In the days after Thompson was gunned down, UnitedHealthcare, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, UPMC and other major market players have retrenched online, fearing copycat attacks.
Portugal has a national health care system, entitling every resident to free or very low-cost health care. “They take care of people. If you’re poor, you still get health care. And you don’t have to have a job to get health insurance,” said Kyriakos S. Markides, a professor of aging at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. “What happens in this country? A lot of people go without.”
It’s been one year since a group of Essentia Health nurses announced their intent to unionize, now they are calling on their employer to come to the bargaining table. The Advanced Practice Providers (APP) with Essentia’s East Market voted to join the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) union this past July and became certified.
The possibility that Summa Health’s sale to a firm backed by venture capital would harm doctors’ ability to have their student loans forgiven is the subject of a lawsuit filed last week by a doctor who said she was “compelled” to seek new employment to safeguard her eligibility for a federal loan forgiveness program that clears some student debts after a decade of payments.