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‘Dying on wait-lists’: Could private health-care solve Canada’s ER ‘crisis’? - National,

With Canada’s health-care system “in crisis” as described by many front-line workers, there is a renewed push towards leaning on private facilities to ease the pressure on public hospitals. In Ontario, which is grappling with staffing shortages, temporary emergency room closures and surgical backlogs, more publicly covered surgeries will be performed at private clinics, Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced last month. That announcement has reignited a long-standing debate over privatization of the Canadian health-care system, with other provinces weighing their options. While some experts consider privatization a possible solution to staffing shortages and long wait times, others see it...

Private Health Insurance for Expatriates in Hungary, Foyer Global Health

Discover our health insurance policies specifically designed for expats in Hungary Foyer Global Health covers expats’ health in Hungary who are seeking for a private health insurance solution tailored to their needs. With a falling unemployment rate and dynamic growth, Hungary is one of the new destinations popular with expatriates. Located in Central Europe in the east of Austria, Hungary attracts by the quality of life offered by its capital Budapest and the job opportunities that are there. Many students also choose to do their internships and apprenticeships in this country. Before definitively taking up residence in Hungary, we advise you to think about your health insurance in this...

Is private health insurance worth it? - Times Money Mentor

Interest in private healthcare has soared since the start of the Covid pandemic as the NHS is under even greater strain than normal. If you have a niggling health worry, private health insurance provides you with fast access to private healthcare. But while private health insurance might take a load off your mind, it doesn’t come cheap. As with all policies there will be limits, restrictions and things that you cannot claim for. Interest in private healthcare has soared since the start of the Covid pandemic What is private health insurance? Whether you have pains in a joint, are worried about cancer or have some other troubling symptoms, private healthcare insurance effectively enables you...

Feds applaud B.C. Supreme Court decision against private health care, National Observer

Day brought his case to the court in 2009, to challenge the sections of B.C.’s Medicare Protection Act that prohibit doctors from charging the government for work they do within the public health care system if they are simultaneously making money through private-sector clinics. It also stops private clinics from enacting extra patient charges and taking private insurance for necessary medical procedures. Day attempted to argue that long wait times within the public system violated charter rights, and that patients who are willing and able should be able to pay for private care when wait times are too long. The orthopedic surgeon has argued for a hybrid type of health-care system,...

Ian Mulgrew: Private health care decision day approaches, Vancouver Sun

Article content Nearly four years to the day after the start of the now-landmark trial over universal Medicare, a decision will finally be delivered Thursday in B.C. Supreme Court. Begun in September 2016, the constitutional challenge should have taken six months but turned into an interminable squabble over the provision of private health care in B.C. that only ended in February. Since then, Justice John Steeves has been considering the claims by a handful of patients and private clinics that the B.C. government is trampling on the rights of residents by leaving them stranded on medical waiting lists while effectively prohibiting any meaningful alternative. Ironically, the legal attack...

Max Bupa Re Assure Health Insurance: Comprehensive and sound plan for these uncertain times - The Hindu BusinessLine

Given the uncertain times amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, it is prudent to have a health insurance cover for you and your family. A regular indemnity hospitalisation plan is a must have, as one can’t be sure about the kind of illness one is vulnerable to. While in a specialised Covid-19 cover, exclusions will be less and coverage will be more comprehensive, a regular hospitalisation will still cover a good portion of your expenses on treatment for Covid-19. Max Bupa recently launched the ReAssure, a hospitalisation plan with a few new features. Here’s a review of the plan: What’s on offer? It is an indemnity health insurance cover offering sum insured (SI) of minimum ₹3 lakh and maximum ₹1...

Health insurance - CCPC

Health insurance Health insurance covers medical or hospital expenses if you get sick, have an accident or need an operation. With the introduction of “ Lifetime Community Rating ” you need to enter the health insurance market before the age of 35 to avoid an extra premium known as a loading. As and from 1 May 2015 a loading of 2% on premiums applies to anyone aged 35 who takes out insurance for the first time. A further 2% loading applies for every year after that. For example, if you take out a private health insurance policy for the first time at age 40 you will pay an additional 12% on your annual premium every year. However, there are allowances if you previously had health...

Health Insurance Industry Pooling Mechanism Makes High Cost Drugs Accessible for Record Number of Canadians

Health Insurance Industry Pooling Mechanism Makes High Cost Drugs Accessible for Record Number of Canadians TORONTO, Jan. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The catastrophic expense of high cost drugs have been made affordable for a record number of Canadians, their employers, and life and health insurance companies through the industry’s drug cost sharing mechanism. The Canadian Drug Insurance Pooling Corporation (CDIPC) announced today that between 2012 and 2018, its 23-member health insurance companies and EP3 cost-sharing framework provided to employers has helped over 45,500 Canadians and their 24,000 employers to afford high cost specialty drugs. This includes over 23,000 Canadians whose...

Haaland Votes for Bill To Bring Down Healthcare Costs for More Than 500,000 New Mexicans, Representative Debra Haaland

Haaland Votes for Bill To Bring Down Healthcare Costs for More Than 500,000 New Mexicans Washington D.C. – On Thursday evening, Congresswoman Deb Haaland (NM-01) voted for and the U.S. House passed a bill that will bring down healthcare costs for more than 500,000 New Mexicans. The Lower Drug Costs Now Act, H.R. 3, gives Medicare the power to negotiate directly with drug companies, and the lower prices negotiated by Medicare will be transparent so that private insurance companies can make the same prices available to their consumers. It also creates a new $2000 out-of-pocket limit on prescription drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries. “Everyone deserves access to quality, lifesaving...

Health insurance: Medicare for All will be a tough sell - Austin Daily Herald, Austin Daily Herald

Health insurance: Medicare for All will be a tough sell Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. The proposed Medicare for All plan proposed by Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders is not yet on life support, but it’s looking awfully lethargic in the court of public opinion. Democratic candidates spent a great deal of time Wednesday debating, attacking and counter-attacking the idea that Americans would be switched off their private health insurance plans and into the mostly government run Medicare for All plan. The idea has some appeal among some Americans frustrated with a private health insurance system that seems unfair, inefficient and sheltered...