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LETTER: Province shaking up health-care status quo: MPP

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The new plan will ‘provide Ontarians with a better, more convenient health-care experience closer to home,’ says Jill Dunlop

OrilliaMatters welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following is an open letter to the community from Simcoe North MPP Jill Dunlop.

When it comes to your health, the status quo isn’t working.

Ontarians deserve more than long wait times in emergency departments, delayed surgeries, and diagnostic procedures and care that are too far away.

For example, here at home, Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital delayed over

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niva bupa health insurance: Niva Bupa launches health insurance plan ‘ReAssure 2.0’

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Niva Bupa Health Insurance on Thursday announced the launch of the health insurance policy ‘ReAssure 2.0’. The first of its kind indemnity plan offers lock-in of entry age until a policyholder makes his/her first claim, helping customers save on premiums.

Niva Bupa Health Insurance MD and CEO Krishnan Ramachandran said with this product, “we have addressed the prevailing concerns of customers which act as a hindrance during health insurance purchases.

“We have designed this product in a unique way that will encourage customers to start investing for their health and financial security at an early age,” Ramachandran said.

This new-age

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Even with health insurance, many Oklahomans face barriers to mental health care

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A Healthy Minds Policy Initiative study found that barriers to mental health care mean many Oklahomans are either going without or paying high prices for out-of-network services.

The study found the vast majority of mental health providers in the state are out of network with most insurance plans. Companies with the broadest networks only included about 30 percent of the state’s providers.

The study’s authors write that when insurance companies provide members with directories of potential providers, they tend to be faulty. Most listings are unreachable, often because the phone number listed has been disconnected.

“The effects of poorly resourced

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China’s health insurance reform: What is changing?

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As many places in China have rolled out the health insurance reform, some residents noticed their monthly health insurance income was cut less.

Before getting outraged about the change, let’s look at what the benefits are, and the bigger picture of China’s health insurance system.

China’s current health insurance system has two parts: a national fund paid by employers that covers serious or chronic diseases, and a personal fund paid by employers and employees together for day-to-day doctor visits.

The personal fund is managed, as the name suggests, by employees themselves. The national fund is managed by the government, with

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Health insurance no guarantee to mental health access and affordability

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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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