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Ke Huy Quan Actually Lost His Health Insurance After ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’

Violin04/03/2023 45 Views

To Huy Quan is opening up about the dilemmas over health insurance in the entertainment industry.

Just after he finished filming Everything Everywhere All At Oncethe recent SAG Award winner revealed that he lost his health insurance completely.

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During his recent appearance on The Late Late Show, To Huy recalled how during the pandemic, he was being good and “at home trying to stay safe like everybody.”

However, because of that decision, no other acting offers were coming in since his comeback role Everything Everywhere was being held for release for so

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Elon University dean of students talks Student Blue, a new health insurance option coming to campus next fall

Violin26/02/2023 34 Views

Elon University will partner with Student Blue to give students another health insurance option for the upcoming academic year, according to Dean of Students Jana Lynn Patterson. The new program will give students the option to purchase their own insurance or remain on personal coverage plans starting in the fall.

Full-time students are eligible to purchase the plan for approximately $1,300 each semester and graduate students are eligible to purchase the plan for approximately $1,900, according to Patterson. All students will be “opted in” to the plan and will have to submit a waiver to “opt out” and avoid being

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The video shows retirees’ protest over health insurance reforms in the Chinese city of Wuhan, not Shanghai

Violin24/02/2023 47 Views

A video of protesters has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in Chinese-language social media posts that falsely claim it shows a demonstration against reforms to China’s vast public health insurance system in the country’s second-largest city Shanghai. The video actually shows a rally against the reforms in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, not Shanghai.

The video, which has been viewed more than 195,000 times, was shared on Twitter here on February 19, 2023.

Its Chinese-language caption reads: “After Wuhan and Dalian, a large number of citizens in Shanghai gathered to protest against the China Communist Party’s public

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Health insurance no guarantee to mental health access and affordability

Violin20/02/2023 45 Views

Ginnie Graham talks with Zack Stoycoff, executive director of the Healthy Minds Policy Initiative, about a new report showing private insurers are not providing Oklahomans with needed mental health care.

In the best of Oklahoma commercial health insurance plans, only 30% of the state’s behavioral health providers are included. In-network providers are so scarce that patients often wait months to get an appointment; a time that can escalate symptoms.

Once a provider is located, insurance plans continue to pay less for mental health than other health care needs.

Anyone who has navigated the behavioral health system in

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China’s elderly protest health insurance cuts in Wuhan, Dalian

Violin18/02/2023 115 Views

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A week of protests by Chinese pensioners over health insurance changes that reduce payouts for medicine and outpatient care has underscored pressure on the Chinese Communist Party to deliver improved social care for a rapidly aging population, even after local government coffers were severely depleted by huge “zero” covid” expenses.

On a drizzly afternoon last week, hundreds of elderly gathered outside the city hall in Wuhan, in central China, to oppose changes to state health insurance, including reducing monthly claims for medicine to one-third of the previous amount.

Huddled beneath umbrellas and watched by police

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Don’t be afraid of a healthy switch to save money

Violin10/02/2023 96 Views

As the old saying goes – health is wealth. This certainly rings through during times of sickness and unfortunately we just never know when the day might come that we need a hospital or doctor.

Although we have a public health system in Ireland where many services are free we also have the option of taking out private health cover. Between January and February this year around 500,000 people in Ireland will renew their health insurance according to totalhealthcover.ie.

Dermot Goode of total healthcover.ie said his advice to every single health insurance policy holder, and particularly older health insurance members

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Digital-First Health Insurance Provider Angle Health Raises $58 Million To Modernize Access to Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

Violin03/02/2023 66 Views

New capital, led by Portage, follows the company’s recent expansion into Arizona, Georgian, Indiana, Ohio, Missouriand South Carolina

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Angle Healththe digital-first, fully-licensed health insurance provider bringing transparency, simplicity, and ease of use to members, employers, and brokers in a frictionless experience, today announced $58 million Series A funding led by Portage. Its latest round also includes participation from PruVen Capital, Wing Venture Capital, SixThirty Ventures, Mighty Capital, Wormhole Capital, Mindset Ventures, Crew Capital, Aloft VC, and Pilot founder Waseem Daher; and support from existing

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Elevance Health to Acquire Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana

Violin26/01/2023 58 Views

What You Need to Know

Elevance has 47 million health plan enrollees.
Louisiana Blue has 1.9 million enrollees.
One thing both have in common: a relatively low share of the private Medicare plan market.

Elevance Health — the health insurance giant formerly known as Anthem — has agreed to acquire Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana.

Elevance, an Indianapolis-based company with about $160 billion in annual revenue and 47 million health plan enrollees, would be getting a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based carrier with $4 billion in annual revenue and 1.9 million health plan enrollees.

Elevance expects to pay for Louisiana

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