This is the fifth straight year of relatively low premium growth (family coverage growing between 3 and 4 percentage points each year), but the stability for premiums belies some other changes that have occurred during the period.
Scores of Philadelphia service workers, such as janitors and security guards, will get better pay under a law expanding the city’s prevailing wage regulations that Mayor Kenney signed Thursday.
Faculty members at more than a dozen Pennsylvania public universities went on strike on Wednesday. The strike comes after negotiations broke down between the union and Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.
Allina nurses voted yesterday to ratify a three-year contract and end their historic strike at five Twin Cities facilities, but their fight for workplace safety, adequate staffing and respect on the job isn’t over.
The uninsured rate for non-elderly Americans has fallen from about 16.6% in 2013 to 10% in the first quarter of 2016, and 8.6% taking into account seniors who have near universal coverage.
We reached an agreement with University Hospital that resolves an outstanding arbitration filed in 2012. As a result, every Staff Nurse on Scale B will be placed on the proper step.
Click on the links below to download and view presentation materials used at the is year’s Convention: Challenging Corporate Healthcare. Click here for Fred Hyde’s presentation on healthcare trends and their impact on healthcare workers. Click here for Jessica Curtis’s
Seeing a lack of competition in many of the health law’s online insurance marketplaces, Hillary Clinton, President Obama and much of the Democratic Party are calling for more government, not less.
Three Hudson County hospitals owned by CarePoint Health and known for charging some of the highest prices in the nation for care have filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s largest health insurer, alleging that the company owes them more
A federal appeals court decision Tuesday pausing Penn State Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center's merger with PinnacleHealth System has placed the Federal Trade Commission's hospital antitrust review program back on stable ground after a couple concerning losses.