health insurance

Nurses Hold Community Day of Action for Better Care, Ask Ontarians to Join the Fight

02/12/2023binomo

TORONTO, April 23, 2023 /CNW/ – Registered nurses (RNs) and health-care professionals in many locations across the province are out in their communities today, asking the public to support them and join in their fight for better care.

Nurses are calling for a better contract for 60,000 members working in the hospital sector, with better staffing and wages so they can provide better care for Ontarians. The action comes as ONA’s negotiations for a new contract with the Ontario Hospital Association ended without an agreement, leaving the parties heading to arbitration soon.

“Simply put, our patients need and deserve

Single-payer pharmacare plan would be a ‘disaster’ – CLHIA chair

29/11/2023binomo

Single-payer pharmacare plan would be a ‘disaster’ – CLHIA chair | Insurance Business Canada

The insurance industry can be ‘part of the solution’

Life & Health

By
Gia Snape

An insurance industry association leader has slammed plans to establish a universal single-payer pharmacare system in Canada and called on the government to allow the insurance industry to be “part of the solution” when it comes to plugging healthcare coverage gaps for Canadians.

Denis Ricard, chair of the board of the directors of the Canadian Life and Health

Friday Health Plans of Nevada ending operations

25/11/2023binomo

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Over 2,800 Nevadans will have to find new health insurance plans due to Friday Health Plans of Nevada winding down their operations in the Silver State.

According to the company’s website, they were “unable to scale our financial infrastructure to match the pace of our growth and secure the additional capital required to run our business.”

Friday Health Plans had entered into receivership proceedings last month. That’s similar to bankruptcy proceedings. That allowed Nevada Division of Insurance Commissioner Scott Kipper to take over day-to-day operations of the company and examine its finances in order to determine

Slovenian parliament passes law to transform health insurance – EURACTIV.com

20/11/2023binomo

The Slovenian parliament adopted a bill Thursday that will turn supplementary health insurance – a flat-rate monthly payment required for most national health services – into a mandatory contribution attached to regular health insurance premiums.

After private insurers announced considerable price hikes earlier this year, the government decided to scrap supplementary insurance, arguing that they are losing money since the cost of services has skyrocketed.

The insurers were initially accused of taking advantage of inflation to fill their pockets, but calculations by ZZZS and insurers’ own balance sheets show they are indeed losing money on health insurance.

The mandatory contribution

Tuition, books, room and board … and health insurance? Colleges’ rising fees strike a nerve – The Virginian-Pilot

02/10/2023binomo

You’ve compared schools. Reviewed on-campus housing costs. Even digested student meal plan prices.

But have you thought about how much your son’s or daughter’s dream school will charge for health coverage?

You might be in for a shock.

Hawley Montgomery-Downs was thrilled when daughter Bryn Tronco earned a scholarship that pays half the $63,000 annual tuition at the University of Southern California. But just as the school was starting in August, she was stunned to receive a bill from USC for $3,000 to cover both a student health insurance premium and a fee that allows students to access on-campus clinics

Health care focus of NDP byelection rally – Winnipeg Free Press

24/09/2023binomo

With Grace Hospital as their backdrop, Manitoba’s official Opposition held a weekend rally in Kirkfield Park to harp on the health-care staffing crisis under the current government — the NDP’s strategy to win over voters in the upcoming byelection.

Front-line workers, labor organizers and NDP MLAs were among more than 60 people who gathered outside the health-care facility on Sunday.

They chanted “Save the Grace!” in unison, before canvassing area residents for the party’s candidate in the constituency that encompasses Sturgeon Creek and nearby neighborhoods, including Westwood and Silver Heights.

JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

NDP supporters gather outside

Ontario’s Bill 60 makes access to medical procedures ‘faster and easier’

17/07/2023binomo

The Minister of Health’s spokesperson noted ‘more work needs to be done’ to improve the current system and Bill 60 moves toward that goal

A spokesperson for Ontario’s Minister of Health assured that if Bill passes 60, citizens will access medical services with their OHIP card, not out of pocket.

“Our government knows the wait times for surgeries and diagnostic tests have been increasing year after year. We are not okay with the status quo and know more work needs to be done,” said Hannah Jensen, a spokesperson for Sylvia Jones, the Deputy Premiere and Minister of Health.

Ontario’s proposed

Opinions | After Trump sabotaged Obamacare, Biden limits junk insurance again

14/07/2023binomo

Slowly but surely, President Biden is repairing the US health-care system, reversing the Trump-era sabotage and ensuring millions more Americans get access to affordable coverage.

The latest of these efforts came on Friday, in a little-noticed but significant decision to protect Americans from junk health insurance.

In 2017, Congress repeatedly tried and failed to repeat the Affordable Care Act. To casual observers, it might have looked like the end of the Republican fight to kill this life-saving, inequality-fighting, newly popular law. It wasn’t. Over the next few years, President Donald Trump found new ways to