All posts tagged "Workers"
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87Health CareMost Home Health Aides ‘Can’t Afford Not to Work’ — Even When Lacking PPE
Eli Cahan In March, Sue Williams-Ward took a new job, with a $1-an-hour raise. The employer, a home health care agency called...
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47Kid'sHealthOntario training hundreds of lab workers to deal with testing backlog. But is it enough?
A new program to train desperately needed medical lab workers amid a growing backlog of COVID-19 tests is being rolled out...
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34Health NewsWorkers With Health Insurance Face Rising Out-of-Pocket Costs
The high cost of health care is persisting during the pandemic, even for people lucky enough to still have job-based insurance.The average...
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35Health NewsRoundup: New app partnership gives NHS workers flexible access to pay, Your.MD raises €25m to roll out health hubs and more briefs
NHSX DRIVES FORWARD DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF HEALTH CARE With the aim of creating an environment for innovation to flourish, NHSX has created...
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34Health CarePremiums and Worker Contributions Among Workers Covered by Employer-Sponsored Coverage, 1999-2020
Since 1999, the Employer Health Benefits Survey has documented trends in the employer-sponsored health insurance market. This year, 1,765 private and non-federal...
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116Health CareJob-Based Health Insurance Costs Are Up 4% This Year, 55% in Past Decade
Health insurance costs for Americans who get their coverage through work continued a relentless march upward with average family premiums rising 4%...
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147Health CareYoung Doctor Succumbs to COVID, One of the South’s Many Health Workers Lost
It took Carrie Wanamaker several days to connect the face she saw on GoFundMe with the young woman she had met a...
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51Kid'sHealthNewfoundland workers from sites in Alberta, Nunavut asked to get COVID-19 tests
Newfoundland and Labrador is asking workers who returned to the province in the last two weeks from work sites in Nunavut...
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56Health NewsAfter Meat Workers Die of Covid-19, Families Fight for Compensation
After Saul Sanchez tested positive for the coronavirus at a hospital in Greeley, Colo., he spoke to his daughter on the phone...
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43Health NewsCoronavirus Survey Halted After Workers Faced Racial Slurs, Officials Say
A coronavirus survey in Minnesota was stopped after multiple cases of residents “intimidating and shouting racial and ethnic slurs” at public health...
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43Health CareAnalysis: A Proposal Like Biden’s Health Plan Would Lower the Cost of ACA Marketplace Coverage for Nearly All Potential Enrollees and Lower Premiums for Over 12 Million Workers With Employer Coverage
A new KFF analysis finds that expanding Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium subsidies like Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has proposed would...
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25Health CareUI Health reaches tentative deals with nurses, workers
“The nurses are satisfied that hospital management listened to their concerns about safe staffing and have committed to hiring 160 full-time nurses...
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38Health CareCalifornia Expands Privacy Protection to Public Health Workers Amid Threats
Anna Maria Barry-Jester SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — California will allow public health officials to participate in a program to keep their home...
