kėtij parkingu, pasi, sipas tyre, pushteti ka pasur njohuri se aty mund tė ketė mure tė vjetra mesjetare dhe po mundohet t?i rrėnojė.
?Aty edhe mė herėt ka qenė muri qė dyshohet se ėshtė muri i Hanit tė vjetėr dhe janė shkartuar atėherė pėr ndėrtimin e njė parku. Tash ėshtė shkatėrruar parku dhe fillon ndėrtimi i parkingut kėto argumente kėto fakte tė qojnė nė njė konkluzion tė tillė?, tha Jeton Raka, kryetar i degės sė LVV nė Kaēanik.
Kėto pretendime tė opozitės janė hedhur poshtė nga kryetari i komunės Besim Ilazi, i cili tha se do tė veprojė sipas rekomandimeve qė vijnė nga niveli qendror.
?Nė fakt jemi nė mes tė qytetit mu nė qendėr tė qytetit ėshtė e pamundur tė bėhet diēka ose nuk ėshtė element i vogėl qė mund tė humbė brenda minutės ose brenda dite. Fakt qė gjatė punimeve janė vėrejtur kėto artefakte qė po dyshohen qė janė artefakte tė kohės mesjetare por me gjithat do tė shohim kurse sa i pėr ketė asaj unė besojė se njė gjė e tillė nuk mund tė bėhet nė Kaēanik?, tha Besim Ilazi, kryetar i Kaēanikut.
Lidhur me gjetjen e kėtyre mbetjeve, tė cilat po konsiderohen se datojnė qė nga mesjeta, RTK ka kėrkuar njė sqarim nga Ministria e Kulturės, por tė njėjtit nuk janė pėrgjigjur gjatė ditės.
Rruga ?Rexhep Luci? nė Prishtinė ėshtė bllokuar pėrkohėsisht pėr shkak tė rrėzimit tė njė lisi. Media ka siguruar pamje nga vendi i ngjarjes, ku shihet se kjo rrugė ėshtė bllokuar dhe nuk mund tė kalohet. Jemi nė pritje tė pėrgjigjes sė Policisė sė Kosovės, tė cilėve u kemi dėrguar pyetje pėr tė mėsuar se a […]
The post Rrėzohet lisi nė Prishtinė, bllokohet rruga ?Rexhep Luci? first appeared on Kosovo Now. [content] => Array ( [encoded] =>Rruga ?Rexhep Luci? nė Prishtinė ėshtė bllokuar pėrkohėsisht pėr shkak tė rrėzimit tė njė lisi.
Media ka siguruar pamje nga vendi i ngjarjes, ku shihet se kjo rrugė ėshtė bllokuar dhe nuk mund tė kalohet.
Jemi nė pritje tė pėrgjigjes sė Policisė sė Kosovės, tė cilėve u kemi dėrguar pyetje pėr tė mėsuar se a ka ndonjė tė lėnduar.
Komuna e Prishtinės kohė pas kohe ka bėrė largimin e dorinjve tė vjetėr pėr shkak tė rreziqeve qė ata paraqesin pėr qytetarėt.
Nė tė kaluarėn ka pasur edhe raste tragjike, kur drunjtė kanė zėnė qytetarėt poshtė duke u marrė jetėn.
Qytetarėt, ndėrkohė, kanė deklaruar se Komuna duhet patjetėr t?i zėvendėsojė drunjtė e vjetėr me tė rinj, sidomos tani qė ndotja e ajrit nė Prishtinė ėshtė e madhe.
The post Rrėzohet lisi nė Prishtinė, bllokohet rruga ?Rexhep Luci? first appeared on Kosovo Now. ) [summary] =>Rruga ?Rexhep Luci? nė Prishtinė ėshtė bllokuar pėrkohėsisht pėr shkak tė rrėzimit tė njė lisi. Media ka siguruar pamje nga vendi i ngjarjes, ku shihet se kjo rrugė ėshtė bllokuar dhe nuk mund tė kalohet. Jemi nė pritje tė pėrgjigjes sė Policisė sė Kosovės, tė cilėve u kemi dėrguar pyetje pėr tė mėsuar se a […]
The post Rrėzohet lisi nė Prishtinė, bllokohet rruga ?Rexhep Luci? first appeared on Kosovo Now. [atom_content] =>Rruga ?Rexhep Luci? nė Prishtinė ėshtė bllokuar pėrkohėsisht pėr shkak tė rrėzimit tė njė lisi.
Media ka siguruar pamje nga vendi i ngjarjes, ku shihet se kjo rrugė ėshtė bllokuar dhe nuk mund tė kalohet.
Jemi nė pritje tė pėrgjigjes sė Policisė sė Kosovės, tė cilėve u kemi dėrguar pyetje pėr tė mėsuar se a ka ndonjė tė lėnduar.
Komuna e Prishtinės kohė pas kohe ka bėrė largimin e dorinjve tė vjetėr pėr shkak tė rreziqeve qė ata paraqesin pėr qytetarėt.
Nė tė kaluarėn ka pasur edhe raste tragjike, kur drunjtė kanė zėnė qytetarėt poshtė duke u marrė jetėn.
Qytetarėt, ndėrkohė, kanė deklaruar se Komuna duhet patjetėr t?i zėvendėsojė drunjtė e vjetėr me tė rinj, sidomos tani qė ndotja e ajrit nė Prishtinė ėshtė e madhe.
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Plazhet e arta dhe ujėrat blu, e bėjnė Shqipėrinė njė vend tėrheqės pėr turizėm.
Por, numri i madh i tė rinjve qė po largohen nga vendi, po krijon sfida pėr zhvillimin e kėtij sektori.
Shqipėria pėrballet me mungesė tė fuqisė punėtore, e domosdoshme qė vendi t?i shėrbejė numrit nė rritje tė pushuesve tė huaj.Ėshtė bregdeti i Shqipėrisė? i pasur me rėrė tė artė, ujėra blu dhe hapėsira tė gjelbėruara.
Kėto peizazhe e bėjnė Shqipėrinė njė vend ideal pėr turizėm.
Vendi ka rreth 450 kilometra vijė bregdetare, zona malore pėr aktivitete nė natyrė, pika arkeologjike dhe kuzhinė tė veēantė lokale.
Megjithatė, pėr shumė vite, turistėt perėndimorė nuk e kishin Shqipėrinė njė destimacion tė preferuar.
Por, kjo duket se po ndryshon.
Vitin e kaluar, Shqipėria priti 7.5 milionė pushues, sipas tė dhėnave tė Ministrisė sė Turizmit.
Kjo shėnon njė rritje tė madhe krahasur me vitin 2019, kur Shqipėria u vizitua nga 6 milionė turistė, para se industria tė goditej nga tėrmeti dhe pandemia e koronavirusit.
Nė qytetin e Durrėsit, sė fundmi ėshtė hapur resorti i madh ?Melia?. Menaxheri i saj thotė se kjo zonė ka ngashmėri me njė nga destinacionet mė luksoze nė botė.
?Sot nė mėngjes, para se tė vija kėtu, dėgjova dikė duke thėnė se Shqipėria ėshtė si ishujt Maldive tė Evropės. Dhe unė mendoj se ashtu ėshtė?, thotė menaxheri i resortit Melia, Marco Lisboa.
Por, shton ai, dallimi ėshtė se pushimet nė Shqipėri kushtojnė shumė mė i lirė.
Sipas qeverisė, vitin e kaluar sektori i turizmit zinte rreth 18 pėr qind tė prodhimit tė brendshėm bruto.
Tė dhėnat e Ministrisė sė Turizmit tregojnė se nė katėr muajt e parė tė vitit 2023, numri i turistėve shėnoi rritje me 25 pėr qind.
Eduart Xhepa, pronar i hotelit Aragosta, me 34 dhoma dhe suita, thotė se ato janė tė gjitha tė rezervuara pėr kėtė verė.
Zoti Xhepa kėrkon qė qeveria tė shfrytėzojė kėtė mundėsi pėr tė nxitur rritjen e prodhimeve vendore, duke i prezantuar ato tek pushuesit e hotelit tė tij.
?Do t?u bėja thirrje tė gjitha strukturave shtetėrore, sepse prodhimet vendore janė shumė tė rėndėsishme. Njė italian nuk vjen nė Shqipėri pėr tė shijuar domate italiane, apo djath italianė, por pėr tė shijuar prodhimet e mrekullueshme vendase?, thotė ai.
Por a ka Shqipėria personel tė mjaftueshėm pėr t?i shėrbyer numrit nė rritje tė turistėve?
Marsel Toska ėshtė kamarier nė Tiranė. Ai fiton vetėm rreth 400 euro nė muaj. Prandaj po planifikon qė me familjen e tij tė largohet drejt Italisė.
?Arsyeja ėshtė shumė e thjeshtė: pagat e ulėta, papunėsia, janė shkaktarėt kryesorė. Pagesat janė minimale, ndėrsa ēmimet e ushqimeve janė shumė tė larta. Me pak fjalė, ajo qė fitojmė gjatė ditės nuk mjafton pėr tė jetuar. Ka mė shumė shpenzime sesa fitime. Kjo ėshtė arsyeja kryesore?, thotė ai.
Njė nė pesė vende pune nė Shqipėri, ose rreth 250 mijė punonjės, janė punėsuar nė sektorin e turizmit, atė tė udhėtimeve dhe aktiviteteve tė ngjashme, sipas njė raporti tė Programit tė Kombeve tė Bashkuara pėr Zhvillimin.
Departamenti i turizmit nė Universitetin ?Aleksandėr Moisiu? nė Durrės po pėrgatit brezin e ri pėr tė punuar nė kėtė industri.
Por, sipas Institutit tė Statistikave, gjatė vitit 2022 rreth 46 mijė banorė janė larguar nga vendi, shumica prej tė cilėve tė rinj.
Shqipėria ka nevojė qė ata tė qėndrojnė dhe zhvillojnė karrierėn e tyre nė vend, nė mėnyrė qė tė pėrballojė numrin nė rritje tė turistėve.
?Mungesa e fuqisė ounėtore do tė ketė ndikim tė drejtpėdrejtė dhe tė madh. Sidomos kėtė vit dhe vitet e ardhshme, nė njė kohė kur numri i turistėve ėshtė nė rritje. Parashikimet tregojnė se kjo rritje do tė vazhdojė, sidomos pas pėrmirėsimit tė infrastrukturės turistike ?, thotė Brunilda Licaj, profesore.
Ata qė kanė vendosur tė qėndrojnė nė Shqipėri, thonė se disa tė rinj janė naivė, nėse mendojnė se largimi nga vendi ėshtė zgjidhja pėr tė gjitha problemet e tyre.
?Ata mendojnė se bota po i pret me lule. Ata nuk e kanė parė botėn jashtė, prandaj mendojnė se ėshtė njė kopėsht me lule. Ata harrojnė atė qė kanė brenda vendit, sepse mendjen e kanė tek largimi nga vendi. Thejsht mendojnė si tė shkojnė nė vende si Gjermania dhe se atje do tė gjejnė tė gjitha tė mirat. Ata harrojnė pėrfitimet qė mund tė kenė nė Shqipėri. Sidomos tani me turizmin, ka mundėsi tė pafundme nė verė dhe dimėr?, thotė Vash Hamiti, menaxher i njė resorti.
Pėr tė lėnė gjurmė nė hartėn turistike, Shqipėria ka nevojė pėr punėtorė, por edhe pėr plazhe tė bukura./VOA
Plazhet e arta dhe ujėrat blu, e bėjnė Shqipėrinė njė vend tėrheqės pėr turizėm. Por, numri i madh i tė rinjve qė po largohen nga vendi, po krijon sfida pėr zhvillimin e kėtij sektori. Shqipėria pėrballet me mungesė tė fuqisė punėtore, e domosdoshme […]
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Plazhet e arta dhe ujėrat blu, e bėjnė Shqipėrinė njė vend tėrheqės pėr turizėm.
Por, numri i madh i tė rinjve qė po largohen nga vendi, po krijon sfida pėr zhvillimin e kėtij sektori.
Shqipėria pėrballet me mungesė tė fuqisė punėtore, e domosdoshme qė vendi t?i shėrbejė numrit nė rritje tė pushuesve tė huaj.Ėshtė bregdeti i Shqipėrisė? i pasur me rėrė tė artė, ujėra blu dhe hapėsira tė gjelbėruara.
Kėto peizazhe e bėjnė Shqipėrinė njė vend ideal pėr turizėm.
Vendi ka rreth 450 kilometra vijė bregdetare, zona malore pėr aktivitete nė natyrė, pika arkeologjike dhe kuzhinė tė veēantė lokale.
Megjithatė, pėr shumė vite, turistėt perėndimorė nuk e kishin Shqipėrinė njė destimacion tė preferuar.
Por, kjo duket se po ndryshon.
Vitin e kaluar, Shqipėria priti 7.5 milionė pushues, sipas tė dhėnave tė Ministrisė sė Turizmit.
Kjo shėnon njė rritje tė madhe krahasur me vitin 2019, kur Shqipėria u vizitua nga 6 milionė turistė, para se industria tė goditej nga tėrmeti dhe pandemia e koronavirusit.
Nė qytetin e Durrėsit, sė fundmi ėshtė hapur resorti i madh ?Melia?. Menaxheri i saj thotė se kjo zonė ka ngashmėri me njė nga destinacionet mė luksoze nė botė.
?Sot nė mėngjes, para se tė vija kėtu, dėgjova dikė duke thėnė se Shqipėria ėshtė si ishujt Maldive tė Evropės. Dhe unė mendoj se ashtu ėshtė?, thotė menaxheri i resortit Melia, Marco Lisboa.
Por, shton ai, dallimi ėshtė se pushimet nė Shqipėri kushtojnė shumė mė i lirė.
Sipas qeverisė, vitin e kaluar sektori i turizmit zinte rreth 18 pėr qind tė prodhimit tė brendshėm bruto.
Tė dhėnat e Ministrisė sė Turizmit tregojnė se nė katėr muajt e parė tė vitit 2023, numri i turistėve shėnoi rritje me 25 pėr qind.
Eduart Xhepa, pronar i hotelit Aragosta, me 34 dhoma dhe suita, thotė se ato janė tė gjitha tė rezervuara pėr kėtė verė.
Zoti Xhepa kėrkon qė qeveria tė shfrytėzojė kėtė mundėsi pėr tė nxitur rritjen e prodhimeve vendore, duke i prezantuar ato tek pushuesit e hotelit tė tij.
?Do t?u bėja thirrje tė gjitha strukturave shtetėrore, sepse prodhimet vendore janė shumė tė rėndėsishme. Njė italian nuk vjen nė Shqipėri pėr tė shijuar domate italiane, apo djath italianė, por pėr tė shijuar prodhimet e mrekullueshme vendase?, thotė ai.
Por a ka Shqipėria personel tė mjaftueshėm pėr t?i shėrbyer numrit nė rritje tė turistėve?
Marsel Toska ėshtė kamarier nė Tiranė. Ai fiton vetėm rreth 400 euro nė muaj. Prandaj po planifikon qė me familjen e tij tė largohet drejt Italisė.
?Arsyeja ėshtė shumė e thjeshtė: pagat e ulėta, papunėsia, janė shkaktarėt kryesorė. Pagesat janė minimale, ndėrsa ēmimet e ushqimeve janė shumė tė larta. Me pak fjalė, ajo qė fitojmė gjatė ditės nuk mjafton pėr tė jetuar. Ka mė shumė shpenzime sesa fitime. Kjo ėshtė arsyeja kryesore?, thotė ai.
Njė nė pesė vende pune nė Shqipėri, ose rreth 250 mijė punonjės, janė punėsuar nė sektorin e turizmit, atė tė udhėtimeve dhe aktiviteteve tė ngjashme, sipas njė raporti tė Programit tė Kombeve tė Bashkuara pėr Zhvillimin.
Departamenti i turizmit nė Universitetin ?Aleksandėr Moisiu? nė Durrės po pėrgatit brezin e ri pėr tė punuar nė kėtė industri.
Por, sipas Institutit tė Statistikave, gjatė vitit 2022 rreth 46 mijė banorė janė larguar nga vendi, shumica prej tė cilėve tė rinj.
Shqipėria ka nevojė qė ata tė qėndrojnė dhe zhvillojnė karrierėn e tyre nė vend, nė mėnyrė qė tė pėrballojė numrin nė rritje tė turistėve.
?Mungesa e fuqisė ounėtore do tė ketė ndikim tė drejtpėdrejtė dhe tė madh. Sidomos kėtė vit dhe vitet e ardhshme, nė njė kohė kur numri i turistėve ėshtė nė rritje. Parashikimet tregojnė se kjo rritje do tė vazhdojė, sidomos pas pėrmirėsimit tė infrastrukturės turistike ?, thotė Brunilda Licaj, profesore.
Ata qė kanė vendosur tė qėndrojnė nė Shqipėri, thonė se disa tė rinj janė naivė, nėse mendojnė se largimi nga vendi ėshtė zgjidhja pėr tė gjitha problemet e tyre.
?Ata mendojnė se bota po i pret me lule. Ata nuk e kanė parė botėn jashtė, prandaj mendojnė se ėshtė njė kopėsht me lule. Ata harrojnė atė qė kanė brenda vendit, sepse mendjen e kanė tek largimi nga vendi. Thejsht mendojnė si tė shkojnė nė vende si Gjermania dhe se atje do tė gjejnė tė gjitha tė mirat. Ata harrojnė pėrfitimet qė mund tė kenė nė Shqipėri. Sidomos tani me turizmin, ka mundėsi tė pafundme nė verė dhe dimėr?, thotė Vash Hamiti, menaxher i njė resorti.
Pėr tė lėnė gjurmė nė hartėn turistike, Shqipėria ka nevojė pėr punėtorė, por edhe pėr plazhe tė bukura./VOA
Reperi i njohur shqiptar, Ledri Vula mbetet teje aktiv nė kėtė sezon verore.Pak kohė mė parė artisti lansoi njė album tė ri me titullin ?1 Goat pėr ty?, e prej tė cilit po vazhdon tė sjell videoklipe. Edhe sė fundmi, rap-artisti ka njoftuar se bashkėpunimi […]
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Reperi i njohur shqiptar, Ledri Vula mbetet teje aktiv nė kėtė sezon verore.Pak kohė mė parė artisti lansoi njė album tė ri me titullin ?1 Goat pėr ty?, e prej tė cilit po vazhdon tė sjell videoklipe.
Edhe sė fundmi, rap-artisti ka njoftuar se bashkėpunimi me Lyrical Son ?Omel? do tė shoqėrohet me klip.Nė njė imazh i veshur me njė kostum tė zi teksa pozonte pranė njė makine tė kuqe, Ledri zbuloi se kėnga me klip publikohet nesėr (e martė) nė YouTube.?Fort Omel? nesėr me Lyrical Son nė YouTube?, ka shkruar Ledri nė mbishkrimin e postimit.Kujtojmė qė i fundit projekt nga Ledri ishte dueti qė solli me reperi Lumi B ?I like it?.Ndėrkohė, pėrveē kėsaj Ledri mbetet i angazhuar edhe edhe me mbrėmje muzikore dhe koncerte tė shumta.
Reperi i njohur shqiptar, Ledri Vula mbetet teje aktiv nė kėtė sezon verore.Pak kohė mė parė artisti lansoi njė album tė ri me titullin ?1 Goat pėr ty?, e prej tė cilit po vazhdon tė sjell videoklipe. Edhe sė fundmi, rap-artisti ka njoftuar se bashkėpunimi […]
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Reperi i njohur shqiptar, Ledri Vula mbetet teje aktiv nė kėtė sezon verore.Pak kohė mė parė artisti lansoi njė album tė ri me titullin ?1 Goat pėr ty?, e prej tė cilit po vazhdon tė sjell videoklipe.
Edhe sė fundmi, rap-artisti ka njoftuar se bashkėpunimi me Lyrical Son ?Omel? do tė shoqėrohet me klip.Nė njė imazh i veshur me njė kostum tė zi teksa pozonte pranė njė makine tė kuqe, Ledri zbuloi se kėnga me klip publikohet nesėr (e martė) nė YouTube.?Fort Omel? nesėr me Lyrical Son nė YouTube?, ka shkruar Ledri nė mbishkrimin e postimit.Kujtojmė qė i fundit projekt nga Ledri ishte dueti qė solli me reperi Lumi B ?I like it?.Ndėrkohė, pėrveē kėsaj Ledri mbetet i angazhuar edhe edhe me mbrėmje muzikore dhe koncerte tė shumta.
Foto: Laura Hasani Prokurori publik kujdestar nga Prokuroria Themelore Publike ? Manastir ka inspektuar vendin e ngjarjes sė aksidentit tė rėndė me pasoja fatale nė rrugėn Prilep ? Resnjė. Sipas konstatimeve fillestare gjatė kėqyrjes, aksidenti ka ndodhur gjatė pėrplasjes sė drejtpėrdrejtė nė mes tė njė veture […]
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Foto: Laura Hasani
Prokurori publik kujdestar nga Prokuroria Themelore Publike ? Manastir ka inspektuar vendin e ngjarjes sė aksidentit tė rėndė me pasoja fatale nė rrugėn Prilep ? Resnjė.
Sipas konstatimeve fillestare gjatė kėqyrjes, aksidenti ka ndodhur gjatė pėrplasjes sė drejtpėrdrejtė nė mes tė njė veture tip ?Opel Corsa? me targa tė Manastirit dhe njė kamioni me targa tė Shtipit.
?Po vijon procedura pėr zbardhjen e shkaqeve tė aksidentit, ndėrsa me urdhėr tė prokurorit publik do tė bėhet edhe ekspertizė?.
?Ėshtė lėshuar urdhėr pėr obduksion tė trupit tė tė ndjerit?, njoftojnė nga PTHP. /telegrafi
Foto: Laura Hasani Prokurori publik kujdestar nga Prokuroria Themelore Publike ? Manastir ka inspektuar vendin e ngjarjes sė aksidentit tė rėndė me pasoja fatale nė rrugėn Prilep ? Resnjė. Sipas konstatimeve fillestare gjatė kėqyrjes, aksidenti ka ndodhur gjatė pėrplasjes sė drejtpėrdrejtė nė mes tė njė veture […]
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Foto: Laura Hasani
Prokurori publik kujdestar nga Prokuroria Themelore Publike ? Manastir ka inspektuar vendin e ngjarjes sė aksidentit tė rėndė me pasoja fatale nė rrugėn Prilep ? Resnjė.
Sipas konstatimeve fillestare gjatė kėqyrjes, aksidenti ka ndodhur gjatė pėrplasjes sė drejtpėrdrejtė nė mes tė njė veture tip ?Opel Corsa? me targa tė Manastirit dhe njė kamioni me targa tė Shtipit.
?Po vijon procedura pėr zbardhjen e shkaqeve tė aksidentit, ndėrsa me urdhėr tė prokurorit publik do tė bėhet edhe ekspertizė?.
?Ėshtė lėshuar urdhėr pėr obduksion tė trupit tė tė ndjerit?, njoftojnė nga PTHP. /telegrafi
Robert Califf, the head of the Food and Drug Administration, doesn?t seem to be having fun on the job. ?I would describe this year as hand-to-hand combat. Really, every day,? he said at an academic conference at Stanford in April. It?s a sentiment the FDA commissioner has expressed often. What?s been getting Califf?s goat? Misinformation, […]
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?I would describe this year as hand-to-hand combat. Really, every day,? he said at an academic conference at Stanford in April. It?s a sentiment the FDA commissioner has expressed often.
What?s been getting Califf?s goat? Misinformation, which gets part of the blame for Americans? stagnating life expectancy. To Califf, the country that invents many of the most advanced drugs and devices is terrible at using those technologies well. And one reason for that is Americans? misinformed choices, he has suggested. Many don?t use statins, vaccines, or covid-19 therapies. Many choose to smoke cigarettes and eat the wrong food.
Califf and the FDA are fighting misinformation head-on. ?The misinformation machine is really causing a lot of death,? he said, in an apparent ad-lib, this spring in a speech at Tufts University. The pandemic, he told KFF Health News, helped ?crystallize? his need to tackle misinformation. It was a ?blatant case,? in which multiple studies gave evidence about very effective therapeutics against covid. ?And a lot of people chose not to do it.? There were ?large-scale purveyors of misinformation,? he said, poisoning the well.
Occasionally, though, Califf and the FDA have added to the cacophony of misinformation. And sometimes their misinformation is about misinformation.
Califf hasn?t been able to consistently estimate misinformation?s public health toll. Last June, he said it was the ?leading cause of meaningful life-years lost.? In the fall, he told a conference: ?I?ve been going around saying that misinformation is the most common cause of death in the United States.? He continued, ?There is no way to prove that, but I do believe that it is.?
At other times, as in April, he has called the problem the nation?s ?leading cause? of premature death. ?I?ll keep working on this to try and get it right,? he said. Later, in May, he said, ?Many Americans die or experience serious illness every year due to bad choices driven by false or misleading information.?
Americans? health is indeed in dire straits. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted the country?s life expectancy has dropped two years in a row ? it?s at 76.1 years as of 2021 ? a dismal capper to four decades of lagging gains. Countries such as Slovenia, Greece, and Costa Rica outrank the U.S. Their newborn citizens are expected to live more than 80 years, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Several factors are at the root of those differences. But Americans? choices, often informed by bad or misleading data, political jeremiads, or profit-seeking advertising, are among the causes. For instance, one 2023 paper estimated that undervaccination against covid ? caused in part by misinformation ? costs as much as $300 million per day, accounting for both the costs of health care and economic costs, like missed work.
Outside experts are sympathetic. Misinformation is a ?huge problem for public health,? said Joshua Sharfstein, a Johns Hopkins University public health professor and former FDA principal deputy commissioner. Having a strategy to combat it is crucial. But, he cautioned, ?that?s the easiest part of this.?
The agency, which regulates products that consumers spend 20 cents of each dollar on per year, is putting more muscle behind the effort. It?s begun mentioning the subject of misinformation in its procurement requests, like one discussing the need to monitor social media for misinformation related to cannabis.
The agency launched a ?Rumor Control? page seeking to debunk persistent confusion. It also expects to get a report from the Reagan-Udall Foundation, a not-for-profit organization created by Congress to advise the FDA. Califf has said he thinks better regulation ? and more authority for the agency ? would help.
Califf has noted small victories. Ivermectin, once touted as a covid wonder drug, ?eventually? became one such win. But, then again, its use is ?not completely gone,? he said. And, despite winning individual battles, his optimism is muted: ?I?d say right now the trend in the war is in a negative direction.?
Some of those battles have been quite small, even marginal.
And it?s difficult to know what to take on or respond to, Califf said. ?I think we?re just in the early days of being able to do that,? he told KFF Health News. ?It?s very hard to be scientific,? he said.
Take the agency?s experience last fall with ?NyQuil chicken? ? a purportedly viral cooking trend in which users roasted their birds in the over-the-counter cold medicine on social media platforms like TikTok.
Califf said his agency?s ?skeleton crew? ? at least relative to Big Tech giants ? had picked up on increasing chatter about the meme.
But independent analyses don?t corroborate the claim. It seems much of the interest in it came only after the FDA called attention to it. The day before the agency?s pronouncement, the TikTok app recorded only five searches on the topic, BuzzFeed News found in an analysis of TikTok data. That tally surged to 7,000 the week after the agency?s declaration. Google Trends, which measures changes in the number of searches, shows a similar pattern: Interest peaked on the search engine in the week after the agency announcement.
Califf also claimed ?injuries? occurred to participants ?directly? due to the social media trend. Now, he said, ?the number of injuries is down,? though he couldn?t say whether the agency?s intervention was the cause.
Again, his assertions have fuzzy underpinnings. It?s not clear what, if any, actual damage the NyQuil chicken fad caused. Poison control centers don?t keep that data, said Maggie Maloney, a spokesperson for America?s Poison Centers. And, after multiple requests, agency spokespeople declined to provide the FDA?s data reflecting increased social media traffic or injuries stemming from the meme.
In countering misinformation, FDA also risks coming off as high-handed. In September 2021, the agency tweeted about purported myths and misinformation on mammograms. Among the myths? That they?re painful. Instead, the agency explained that ?everyone?s pain threshold is different? and the breast cancer-screening procedure is more often described as ?temporary discomfort.?
Statements like these ?erode trust,? said Lisa Fitzpatrick, an infectious diseases physician and currently the CEO of Grapevine Health, a startup trying to improve health literacy in underserved communities. Fitzpatrick has previously served as an official with the District of Columbia?s Medicaid program and with the CDC.
?Who are you to judge what?s painful?? she asked, rhetorically. It?s hard to brand subjective impressions as misinformation.
Califf acknowledged the point. Speaking to 340 million Americans is difficult. With mammograms, the average patient might not have a painful experience ? but many might. ?Getting across that kind of nuance and public communication, I think, is in its early phases.?
Scrutiny over the agency?s role regarding food and nutrition is also mounting. After independent journalist Helena Bottemiller Evich wrote an article criticizing the agency for relying on voluntary reporting standards for baby formula, Califf tweeted to correct a ?bit of misinformation,? saying the agency did not have such authority.
An agency communications specialist made a similar intervention with New York University professor Marion Nestle, referring to a ?troubling pattern of articles with erroneous information that then get amplified.? The agency was again seeking to rebut arguments that the agency had erred in not seeking mandatory reporting.
?As I see it, the ?troubling pattern? here is FDA?s responses to advocates like me who want to support this agency?s role in making sure food companies in general ? and infant formula companies in particular ? do not produce unsafe food,? Nestle retorted. Notwithstanding the agency?s protests to Evich and Nestle, the agency had only recently asked for such authority.
Efforts to respond to or regulate misinformation are becoming a political problem.
In July, a federal judge issued a sweeping, yet temporary, injunction ? at the instigation of Republican attorneys general, multiple right-wing political groups, and prominent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?s Children?s Health Defense ? barring federal health officials from contacting social media groups to correct information. A large section of the ruling detailed efforts by a CDC official to push back on suspected misinformation on social media networks.
An appeals court later issued its own temporary ruling ? this time countering the original, sweeping order ? nevertheless underscoring the extent of pushback on government pushback against misinformation. Califf has consistently played down the government?s ability to solve the problem. ?One hundred percent of experts agree, government cannot solve this. We have too much distrust in fundamental institutions,? he said last June.
It?s a remarkable change from his previous tenure leading the agency during the Obama administration. ?I would describe the Obama years as genteel, intellectual, and a lot of fun,? he has said. Now, however, Califf is bracing for more misinformation. ?It?s just something that I think we have to come to grips with,? he told KFF Health News.
Robert Califf, the head of the Food and Drug Administration, doesn?t seem to be having fun on the job. ?I would describe this year as hand-to-hand combat. Really, every day,? he said at an academic conference at Stanford in April. It?s a sentiment the FDA commissioner has expressed often. What?s been getting Califf?s goat? Misinformation, […]
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?I would describe this year as hand-to-hand combat. Really, every day,? he said at an academic conference at Stanford in April. It?s a sentiment the FDA commissioner has expressed often.
What?s been getting Califf?s goat? Misinformation, which gets part of the blame for Americans? stagnating life expectancy. To Califf, the country that invents many of the most advanced drugs and devices is terrible at using those technologies well. And one reason for that is Americans? misinformed choices, he has suggested. Many don?t use statins, vaccines, or covid-19 therapies. Many choose to smoke cigarettes and eat the wrong food.
Califf and the FDA are fighting misinformation head-on. ?The misinformation machine is really causing a lot of death,? he said, in an apparent ad-lib, this spring in a speech at Tufts University. The pandemic, he told KFF Health News, helped ?crystallize? his need to tackle misinformation. It was a ?blatant case,? in which multiple studies gave evidence about very effective therapeutics against covid. ?And a lot of people chose not to do it.? There were ?large-scale purveyors of misinformation,? he said, poisoning the well.
Occasionally, though, Califf and the FDA have added to the cacophony of misinformation. And sometimes their misinformation is about misinformation.
Califf hasn?t been able to consistently estimate misinformation?s public health toll. Last June, he said it was the ?leading cause of meaningful life-years lost.? In the fall, he told a conference: ?I?ve been going around saying that misinformation is the most common cause of death in the United States.? He continued, ?There is no way to prove that, but I do believe that it is.?
At other times, as in April, he has called the problem the nation?s ?leading cause? of premature death. ?I?ll keep working on this to try and get it right,? he said. Later, in May, he said, ?Many Americans die or experience serious illness every year due to bad choices driven by false or misleading information.?
Americans? health is indeed in dire straits. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted the country?s life expectancy has dropped two years in a row ? it?s at 76.1 years as of 2021 ? a dismal capper to four decades of lagging gains. Countries such as Slovenia, Greece, and Costa Rica outrank the U.S. Their newborn citizens are expected to live more than 80 years, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Several factors are at the root of those differences. But Americans? choices, often informed by bad or misleading data, political jeremiads, or profit-seeking advertising, are among the causes. For instance, one 2023 paper estimated that undervaccination against covid ? caused in part by misinformation ? costs as much as $300 million per day, accounting for both the costs of health care and economic costs, like missed work.
Outside experts are sympathetic. Misinformation is a ?huge problem for public health,? said Joshua Sharfstein, a Johns Hopkins University public health professor and former FDA principal deputy commissioner. Having a strategy to combat it is crucial. But, he cautioned, ?that?s the easiest part of this.?
The agency, which regulates products that consumers spend 20 cents of each dollar on per year, is putting more muscle behind the effort. It?s begun mentioning the subject of misinformation in its procurement requests, like one discussing the need to monitor social media for misinformation related to cannabis.
The agency launched a ?Rumor Control? page seeking to debunk persistent confusion. It also expects to get a report from the Reagan-Udall Foundation, a not-for-profit organization created by Congress to advise the FDA. Califf has said he thinks better regulation ? and more authority for the agency ? would help.
Califf has noted small victories. Ivermectin, once touted as a covid wonder drug, ?eventually? became one such win. But, then again, its use is ?not completely gone,? he said. And, despite winning individual battles, his optimism is muted: ?I?d say right now the trend in the war is in a negative direction.?
Some of those battles have been quite small, even marginal.
And it?s difficult to know what to take on or respond to, Califf said. ?I think we?re just in the early days of being able to do that,? he told KFF Health News. ?It?s very hard to be scientific,? he said.
Take the agency?s experience last fall with ?NyQuil chicken? ? a purportedly viral cooking trend in which users roasted their birds in the over-the-counter cold medicine on social media platforms like TikTok.
Califf said his agency?s ?skeleton crew? ? at least relative to Big Tech giants ? had picked up on increasing chatter about the meme.
But independent analyses don?t corroborate the claim. It seems much of the interest in it came only after the FDA called attention to it. The day before the agency?s pronouncement, the TikTok app recorded only five searches on the topic, BuzzFeed News found in an analysis of TikTok data. That tally surged to 7,000 the week after the agency?s declaration. Google Trends, which measures changes in the number of searches, shows a similar pattern: Interest peaked on the search engine in the week after the agency announcement.
Califf also claimed ?injuries? occurred to participants ?directly? due to the social media trend. Now, he said, ?the number of injuries is down,? though he couldn?t say whether the agency?s intervention was the cause.
Again, his assertions have fuzzy underpinnings. It?s not clear what, if any, actual damage the NyQuil chicken fad caused. Poison control centers don?t keep that data, said Maggie Maloney, a spokesperson for America?s Poison Centers. And, after multiple requests, agency spokespeople declined to provide the FDA?s data reflecting increased social media traffic or injuries stemming from the meme.
In countering misinformation, FDA also risks coming off as high-handed. In September 2021, the agency tweeted about purported myths and misinformation on mammograms. Among the myths? That they?re painful. Instead, the agency explained that ?everyone?s pain threshold is different? and the breast cancer-screening procedure is more often described as ?temporary discomfort.?
Statements like these ?erode trust,? said Lisa Fitzpatrick, an infectious diseases physician and currently the CEO of Grapevine Health, a startup trying to improve health literacy in underserved communities. Fitzpatrick has previously served as an official with the District of Columbia?s Medicaid program and with the CDC.
?Who are you to judge what?s painful?? she asked, rhetorically. It?s hard to brand subjective impressions as misinformation.
Califf acknowledged the point. Speaking to 340 million Americans is difficult. With mammograms, the average patient might not have a painful experience ? but many might. ?Getting across that kind of nuance and public communication, I think, is in its early phases.?
Scrutiny over the agency?s role regarding food and nutrition is also mounting. After independent journalist Helena Bottemiller Evich wrote an article criticizing the agency for relying on voluntary reporting standards for baby formula, Califf tweeted to correct a ?bit of misinformation,? saying the agency did not have such authority.
An agency communications specialist made a similar intervention with New York University professor Marion Nestle, referring to a ?troubling pattern of articles with erroneous information that then get amplified.? The agency was again seeking to rebut arguments that the agency had erred in not seeking mandatory reporting.
?As I see it, the ?troubling pattern? here is FDA?s responses to advocates like me who want to support this agency?s role in making sure food companies in general ? and infant formula companies in particular ? do not produce unsafe food,? Nestle retorted. Notwithstanding the agency?s protests to Evich and Nestle, the agency had only recently asked for such authority.
Efforts to respond to or regulate misinformation are becoming a political problem.
In July, a federal judge issued a sweeping, yet temporary, injunction ? at the instigation of Republican attorneys general, multiple right-wing political groups, and prominent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?s Children?s Health Defense ? barring federal health officials from contacting social media groups to correct information. A large section of the ruling detailed efforts by a CDC official to push back on suspected misinformation on social media networks.
An appeals court later issued its own temporary ruling ? this time countering the original, sweeping order ? nevertheless underscoring the extent of pushback on government pushback against misinformation. Califf has consistently played down the government?s ability to solve the problem. ?One hundred percent of experts agree, government cannot solve this. We have too much distrust in fundamental institutions,? he said last June.
It?s a remarkable change from his previous tenure leading the agency during the Obama administration. ?I would describe the Obama years as genteel, intellectual, and a lot of fun,? he has said. Now, however, Califf is bracing for more misinformation. ?It?s just something that I think we have to come to grips with,? he told KFF Health News.
Forget ?repeal and replace,? an oft-repeated Republican rallying cry against the Affordable Care Act. House Republicans have advanced a package of bills that could reduce health insurance costs for certain businesses and consumers, partly by rolling back some consumer protections. Rather than outright repeal, however, the subtler effort could allow more employers to bypass the […]
The post Everything Old Is New Again? The Latest Round of Health Policy Proposals Reprises Existing Ideas first appeared on Kosovo Now. [content] => Array ( [encoded] =>Forget ?repeal and replace,? an oft-repeated Republican rallying cry against the Affordable Care Act.
House Republicans have advanced a package of bills that could reduce health insurance costs for certain businesses and consumers, partly by rolling back some consumer protections. Rather than outright repeal, however, the subtler effort could allow more employers to bypass the landmark health insurance overhaul?s basic benefits requirements and most state standards.
At the same time, the Biden administration seeks to undo some of the previous administration?s health insurance rules, proposing to retighten regulations for short-term plans.
Health policy experts aren?t surprised. Most of the GOP policy ideas have long drawn Republican support, have raised concern from Democrats about reduced consumer protections, and could fall under the theme: Everything old is new again.
Association Health Plans. Self-insurance. Giving workers money to buy their own individual coverage instead of offering a group plan. These are the buzzwords and, ultimately, revolve around one issue, said Joseph Antos, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. ?The real problem is the rising cost of health care. Always has been,? he said. And that problem, he added, is larger than the proposed solutions.
?It?s not clear that this kind of an approach would substantially help very many people,? Antos said.
The latest round of rules and legislation comes as the ACA ? passed in 2010 ? is now cemented in the system. More than 16 million people enrolled in their own plans this year, and millions more are getting coverage through expanded Medicaid in all but 10 states, leading to an all-time-low uninsured rate.
But even with enhanced subsidies for ACA health plans, initially approved in the American Rescue Plan and extended through 2025 by the Inflation Reduction Act, some people still struggle to afford deductibles or other costs, and employers ? especially small ones ? have long wrestled with rising insurance costs and the ability to offer coverage at all.
So, what is on the table in Washington? First, a caveat: Little is likely to happen in an election year.
While the Biden administration?s proposed regulations on short-term plans are likely to go into effect, either this year or early next, the GOP?s House-passed legislation ? dubbed the CHOICE Arrangement Act, for Custom Health Option and Individual Care Expense ? is unlikely to win favor in the Democratic-controlled Senate. If Republicans were to retake the Senate and White House, though, it illustrates the health policy direction they could take.
Here are the broad issues on the radar:
From the President?s Desk: Limits on Short-Term Policies
These types of plans have been sold for decades, often as a stopgap measure for people between jobs.
They can be far less expensive than more traditional coverage because short-term plans vary widely and ?run the gamut from comprehensive policies to fairly minimal policies,? said Louise Norris, an insurance broker who regularly writes about health policy.
The plans don?t have to cover all the benefits required of ACA plans, for example, and can bar coverage for preexisting medical conditions, can set annual or lifetime limits, and often don?t include maternity care or prescription drugs. Despite notices warning of such policies? limitations, consumers may not realize what isn?t covered until they try to use the plan.
Concerned that people would choose this option instead of more comprehensive and more expensive insurance offered through the ACA, President Barack Obama?s administration set rules limiting the policy terms to three months.
President Donald Trump?s administration loosened those rules, allowing plans to again be sold as 364-day policies, and adding the ability for insurers to renew them for up to three years. Now President Joe Biden, whose representatives have called such plans ?junk insurance,? proposes reining those in again, restricting policies to four months, at most.
The Biden proposal cites estimates from the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation that about 1.5 million people are enrolled in such plans.
Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based libertarian think tank, decried the proposed rule in an opinion piece published by The Hill. He wrote that the Biden proposal removes an important lower-cost alternative and could leave some consumers facing ?sky-high medical bills for up to one year? if their policies expire between open enrollment periods for ACA plans.
The real fight comes down to defining ?short-term,? said John McDonough, a professor of public health practice at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, who worked on the original ACA legislation.
Progressives and Democrats support the view that ?short-term? should end after four months and ?then people go into an ACA plan or Medicaid,? he said. ?Republicans and conservatives would like this to be an alternative permanent coverage model for folks, some of whom legitimately know what they are getting and are willing to roll the dice.?
Association Health Plans, Self-Insurance, and Other Workplace Issues
Meanwhile, the House-passed CHOICE Arrangement Act, among other things, would allow more self-employed people and businesses to band together to buy Association Health Plans, which are essentially large group plans purchased by multiple employers.
These can be less expensive because they don?t have to meet all ACA requirements, such as covering a specified set of benefits that includes hospitalization, prescription drugs, and mental health care. Historically, some also have had solvency issues and state regulators have investigated claims of false advertising by certain association plans.
Another piece of the legislation would help more small employers self-insure, which also allows them to bypass many ACA requirements and most state insurance rules.
Both proposals represent a ?chipping away at the foundation edges of the ACA structure,? said McDonough.
The package also codifies Trump-era regulations allowing employers to provide workers with tax-free contributions to shop for their own insurance, so long as it is an ACA-qualified plan, a benefit known as an individual coverage Health Reimbursement Account.
The CHOICE Arrangement Act ?will go a long way toward reducing insurance costs for employers, ensuring that workers continue to have access to high-quality, affordable health care,? said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) in prepared remarks as the bill went before the House Committee on Rules in June.
Giving workers a set amount of money to buy their own coverage allows employees to choose what works best for them, supporters say. Critics warn that many workers may be unprepared to shop and that the effort by some employers might prove discriminatory.
?Firms may find strategies to shift sicker workers to HRAs, even with guardrails in the legislation meant to prevent this,? according to a blog post from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Not so, said Robin Paoli, executive director of the HRA Council, a nonprofit advocacy organization whose members include insurers, employers, and other organizations that support such individual accounts.
Employers have some discretion in choosing which groups of employees are offered such accounts, often based on geography, but cannot create a group made up solely of ?people over 65, or a class of sick people,? said Paoli. ?The rules absolutely prohibit discrimination based on age or health condition.?
The other two ideas ? associations and the self-insured proposal ? have drawn opposition from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which wrote to House leaders that the package ?threatens the authority of states to protect consumers and markets? because it affects the ability of states to regulate such plans.
Current law allows businesses in the same industry to band together to buy coverage, essentially creating a larger pool that then can, theoretically, wield more negotiating clout and get better rates.
The House legislation would make changes to allow more self-employed people and businesses that aren?t in the same industry to do the same.
Some policy experts said expanding access to association plans and self-insurance to smaller businesses might adversely affect some workers by drawing healthier people out of the overall market for small-group insurance and potentially raising premiums for those who remain.
?The big picture of what these bills do is allow [employers and] insurance companies to get out from under the ACA standards and protections and offer cheaper insurance to younger and healthier employee groups,? said Sabrina Corlette, a researcher and the co-director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University.
But attorney Christopher Condeluci, who worked with GOP lawmakers in drafting the legislation, takes a different view. The entire GOP package, he said, represents ?improvements to the status quo? that are needed because small businesses and individuals are confronting ?health costs continuing to rise? and ?out-of-pocket costs continuing to increase.?
Forget ?repeal and replace,? an oft-repeated Republican rallying cry against the Affordable Care Act. House Republicans have advanced a package of bills that could reduce health insurance costs for certain businesses and consumers, partly by rolling back some consumer protections. Rather than outright repeal, however, the subtler effort could allow more employers to bypass the […]
The post Everything Old Is New Again? The Latest Round of Health Policy Proposals Reprises Existing Ideas first appeared on Kosovo Now. [atom_content] =>Forget ?repeal and replace,? an oft-repeated Republican rallying cry against the Affordable Care Act.
House Republicans have advanced a package of bills that could reduce health insurance costs for certain businesses and consumers, partly by rolling back some consumer protections. Rather than outright repeal, however, the subtler effort could allow more employers to bypass the landmark health insurance overhaul?s basic benefits requirements and most state standards.
At the same time, the Biden administration seeks to undo some of the previous administration?s health insurance rules, proposing to retighten regulations for short-term plans.
Health policy experts aren?t surprised. Most of the GOP policy ideas have long drawn Republican support, have raised concern from Democrats about reduced consumer protections, and could fall under the theme: Everything old is new again.
Association Health Plans. Self-insurance. Giving workers money to buy their own individual coverage instead of offering a group plan. These are the buzzwords and, ultimately, revolve around one issue, said Joseph Antos, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. ?The real problem is the rising cost of health care. Always has been,? he said. And that problem, he added, is larger than the proposed solutions.
?It?s not clear that this kind of an approach would substantially help very many people,? Antos said.
The latest round of rules and legislation comes as the ACA ? passed in 2010 ? is now cemented in the system. More than 16 million people enrolled in their own plans this year, and millions more are getting coverage through expanded Medicaid in all but 10 states, leading to an all-time-low uninsured rate.
But even with enhanced subsidies for ACA health plans, initially approved in the American Rescue Plan and extended through 2025 by the Inflation Reduction Act, some people still struggle to afford deductibles or other costs, and employers ? especially small ones ? have long wrestled with rising insurance costs and the ability to offer coverage at all.
So, what is on the table in Washington? First, a caveat: Little is likely to happen in an election year.
While the Biden administration?s proposed regulations on short-term plans are likely to go into effect, either this year or early next, the GOP?s House-passed legislation ? dubbed the CHOICE Arrangement Act, for Custom Health Option and Individual Care Expense ? is unlikely to win favor in the Democratic-controlled Senate. If Republicans were to retake the Senate and White House, though, it illustrates the health policy direction they could take.
Here are the broad issues on the radar:
From the President?s Desk: Limits on Short-Term Policies
These types of plans have been sold for decades, often as a stopgap measure for people between jobs.
They can be far less expensive than more traditional coverage because short-term plans vary widely and ?run the gamut from comprehensive policies to fairly minimal policies,? said Louise Norris, an insurance broker who regularly writes about health policy.
The plans don?t have to cover all the benefits required of ACA plans, for example, and can bar coverage for preexisting medical conditions, can set annual or lifetime limits, and often don?t include maternity care or prescription drugs. Despite notices warning of such policies? limitations, consumers may not realize what isn?t covered until they try to use the plan.
Concerned that people would choose this option instead of more comprehensive and more expensive insurance offered through the ACA, President Barack Obama?s administration set rules limiting the policy terms to three months.
President Donald Trump?s administration loosened those rules, allowing plans to again be sold as 364-day policies, and adding the ability for insurers to renew them for up to three years. Now President Joe Biden, whose representatives have called such plans ?junk insurance,? proposes reining those in again, restricting policies to four months, at most.
The Biden proposal cites estimates from the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation that about 1.5 million people are enrolled in such plans.
Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based libertarian think tank, decried the proposed rule in an opinion piece published by The Hill. He wrote that the Biden proposal removes an important lower-cost alternative and could leave some consumers facing ?sky-high medical bills for up to one year? if their policies expire between open enrollment periods for ACA plans.
The real fight comes down to defining ?short-term,? said John McDonough, a professor of public health practice at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, who worked on the original ACA legislation.
Progressives and Democrats support the view that ?short-term? should end after four months and ?then people go into an ACA plan or Medicaid,? he said. ?Republicans and conservatives would like this to be an alternative permanent coverage model for folks, some of whom legitimately know what they are getting and are willing to roll the dice.?
Association Health Plans, Self-Insurance, and Other Workplace Issues
Meanwhile, the House-passed CHOICE Arrangement Act, among other things, would allow more self-employed people and businesses to band together to buy Association Health Plans, which are essentially large group plans purchased by multiple employers.
These can be less expensive because they don?t have to meet all ACA requirements, such as covering a specified set of benefits that includes hospitalization, prescription drugs, and mental health care. Historically, some also have had solvency issues and state regulators have investigated claims of false advertising by certain association plans.
Another piece of the legislation would help more small employers self-insure, which also allows them to bypass many ACA requirements and most state insurance rules.
Both proposals represent a ?chipping away at the foundation edges of the ACA structure,? said McDonough.
The package also codifies Trump-era regulations allowing employers to provide workers with tax-free contributions to shop for their own insurance, so long as it is an ACA-qualified plan, a benefit known as an individual coverage Health Reimbursement Account.
The CHOICE Arrangement Act ?will go a long way toward reducing insurance costs for employers, ensuring that workers continue to have access to high-quality, affordable health care,? said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) in prepared remarks as the bill went before the House Committee on Rules in June.
Giving workers a set amount of money to buy their own coverage allows employees to choose what works best for them, supporters say. Critics warn that many workers may be unprepared to shop and that the effort by some employers might prove discriminatory.
?Firms may find strategies to shift sicker workers to HRAs, even with guardrails in the legislation meant to prevent this,? according to a blog post from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Not so, said Robin Paoli, executive director of the HRA Council, a nonprofit advocacy organization whose members include insurers, employers, and other organizations that support such individual accounts.
Employers have some discretion in choosing which groups of employees are offered such accounts, often based on geography, but cannot create a group made up solely of ?people over 65, or a class of sick people,? said Paoli. ?The rules absolutely prohibit discrimination based on age or health condition.?
The other two ideas ? associations and the self-insured proposal ? have drawn opposition from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which wrote to House leaders that the package ?threatens the authority of states to protect consumers and markets? because it affects the ability of states to regulate such plans.
Current law allows businesses in the same industry to band together to buy coverage, essentially creating a larger pool that then can, theoretically, wield more negotiating clout and get better rates.
The House legislation would make changes to allow more self-employed people and businesses that aren?t in the same industry to do the same.
Some policy experts said expanding access to association plans and self-insurance to smaller businesses might adversely affect some workers by drawing healthier people out of the overall market for small-group insurance and potentially raising premiums for those who remain.
?The big picture of what these bills do is allow [employers and] insurance companies to get out from under the ACA standards and protections and offer cheaper insurance to younger and healthier employee groups,? said Sabrina Corlette, a researcher and the co-director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University.
But attorney Christopher Condeluci, who worked with GOP lawmakers in drafting the legislation, takes a different view. The entire GOP package, he said, represents ?improvements to the status quo? that are needed because small businesses and individuals are confronting ?health costs continuing to rise? and ?out-of-pocket costs continuing to increase.?