In early January, Dalton Bocknick’s wife was pregnant and in her second trimester when her baby’s health began to deteriorate. The couple made an appointment for an ultrasound, and as they were leaving the hospital, staff called and said their insurance wasn’t active. He soon learned his employer, General Electric, had cut his wife and…
Mental health support in the workplace has undeniably been a huge part of recent efforts to help employees thrive: in the past few years, many companies have started training managers on how to recognize signs of poor mental health, offering employees more mental health days, and reducing out-of-pocket costs for getting mental health care. For parent…
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Clark County teachers have been on the warpath for years about their failing health insurance, the tax-funded, union-dominated Teachers Health Trust. On social media, in emails to the School District, at board meetings and during interviews, employees who depend on the mismanaged trust said their lives have been miserable: The trust failed to promptly pay…
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South Carolina small business owners are finding huge savings on quality health insurance for themselves and their employees this year. The success stories are growing: * A small business owner had been paying $550 a month for a low-benefit, short-term, individual health insurance policy because a regular plan was too expensive. However, he knew he…
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) – Pima County has been hit with a lawsuit over its surcharge for unvaccinated staff. The suit claims the county is violating federal law. Jim Parks is executive director of the Arizona Conference of Police and Sheriffs, which filed the complaint against Pima County. “It’s not the kind of fight…
San Francisco city employees insured through Kaiser Permanente and seeking mental health treatment sometimes have to wait up to three months for an appointment with a therapist, a hearing during the Board of Supervisors’ Government Audit and Oversight Committee on Thursday revealed. Supervisor Connie Chan, who sits on the committee, called the hearing in response…
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Dr. Melissa Hardesty takes a selfie after receiving a Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes/ADN) Two major Alaska health care providers are reporting high levels of employee compliance with vaccine mandates, refuting predictions of a significant exodus of shot-opposed workers from city officials, including…
TUCSON (KVOA) – Pima County employees who refuse to get the COVID-19 shot may face some difficulties in the workplace after the county’s supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to implement vaccine disincentives. Moments after Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich released a legal report that called the City of Tucson’s employee vaccine mandate “illegal,” Pima County Board…
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