PacificSource Health Plans Elevates Member Communications with Quadient
Multistate US health insurer partners with Quadient to enhance the customer experience for its more than 600,000 members
Paris, June 8, 2023
Quadient (Euronext Paris: QDT), a leader in helping businesses create meaningful customer connections through digital and physical channels, announces that PacificSource Health Plans have implemented Quadient Inspire to reduce manual processes and IT resources required for developing and maintaining renewals, member plan materials and related communications. With Quadient Inspire, PacificSource plans to reduce costs and increase efficiency through automation, increasing the speed of creating and managing thousands of blocks and…
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Which Diet (way of eating) Is Best for Health and Longevity?
Proper diet undoubtedly promotes healthier aging and longevity. But what’s the right diet? A meta-analysis of diet studies proposes an answer. or more accurately, answers, based on diet-related biomarkers linked to disease and aging. Half of the studies were done in Europe, the rest from North America and Asia. The February, 2023, article was published in Nutrients. You can read the entire article online.
“….the main goal of this systematic review was to perceive the quantity and quality of different diets or aspects in nutrition, how they could modulate biomarkers and prevent aging-related diseases, in order to enlighten new intervention…
Weight loss diet tips: Healthy foods for in between meals
Losing weight isn’t as easy as it seems. You have to indulge in rigorous workouts, stay committed to your long-term goals, cut down on your favorite foods or delicacies, and most of all, show up every day for yourself. It requires a lot of undeterred spirit within you to achieve your health goals. However, to reach the end-goal in their weight loss game, most people end up starving themselves and cutting down on everything, even the essential vitamins. Most weight-loss diet plans press on dividing meals into smaller portions instead of feeding yourself sumptuously with three big meals a day.…
5 Healthiest Fast Food Items, Ranked By Best-Tasting
Fast food and healthy meals go together like mayo and Root Beer, which is to say, they don’t go together at all. It’s no secret that fast food isn’t healthy, there are certainly relatively healthy dishes to be had, but fast food does big decadent bacon cheeseburgers a lot better than it does good, well-rounded sensible meals. But that doesn’t mean healthy meals don’t exist in the fast food space and sometimes, whether you’re eating fast food every day and need a change up or you just didn’t have time to meal prep at home, you’ re going to want…
Ezra Miller makes his first public appearance since the offscreen controversies at The Flash premiere
In a bit of life imitating art, Ezra Miller made a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance at the premiere of The Flash on Monday.
It marks the first high profile appearance for the star since a number of off-screen controversies last year. At the premiere, which was held at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Miller, who uses their/them pronouns, posed for a number of photos on the red carpet in support of the film.
The film’s director, Andy Muschietti, crew, and cast members such as Ben Affleck and Sasha Calle were also on hand to support the film, which follows Miller’s Barry…
Venezuela: Oil Sector Workers Protest for Health Insurance, Higher Wages
Caracas, June 8, 2023 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Dozens of oil industry workers have staged protests in walkouts in recent days to demand improved wages and labor rights.
Since June 1, employees from the Puerto La Cruz refinery in Anzoátegui state, eastern Venezuela, have demonstrated at the company headquarters and other oil industry facilities, as well as being taken to the streets.
While the refinery has been the epicenter of the mobilization, workers and union representatives from other affiliates of the state oil company PDVSA have also participated.
José Bodas Lugo, secretary-general of the Unitary Federation of Oil Workers (FUTPV), told Venezuelanalysis…
A windfall in health insurance rebates? It’s not as crazy as it sounds
“Americans will get $1.1 B in rebates from health insurance companies this year cuz of a provision I wrote in the ACA.”
[–Former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), in a tweet on May 17, 2023
[–Former Democratic Sen. Al Franken tweeted recently that Americans will receive “$1.1 B in rebates from health insurance companies this year” because of a provision he wrote into the Affordable Care Act.
[–The tweet prompted many comments, including some from people who said they had never seen such a check from their insurers. That got us wondering: Is Franken’s tweet correct and, if…
US bishops to consider banning transgender care at all American Catholic hospitals
The US Catholic bishops will vote at their spring assembly this week on whether to amend their official directives for American Catholic health care institutions to mandate that Catholic facilities not provide gender-affirming medical treatment to transgender patients.
The vote, scheduled for one of the bishops’ two public sessions during their June 15-16 meeting in Orlando, Florida, could mark the beginning of a substantial change in the provision of health care in Catholic hospitals, clinics and facilities across the US
If, the measure would authorize the bishops’ doctrine committee to begin the process of revising the Religious and Ethical Directives…