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#health-insurance

The American health insurance system leaves both uninsured and insured people to languish, polling suggests.Martin Barraud / Stone / Getty Images / Texturelabs The American health insurance system is expensive, actively antagonizes patients, and leaves millions of people without access to coverage - and, as a new poll shows, is often dysfunctional even for the majority of people who have an insurance plan.

In 2011, Judy Huie-Kennedy was diagnosed with stage 3B cervical cancer, and the journey to a cancer-free status in the following years was arduous, including two rounds of intense chemotherapy, radiation treatment and a hysterectomy.Getting screened and diagnosed was "half the battle," Huie-Kennedy told the Bronx Times.

The official end of the nation's Covid public health emergency on Thursday means that the country will begin to treat Covid-19 like any other transmissible disease, meaning the end of federal funds for free testing and treatment for all.In New York City, the rollback of the public health response has been underway for months.

House Republicans passed a debt ceiling bill last week with a provision to enact new work requirements for those seeking federal assistance, claiming the measure would help cut federal spending.Although the bill is unlikely to become law, it would require millions of low-income Americans who receive food stamps and health insurance from the federal government to work longer hours in order to qualify for benefits.

The decision is a huge blow to the Affordable Care Act.SomeMeans / iStock / Getty Images Plus A federal judge in Texas has struck down a major preventive care rule set by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that has allowed millions of Americans to access critical health care like cancer screenings, immunizations, and HIV treatment cost-free, in a decision that experts are saying will have devastating impacts across the country if upheld.

Amid a years-long wave of unionization in the hospitality industry, the workers behind two of Food Network's most popular television shows have formed a union.According to the Writers Guild of America, East, an "overwhelming majority" of workers of BSTV Entertainment, the studio that produces The Kitchen and Trisha's Southern Kitchen, have signed cards to form what organizers say is the first nonfiction food television union.

Most Americans have run into trouble using their health insurance in the past year, but the majority still like their coverage, a new report has found.Some 58% of insured adults have had at least one problem in the past year, according to a survey from KFF, formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation, released on Thursday.

The whirlwind closure of Oakland's Hi Felicia on May 24 following a highly publicized burglary led to multiple reports about the difficult work environment at both the permanent restaurant that opened in 2022 and in Hi Felicia's early days as a pop-up.On Thursday, June 8, the San Francisco Chronicle detailed allegations involving sexual harassment and inappropriate comments from Hi Felicia owner and founder Imana, who goes by her first name only, as well as multiple instances of bounced or delayed paychecks.

As a millennial, I grew up in a time when it was almost expected that girls would spend their entire lives dreaming of their wedding day, especially in the South.There was this pervasive idea that we all sat around thumbing through Brides magazine, imagining the dress, the cake, the person who would be waiting at the end of the aisle in some big church.

On Monday morning, Starbucks announced that interim CEO Howard Schultz was being replaced by Laxman Narasimhan, a move that had been in the works for months but came sooner than outside observers expected, and less than two weeks before Schultz's appearance at a high-profile Senate committee hearing, where he's expected to be grilled about the company's anti-union practices.

The whirlwind closure of Oakland's Hi Felicia on May 24 following a highly publicized burglary led to multiple reports about the difficult work environment at both the permanent restaurant that opened in 2022 and in Hi Felicia's early days as a pop-up.On Thursday, June 8, the San Francisco Chronicle detailed allegations involving sexual harassment and inappropriate comments from Hi Felicia owner and founder Imana, who goes by her first name only, as well as multiple instances of bounced or delayed paychecks.

"A lot of 'dones,' a lot of 'ols,'" she said.Some of them helped her sleep, but left her feeling numb.She recalled thinking, "I still feel sad, so what are we doing here, antidepressants?"Diamond was curious whether a clinically guided mushroom trip would help, and she enrolled in this clinical trial testing the safety and efficacy of psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in "magic mushrooms," for her type of bipolar depression.

Florida Governor and 2024 presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign stop at the Greenville Convention Center in Greenville, South Carolina, on June 2, 2023.LOGAN CYRUS / AFP via Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of poor Floridians have been kicked off Medicaid in recent weeks as their Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, travels the country for his 2024 presidential bid and rakes in campaign cash from big donors.

These past few years have been particularly challenging for families between the pandemic, inflation driving up the cost of living, and we've been on the cusp of a recession for years.Some numbers show that a recession is all but confirmed, and people are trying to prepare should that become the case.

Italy is well-known for having one of the best healthcare systems in Europe: skilled physicians, advanced technology, and quality facilities available free of charge to every citizen.But is that actually the case?In reality, across the country, access to quality healthcare varies widely and since the 1990s, Italy's world-famous public system has gradually given ground to a growing number of private providers who offer top-notch services at a top-shelf cost.

Italy is well-known for having one of the best healthcare systems in Europe: skilled physicians, advanced technology, and quality facilities available free of charge to every citizen.But is that actually the case?In reality, across the country, access to quality healthcare varies widely and since the 1990s, Italy's world-famous public system has gradually given ground to a growing number of private providers who offer top-notch services at a top-shelf cost.

In stark contrast to many countries particularly English-speaking ones where tuition fees can run you up a bill into the thousands every semester, studying at a German university comes at a typical price tag in the hundreds, yes hundreds, of euros per year.Rather than explicit tuition fees, students at German public universities, even non-EU international ones, pay an administrative fee of around 300 a semester, which often includes a transport ticket.

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Employees at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Park Slope are looking to unionize, making them the second New York City branch of the book emporium to organize, they announced Thursday.

Record numbers of people are paying for private healthcare, spending up to 3,200 on having a cataract removed and 15,075 on a new hip, amid growing frustration at NHS waiting lists.Across the UK last year 272,000 people used their own funds to cover the cost of having an operation or diagnostic procedure at a private hospital.

Healthcare premiums eat up a considerable chunk of a household's budget and are a big strain on low, and often also middle-income families and individuals.After this year's increase in premiums, another hike is on the horizon: while it is not yet known exactly how much more expensive health insurance will become in 2024, Health Minister Alain Berset has not ruled out that it will be above average.

At a dialysis center in Brooklyn, Nardel Joseph used to try making friends with the other patients, until they began dying one by one.As her kidneys failed from an autoimmune disease, Ms. Joseph, 34, realized she might be next.A new kidney would offer Ms.Joseph the best hope for regaining her health, but as an undocumented immigrant who lacked health insurance, her odds of getting a kidney transplant had been close to zero.

If you're an American looking to move to Spain, healthcare may be one of the main factors you look at when making your decision.It's true that the system in Spain is very different to the US and that can have both its advantages and disadvantages.Here are some of the main differences and points to keep in mind.

Mary Hynes | Las Vegas Review-Journal The U.S. government on Thursday will lift the COVID-19 public health emergency that has been in effect for more than three years.By ending the emergency phase of the public health response, That kind of puts a period at the end of the pandemic sentence, Vanderbilt University's Dr. William Schaffner, an expert on infectious diseases, said.

The move could expand access to a key method of contraception without a prescription or age restrictions.Sophia Yen, CEO and co-founder of Pandia Health, holds a one-months prescription of birth control pills at the health startup's office in Palo Alto, California, on June 5, 2019.Paul Chinn / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images This story was originally published by The 19th.

If you're an American looking to move to Spain, healthcare may be one of the main factors you look at when making your decision.It's true that the system in Spain is very different to the US and that can have both its advantages and disadvantages.Here are some of the main differences and points to keep in mind.

It's no surprise that working from home has been popular for many workers, but it hasn't been a win for every profession across the board.Glassdoor recently surveyed workers to determine how important remote work was to them as a benefit, and how employees across various levels of seniority and various occupations view their experiences working from home.

Members of the Writers Guild of America union picket outside Netflix headquarters Wednesday near Union Square in New York.Stefan Jeremiah/AP NBC's late night talk show hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are covering a week of pay for their non-writing staff during the Writers Guild of America strike, which has disrupted production for many shows and movies as Hollywood's writers hit the picket lines this week.

In Washington, D.C., a new $20 million effort aims to produce more political journalism while making the profession more accessible.Founded and funded by Politico founder Robert Allbritton, the Allbritton Journalism Institute (AJI) will launch a nonprofit news outlet that covers government and politics, with veteran journalists overseeing an inaugural fellowship class.

A South Side hospital has earned an F for safety, while another has clawed its way from an F to an A, according to new ratings from the nonprofit Leapfrog Group.Roseland Community Hospital was the only hospital in Illinois to earn an F this spring.Meanwhile, St. Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center in Englewood earned an A for safety, after getting an F just two years ago.

The bill would bar unions for teachers and nurses from automatically collecting dues.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gives remarks at the Heritage Foundation's 50th Anniversary Leadership Summit at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on April 21, 2023, in National Harbor, Maryland.Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images The Republican-dominated Florida legislature passed an extreme anti-labor bill on Wednesday that would severely weaken unions for public employees and expand the state's ability to abolish those unions, while carving out an exemption for a notable group: police.

No expense was spared or detail overlooked when chef Evan Funke and real estate mogul Kurt Rappaport dreamed up Funke.Together, the first-time partners (with a shared "passion for exquisite things," says Rappaport) wanted to build a legacy restaurant that delivered peerless fare and service inside a sumptuously appointed Beverly Hills address.