Tag: health insurance
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Governor Newsom aims to contain California health care costs
Instead of relying on the market or the courts to control health care prices, Governor Gavin Newsom wants to keep costs below a certain level. SACRAMENTO, ... -
How Public Health Experts Are Adjusting Personal COVID Rules
It’s been three weeks since California relaxed its requirement that residents mask up in indoor public spaces, but not everyone has quickly changed their own daily ... -
How much Central Coast residents pay in monthly bills
The central coast is certainly paradise and living here is the dream of many, but it also comes at a cost. KSBY took a closer look ... -
Carson City Manager Settlement Details Emerge – Daily Breeze
Sharon Landers, the first female city manager in Carson’s 52-year history, will receive at least $360,000 in severance pay and other benefits under a deal that ... -
Will Gavin Newsom choose a single payer or his insurance company donors?
During the 2018 campaign to become the Democratic governor of California, Gavin Newsom showed his support for a statewide single-payer healthcare system. “I’m tired of politicians ... -
California becomes the first state to require insurance to cover the cost of home STD tests / LGBTQ Nation
New legislation has come into effect in California requiring health insurance to cover the costs of home testing kits for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, ... -
Home COVID tests will be supported by insurers from Saturday
WASHINGTON (AP) – Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans. ... -
How inflation affects a Central California couple in their 60s
At 78 years old, Antonio Lomeli, a Grayson resident, still works at the barber shop he opened in Patterson in 1994, working around 45 hours per ... -
More people get health insurance through the Oregon market
More Oregonians have purchased private health insurance through the state-run exchange this year than they did a year ago. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that by 2022, ... -
Three key figures that explain the labor shortage in the United States
It is therefore difficult for companies to meet the increasing demand. Economists are worried about how long it will take for marginalized people to re-enter the ... -
Homeless people in California face misery in rain and cold
SANTA CRUZ – The last time rain hit the banks of the San Lorenzo River, Rick Mason wound up in hospital with pneumonia. The Santa Cruz ... -
Definition, process, how long does it take
Underwriting is the process of taking risks in a financial transaction, typically a loan, insurance, or investments. Underwriters assess the risk, determine how much to assume ... -
California Legislature and Governor Approve New PAGA Exclusion | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
On September 27, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 646 (âSB 646â), which creates a limited exception to the Private Attorneys General Act of ... -
California institutions team up to study the health of concert workers
The California Labor Laboratory opened to study the health of the California workforce and advance worker well-being, with a focus on on-stage workers, about whom little ... -
California healthcare industry holds power in battle to cut healthcare costs
SACRAMENT >> Gavin Newsom to put California the healthcare industry when he ran for governor, promising in 2018 to go after the insurance companies, doctors and ... -
California County Rejects Retiree Health Plan Appeal – 9th Circ
The court revived the requests in 2012, 2018 Orange County, Calif., Has not broken its contract with retired employees by reducing the amount of a monthly ... -
Bills more expensive in SLO County than the US average, according to data
On average, residents of San Luis Obispo County pay $ 561 more on their monthly bills than someone living in other parts of the United States, ... -
California Passes Suite of New Privacy Laws | Ballard Spahr srl
[co-author: Kelsey Fayer] California continues to be at the forefront of privacy protection. On October 11, 2021, California Governor Newsom signed several bills dealing with privacy ... -
New California Law Expands Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences
October 19, 2021 Hobbies: Public health California recently enacted SB 428 (Hurtado), the ACEs Equity Act, to significantly expand health insurance coverage for screening for childhood ... -
California Insurance Commissioner touts governor-signed bills
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Wednesday thanked Governor Gavin Newsom for protecting the state’s consumers with the signing of 11 bills Lara sponsored in this ... -
Healthcare industry holds power in California’s high-stakes battle to cut healthcare costs
SACRAMENTO – Gavin Newsom warned the California healthcare industry when running for governor, vowing in 2018 to go after the insurance companies, doctors and hospitals that ... -
California first to allow children to add parents to their insurance plans
SACRAMENTO, California. – California is the first state to allow certain adult children to add their parents as dependents to their insurance plans, a move that ... -
Kids Can Now Add Parents To Their California Insurance Plan
California was the first state to have certain adult children add their parents as dependents to their insurance plans, a move made by a small number ... -
End of free health insurance could push workers to seek jobs, experts say
End of Medicare benefits could prompt Americans to return to work Free insurance for millions of Americans ran out recently, and some work experts believe it ... -
Health insurance still available for Californians who lost COBRA benefits
COBRA healthcare benefits expire for millions As of midnight Thursday night, up to 16 million people lost their employer-sponsored COBRA health insurance, which the federal government ... -
Free health insurance for the unemployed ends. What to do now
Tang Ming Tung Images | Digital vision | Getty Images The federal government’s six-month health insurance subsidy for unemployed workers through the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation ... -
California to ban state sponsored travel to Ohio due to recent law allowing medical providers to deny care to LGBTQ people in Ohio
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Starting this week, California will limit state-funded travel to Ohio due to the Ohio biennial budget provision passed July 1 that allows state ... -
The federal poverty line does not tell the story of poverty in the United States
Recently released Census Bureau data shows that more than 37 million people in America were living at or below the federal poverty line in 2020. This ... -
How Peter Lee made Covered California a success in healthcare
You could say that service in the name of public health was etched in the bones of Peter V. Lee. Her father, also Peter Lee, founded ... -
Dentists Solve Uninsured Problems By Offering Patients With Enrollment Plans
Nevada dentist David White has seen diseased, rotten teeth in the mouths of patients who routinely postponed exams and avoided minor procedures such as fillings. While ... -
California recall could increase Newsom’s weight for 2022
Photo by Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press Above: California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters after pushing back the recall attempt to impeach him, at the ... -
Who is Larry Elder and what would he do as governor?
By Ben Christopher, CalMatters âThe sage of the center-south. “Even more extreme than Trump.” The recall candidate to beat. Larry Elder goes through a lot of ... -
A judge has declared California’s concert workers law unconstitutional. Now what?
Emboldened by a California election victory that kept their drivers independent last year, gig economy companies like Uber and Lyft have accelerated a push for what ... -
Rural Imperial County defies odds of COVID with one of California’s highest vaccination rates
Imperial County public health staff administer vaccines in March. Photo courtesy of the county Imperial County learned early on what it meant to be a COVID-19 ... -
Aetna creates new barrier to care for the elderly, underscoring need for prior authorization reform
August 10, 2021 One of the country’s largest health insurance companies has created new bureaucratic hurdles for patients that could prevent many patients from having cataract ... -
California Democrats defend Gavin Newsom against recall
In summary Democratic Party leaders unite behind a message that the recall is a desperate Republican plot that is bad for California. But will progressives and ... -
Health Insurance Guys: New Kind of Health Insurance Explains 2021 US Rescue Law | Business
The Affordable Care Act (ACA, Obamacare) is a law mandated by the federal government to reform health care and improve access. Some people don’t get a ... -
CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Tracking Privacy Concerns
Although the vaccine rollout has started slowly in the United States, millions of people are now vaccinated against COVID-19 daily. As individuals receive the vaccine, states ... -
Scientific explainer | The uneven consequences of smoke
Around the American West, forest fires are increasing in size and frequency. In California, the list of the top 20 records is revealing: 15 of the ... -
Licensed? Hours cut? You can benefit from free COBRA health insurance
Hello. I’m Madalyn Amato, replacing Rachel Schnalzer to bring you the weekly LA Times Business newsletter. Some benefits of the federal stimulus package passed last month ...