Canada is home to two of the largest life and health insurance companies in the world – Sun Life and Manulife. Now expanding into Asia, these are Canadian success stories.
Yet both have a contradiction at the heart of their business model. They are also two of Canada’s largest investors in fossil fuels, including dirty coal, investments that adversely affect the health of the clients they’re insuring.
The German NGO Urgewald just published a global database of fossil fuel investors, companies that own the most stocks and bonds in oil and gas and coal companies. The top five for Canada…
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GoHealth Confirms Receipt of Unsolicited Acquisition Proposal From Centerbridge Partners and NVX Holdings
CHICAGO, May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — GoHealth, Inc. (GoHealth) (NASDAQ: GOCO), a leading health insurance marketplace and Medicare-focused digital health company, as noted in a recent 13D filing, has received a proposal from its two largest shareholders to acquire all of the outstanding Class A Common Stock and LLC Interests that these shareholders do not already own. Independent members of GoHealth’s Board will review the proposal in due course. The Company remains committed to serving Medicare Advantage beneficiaries, working with health plans, and generating value for all stakeholders.
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GoHealth is a leading health insurance marketplace and Medicare-focused…
Carnivore for Weight Loss – Maria Mind Body Health
My Carnivore for Weight Loss book is FINALLY here!
The past 3 years I’ve been working on my latest book Carnivore for Weight Loss. I believe it’s the best book I’ve written so far!
Craig and I worked late into the night to get this out before we left for my Keto/Carnivore Retreat! And it is amazing! It is truly the easiest and best weight loss and healing book we have ever created.
If you like me and prefer to have a printed book, feel free to download this Carnivore ebook and print it so you can have it in…
NC Senate budget revives Medicaid expansion debate, putting law in ‘conflict’ with House
The Senate budget unveiled Monday cuts state laws that regulate hospital competition, placing Medicaid expansion, and health coverage for thousands of low-income North Carolinaians, in conflict.
During last year’s Medicaid expansion negotiations, a key agreement between the House and the Senate was Certificate of Need laws, which limit where hospitals, clinics and other health care facilities can be built. The Senate wanted to pass expansion with Certificate of Need changes but the House did not.
But this year, there was a breakthrough, and in early March, the Senate and House announced that they had reached a compromise deal: Medicaid expansion…
Gov. Reynolds signs bill intended to increase medical access in rural Iowa
Gov. Kim Reynolds signs House File 424 on Wednesday as state representative and hospital staff watch at the Washington County Hospital and Clinics in Washington, Iowa. The law will allow physician assistants to more easily address the health care needs of Iowa’s underserved communities. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)
Gov. Kim Reynolds smiles and claps with state legislators and hospital staff Wednesday after signing House File 424 at the Washington County Hospital and Clinics in Washington, Iowa. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)
WASHINGTON, Iowa — Physician assistants in Iowa will no longer be required to be supervised and have a written agreement with a…
Crisis in health care stems from work conditions, not a shortage of workers
It’s all about working conditions. At least that’s what Massachusetts nurses are saying about their colleagues’ decisions to leave bedside care positions in the state’s hospitals to find other work environments.
Massachusetts Nurses Association President Katie Murphy voices her concerns about the growing crisis in health care; she was a moderator at a virtual hearing on several legislative measures that would increase compensation, limit patient loads and address workplace violence held virtually on Monday, May 8, 2023.
“The nursing shortage is not real,” said Katie Murphy, who is assigned to the intensive care unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in…
Future-proofing the health and wellbeing of Canadian workplaces
The Benefits Together Conference Series provides a forum for meaningful dialogue on meeting the diverse health and wellness needs of employees
TORONTO, May 4, 2023 /CNW/ – At an exclusive conference series in Halifax (April 19), Toronto (April 26) and Montreal (May 3), speakers and delegates came together to exchange thoughts, ideas and actionable strategies to support the health and wellbeing of today’s workforce.
Alaina Mackenzie and Bernard Lord (CNW Group/Medavie Blue Cross)
Hosted by Medavie Blue Cross, Benefits Together put access to care, mental health and diversity and inclusion into focus, while exploring the urgent questions and transformational trends…
Masking requirements set to lift in most Manitoba health-care settings – Winnipeg
By The Staff
The Canadian Press
Posted May 3, 2023 3:49 pm
Updated May 3, 2023 6:51 pm
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Most of the masking requirements implemented at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic for health-care facilities in Manitoba are set to be lifted next week.
Shared Health, which co-ordinates many health services in the province, says the change will apply to most visitors and patients who are going into acute and long-term care settings.
Monika Warren, the chief operating officer of provincially coordinated health services at Shared Health, says the changes in masking requirements…