What Is Telemental Health: Benefits, Privacy and Pitfalls
What Is Telemental Health?
The National Institute of Mental Health defines telemental health as “the use of telecommunications or videoconferencing technology to provide mental health services.”...
What Happens When You Don’t Fund Your Trust?
After you work with your estate planning attorney to draft a carefully tailored estate plan, it is usually your responsibility to “fund” the trust.
We can...
A Conservative Blueprint for Universal Healthcare
I recently read “A Republican Argument for Affordable Universal Healthcare” in MedPage Today. While it is pleasing to see that some Republicans agree that...
Buying health insurance for your next foreign trip: Don’t fall victim to the fine print
A Saskatchewan man’s nightmarish trip to the United States is a cautionary tale for those who travel outside of Canada.
If you are taking a trip...
Physicians Say Health Insurer Prior Authorization Is Rising And So Are Care Delays
The American Medical Association, which is pushing in Washington for health insurance reforms of … [+] prior authorization, released March 13, 2023 a new...
Opinions | Fixing Health Care Starts With the Already Insured
There is no shortage of proposals for health insurance reform, and they all miss the point. They invariably focus on the nearly 30 million...
30,000 people will lose health insurance next month as Colorado shuts down Friday Health Plans. Here’s what’s next.
Friday Health Plans started in Colorado in 2015 with hopes of revolutionizing the health insurance market. Nearly a decade later, the company has imploded,...
Exclusion of migrant farm workers from public health insurance puts Nova Scotia agriculture at risk, advocates say
Isabel InclanSpecial to Saltwire Network
Amidst the worsening labor crunch in Nova Scotia’s agriculture sector, the government’s exclusion of many migrant workers from public health insurance...