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More workers said paid leave was extremely important to them than those valuing health insurance.
That was one finding of a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center.
Almost half of workers who get paid time off don’t usually use up all their allocation, it was found.
Workers appear to value paid time off even more than having employer-funded health insurance, a recent study found.
The Pew Research Center report called “How Americans view their jobs” found 62% of the 5,900 people surveyed felt it’s “extremely” important to have paid…
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Institute examines government’s interest in portable health benefits plans
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May 19, 2023, 4:39 pm
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The Aviva boss was explicit in linking the rise in new policies to failings in the public health service.
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Tips on planning for dental costs if you don’t have coverage
A freelance photographer living in downtown Toronto, Armin Fares is living his dream. The 32-year-old says he worked hard to be his own boss and set his own schedule.
But while working for himself offers independence, what he doesn’t offer is access to dental coverage.
“I don’t have access to health benefits like you would work for a company,” Fares says. “I often fear getting some sort of dental issue like a cavity or a root canal because it’s so expensive to fix and could leave me financially vulnerable.”
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Major Mass. health insurance provider says customer data was ‘copied and taken’ in cyberattack
A pair of major Massachusetts and New Hampshire health insurance companies are warning subscribers that a cybersecurity ransomware incident in March and April has compromised some members’ personal information.
Point32Health, the corporate parent of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, said in April that the threat impacted systems that are used to service customers, accounts, brokers, and providers, officials said. It proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat out of an “abundance of caution” after “detecting an unauthorized party.”
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