Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Nov. 9—Kaiser Permanente workers in Washington have ratified a new contract with large pay increases for nurses and service workers. Workers had been set to strike after their previous contract ...
Health insurance costs are a major factor in access to health coverage in the United States. The rising cost of health insurance leads more consumers to go without coverage [1] and increase in insurance cost and accompanying rise in the cost of health care expenses has led health insurers to provide more policies with higher deductibles and other limitations that require the consumer to pay a ...
Kaiser Permanente (/ ˈ k aɪ z ər p ɜːr m ə ˈ n ɛ n t eɪ /; KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium headquartered in Oakland, California.Founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield, the organization was initially established to provide medical services at Kaiser's shipyards, steel mills and other facilities, before being opened to the ...
A key Kaiser union campaigned hard to gain a $25 minimum wage for the health care industry’s lowest-paid workers. New deal sets three-year path to it.
The 2024 standard monthly premium for Medicare Part B enrollees, for instance, will be $174.70 for 2024, an increase of $9.80 from $164.90 in 2023. The annual deductible for all Medicare Part B ...
While this inflation rate has declined, it has generally remained above the rate of economic growth, resulting in a steady increase of health expenditures relative to GDP from 6% in 1970 to nearly 18% in 2015. [5] Health care cost rise in the U.S. relative to other countries, as measured by total expenditure on health as percent of GDP
The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by 25 basis points to a range of 4.25%-4.5% at its final meeting of the year and signaled it would slow down the pace of its cuts after slashing interest ...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established the health insurance rate review program in order to protect consumers from unreasonable rate increases. [1] Through this program, proposed premium increases in the small group and individual markets that are above a threshold amount (ten percent or more, as of February 2014) are reviewed by states or the federal government to determine whether the ...